The German Land des Lachelns was released abroad as Land of Smiles. Based on an operetta by Franz Lehar, the film serves as a...
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1952
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Fritz Lang directed this sequel to his nearly four-hour Dr. Mabuse silent of 1922 (often shown in two parts, Dr. Mabuse: Der...
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1933
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This deluxe German/British production was originally released as simply F.P. 1. The story and characterizations take a back...
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1933
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Fritz Lang's classic early talkie crime melodrama is set in 1931 Berlin. The police are anxious to capture an elusive child...
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1931
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This pre-WW II German costume drama chronicles the French Revolution with a particular focus upon Danton, Robespierre, and...
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1931
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More formerly known as Das Floetenkonzert von Sanssouci, this German historical drama is set during the reign of Prussia's...
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1930
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The German Somnambul raises the question "Can a man be influenced by hypnosis to commit a crime?" The answer is never clearly...
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1929
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1928
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Spies (Spione) was the first independent production of German "thriller" director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time...
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1928
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Am Rande der Welt (At the Edge of the World) was a German antiwar film that had the bad luck to be released in the U.S. at...
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1928
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The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would...
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1927
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1927
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Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928....
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1927
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Gerald Lamprecht's impressionistic 1925 character study Die Verrufenen was released in the U.S. in 1927 as The Slums of...
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1927
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When American audiences were permitted to see German filmmaker E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece Variety, it was the story of...
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1925
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F.W. Murnau's German silent classic The Last Laugh (Der Letze Mann) stars Emil Jannings as the doorman of a posh Berlin...
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1924
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This lushly produced UFA production from Fritz Lang was adapted from the Norse sagas, and also from the Wagner operas...
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1924
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The second portion of German director Fritz Lang's two-part silent epic Die Nibelungen (part one was 1924's Siegfried),...
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1924
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Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler is the eight-reel version of Fritz Lang's twenty reeler, two-part silent thriller, Dr. Mabuse....
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1922
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Fritz Lang was a stickler for realism in his American films; not so his German silents, which were fanciful to the point of...
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1921
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O-Take-San (Lil Dagover) is a beautiful young woman pursued by an evil Buddhist monk (Georg John) who wants to make her one...
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Buddhist Monk
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1919
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1919
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A film buff's dream, Spiders is comprised of two episodes from an unfinished silent serial from Fritz Lang. Filled with...
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1919
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Produced and directed by German veteran Joe May and starring his wife, Mia May, this allegorical drama was based on a...
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1917
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