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The Last Laugh
1924 film directed by F. W. Murnau
Pandora's Box
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Different from the Others
1919 film by Richard Oswald
Joyless Street
1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Michael
1924 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Variety
1925 film by Ewald André Dupont, Max Reichmann
Asphalt
1929 film directed by Joe May
Carmen
1918 German silent drama film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Journey into the Night
1921 film by F. W. Murnau
The Blackguard
1925 film directed by Graham Cutts
I.N.R.I.
1923 German silent religious epic film directed by Robert Wiene
Raskolnikow
1923 film by Robert Wiene
The Ancient Law
1923 film by Ewald André Dupont
The Burning Soil
1922 film by F. W. Murnau
Othello
1922 German silent historical drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki
Hamlet
1921 film directed by Svend Gade and Heinz Schall
Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt
1929 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt
Frau Eva
1916 film directed by Artur Berger and Robert Wiene
The Treasure
1923 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Vier um die Frau
1921 film by Fritz Lang
The Unknown Tomorrow
1923 film by Alexander Korda
Intoxication
1919 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Der Gelbe Schein
1918 film directed by Victor Janson and Eugen Illés
Der Andere
1913 film by Max Mack directed by Max Mack
Hintertreppe
thumb|Full-length film with English titles. Hintertreppe (English: Backstairs) is a 1921 silent film. This was the first movie by German director Leopold Jessner, in cooperation with Paul Leni. Carl Mayer specifically wrote this for Leopold Jessner, who would go on to direct Erdgeist (1923). Hintertreppe was a precursor of the 1920s German kammerspielfilm style.
The Love of Jeanne Ney
1927 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Secrets of a Soul
1926 film
Helena
1924 film by Manfred Noa
Earth Spirit
1923 film by Leopold Jessner
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.
Wandering Souls
1921 film by Carl Froelich
His Wife, The Unknown
1923 film by Benjamin Christensen
The Rats
1921 film
Vendetta
1919 film by Georg Jacoby
Adam and Eve
1923 film by Reinhold Schünzel
Latin Quarter
1929 German film directed by Augusto Genina
The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach
1917 film by Rudolf Biebrach
The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
1929 German silent drama film directed by Hanns Schwarz
Bogdan Stimoff
1916 film by Georg Jacoby
The Stone Rider
1923 film by Fritz Wendhausen
The Man in the Mirror
1917 film by Robert Wiene
Mata Hari
1927 film by Friedrich Feher
The Bordellos of Algiers
1927 film
The Story of a Maid
1921 film by Reinhold Schünzel
A Modern Dubarry
1927 film
The Heart of a German Mother
1926 film by Géza von Bolváry
Inge Larsen
1923 film by Hans Steinhoff
The Devious Path
1928 film directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Roswolsky's Mistress
1921 film by Felix Basch
Dance on the Volcano
1920 silent film directed by Richard Eichberg
Rose Bernd
1919 film by Alfred Halm
Only a Dancing Girl
1927 film by Olof Molander
The Green Manuela
1923 film by Ewald André Dupont
The Pied Piper of Hamelin
1918 film by Paul Wegener
The Burning Heart
1929 film by Ludwig Berger
Katharina Knie
1929 film by Karl Grune
The Vulture Wally
1921 film by Ewald André Dupont
Old Heidelberg
1923 film by Hans Behrendt
The Guilt of Lavinia Morland
1920 film by Joe May