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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
The Golem: How He Came into the World
1920 film by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
The Last Laugh
1924 film directed by F. W. Murnau
Faust
1926 film by F. W. Murnau
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler
1922 film by Fritz Lang
Woman in the Moon
1929 film directed by Fritz Lang
Die Nibelungen
1924 two-part film directed by Fritz Lang
Destiny
1921 film by Fritz Lang
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1926 animated film directed by Lotte Reiniger
Pandora's Box
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Different from the Others
1919 film by Richard Oswald
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
The Student of Prague
1913 film
Joyless Street
1925 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
The Loves of Pharaoh
1922 German film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
The Head of Janus
1920 German film directed by F. W. Murnau
Waxworks
1924 film by Paul Leni, Leo Birinski
Diary of a Lost Girl
1929 film by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Harakiri
1919 film by Fritz Lang
Madame DuBarry
1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch
The Haunted Castle
1921 film directed by F. W. Murnau
The Golem
1915 film by Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Michael
1924 film by Carl Theodor Dreyer
The Wild Cat
1921 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Phantom
1922 film by F. W. Murnau
Der Herr der Liebe
1919 film by Fritz Lang
Variety
1925 film by Ewald André Dupont, Max Reichmann
The Flame
1923 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Anna Boleyn
1920 film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
Asphalt
1929 film directed by Joe May
The Doll
1919 film by Ernst Lubitsch
Tartuffe
1925 film by F. W. Murnau
The Living Corpse
1929 film by Fedor Ozep
Halbblut
Halbblut () is a 1919 German silent film directed by Fritz Lang.
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
1923 film by Arthur Robison
Journey into the Night
1921 film by F. W. Murnau
The Spiders
1920 two-part film by Fritz Lang
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
The Ancient Law
1923 film by Ewald André Dupont
The Blackguard
1925 film directed by Graham Cutts
Desire
1921 film by F. W. Murnau
The Indian Tomb
1921 German silent film by Joe May, in two parts
Sumurun
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The Hunchback and the Dancer
1920 film by F. W. Murnau
Tales of Hoffmann
1916 film by Richard Oswald
I.N.R.I.
1923 German silent religious epic film directed by Robert Wiene
Raskolnikow
1923 film by Robert Wiene
Das wandernde Bild
1920 German silent film directed by Fritz Lang
The Burning Soil
1922 film by F. W. Murnau
Die Augen der Mumie Ma
1918 silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
The Grand Duke's Finances
1924 film by F. W. Murnau, Edgar George Ulmer
Dancing Mad
1925 film by Alexander Korda
People on Sunday
1930 silent film by Robert Siodmak and Edgar George Ulmer
Othello
1922 German silent historical drama film directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki