Emil Jannings Movies

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

Peter the Great, having become Tsar of Russia, using his shipbuilding knowledge acquired in a foreign country to establish a navy, and being able to...

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...

German silent film

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is...

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.