Der Blaue Engel (1930)
Josef von Sternberg

Immanuel Rath, professor of a provincial German school, is incensed when he learns that his pupils are frequenting a cabaret venue known as The Blue Angel...   [More...]

Brennendes Geheimnis (1933)
Robert Siodmak

Whilst his father, a busy lawyer, stays at the family residence in Vienna, a 12-year-old boy name Edgar takes an autumn holiday with his mother in Switzerland...   [More...]

Die Drei von der Tankstelle (1930)
Wilhelm Thiele

Returning home from a holiday, three friends - Willy, Kurt and Hans - learn they are bankrupt. Their fortune has evaporated and their possessions are being seized by the bailiffs...   [More...]

Kameradschaft (1931)
Georg Wilhelm Pabst

During the Great Depression, France and Germany are both beset with high unemployment. In a French border town, unemployed German miners are turned away when they try to find work in a French mine...   [More...]

M (1931)
Fritz Lang

Berlin is in a state of terror as a serial killer roams the streets after dark, abducting and killing young children. Public opinion compels the police to intensify their search for the killer, and in the process they round up scores of criminals who have nothing to do with the murders...   [More...]

Menschen am Sonntag (1930)
Curt Siodmak

One Saturday evening, a young Berliner, Wolfgang, meets an attractive young woman, Christi, and invites her to spend Sunday with him by the lake...   [More...]

Der Mörder Dimitri Karamasoff (1931)
Fyodor Otsep

In Russia during the mid-1800s, Dimitri Karamazov takes his leave of the woman he intends to marry, Katya, so that he can return to his home town and extort money from his father, Fyodor...   [More...]

Sonnenstrahl (1933)
Pál Fejös

In the 1930s, Europe is caught in the grip of the Great Depression. Across the entire continent ordinary men and women are struggling to support themselves and their families in the face of an ever riding tide of unemployment...   [More...]

Stützen der Gesellschaft (1935)
Douglas Sirk

The wealthy consul of a Norwegian coastal town, Karsten Bernick has devoted everything he has to his one great project, the construction of an enormous shipyard...   [More...]

Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933)
Fritz Lang

Disgraced cop Hofmeister tries to redeem himself by uncovering a counterfeiting operation. Before he can pass his findings on to Inspector Lohmann, he is cornered by his enemies and driven mad...   [More...]

Vampyr (1932)
Carl Theodor Dreyer

A student of the Occult, Allan Gray, is travelling in France when he arrives at the remote village of Courtempierre. Whilst staying at an inn, he is visited by an old man who gives him a parcel, not to be opened until after his death...   [More...]