Silent Films By German and Austro-Hungarian Directors

A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.

Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys "Boss'" happiness.

French aristocrat falls for Russian nightclub singer, gets involved in underground Russian revolutionary movement.

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.

A lord falls in love with one of his serfs and chooses to be disinherited and stripped of his title in order to marry her. Her love and gratitude extend beyond the grave.

Presents two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.

A group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go. After Lulu shoots the doctor, his son has to make a serious decision.

An expressionistic film based on Poe's story, about a murderer and his mental breakdown.

Kay Hoog findet eine Nachricht, die darauf hindeutet, dass einige Inkas noch am Leben sind. Die Geheimorganisation "Die Spinnen" will jedoch unbedingt an das Gold der Inkas ...

The Buddhist priest wants the Daughter of the Daimyo to become a priestess at the Forbidden Garden. The Daimyo thinks if he were in Europe that his daughter should decide on her own, but he is denounced and has to commit harakiri. She meets Olaf, a European officer, falls in love and marries him, but after a few months he has to return to Europe. She gives birth to a child and is waiting for him, while he marries in Europe. When he comes back to Japan 4 years later, he is accompanied by his European wife...

Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation "Die Spinnen" to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia, but the man, who should be the owner of that diamond, doesn't know of its existence....

Mia May has surrendered herself to a disciple of free love, and, having given birth to a child, marries the twin brother and Doppelgänger of her chosen lover.

Harry Yquem, a wealthy broker, remains obsessed with delusions of his devout wife's infidelity.

Als der Verlobte einer Frau verschwindet, gibt ihr der Tod dreimal die Chance, ihren Liebsten vor seinem Schicksal zu bewahren.

Erzschurke Dr. Mabuse hat es sich zum Ziel gesetzt, ein Vermögen zu machen und Berlin zu beherrschen. Staatsanwalt von Wenk versucht, ihn zu stoppen.

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.

Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargained for.

In einer futuristischen Großstadt, in der die Arbeiterklasse streng von der Oberschicht getrennt ist, verliebt sich der Sohn des Herrschers der Stadt in eine Prophetin der Unterschicht, die das Kommen eines Retters vorhersagt, der die Differenzen zwischen den Klassen beseitigen wird.

Der Kopf einer allgegenwärtigen Spionagezentrale erfährt von der gefährlichen Romanze zwischen einer Russin in seinen Diensten und einem attraktiven Agenten des staatlichen Geheimdienstes.

Ein beharrlicher Wissenschaftler reist in der Hoffnung zum Mond, dort reichhaltige Goldvorkommen zu entdecken.

Silent adaptation of the famous fairy tale 'Sleeping Beauty'.

An effort to combat the anti-German propaganda promulgated by the Allies.

A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. She, however, is in love with a wealthy, handsome young man. Desperate to win her love, he begins to intercept love letters they send to each other and replaces them with his own messages, which each thinks is from the other. His plan seems to be succeeding, but then something happens that bring tragic results to them all.