German Expressionism Movies

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

In 1919 an art school opened in Germany that would change the world forever. It was called the Bauhaus. A century later, its radical thinking still...

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

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

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing,...

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

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

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

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.

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

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...

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

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

The House on the Moon

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...

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...

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...

German war film. This film is considered lost.

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.