German Expressionism Movies

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

German war film. This film is considered lost.

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is...

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

After being unjustly attacked, a cook goes on a killing spree.

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

John, a young man raised by his aunt, is in love with Anna, a servant girl who is going to have his baby. He is willing to marry her but his stern...

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the...

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the...

A look at the life and films of the expressionistic movie and television director John Brahm.

In the year 3003, two scientists find a primitive being called Ooga Ooga in the middle of the woods. They decide to adopt him and try to insert him...

Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of...

In a monotone and a long-walk routine, Heitor is headed to another work day, until something begins to follow him

Based on an actual event when a huge, mysterious sea creature washed onto the shores of Florida. A tribute to silent German expressionism.

A short film showing my love for German Expressionism