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Der Raub der Mona Lisa
1931 film
Carl Peters
1941 film by Herbert Selpin
Genuine
1920 film by Robert Wiene
Paganini
1923 film directed by Heinz Goldberg
Kohlhiesels Töchter
1920 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Fräulein Raffke
1923 film by Richard Eichberg
Abschied
1930 German film by Robert Siodmak
Paracelsus
1943 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Miss Piccolo
1914 film by Franz Hofer
Maciste and the Chinese Chest
1923 film by Carl Boese
Kampfgeschwader Lützow
1941 film by Hans Bertram
Crucifige
1919 film by Georg Jacoby
Schwarzfahrer
Schwarzfahrer (also known as Black Rider) is a 1993 German 12-minute short film directed by . It won an Oscar in 1994 for Best Short Subject. The topic of the film is the daily racism a black man endures in a tram. The title is a word-play: "Schwarzfahrer" usually means "fare-dodger" in German, but can be literally translated as "black traveler". This word-play forms the punch line of the short film.
The Student of Prague
1935 film by Arthur Robison
Alkohol
Alkohol ('Alcohol') is a 1919 German silent drama film directed by Ewald André Dupont and Alfred Lind and starring Wilhelm Diegelmann, Ernst Rückert, and Georg H. Schnell. The film was begun by Lind but finished by Dupont. It was his first major melodrama, and represented a breakthrough in his career. The film's theme and setting foreshadow much of his later work. It was one in a series of "Enlightenment films" examining social issues, which were produced around the time. It premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin.
The Phantom of the Opera
1916 film by Ernst Matray
The Thief of Bagdad
1952 film by Karel Lamač
When Four Do the Same
1917 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Veritas Vincit
1919 film by Joe May
Der Hund von Baskerville
1929 film by Richard Oswald
The Rats
1921 film
From Morn to Midnight
1920 film directed by Karlheinz Martin
Husbands or Lovers
1924 film by Paul Czinner
The Dealer from Amsterdam
1925 film by Victor Janson
Romeo and Juliet in the Snow
1920 film by Ernst Lubitsch
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stukas
1941 film by Karl Ritter
Tomfoolery
1936 film by Willi Forst
Scotland Yard vs. Dr. Mabuse
1963 film by Paul May
Marizza
Marizza (full title Marizza, called the Smuggler Madonna, ) is a 1922 silent German drama film directed by F. W. Murnau. The film is considered to be lost, though the Cineteca Nazionale film archive possesses a fragmentary print of the first reel. It was shot at the Johannisthal Studios in Berlin. The film's sets were designed by the art director Heinrich Richter.
The Curse of the Hidden Vault
1964 film by Franz Josef Gottlieb
The Life and Loves of Tschaikovsky
1939 film by Carl Froelich
Neues vom Hexer
1965 film directed by Will Tremper and Alfred Vohrer
Children, Mother, and the General
1955 film by László Benedek
Tiefland
1954 film by Leni Riefenstahl
Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne
1918 film by Jenö Illés, Joseph Klein
Countess Doddy
1919 film by Georg Jacoby
The Rest Is Silence
1959 film by Helmut Käutner
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1929 German silent drama film directed by Hanns Schwarz
Erbkrank
Erbkrank () is a 1936 Nazi propaganda film directed by Herbert Gerdes.
The Leghorn Hat
1939 film by Wolfgang Liebeneiner
Wunschkonzert
Wunschkonzert (Request Concert) is a 1940 German drama propaganda film by Eduard von Borsody. After The Great Love, it was the most popular film of wartime Germany, reaching the second highest gross.
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach
1917 film by Rudolf Biebrach
Mata Hari
1927 film by Friedrich Feher
Countess Maritza
1925 film by Hans Steinhoff
The Holy Mountain
1926 film by Arnold Fanck
Land Without Women
1929 film by Géza von Cziffra, Carmine Gallone
The Other Side
1931 film by Heinz Paul
The Song of the Sun
1933 film by Max Neufeld
The Red Peacock
1921 film by Paul L. Stein
Der Kaiser von Kalifornien
1936 film by Luis Trenker
I Aim at the Stars
1960 film by J. Lee Thompson
Gold
1934 film directed by Karl Hartl
The Man in the Mirror
1917 film by Robert Wiene
Institute Benjamenta
1995 film directed by Stephen Quay and Timothy Quay
Sky without stars
1955 German film directed by Helmut Käutner
The Bordellos of Algiers
1927 film
Der Frosch mit der Maske
1959 film by Harald Reinl
Accident
1928 film directed by Ernő Metzner
Jackboot Mutiny
1955 film