Günther Krampf

An English country lawyer weighs the case of a schoolgirl who claims she was kidnapped by two women.

The three marriages of a woman: a young man who is killed, a priggish lawyer and a sympathetic barrister. From the novel by Francis Brett Young.

Semi-documentary, focusing on the training young boys receive before they are sent down the mines on their first job.

The woman here is Sylvia Russell, who is a bit power mad and has some set goals. In order to achieve those goals she is sadistically devoted to her son and daughter, able to possess and direct them; subtly ruins her daughter's marriage by corrupting a servant girl and, then, uses her to compromise her son-in-law; slowly breaks her bumbling, unambitious husband's confidence, finds in her husband's executive friend the man she desires, and then poisons her husband in her own manner in their quiet English manor

A politician rises rapidly to fame and fortune and discovers that power corrupts and ultimately becomes the very type of politician he had set out to displace.

A seance is held to discover the whereabouts, and the killer, of a sculptor's wife.

Un combatiente de la Resistencia Francesa revela a su amante secretos, que después ella transmite a las autoridades de Vichy. El argumento se centra en la discordia que había entre los propios franceses cuando trataban asuntos relacionados con el ejército alemán y la compleja situación de los colaboradores de Vichy en Madagascar.

At the height of World War II, the Germans discover that a certain British personage is to stay at the country house of Lord Buckley. They devise a plan whereby they will kidnap the real Lord Buckley, and send to England an actor who will masquerade, lie in wait for the visitor with a number of gunmen, and take him back to Germany.

Alfred Bandle and Wilmer Popday are partners in business and, somewhat timorously on Popday's part, in pleasure. When their wives join the A.T.S., the men are left unattended and dangerously bored. The trouble starts when Bandle is late for an end-of-leave party after giving a girlfriend a lift; Popday promises the wives he ll restrain his wayward friend when they return to duty, but Bandle evidently thinks otherwise.

The captain of a British cargo ship shanghais a group of sabateurs, unaware that the daughter of the ship’s owner is among them.

After a $50,000 heist in New York, two of the suspected robbers walk free from the courtroom and they waste no time in heading to London in search of the missing loot. This means bad news for their former accomplice Jim Raynor, who has the money hidden away not least because they're not the only ones on his tail; Scotland Yard is also on the case...

Un joven vive con su ama de llaves en una mansión de Yorkshire que está rodeada por un tétrico páramo. Una noche de tormenta, dos amigas que recorren la zona se ven obligadas a buscar refugio en la casa. A la mañana siguiente, una de ellas ha desaparecido.

A professor teaching at a correspondence school discovers that a Nazi agent is trying to prevent a trade treaty being signed between England and South America.

Three sailors get drunk while on shore leave and end up on the wrong ship. When they realise their mistake they scramble off it and onto their warship, HMS Ferocious. However, they soon realise that the vessel they have boarded is not the Ferocious but a German battleship.

La historia de los altibajos de quienes protegían los convoyes vitales entre Estados Unidos e Inglaterra durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial.

An amnesia victim is a well liked and respected member of his community--until one day someone from his past shows up with evidence that in "the old days" he had been a notorious criminal, and threatens to expose him unless he pays off.

A barber gives in to temptation and steals some money, leading to blackmail and murder.

Ivan Petrov has one weakness in his life, and one love: his little black-eyed daughter, Tania. In fact, his entire career is devoted to her future happiness, though Tania remains ignorant as to his vocation. Done with cool deliberation, Petrov's all-consuming fear is that one day his lovely daughter will discover his true profession, and despise him for it...

A controversial osteopath sets out to cure the daughter of a famous surgeon - and falls in love with her in the process.

A chorus girl is mistaken for a millionaire's girlfriend.

The story, starring Constance Bennett and Douglass Montgomery, involves a Canadian POW being hidden by a German citizen during World War I.

A former boxing champion, now an innkeeper, is accused of stealing a watch from a party of guests at his inn, who happen to be members of English royalty. The old man is arrested and thrown in prison. His son, knowing that his father didn't steal the watch and suspecting a frame-up, follows the royal party to London, where he poses as a wealthy "gentleman" and insinuates himself into the English court in an effort to find out who framed his father and why.

A girl becomes an unwilling witness in her parents' scandalous divorce case.

An actor is murdered live on air whilst a play is being broadcast. Everyone in the play and broadcasting house fall under suspicion.

El egiptólogo británico Profesor Morlant encuentra una joya mágica en la tumba de un ídolo oriental. Se supone que este talismán otorga inmortalidad a quienes están enterrados con él. Así que Morlant hace arreglos para que lo pongan en su tumba cuando muera. Y ¡ay de aquellos que podrían traicionarlo, porque el espíritu de Morlant surgirá para vengarse de sus traidores ...

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

Un coche cama francés que asiste con un ojo para las damas se engancha con una viuda adinerada y se casan. Lo que no sabe es que ella se casó con él porque quiere quedarse en Francia. Sobrevienen complicaciones.

En un tren expreso un grupo variopinto de personas se ve envuelto en una trama de ladrones y chantajistas, tan rápida como el mismo tren. El grupo, entre otros, está formado por una estrella de Hollywood y su publicista, una pareja adúltera, un filántropo, un obsesionado golfista, un aprensivo y dos bandidos que persiguen a otro.

Kuhle Wampe takes place in early-1930s Berlin. The film begins with a montage of newspaper headlines describing steadily-rising unemployment figures. This is followed by scenes of a young man looking for work in the city and the family discussing the unpaid back rent. The young man, brother of the protagonist Anni, removes his wristwatch and throws himself from a window out of despair. Shortly thereafter his family is evicted from their apartment. Now homeless, the family moves into a garden colony of sorts with the name “Kuhle Wampe.”

Leopold Pichler is a very orderly and trustworthy chief cashier who is asked by his boss to get a large sum of money from the bank which the boss urgently needs on a trip to Vienna. Due to some circumstances, getting the money takes a little longer than expected and the director leaves for Vienna without it. But Pichler sees himself as a reliable man, and so he and his assistant Wittek follow the director to Vienna with the money kept in a bag. In Vienna, the two provincials however are mistaken for guests of the director and spend an evening at a posh night club. But when it transpires that the director actually won't come to the night club that evening, Pichler and Wittek have to pay the bill with the money from the bank. And their subsequent attempts at reimbursing the money lead to situations of ever-increasing hilariousness...

Mathias, an Alsatian innkeeper, murders a rich Pole staying at his inn. However, Mathias' conscience will not let him rest, and the murdered man's spirit drives the innkeeper nearly mad. The victim's brother calls for an inquest and brings with him a sideshow hypnotist, who is supposedly able to read minds. Mathias, as burgomaster, is called upon to conduct the inquest, but under the intuitive eye of the hypnotist cannot resist torment of his own conscience.

An unorthodox osteopath cures one of his patients, the daughter of a fellow Doctor.

Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have soon a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory, where she and Paul work, sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal way for abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.

Una banda de soldados prusianos que luchan contra Napoleón se guardan ellos mismos en un molino de viento rural, la hija del molinero insiste en quedarse con ellos.

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

Lulú (Louise Brooks) es mujer ambiciosa y sin moral que usa a los hombres a su voluntad. Desinhibida y atractiva, el aprovechamiento de sus encantos conllevará también sus peligros. Obra mayor del expresionismo que encumbró a Louise Brooks, una joya del cine mudo que adaptó magistralmente la obra teatral "Lulu" de Wedeking.

König der Mittelstürmer / King of the Centre Forwards refers with the name of its hero to the German soccer legend of the twenties: Tull Harder, star of the Hamburger Sport Verein (HSV). But the story itself is completely fictitious: The son of a trade company's director falls in love with the daughter of a big American oil magnat. But she suspects him to be only interested in her money. So she buys his father's company to take revenge on him. The son's true love is soccer, and from the very first moment the soccer fever is present throughout the film. It starts with pictures of a soccer game and even an apple or a crumpled up paper must serve as substitute for a ball. Whereas Die elf Teufel promotes soccer as "the sport of the century", König der Mittelstürmer shows the hero's father who still has to be convinced from its importance. He hates soccer and blames everybody to be "soccer crazy".

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 Robert Wiene

Orlac, un pianista famoso, pierde ambas manos en un accidente. Los médicos deciden trasplantarle las manos de Vasseur, un asesino condenado a muerte. La operación es un éxito, pero desde ese momento el pianista comienza a verse embargado por impulsos criminales. Tiene pesadillas y ve el rostro de un hombre que cree que es Vasseur...

One of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself.

A Glass of Water (German: Ein Glas Wasser) is a 1923 German silent historical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Lucie Höflich and Hans Brausewetter. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo on 1 February 1923. It was based on a play of the same title by Eugène Scribe, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The film was very well received both commercially and critically on its release. It is considered one of the milestones of Weimar cinema

Año 1838. En la ciudad de Wisborg viven felices el joven Hutter y su mujer Ellen, hasta que el oscuro agente inmobiliario Knock decide enviar a Hutter a Transilvania para cerrar un negocio con el conde Orlok. Se trata de la venta de una finca de Wisborg, que linda con la casa de Hutter. Durante el largo viaje Hutter pernocta en una posada, donde hojea un viejo tratado sobre vampiros que encuentra en su habitación. Una vez en el castillo, es recibido por el siniestro conde. Al día siguiente, Hutter amanece con dos pequeñas marcas en el cuello, que interpreta como picaduras de mosquito. Una vez firmado el contrato, descubre que el conde es, en realidad, un vampiro. Al verle partir hacia su nuevo hogar, Hutter teme por Ellen.

Simplicia has a reputation for healing through prayer and laying on of hands. Knight Rochus sets out "to see how long it takes to turn a saint into a sinner!" He sneaks into the monastery and forces Simplicia under his will.