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German cinema: All genres

Die Ratten (1955)
Robert Siodmak

Soon after World War II, a penniless young refugee, Pauline Karka, wanders Berlin looking for the boyfriend who has abandoned her...   [More...]

Sonnenstrahl (1933)
Pál Fejös

In the 1930s, Europe is caught in the grip of the Great Depression. Across the entire continent ordinary men and women are struggling to support themselves and their families in the face of an ever riding tide of unemployment...   [More...]

Spione (1928)
Fritz Lang

When a series of top secret government documents go missing, agent No. 326 is called in to investigate. Little does he know that he is up against Europe's most sophisticated spy ring, led by the ruthless banker, Haghi...   [More...]

Der Student von Prag (1913)
Stellan Rye

Prague, 1820. Balduin enjoys the reputation of the wildest student and best swordsman in the city but his poverty makes him a miserable soul...   [More...]

Stützen der Gesellschaft (1935)
Douglas Sirk

The wealthy consul of a Norwegian coastal town, Karsten Bernick has devoted everything he has to his one great project, the construction of an enormous shipyard...   [More...]

Sumurun (1920)
Ernst Lubitsch

The Sheik of an Oriental province is incensed when he discovers that one of his wives, Sumurun, has been making overtures to a cloth merchant, Nur-Al-Din...   [More...]

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Fritz Lang

Disgraced cop Hofmeister tries to redeem himself by uncovering a counterfeiting operation. Before he can pass his findings on to Inspector Lohmann, he is cornered by his enemies and driven mad...   [More...]

Titanic (1943)
Herbert Selpin

April, 1912. As the share price of the British shipping company White Star Line begins to tumble its president, Joseph Bruce Ismay, conceives a plan that will save both the company and his personal fortune...   [More...]

Les Tontons flingueurs (1963)
Georges Lautner

Fernand Naudin, a one-time crook turned respectable businessman, is summoned to the deathbed of his old childhood friend, a gangster boss known as the Mexican...   [More...]

Un amour de jeunesse (2011)
Mia Hansen-Løve

You never forget your first love, and when it ends - as surely it must - you feel you will never get over it. This is something that Camille, a fifteen-year-old girl, knows to be true after separating from the boy she has lost her heart to...   [More...]

Un taxi pour Tobrouk (1960)
Denys de La Patellière

Libya, 1942. Four soldiers in the Free French Forces are crossing the desert when their jeep breaks down. They have no other option but to continue their journey to Tobruk on foot...   [More...]

Vampyr (1932)
Carl Theodor Dreyer

A student of the Occult, Allan Gray, is travelling in France when he arrives at the remote village of Courtempierre. Whilst staying at an inn, he is visited by an old man who gives him a parcel, not to be opened until after his death...   [More...]

Der Verlorene (1951)
Peter Lorre

In the immediate aftermath of WWII, Dr Karl Neumeister works in a refugee camp, immunising displaced people in the ruins of a defeated Germany...   [More...]

Vier um die Frau (1921)
Fritz Lang

Harry Yquem is a rich stockbroker who intends giving his wife Florence a present that will leave her in no doubt as to his devotion to her...   [More...]

Le Vieux fusil (1975)
Robert Enrico

It is 1944 and Germany is losing the war in Europe. The allied forces have broken through on the Normandy front and the occupying troops have begun their retreat...   [More...]

Waxworks (1924)
Paul Leni

A young writer is hired by the owner of a waxworks museum to write a short story for each of the exhibits in his collection...   [More...]

Die Wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (1929)
Hanns Schwarz

Nina, the beautiful wife of the wealthy Colonel Beranoff, is surrounded by luxury in her St Petersburg apartments, but the one thing she lacks is love...   [More...]

Zur Chronik von Grieshuus (1925)
Arthur von Gerlach

In 17th century Germany, the elderly rich landowner Grieshuus of Holstein has decided that his eldest son Hinrich will inherit his entire estate...   [More...]


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