Ferdinand von Alten

The title of this heavily plotted German melodrama translates as "This One or None". Gitta Alpar stars as Eve, whose emotions are torn between two European princes, lifelong rivals who happen to be brothers. Eve prefers the nicer of the two princes, but this doesn't stop the other from aggressively stepping up his courtship. When the less agreeable of the two monarches takes control of the throne, he orders Eve to make an immediate choice between himself and his brother. Though old-fashioned in concept and execution, "Die - oder keine" benefitted from the charming presence of Gitta Alper.

A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his will.

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment for discipline faults and hosting Prinz Willibald during his visit to the regiment.

This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.

Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation of the play Hokuspokus by Curt Goetz.

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the state coffers to the extreme. The monarch, who is afraid of people, also withdraws more and more into a dream world at his various castles. His brother is already in a psychiatric institute and Ludwig is also eventually put under the care of psychiatrist Bernhard von Gudden. The king attempts to get out from under this guardianship at Starnberg lake…

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

La rica heredera (Betty Balfour) de uno de los más acaudalados hombres de Wall Street (Gordon Harker), está tan enamorada que osa volar, hasta alta mar, para alcanzar el barco en el que viaja su pretendiente (Jean Bradin). El aeroplano hundido y otros despilfarros, hará pensar a su padre que la chica necesita una gran lección.

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the waiter a prince and the cook an admiral, and that the lady at the bar is actually the princess Sinaide forced was leaving their home.

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

Ninon d'Hauteville es una vedette que presenta un vodevil en el pueblo de Gerolstein titulado "El príncipe y la cortesana". Los miembros de la Sociedad de la Moralidad se sienten muy ofendidos porque en una escena el príncipe aparece bajo las faldas de Ninón. Así que, armados con silbatos y otros instrumentos ruidosos, se presentan en el teatro para boicotear la función.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate provocations by a superior officer who is competing with him for the love of the daughter of a respected privy councillor. His family bans him to New York, where he falls on hard times until a former circus performer helps him to become a world-renowned trapeze and aerial artiste.

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

A lost film.

Un mago experto en sombras chinescas es el encargado de amenizar una cena dada por un barón y su bella esposa. El marido, un hombre muy celoso, comenzará a enfurecerse cuando los invitados pretendan besar la "figura" de su mujer.

El comerciante veneciano Antonio se encuentra en una situación financiera difícil. Para ayudar a su amigo Bassanio, que trata de casarse con la heredera Portia, acude, aunque con disgusto mutuo, al prestamista judío Shylock para pedirle dinero prestado. Pero si Antonio luego no puede pagar ese préstamo, Shylock podrá cortar una libra de carne de su cuerpo. Ése es el trato.

En el siglo XIX, una mujer hedonista se casa con un aristócrata, pero le cuesta mantenerse fiel a él. "Die Flamme" fue la última película de Lubitsch en Alemania, antes de su partida a Estados Unidos. Desafortunadamente, sólo queda una bobina de este melodrama con Pola Negri. La reconstrucción realizada para el Museo de Cine de Munich se compone, por tanto, de numerosas fotografías del rodaje y dibujos del guion que complementan los 22 minutos restantes de película. Pola interpreta con garra a su personaje de mujer perdida. Se advierte el toque de Lubitsch en detalles muy concretos, como el pequeño gesto de la mano de Yvette hacia su compañera de cuarto para mantener alejado al peligroso Gaston. Es difícil tener una opinión verdadera sobre esta película porque sólo queda un fragmento muy pequeño. Es obligado remarcar, no obstante, el cuidado con la decoración y el vestuario para reconstituir el París del Segundo Imperio. Alfred Abel es un excelente villano.

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.

Trying to kill herself, Mary is saved by rich Roswolsky.

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries including Georges Danton.

Suntuosa recreación histórica que fue calificada como 'la película más grande de todos los tiempos'. El Enrique VIII robusto, brutal y cruel de Emil Jannings contrasta con la inocencia de la Ana Bolena de Henny Porten. Dos arquitectos dirigieron la construcción de las réplicas de la Torre de Londres, el Castillo de Windsor y la Abadía de Westminster.

Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in conflict with the French government.

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.