German Expressionism Movies

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

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

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...

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...

The House on the Moon

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

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.

A young man becomes obsessed with his new neighbour.

German war film. This film is considered lost.

In the year 3003, two scientists find a primitive being called Ooga Ooga in the middle of the woods. They decide to adopt him and try to insert him...

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

Based on an actual event when a huge, mysterious sea creature washed onto the shores of Florida. A tribute to silent German expressionism.

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...

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...

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...

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

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

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919...