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

After her Prime Minister Lord Melbourne arranges a marriage for her with the German Prince Albert, the young Queen Victoria decides to leave London...

A country girl, mistaken for the niece of an American millionaire, wins the prize in a toothpaste contest, a trip to the Baltic seashore.

Judith, Count Robert de Bertan's daughter, is on holiday with her friend Louise and her father Marquis Emile de Fers. Meanwhile, banker Charles...

A woman loses her undergarments in public. Chaos ensues.

The daydreaming tailor Wenzel is fired from his job, because the fancy frock he was supposed to cut for the mayor, he instead made for himself. He is...

a movie by Heinz Paul

Charming Tom is pursuing fine Olivia both cheerfully and stubbornly. At first, she rejects him brutally; but then she finds pleasure in this...

A 1934 film directed by Heinz Hille.

Refugees from East Germany try to make a living in the west.

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

Cheeky Jette is a typical Berlin girl. Together with her mother, she performs couplets in a Berlin suburb theatre every night. Then, a young Austrian...

Based on the real life events of the 1927 Steglitzer Schülertragödie, in which several high school students planned murder-suicides.

According to his last will, the rich American uncle of vacuum cleaner salesman Peter Pett only leaves his 5 million dollars to Peter if he is married...

Silent version of a story later remade in French and German as Baby: A count's daughter wants a stage career, her show girl friend wants an...

What the children conceal from their parents. Banned at first in Europe. Released in the U.S.

The story is one of the classic operetta stories with a young princess destined to marry a king whom her mother tries to enforce while the young...

Dietz' relatives are horrified to discover that Dietz, the son of a wealthy merchant, is planning to marry an actress, who is known to appear in...

Before the First World War, Dr. Hans Stockmann had a practice in a small town. His powerhungry brother is the mayor of Bad Trimburg, which has...

In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline...

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...

An aging prostitute develops a motherly affection for a kind young man, but her pimp does not approve.

The daughter of a famous painter fleeing thieves who believe she knows where one of her father's original paintings is kept, flees and hides out at...

Percy, a young, rich American, is on vacation in Germany and thinks that every girl wants his sorry ass. He’s far from right: There’s the...

A taxi driver, (Piel), finds an odd contraption on the back seat that renders him invisible, but his friend steals the device to rob a bank. An...

The French ballet girl Janine, a gifted tap-dancer, dreams of a musical career in Paris. But first she wants to take revenge on Count René who stood...

The aging singer Clarina receives a new engagement from a cabaret called the Maison Mouche and must evade the advances of several overbearing men....

Silent adaptation of the famous play by Henrik Ibsen. This film is believed to be lost.

Based on the play of the same name by Frank Wedekind.

Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marriage. Liesbeth Kröger is from his generation and...

Filmarchiv Austria holds a non-access master print and a nitrate duplicate negative of the film.

The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights...

A melodrama about a virtuous wife unjustly abandoned by her husband, who get him back with the help of a Hindu mystic.

"The House of Pillory" - a place where the enemy women captured during wartime were imprisoned so that the people could exploit them as they wished.

English Lord Arthur Cavershoot is a passionate Napoleon scholar who badly neglects his wife Josephine for his obsession with the French emperor. When...

German film

German drama