A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged...

When a suspicious man bribes Emil with chocolate in return for a bundle of cash, the young lad thinks of a plan to catch him.

Sixth part of Jerry Cotton movies. Agent Jerry Cotton infiltrates a big crime syndicate that is planning a major diamond heist.

The quiet life of an extended family is shaken up when a circus comes into town.

Wanting a lavish production to mark the 25th anniversary of UFA, the German film studio, Joseph Goebbels, director of the Nazi propaganda machine,...

For three difficult orphans living by her aunt the former employee of the family searches a new premouth; he releases with it a result of tumultuous...

Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately...

Promotional film for War loans and bonds. Mother Froehlich sells her clock and send the money to her son fighting in war. Then they get attacked and...

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...

The story of a Berlin tenement and its inhabitants. A silent drama by Gerhard Lamprecht.

The nine-year-old orphan Therese has recently moved in with a family of gardeners. She continues to take loving care of her former foster mother,...

Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate...

Directed by Richard Eichberg.

Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.

Relations between Huckebein, a humble tailor, and Greizinger, a wealthy farmer, become strained after Greizinger breaks off the romance between his...

In 18th century Europe, King Friedrich II of Prussia leads his army through the seven-years-war with neighboring states, and after numerous near...

Based on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of ...

Heidelberg teenagers make jazz music.

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...

Cautionary drama, with vigorous attack on Germany's laws governing abortion.

Directed by Harald Braun and told from the perspective of Bertha von Suttner, the first female to receive the Nobel Peace Prize, The Alfred Nobel...

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his...

A woman marries a rich landowner, by request of her parents, instead of her lover who's child she's expecting. After a couple of years, the father of...

A romantic drama directed by Hans Deppe.

A sexually unsatisfied wife on the Greek island of Lesbos for a vacation meets a self-confident blonde lesbian who tries to seduce her. Her impotent...

Seven men in peaceful Switzerland swear lifelong friendship while the rest of the world is at strife. A conflict arises when the daughter of one...

Mother Wolffen, a washerwoman, is a woman of principle: A poor man must do what he must to get through life, only he mustn't get caught doing it. All...

Director Burckhardt is found shot just after making the moves on Gisela Ostercamp, the wife of a business colleague. When the criminal investigator...

A German soldier on leave in Berlin goes looking for his pen pal who he has never met called Gisela. He meets instead a woman with the same name and...

The successful writer Erich Eckberg lives with his wife Sigrid and their three children -- the twins, Knut and Michael and the daughter Gabriel -- on...

Theodor Fontane's novel about a young girl who as a teenager marries a stiff bureaucrat, has a love affair out of boredom and loneliness and has to...

The physician Dr. Deruga is suspected of having poisoned his wife out of greed. She died after naming Deruga, poor and in debt, the sole heir in...

Grete Minde, based on the novel by Theodor Fontane, tells the story of a girl trapped in the turbulent religious and social prejudices of...

Four soldiers on leave from the German army refuse to participate in the leftist October 1918 revolution in Berlin.

After her husband suddenly dies, a small town woman becomes the target of gossip, as to whether he had been having an affair and whether she is...

Gabriela once a famous singer who enjoyed great success. She married, had a daughter Andrea, but pursued her career. Now that Andrea has matured into...

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four...

When a German businessman causes a car accident with deadly consequences, the papers start digging into his past to find scandals. What they find...

The engineer Wolff Benningsen (Volker von Collande), a self-assured and über-obnoxious jingo jerk meets the young art student Vika von Demnitz (Leny...

Students raised under Nazi ideology witness the disintegration of the Third Reich and the realization of those who indoctrinated them that they were...

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These 15...

Sylvia, the daughter of the pastor Kelvil, is lectrice to Lady Patricia and gets to know the young Lord Harford. They love one another, but their...

A biographical film of Otto von Bismarck, the Prime Minister of Prussia, and how he and his policies - including aggressive war - helped to unite...

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

About the power of love and that love is such a strong force that humans are willing to commit the most ruthless acts to achieve it. And the one who...

Remake of the silent film of 1921: The lord of a castle disappears after the return of two feuding brothers from a noble family. Suspicion falls on...

Silent epic on the final years of Frederick II.

A young German boy meets his hero, a famous flying ace, and dreams of becoming a pilot. However, his mother--whose husband was a fighter pilot killed...

a silent movie

In 1807 Prussia, Napoleon supporter Baron von Schranden forces his maid Regine to lead the French enemy across “Cat’s Bridge”, up behind a...

The film portrays the Imperial German Navy during the First World War, particularly the Battle of Jutland and is based on a novel by Helmut Lorenz.

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

Film by Fred Sauer.

Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium,...

Each evening, before saying their prayers, some children swallow their cod liver oil. One evening, the youngest child makes a daring request in his...

Lilian Harvey plays Eva, a young girl taking some time in a health spa and spending her evenings in the town's vaudeville theatre enamoured by a...

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to...

Film by Herlth and Röhrig.

A tale of cheating in both love and business.

A sculptor obsessed with a pianist will stop at nothing to rid himself of any competition for her affections.

After spending an evening with questionable company, two young women are trafficked to brothels abroad.

The first appearance of Heinrich Schroth as Joe Deebs, a popular detective character in German silent cinema patterned after Sherlock Holmes.

An insight into the work at the UFA-Studios.