Thea von Harbou

In 1984, Academy Award winning composer Giorgio Moroder introduced Fritz Lang’s science fiction epic Metropolis to a new generation of filmgoers. Working in collaboration with film archivists globally, Moroder supervised a special reconstruction, with color tinting, fewer intertitles and newly restored footage. A pioneer in the field of digital music, Moroder backed this special edition with a throbbing new score, punctuated with pop songs from some of the biggest stars of the early MTV era: Freddie Mercury, Pat Benatar, Adam Ant, Bonnie Tyler, Loverboy and others.

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.

An exotic dancing girl of India inflames the passions of a traveling draftsman.

После бури Ситху и Бергера - без сознания, но живых - находит и подбирает караван торговцев. Некий крестьянин, повинуясь священному долгу гостеприимства, дает им приют, несмотря на ужасные кары, которыми Чандра стращает всякого, кто окажет помощь беглецам. И все же один человек выдает их, позарившись на обещанную награду. Ситха и Бергер бегут в горы и прячутся в пещере. Ситха молится богине Шиве, и в это момент паук начинает плести паутину у входа в пещеру. Увидев паутину, преследователи решают, что в пещеру заглядывать бесполезно. Но чуть позже, когда Ситха выходит за водой, Бергер прикасается к плоду, который танцовщица преподнесла в жертву богине, и в тот же миг Ситха попадает в руки преследователей. Сражаясь с одним, Бергер срывается в пропасть.

Западный архитектор Гарольд Бергер, приглашенный в Индию Чандрой, бенгальским махараджей, влюбляется в прекрасную танцовщицу Ситу, несмотря на то что она уже обещана махарадже. Их предательство вызывает гнев мстительного Чандры, который ведет борьбу за власть со своим братом-интриганом. Влюбленным приходится спасаться бегством в пустыне...

In a mountain village a deranged alcoholic who routinely beats his wife and kids goes missing. Though everyone in the village is glad to see him gone, an investigation begins. Made at the end of the Nazi era and immediately shelved; not released until 1948.

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15 minutes will again and again become the girl′s fate.

In a cosmopolitan city vaudeville theatre, meeting place of the most successful artistes, the art shooter gets in suspicion to have committed a murderous poster on his jealous partner. - Not particularly successful mixture of vaudeville theatre numbers, artiste's destiny and crime film tension, on an average produced and played. A production rotated in Budapest with the popular dancer La Jana.

Theatre Colosseum prepares for the closing performance of the month. The magician Keats wants to avoid having to perform with Jack Carey, the well-known marksman, as the latter has seduced his wife, the beautiful dancer, Silvia Castellani. It is only thanks to the persuasions of Alice McLean, the manager of the acrobat sisters, that he finally decides to do his show. Carey starts wooing the second of the McLean-sisters, Gloria.

Following the breakdown of her marriage to an artist, a female doctor goes back to her position at a hospital.

Séraphine and her mother arrive in Paris to visit the 1867 World Exhibition. In an overcrowded city they must be accommodated in separate hotels. During the night the mother, who wasn't feeling very well, gets suddenly worse. When next morning Séraphine goes to meet her every trace of her presence has disappeared and everybody denies having ever met her. The bewildered young woman must find someone who believes her. Previous version of So Long at the Fair (1950).

Germany, 1890: Having just gotten his high-school diploma, Hans leaves for Heidelberg to begin his university studies. But first, he wants to visit his uncle, Pastor Hoppe, in the small village of Rosenau. It's here that he again meets his cousin and childhood friend Annie. Annie is the illegitimate child of Pastor Hoppe's sister, who's left the upbringing of her offspring to the man-of-the-cloth. Conservative chaplain Schigorski continually tries to convince Annie to join the nearby cloister and thus "atone" for the sins of her mother. And it's getting more difficult for the fun-loving girl to escape the chaplain's harrassment. When Hans arrives, old feelings of lust come back to the surface.

После событий первого фильма «Эшнапурский тигр» Магараджа Чандра готов выполнить свою хорошо спланированную месть, в которой немецкому архитектору Петру Фюрбрингеру, его невесте Ирен и его помощнику придется сражаться за свою жизнь во время восстания, учинённого предателем Принцем Рамигани.

A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.

A romance between two temperamental singing stars. Highlights include a lengthy selection from Faust, with Gigli making a most impressive Mephistopheles. The plot takes a melodramatic turn towards the climax, with the lives of the characters mirrored in their on-stage behavior. Director Carmine Gallone was something of an expert in the field of filmed opera, as witness his Tosca, Rigoletto and Il Trovatore.

The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the suspects, it becomes apparent that the blustering and bullying - and naive - village judge is the guilty one.

Maler Pratt, an artist, refuses to sell his paintings as he thinks that they still need improvement before being publicly exhibited, but his wife Monika thinks differently and sells them because she thinks they are good...and they need the money. As he only signs an "M" on his work, Monika has no difficulty in claiming she is "M", but problems arrive when she is commissioned to do a large mural and Maler refuses to help her out. However, his creative spirit gets the best of him and he does the mural which is widely acclaimed to be a great work of art. Felder , an art dealer, is not overly pleased with this turn of events as he has been pleading with Monika to divorce her shiftless husband and marry him.

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made businessman who is forced to do a great deal of soul-searching when his wife unexpectedly dies. Determining to start life anew, he falls in love with his secretary Inken (Marianne Hoppe) and impulsively takes a vacation to Italy. Clausen's selfish grown children, not wishing to share their father's affections -- nor his money -- with his new wife-to-be, go to court demanding that Clausen be declared mentally incompetent. Upon finding this out, Clausen flies into a rage, leaving the audience to wonder whether or not he really as gone off his trolley. Der Herrscher was directed by Veit Harlan, more famous (or notorious) for his viciously anti-Semitic Jud Suess (1940).

The jealous star conductor Montemayor knows that his beautiful younger wife, Winifred, is cheating on him with an American named Jack Mortimer. After the concert rehearsal, he takes a taxi to the train station, sees Mortimer and shoots him at an intersection from the backseat of his taxi. The shot is not heard during the traffic noise. The taxi driver, Sponer, sitting in his car with the now-dead Mortimer, goes into a panic.

Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

После того, как детектив подвергся нападению бандитов и был помещен в приют профессора Баума, он наблюдает за тем, как профессор увлечён другим пациентом, преступным гением - доктором Мабузе. Когда обнаруживается, что записи Мабузе связаны с целым рядом недавних преступлений, комиссар Ломанн пытается определить, как Мабузе общается с преступниками и несмотря на противоречивые сведения о местонахождении доктора, раз и навсегда схватить его.

Маньяк-убийца наводит ужас на жителей Города. Маленькие девочки не успевают домой к обеду, не возвращаются вовсе. Полиция сбилась с ног в поисках преступника, однако все усилия тщетны. Обеспокоенный активностью полицейских, преступный мир города сам объявил погоню за нарушившим табу маньяком.

Ученый Георг Манфельдт выдвигает теорию, что на спутнике Земли находятся крупные залежи золота, но осмеян коллегами и вынужден влачить жалкое существование. Однако, вскоре к нему приходит незнакомец с предложением выкупить его материалы по этой работе. После этого следует цепь странных и загадочных событий.

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.

Метрополис — город будущего, разделен на две части. Под землей находятся жилища рабочих, над ними цеха с машинами. В верхнем городе расположены офисы, богатые кварталы и сады развлечений. Вся власть в городе принадлежит магнату Иогану Фендерсону. Его сын — Фредер догадывается о несправедливости, царящей в метрополисе. Спустившись в машинную зону, Фредер приходит в ужас: он видит страшного Молоха, пожирающего людей. Не в силах смириться с увиденным, он начинает борьбу со злом.

Метрополис — город будущего, разделен на две части. Под землей находятся жилища рабочих, над ними цеха с машинами. В верхнем городе расположены офисы, богатые кварталы и сады развлечений. Вся власть в городе принадлежит магнату Иогану Фендерсону. Его сын — Фредер догадывается о несправедливости, царящей в метрополисе. Спустившись в машинную зону, Фредер приходит в ужас: он видит страшного Молоха, пожирающего людей. Не в силах смириться с увиденным, он начинает борьбу со злом.

Hinrich, the son of a feudal German landowner, falls in love with the beautiful daughter of one of his father's serfs despite opposition from both families. But when he actually offers marriage to her, this is going too far. The return of his brother Detlev, with an unscrupulous aristocratic bride of his own and a rival claim to their father's estates, proves to be the trigger for tragedy.

A famed artist fights his passion for a male model, until the young man falls for a woman.

A famed artist fights his passion for a male model, until the young man falls for a woman.

Вторая часть немого художественного фильма Фрица Ланга по мотивам средневековой германской эпической поэмы «Песнь о Нибелунгах».

Немой художественный фильм Фрица Ланга по мотивам средневековой германской эпической поэмы «Песнь о Нибелунгах».

The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.

A lost Murnau peasant-farm film.

In a distant Teutonic village, people dance and drink merrily celebrating a wedding feast. However, an elderly man tells the villagers that the valley where they live wasn't always happy but sorrowful. This was due to the tyranny of the master of the mountains who ruled the valley despotically.

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.

As the police intensify their bemusing search on Doctor Mabuse's notorious band of gangsters, the deceptive, elusive hypnotist Mabuse simultaneously begins to close in on himself.

Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.

Доктор Мабузе — демон во плоти, главарь шайки бандитов. Полиция идет по его следу, но безуспешно, потому что он умело меняет свою внешность: то он — аристократ, то — банкир, а иногда — нетрезвый матрос. Но главное — он обладает даром гипноза, от которого его жертвам нет спасения.

дьявольское поле — самое страшное место во владениях графа Рюденберга. По легенде, в нём сокрыты несметные сокровища. Но сокровища эти — необычные: однажды, когда по приказу предка графа крестьяне вырыли глубокую яму в поисках богатства, случился страшный пожар — и с тех пор ничто не растёт в мёртвом Дьявольском Поле.Йоханнес — амбициозный молодой человек, по происхождению крестьянин, однако, презирающий жизнь на земле. Чтобы вырваться из крестьянского быта, он знакомится с Гердой, дочерью графа Рюденберга, потом становится секретарём графа, а позже случайно узнаёт подлинную тайну Дьявольского Поля и истинную цену его сокровищам. И решается на обман и предательство…

Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.

Rowland falls sick with leprosy while Mac Allan is captured by the Maharajah, who offers Irene a deal: one night with him in exchange for letting Rowland to be cured. She accepts, but tries to commit suicide.

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to look for Herbert Rowland, an architect; but when he orders him to build a tomb, Rowland refuses.

Молодая пара отдыхает в маленькой деревенской гостинице. Внезапно мужчина оказывается похищенным Смертью. Женщина находит таинственный вход в потусторонний мир и встречается со Смертью, которая рассказывает ей три разных истории, происходящих в разных, порой неожиданных местах.

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

A woman (Mia May) takes a train to escape from her lover, who is also the father of her daughter, but he has sent her a telegram ensuring that she will never get rid of him. Thus begins a chase that leads into the mountains. There she meets a monk who willgive her all the support she needs. Drama about repentance, guilt and the possibility to achieve redemption through sacrifice.

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.