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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
Die Nibelungen
1924 two-part film directed by Fritz Lang
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
1926 animated film directed by Lotte Reiniger
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.
The Student of Prague
1913 film
The Golem
1915 film by Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Schatten – Eine nächtliche Halluzination
1923 film by Arthur Robison
The Hunchback and the Dancer
1920 film by F. W. Murnau
Die Augen der Mumie Ma
1918 silent film directed by Ernst Lubitsch
The Student of Prague
1926 film by Henrik Galeen
Homunculus
1916 six chapter serial film by Otto Rippert
A Night of Horror
1916 film by Arthur Robison, Richard Oswald
Unheimliche Geschichten
1919 film by Richard Oswald
The Phantom of the Opera
1916 film by Ernst Matray
Genuine
1920 film by Robert Wiene
Fear
1917 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene
Kurfürstendamm
1920 film by Richard Oswald
Figures of the Night
1920 film by Richard Oswald
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1917 film by Richard Oswald
Somnambul
Somnambul is a 1929 German silent horror film directed by Adolf Trotz and starring Fritz Kortner, Erna Morena and Veit Harlan. The film is set against the backdrop of spiritualism. The Berlin clairvoyant Elsbeth Guenther-Geffers appeared in the film. The film's art director was August Rinaldi.
Nights of Terror
1921 film by Lupu Pick
Luther
1927 film by Hans Kyser
Madness
1919 film by Conrad Veidt
The Dance of Death
1919 film by Otto Rippert