Movies: Werner Krauss

  • 1923
    The Treasure

    The Treasure (1923)

    The Treasure

    6.71923HD

    On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action....

    The Treasure
  • 1916
    Tales of Hoffmann

    Tales of Hoffmann (1916)

    Tales of Hoffmann

    5.21916HD

    This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical potpourri from various short stories and novels by the Prussian writer, composer, painter, lawyer an...

    Tales of Hoffmann
  • 1920
    Opfer

    Opfer (1920)

    Opfer

    01920HD

    After her brother is sent to Siberia, Sonja heads to Moscow to participate in a revolution....

    Opfer
  • 1925
    Variety

    Variety (1925)

    Variety

    6.61925HD

    The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story....

    Variety
  • 1921
    Lady Hamilton

    Lady Hamilton (1921)

    Lady Hamilton

    5.81921HD

    The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson....

    Lady Hamilton
  • 1942
    The Dismissal

    The Dismissal (1942)

    The Dismissal

    5.41942HD

    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. and old Bismarck is rapidly widening. It soon appears that an era is coming to an end....

    The Dismissal
  • 2011
    Jedermann Remixed

    Jedermann Remixed (2011)

    Jedermann Remixed

    02011HD

    Based on archive holdings from nine decades, director Hannes Rossacher has created a complete Jedermann performance and thus a unique cultural-historical puzzle from Alexander Moissi to Nicholas Ofczarek. The success story of the phenomenon "Everyman...

    Jedermann Remixed
  • 1943
    Paracelsus

    Paracelsus (1943)

    Paracelsus

    5.81943HD

    The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus....

    Paracelsus
  • 1927
    Radio Magic

    Radio Magic (1927)

    Radio Magic

    01927HD

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    Radio Magic
  • 1926
    Superfluous People

    Superfluous People (1926)

    Superfluous People

    51926HD

    Directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj....

    Superfluous People
  • 1920
    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    7.91920HD

    Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, a...

    The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
  • 1924
    Waxworks

    Waxworks (1924)

    Waxworks

    6.41924HD

    A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for ea...

    Waxworks
  • 1931
    Yorck

    Yorck (1931)

    Yorck

    01931HD

    The story of General Yorck von Wartenburg, a commander in the army of Prussian King Wilhelm, who defied the king's orders for the Prussian army to join Napoleon in his invason of Russia....

    Yorck
  • 1922
    Othello

    Othello (1922)

    Othello

    6.91922HD

    Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy....

    Othello
  • 1926
    Tartuffe

    Tartuffe (1926)

    Tartuffe

    7.21926HD

    A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance....

    Tartuffe
  • 1926
    Nana

    Nana (1926)

    Nana

    6.41926HD

    Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed....

    Nana
  • 1918
    The Story of Dida Ibsen

    The Story of Dida Ibsen (1918)

    The Story of Dida Ibsen

    01918HD

    Dida Ibsen, daughter of impoverished farmers, has, according to her father's will, to marry the main creditor. But she refuses and decides to live with a married man as a mistress, till he gets his divorce. In the town she opens a restaurant with the...

    The Story of Dida Ibsen
  • 1918
    Colomba

    Colomba (1918)

    Colomba

    01918HD

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    Colomba
  • 1935
    Hundert Tage

    Hundert Tage (1935)

    Hundert Tage

    01935HD

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    Hundert Tage
  • 1927
    The Vice of Humanity

    The Vice of Humanity (1927)

    The Vice of Humanity

    01927HD

    Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the dau...

    The Vice of Humanity