Henny Porten Movies

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...

Remake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of whom is beautiful, the other, not so much.

An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find...

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...

Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...

Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of...