Henny Porten

"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest....

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and...

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his...

Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film...

After the tragic death from malaria of her beloved husband his rich widow Helga Vanroh travels restlessly around various Mediterranean countries. In...

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge,...

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult...

Remake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of whom is beautiful, the other, not so much.

In the form of a shadow, Death emerges from the sea and convinces an unhappy woman to commit suicide by returning to the sea with him.

An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own...

Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.

Vehicle for one of the Weimar era's most beloved actresses: as the popular Prussian queen in 1806-1807, she presides over the humiliating Peace of...

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.

An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is...

a silent movie by Rober Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...

After eight years in exile Martin returns to Berlin. He was involved in the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and had to leave the country as a result....

Klara and her father have been alone since her mother died. Her close friend Hans leaves for the military, and on returning as a fine young man,...

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...

Fragment of "Our Lady's Milk" (Liebfraumilch German wine)

An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young...

In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline...

Alessandra, illegitimate daughter of a count, is raised in a circus. Everyone would like her to marry Anton, a rough gamekeeper, but she escapes...

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.

A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.

A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact,...

An art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue,...

Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.

A lost film.

A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find...

Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go...

Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A...

Billionaire's daughter Ethel Vandergolt has rejected so many lovers that they set up a club to get revenge on her.

A blind patient and her doctor fall in love, but the doctor fears that she will no longer love him if her sight is restored.

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

A German drama