Unheimliche Geschichten
Nov 05, 1919After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.
Fantasy
Anita Berber
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Anders als die Andern
May 28, 1919Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Drama
Lucrezia Borgia
Oct 20, 1922Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, and Cesare, who is wicked and lusts after Lucrezia, Juan's girlfriend, and probably others. Cesare has vowed to kill any suitor for Lucrezia's love, and he has three thugs to carry out his wishes. Bodies fall into the Tiber, into the Colosseum (with lions prowling), and onto the Vatican floors.
Anders als die Andern
May 28, 1919Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).
Drama
Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus
Mar 19, 1919Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.
Drama
Die Zirkusdiva
Aug 30, 1924
Der Schädel der Pharaonentochter
Nov 11, 1920A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the pharaoh's daughter Princess Amnertis and her beloved Tirhaka is told until the latter comes to a violent death. From this drama arises a curse, which in the following episodes has had far-reaching effects over the centuries. Everyone who possesses the skull of the long-lost pharaoh's daughter must die violently until the day the skull is sunk in the sea.
Drama
Die goldene Pest
Nov 18, 1921Crime
Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase
Mar 09, 1923Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
Nachtgestalten
Jan 09, 1920"Night people". Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple, who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage. His servants are defaced dwarfs. His secretary is trying to steal Bezugs assets. These are the night people.
Drama
Die Reise um die Erde in 80 Tagen
Mar 20, 1919Wealthy Englishman Phileas Fogg bets his friends that he can travel around the world in 80 days.
Adventure
Irrlichter der Tiefe
Apr 20, 1923"Lights of the Abyss". Anita Berber enchants men and women as the seductive goddess Astarte.
Drama
Force et beauté
Mar 16, 1925C’est dans les années 1920 qu’émerge en Allemagne la "Körperkultur", mouvement de masse célébrant le corps sain, la culture physique et les activités de plein air, et qui sera exacerbé jusqu’au culte une décennie plus tard dans l’idéologie nazie. Premier film documentaire long produit par l’UFA, "Force et beauté" s’inscrit parfaitement dans cette mouvance. Les séquences qu’il présente, tantôt instructives tantôt insolites (reconstitutions de combats de lutteurs de la Grèce antique, chorégraphies expressionnistes ou scènes de danse des quatre coins du monde), mettent en scène un certain nombre d’athlètes célèbres. On y retrouve notamment le nageur (et futur Tarzan) Johnny Weissmuller, ainsi qu’une toute jeune Leni Riefenstahl, qui y fait sa première apparition au cinéma en tant que danseuse.
Documentary
Dida Ibsens Geschichte
Dec 12, 1918Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the money of her wealthy lover, from whom she soon gets pregnant, but their dreams of marriage fail, his wife refuses the divorce. After a while, she decides to marry one of the regular guests at her restaurant, van Galen, who spent quite some time in the tropics and because of this is at the brink of madness. Shortly after the marriage his condition worsens and life becomes hell for Dida.
Drama
Die drei Marien und der Herr von Marana
Mar 09, 1923
Der Graf von Cagliostro
Dec 21, 1920About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
Horror
Docteur Mabuse le joueur
Apr 27, 1922Dans les temps troublés de la république de Weimar, le mystérieux docteur Mabuse use de ses pouvoirs psychiques pour perpétrer des crimes audacieux dans le plus grand anonymat. Sur les traces de ce génie du mal, le procureur Von Wenck se lie d'amitié avec Gerhard Hull, jeune industriel fortuné. Ce dernier, qui a été la victime d'une étonnante arnaque au jeu, va l'introduire dans le milieu interlope du Berlin nocturne.
Crime
Das Dreimäderlhaus
Sep 22, 1918Drama
Tänze des Grauens, des Lasters und der Ekstase
Mar 09, 1923Anita Berber and Sebastian Droste performed their macabre dances of vice, horror and ecstasy. Saturated with an air of morbidity and decadence; death, dreams, torture, sex and sensuality.
