Different from the Others

Different from the Others 1919

6.90

Conrad 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).

1919

Alraune

Alraune 1930

4.90

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.

1930

Eerie Tales

Eerie Tales 1919

5.50

After the old-books shop closes, portraits of the Strumpet, Death, and the Devil come to life and amuse themselves by reading stories--about themselves.

1919

Cagliostro

Cagliostro 1929

5.20

Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)

1929

The Story of Dida Ibsen

The Story of Dida Ibsen 1918

1

Dida 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.

1918

The Green Alley

The Green Alley 1928

1

An ill-fated love affair between a brothel waitress and a doctor's son.

1928

Lady Hamilton

Lady Hamilton 1921

5.80

The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson.

1921

Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang

Der Reigen - Ein Werdegang 1920

5.00

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself.

1920

Der ewige Zweifel

Der ewige Zweifel 1918

5.00

Woman doesn't let the man know whether he is the father of the child.

1918

Prostitution

Prostitution 1919

1

Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.

1919

Villa Falconieri

Villa Falconieri 1928

8.00

A young count rents a villa near Rome to be near a woman he's courting. While there, he strikes up a friendship with a young woman living with a violent husband.

1928

Dreyfus

Dreyfus 1930

5.60

In late nineteenth century Alfred Dreyfus, a French army officer of Jewish heritage, is falsely accused of espionage. Found guilty of treason he is drummed out of the army and sent to prison on Devil's Island.

1930

Earth Spirit

Earth Spirit 1923

5.50

When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disaster approaching, he cannot let go of her. (Stumfilm.dk)

1923

Figures of the Night

Figures of the Night 1920

1

"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.

1920

Es werde Licht!

Es werde Licht! 1917

1

A painter with syphilis infects his brother's wife and the child born of their affair.

1917