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6.8In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Joyless Street
1925
10.0A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.
The Fugitive Lover
1927
7.3Thymian 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.
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
5.6From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923
6.9One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1929
6.5Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
The Old Fritz II
1928
Film credits
1930s · 11 titles
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The men around Lucie
1931
8.0Film by Karel Lamac.
The bat
1931
6.1Hans, living in Vienna during the Great Depression, intends to drown himself in the river after losing his livelihood. While there he meets a girl named Anna after pulling her from the river.
Ray of Sunshine
1933
8.2The story of Ali and his son Bin, natives of Sumatra, who hunt in a jungle village.
Rango
1931
7.0When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
King Fu's yellow house
1931
6.3A girl from a boarding school finds a baby and has to keep it because she seems to be the real mother to everyone.
Little Mother
1935
7.0No synopsis available yet.
The Ring of the Empress
1930
8.0The young Gaby is happily married to the musician Peter but cannot ignore the impression that his friend Michael, a violin virtuoso, makes on her. Even when Peter falls seriously ill, she cannot forget her love for Michael. Torn between the two men, Gaby sees only one way out...
Dreaming Lips
1932
Short film about light and weather phenomena
Thunder, Lightning and Rain
1930
6.5On a steamer bound for Europe two competing European investors try to get hold of a contract for exploiting oil wells in Brazil. Several agents cleverly play off one investor against the other to up the ante of a bogus scheme.
Invisible Opponent
1933
10.0No synopsis available yet.
The Naked Truth
1932
1920s · 25 titles
6.8In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
Joyless Street
1925
10.0A German soldier lies wounded on the front line in the First World War. To avoid capture or death, he assumes the identity of a fallen French officer. As the German soldier happens to speak fluent French, nobody realizes the deception. The soldier begins a new life in Paris, yet remains in constant fear of being exposed as the ‘enemy’.
The Fugitive Lover
1927
7.3Thymian 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.
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929
5.6From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain.
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity
1923
6.9One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1929
6.5Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.
The Old Fritz II
1928
8.2Harry, a young student, adventurer, and daredevil, forcefully gains entry to the office of the editor-in-chief of the *Kontinental-Kurier*, the local newspaper. He is determined to write a story about the criminal underworld—specifically the so-called "Apaches"—by spending six weeks mingling with these gangs. He intends to publish his findings as a thrilling serial in the *Kontinental-Kurier* under the guise of a local reporter. Eventually, they agree, and Harry actually succeeds in gaining access.
Eyes Open, Harry!
1926
7.0After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution.
Opfer
1920
6.9While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an elderly acquaintance in order to borrow money from him. Through this telegram, Else is forced into the reality of a world entirely at odds with her romantic imagination – with horrific consequences.
Fräulein Else
1929
An exploration of the misery of youth. A student, his friends, and the girl he loves all suffer due to the harsh and unforgiving nature of the adults in their lives.
Primanerliebe
1927
5.8A war blind painter marries his nurse. But after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name. Only when the painter falls in love with her as a stranger to him, she reveal herself.
His Wife, the Unknown
1923
No synopsis available yet.
Es waren zwei Königskinder...
1922
9.0Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman Dr. Warren and Janus. A lost film.
The Head of Janus
1920
Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.
Napoleon at St. Helena
1929
No synopsis available yet.
Zwischen vierzehn und siebzehn
1929
6.1If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same crew from Die Verrufenen and turned his attention to the city's population of unwanted children for the heart-tugging Die Unehelichen, released the following year. The trio of foster children at the center of Die Verrufenen are survivors who use their own resourcefulness to get by when the kids' guardians and the system itself let them down.
Children of No Importance
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Der Sieg der Jugend
1927
9.0Film by Manfred Noa.
Der Mann aus dem Jenseits
1926
8.0Based on Honore de Balzac’s story of Madame de Langeais. Costume drama about the infamous loves of the countess.
Love
1927
5.0Film by Jacob and Luise Fleck.
Liebelei
1927
NRNo synopsis available yet.
Ballet Rats
1925
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Wien, Wien - Nur du allein
1927
8.0No synopsis available yet.
Panik
1928
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Red Mouse
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Kindertragödie
1928
