G.W. Pabst
Georg Wilhelm Pabst (25 August 1885 – 29 May 1967), known professionally as G. W. Pabst, was an Austrian theatre and film director.
Der Prozeß
In 1882 a country girl disappears from a small Hungarian village. The inhabitants suggest that she was murdered by the Jews. Everything is done to accuse them before the trial. A study in stubbornness, racism and intolerance and how to fight against it.
L'opéra de quat'sous
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different crew from the german version.
Kameradschaft
Plea against war and for friendship between peoples, through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
Die 3 Groschen-Oper
In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'.
Westfront 1918: Vier von der Infanterie
A group of German solders face terror and despair and fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Tagebuch einer Verlorenen
Thymiane Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Die Büchse der Pandora
Die Büchse der Pandora, meaning Pandora’s Box, is a classic German silent film from director Pabst. This is the third film about the Lulu-Stoffes character from Frank Wedekind and is deemed a masterpiece.
Abwege
Brigitte Helm (Metropolis) stars as a woman neglected by her self-absorbed husband who begins to mix with a questionable crowd in a trendy nightclub. Her encounters eventually lead to disastrous results.
Die Liebe der Jeanne Ney
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who...
Geheimnisse einer Seele
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
Die freudlose Gasse
In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.