German Expressionism Movies

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is...

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the...

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the...

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

Inspired by the energetic German film, Run Lola Run, City Shocks delves into the chaos of urban life through a series of interconnected vignettes,...

After being unjustly attacked, a cook goes on a killing spree.

The House on the Moon

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern...

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of...

A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

In the midst of a plague, a lonely priest must confront his fears when faced with an ominous knock at the door of his abandoned church.

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

German war film. This film is considered lost.

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.

"A Black Swan Stomps on an Oversized Human Heart" follows Heinrich, a lonely young man in an empty castle, through his strained, detached...