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.

A former leader of the French Resistance finds that one of his fellow actors looks like a detestable official he knew in Madagascar during the war. He tells about his time, operating an illegal radio station while evading the Nazis.

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...

Two teachers, man-hungry Doris and restrained Marian, visit the Yorkshire moors a year after friend Evelyn disappeared there. On a stormy night, they take refuge in the isolated cottage of Stephen, one-time pianist shell-shocked in the Spanish Civil War. Doris flees as soon as the flood subsides; but Marian's suspicions about Evelyn's fate, in conflict with her growing love for Stephen, prompt her to stay on among the misty bogs.

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.

A tale of life on board a Royal Navy cruiser assigned to protect the vital convoys between America and England during WWII.

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.

Professor Morlant, a British Egyptologist, seeks immortality through the power of a jewel buried in the tomb of an Oriental idol. Upon his death, Morlant returns to earth to seek vengeance upon those who removed the jewel from his grave.

A professional footballer attempts to recover a winning pools ticket.

A French sleeping-car attending with an eye for the ladies hooks up with a wealthy widow and they get married. What he doesn't know is that she married him because she wants to stay in France. Complications ensue.

파리에서 로마로 가는 급행열차에는 여러 부류의 사람들이 타고 있다. 불륜 관계인 조지와 막스 부인, 영화 배우인 아스터와 누군가를 찾고 있는 저타와 토니, 부유하지만 인색하고 자신의 비서를 학대하는 백만장자 맥베인, 정체를 알 수 없지만 무언가 불안해 보이는 풀 등이 그들이다. 막스 부인과 밀회 여행을 즐기던 조지는 식당차 안에서 아는 사람을 만나게 되자 우연히 옆에 앉아 있던 풀을 자신의 동료인 양 소개하고 객실까지 데려오게 되지만, 다시 막스 부인을 데려오기 위해 풀에게 다른 객실로 가 줄 것을 부탁한다. 하지만 풀은 자신을 쫓는 사람들이 있는 것을 알고 나가지 않으려고 한다. 결국 풀은 조지를 때려 기절시키고, 풀을 쫓던 저타가 객실에 들어와 그를 살해한다. 한편 우연히 풀의 가방과 백만장자 맥베인의 비서의 가방이 바뀌는데 이 가방을 찾기 위해 저타가 다시 이들의 객실에 침입했다가 풀을 쫓기 위해 역시 같은 기차에 탔던 형사 졸리에게 잡히게 된다. 결국 저타는 달리는 기차에서 뛰어내려 자살을 하고 마는데...

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.

13 German soldiers have to fight off a French regiment.

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.

프랑크 베데킨트의 연작 희곡 과 를 각색한 무성 멜로드라마 걸작. 신문사 사장인 쇤 박사는 정부인 룰루에게 호화로운 아파트를 마련해준 한편, 내무부 장관의 딸과 결혼을 준비하고 있다. 하지만 박사의 내연관계를 알게 된 장관은 결혼을 허락하지 않고, 욕심 많고 어린애 같은 룰루 또한 장관의 딸을 포기하고 자신과 결혼하라고 조른다. 결국 쇤 박사는 어쩔 수 없이 룰루와 결혼하기로 하는데, 결혼식 당일 그는 자신의 아들을 포함한 모든 하객들이 룰루와 관계를 가졌다는 사실을 알게 된다. 격분한 박사는 권총을 휘두르며 하객들을 쫓아낸 후 룰루에게 동반자살을 권한다. 그러나 룰루는 박사를 쏜 후 프랑스를 거쳐 런던까지 도망가는데... 천진함과 음란함을 동시에 지니고 남자들을 파멸로 이끌어가는 유혹적인 여성을 통해 가부장적인 남성의 판타지를 보여주고 있는 영화. 할리우드의 무성영화 스타 루이즈 브룩스가 주연을 맡아 두려우면서도 결코 거부할 수 없는 팜므파탈의 매력을 유감없이 선보이고 있다.

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

피아니스트 파울 올락은 끔찍한 열차 사고로 양손을 잃는다. 다행히 파울은 손 이식 수술을 받지만 손의 원래 주인이 최근 사형당한 살인자라는 사실을 알게 된다. 파울은 살인자의 악한 마음이 자신에게 영향을 미친다는 강박에 시달린다. 독일 표현주의의 대표작 을 연출했던 로베르트 비네의 의학 SF. 당대 심리학의 중요한 문제였던 ‘몸과 마음은 하나인가’라는 질문을 던지는 동시에 과학 기술의 가능성과 위험성을 함께 고민하는 작품. 2013년에 새롭게 복원된 버전으로 상영한다. (2019년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 독일 SF 특별전 - 미래는 어떻게 만들어지는가?)

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

크노크라는 괴상한 노인의 부동산 중개소 직원인 후터는 비스보르크라는 한 소도시에 그의 부인 엘렌과 살고 있었다. 어느날 크노크는 비스보르크에 집을 한 채 사겠다는 오를록 백작의 편지를 받고 후터를 백작의 성으로 급히 보낸다. 후터는 자신이 오랫동안 집을 비우는 것을 슬퍼하는 부인을 친구인 하딩의 집에 머무르게 하고 백작의 성을 향해 떠난다. 길을 가다 어느 덧 해가 저물어 한 여관에 머무르게 된 후터는 우연히 조그마한 책자를 발견한다. 책에는 흡혈귀에 대한 섬뜩한 이야기가 씌여 있다. 이 영화의 사이 사이에는 훗날 비스보르크에서 일어날 일을 예언이라도 하는 듯한 내용이 삽입되어 있다. 다음날 다시 백작의 성을 향해 길을 가던 도중 고갯길에 다다르자 공포감을 느낀 짐꾼들은 더 이상 가기를 거부하고 후터는 할 수 없이 혼자서 길을 떠난다. 그런데 이때 어디선가 기괴한 인상의 마부가 홀연히 나타나 후터를 목적지인 오를록 백작의 성까지 눈깜짝할 사이에 데려다 준다. 성에 도착한 후, 어딘지 섬뜩한 느낌을 주는 오를록 백작을 만나 후터는 식사대접을 받고 하룻밤을 지낸다. 다음날 목에 무언가 물린 자국이 난 것을 발견하지만 후터는 모기에게 물린 것으로 간주해 버린다. 다시 오를록 백작과 만나 집에 대한 매매 이야기를 하는 도중 우연히 백작은 후터의 부인 엘렌의 사진을 보게된다. "당신 부인의 목이 참 아름답군요"라면서 백작은 의미심장한 표정으로 후터의 바로 맞은편에 있는 집을 사겠다고 한다. 이날밤 후터는 자신의 방으로 침투해 들어오려는 혼령을 만나게 되고 혼비백산하여 지하실로 내려가게 되는데, 지하실에 놓인 관속에서 죽은 시체와 같이 누워있는 오를록 백작이 눈을 뜨고 후터를 향해 일어선다. 완전히 공포에 사로잡힌 후터는 자신이 성에 갇힌 사실을 인식하고 어떻게든 성을 빠져 나갈 궁리를 한다.

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.