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Metropolis
1927 German science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang
Nosferatu
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror () is a 1922 silent German Expressionist vampire film directed by F. W. Murnau from a screenplay by Henrik Galeen. It stars Max Schreck as Count Orlok, a vampire who preys on the wife (Greta Schröder) of his estate agent (Gustav von Wangenheim) and brings the plague to their town.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 film by Robert Wiene
M
1931 film directed by Fritz Lang
The Blue Angel
1930 German film directed by Josef von Sternberg
The Last Laugh
1924 film directed by F. W. Murnau
The Golem: How He Came into the World
1920 film by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Faust
1926 film by F. W. Murnau
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
1922 film by Fritz Lang
Die Nibelungen
1924 two-part film directed by Fritz Lang
Destiny
1921 film by Fritz Lang
Woman in the Moon
1929 film directed by Fritz Lang
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1926 animated film directed by Lotte Reiniger
Vampyr
Vampyr () is a 1932 Gothic horror film directed by Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer. It was written by Dreyer and Christen Jul based on elements from Sheridan Le Fanu's 1872 collection of supernatural stories In a Glass Darkly. The film was funded by Baron Nicolas de Gunzburg, who (credited as Julian West) also played the starring role of Allan Gray, a student of the occult who wanders into the French village of Courtempierre, which is under the curse of a vampire. Most of the other members of the cast were also non-professional actors.
Pandora's Box
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Different from the Others
1919 film by Richard Oswald
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
1933 film by Fritz Lang
Spies
Spione (; English title: Spies, under which title it was released in the United States) is a 1928 German silent espionage thriller directed by Fritz Lang and co-written with his wife, Thea von Harbou, who also wrote a novel of the same name, published a year later. The film was Lang's penultimate silent film and the first for his own production company, Fritz Lang-Film GmbH. As in Lang's Mabuse films, Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler (1922) and The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933), Rudolf Klein-Rogge plays a master criminal aiming for world domination.
Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis
1927 film by Walter Ruttmann
Mädchen in Uniform
1931 film by Leontine Sagan
The Threepenny Opera
1931 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Joyless Street
1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Kuhle Wampe
1932 film by Slatan Dudow
The Loves of Pharaoh
1922 German film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
The Head of Janus
1920 German film directed by F. W. Murnau
Kameradschaft
Kameradschaft (, known in France as La Tragédie de la mine) is a 1931 dramatic film directed by Austrian director G. W. Pabst. The French-German co-production drama is noted for combining expressionism and realism.
The Blue Light
1932 film by Leni Riefenstahl, Béla Balázs
Waxworks
1924 film by Paul Leni, Leo Birinski
Harakiri
1919 film by Fritz Lang
Madame DuBarry
1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Haunted Castle
1921 film directed by F. W. Murnau
The Wild Cat
1921 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Michael
1924 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Mary
1931 film by Alfred Hitchcock in German
Variety
1925 film by Ewald André Dupont, Max Reichmann
Phantom
1922 film by F. W. Murnau
Der Kongreß tanzt
1931 film by Erik Charell
Der Herr der Liebe
1919 film by Fritz Lang
The Flame
1923 film by Ernst Lubitsch
The Doll
1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Anna Boleyn
1920 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Halbblut
Halbblut () is a 1919 German silent film directed by Fritz Lang.
Asphalt
1929 film directed by Joe May
Westfront 1918
1930 silent film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Living Corpse
1929 film by Fedor Ozep
Tartuffe
1925 film by F. W. Murnau
L'Atlantide
1932 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
1923 film by Arthur Robison
Carmen
1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Prem Sanyas
1925 film by Franz Osten, Himanshu Rai
Die Straße
1923 film by Karl Grune
Salamander
1928 Soviet-German film directed by Grigori Roshal
Journey into the Night
1921 film by F. W. Murnau
The Spiders
1920 two-part film by Fritz Lang
Emil and the Detectives
1931 film by Gerhard Lamprecht
The Blackguard
1925 film directed by Graham Cutts
Raskolnikow
1923 film by Robert Wiene
I.N.R.I.
1923 German silent religious epic film directed by Robert Wiene
Desire
1921 film by F. W. Murnau