Werner Krauss Movies

Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil...

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...

When farmer Rog dies, his eldest Peter takes over the farm while his youngest Johannes is determined for a better life: he becomes secretary to Count...

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband strangles his wife to death. When the play ends, the...

A young unemployed man gets a job as a private secretary by chance. A good salary, a first-class apartment - but things are not going right in his...

A tinted silent film about a murder plot.

Silent movie adaptation of Lessing's play. Set in Jerusalem during the Third Crusade, it describes how the wise Jewish merchant Nathan, the...

A tyrannical landowner terrorizes his wife and seduces the daughter of one of his employees.

The film is an adaptation of the 1834 play by Alfred de Musset, On ne badine pas avec l'amour. The film is considered to be a lost film.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape. One day, they...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.

Austrian television version of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart from 1958.

All is not well in the Mollheim home. The elder Mollheim decides to marry off his daughter with an unusually large dowry, in exchange for a rare...