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Kanopy
89
8.2
/198435/
79
/3654/
81
/2972/
4.2
/235499/
97
/140/
92
/3876/
98
/14/
cc age 12+

Metropolis (1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
poster
Kanopy
81
75
7.8
/9793/
73
/192/
76
/206/
4.0
/11786/
94
/17/
87
/112/

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
poster
72
44
7.5
/1231/
68
/21/
70
/40/
3.8
/1077/
74
/138/

L'Argent (1928)
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
poster
62
43
6.7
/2073/
62
/26/
69
/49/
3.5
/2196/
43
/7/
61
/21/

Phantom (1922)
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
poster
Kanopy
55
26
6.2
/1053/
58
/15/
66
/27/
3.2
/948/
25
/62/

The Finances of the Grand Duke (1924)
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of Russia, would solve everything, but a crucial letter of hers about the engagement has been stolen. Besides, a bunch of revolutionaries and a dubious businessman have other plans regarding the Grand Duke. With the intrusion of adventurer Philipp Collins into the Grand Duke's affairs, a series of frantic chases, plots and counter-plots begins.
poster
50
24
5.7
/1110/
52
/22/
56
/27/
3.0
/959/
23
/103/

Mary (1931)
When actress Mary Baring is found in a daze beside her colleague’s murdered body, all evidence points to her guilt. During the trial, juror Sir John Menier doubts the verdict, but yields to pressure. Haunted by remorse, he launches his own investigation. (Filmed in German on the same sets as Murder! (1930), this version was directed by Alfred Hitchcock with a new cast for international release.)
poster
68
20
6.9
/836/
59
/10/
63
/22/
3.4
/611/
86
/7/

The Burning Soil (1922)
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 Rudenberg and starts courting his daughter Gerda. When he learns that the Count, who is terminally ill, has bequeathed a piece of land under which lies a petroleum field to his second wife, he courts her instead.
poster
69
17
6.9
/641/
65
/12/
72
/15/
3.5
/439/

The Congress Dances (1931)
Vienna glove-sales-lady Christel falls in love with Russian Czar Alexander. Austrian Prince Metternich tries to use this and other pleasant diversions to keep him out of the negotiation conferences of the 1815 Vienna Congress.
poster
?
7.6
/20/
10
/1/

Sodoms Ende (1913)
N/A
poster
?
7.5
/10/

Die Liebe siegt (1934)
N/A
poster
?
10
/1/

Die Prinzessin Suwarin (1923)
N/A
poster
?
7.5
/14/
10
/1/

Lotte Lore (1921)
N/A
poster
?
2.7
/32/
54
/5/

Kater Lampe (1936)
In the central mountains, an American lady trying to manufacture snowshoes assists a struggling German toy maker,whose cat becomes a symbol for what binds together the lives of such village folk.
poster
?
6.9
/12/

Kampf (1932)
The race car drivers Robert Wenck and Kurt Harder are good friends. They become rivals when it appears that Robert is married to Eva. Eva was the former lover of Kurt Harder. Complications will follow.
poster
?
5.6
/11/
10
/1/

The Guardsman (1926)
a silent movie by Robert Wiene
poster
?
7.8
/9/
50
/2/

Ein seltsamer Gast (1936)
N/A
poster
?
60
/1/

Manolescu, der Fürst der Diebe (1933)
N/A
poster
?
8.2
/10/

Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1937)
N/A
poster
?
6.9
/78/
75
/2/

People Among Us (1926)
Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski, the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
poster
?
6.5
/32/
30
/1/

Rasputins Liebesabenteuer (1928)
Portrays the deep intrigue and mystical fanaticism of the last days of the Romanoffs, when Rasputin, the mad monk had such a hold over them.
poster
?
6.4
/17/

The Beautiful Adventure (1932)
Helene has agreed to marry a man that she isn't in love with. On the day of her wedding her cousin arrives just in time to rescue her and they run away together. They stay with her aged grandmother who assumes the young man (whom she doesn't know) to be the new husband and has prepared a bridal bed for them.
poster
?
6.9
/13/

Dudu, ein Menschenschicksal (1924)
A wealthy man, a circus clown by profession, tells another man, during a car ride, some excerpts from his life and that of his partner. Before becoming a clown, he had difficulty finding work due to the abnormal appearance of his face and was constantly laughed at.
poster
?
71
/6/
67
/7/

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler: Part 1 – The Great Gambler (1922)
Doctor Mabuse is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise, armed with the powers of hypnosis and mind control, who oversees the counterfeiting and gambling rackets of the Berlin underworld. He visits gambling dens by night under various guises and aliases, using the power of suggestion to win at cards and finance his plans.
poster
?
7.2
/22/
90
/1/

The Vice of Humanity (1927)
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 daughter, but Tamara intervenes before dying amongst family members.
poster
?
6.7
/30/

Jonny Steals Europe (1932)
N/A
poster
?
6.5
/19/
60
/1/

Nights of Terror (1921)
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.
poster
?
7.4
/6/
85
/2/

Viennese Waltz (1932)
N/A
poster
?
5.6
/48/
50
/1/

Spione im Savoy-Hotel (1932)
N/A
poster
?
5.9
/17/

Dolly is making a career (1930)
Musical vehicle for up and coming Dolly Haas, as a would be actress with a would be composer boyfriend. She sings,at one point, that she has the walk of (Lilian) Harvey, the mouth of Garbo and the legs of Dietrich.
poster
?
5.8
/27/

Intoxication (1919)
Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost.
poster
?
7.6
/9/

The Scoundrel (1931)
N/A
poster
?
5.1
/43/
60
/2/

A Venetian Night (1914)
The young Anselmus Aselmeyer fulfilled a long cherished dream: He travels to Venice, the city of his dreams. Once there, the porter Pipistrello directs him immediately to the hotel of his boss, and Anselmus lands in the middle of a wedding party. Mestre Mangiabene, a wealthy oilman, marries the beautiful but completely depleted Marchesina dei Bisognosi. But the secretly loves an officer.
poster
?
4.5
/20/

Narkose (1929)
Young Angélique has a crush on the famous writer René Vernon. One night she follows him, sleeps with him and becomes pregnant. Years later, she meets Vernon again, but he doesn't recognize her...
poster
?
6.6
/10/

Spiel an Bord (1936)
N/A
poster
?
6.6
/65/
83
/3/
63
/3/

Seven Slaps (1937)
William MacPhab loses seven-pounds in the stock market and decides to slap the man who was responsible for the stock manipulation that caused him to lose his money. Astor Terbanks, the stock-market manipulator is surprised the next day when he gets soundly slapped by MacPhab, and the latter promises to deliver one more a day for the next six days. Terbank's daughter, Daisy, is amused by the procedure and is attracted to MacPhab.
poster
?
2.9
/28/
50
/5/

Maria, die Magd (1936)
An actress and her lawyer husband are so busy that their maid becomes the real mother to their six year old boy and at one point causes consternation by taking the child away to her home village.
poster
54
?
5.7
/267/
60
/2/
46
/5/

The Court Concert (1936)
Before he became cult director Douglas Sirk, Detlef Sierck cut his teeth on such lavish European star vehicles as Das Hofkonzert (The Court Concert). Marta Eggerth is cast as Christine, a young singer who aspires to find out who her father was. Her odyssey brings her to the court of a mythical kingdom, where she is romanced by handsome lieutenant Walter (Johannes Heesters). He is warned not to lose his heart to a "commoner," but all turns out all right when King Serenissimus (Otto Tressler) turns out to be Christine's long-lost daddy. Hofkonzert was designed as a comeback for Marta Eggerth, whose star had eclipsed by the mid-1930s.
poster
?
4.1
/27/

A Modern Dubarry (1927)
N/A
poster
?
7.3
/45/

1914: The Last Days Before the War (1931)
The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
poster
?
6.8
/31/

My Wife, the Adventuress (1931)
A mousy bank clerk is married to an ambitious woman.
poster
?
6.4
/37/
50
/1/

The Buddenbrooks (1923)
Four-generation story-saga dealing with the decline of a middle-class Lübeck family. The first adaptation of a Thomas Mann book was also Gerhard Lamprecht’s first major film.
poster
?
7.0
/40/

The White Demon (1932)
When Albers takes his drug-addicted opera star sister Gerda to a sanitarium, they both become targets of slimy dope peddler Peter Lorre, who fears that Gerda will blow the whistle on him. Lorre kidnaps the woman, leading Albers on a frantic chase.
poster
?
6.1
/69/
58
/4/

Die Flamme (1923)
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
poster
63
?
6.5
/152/
70
/3/
52
/5/

The Burning Secret (1933)
One autumn, Edgar, a 12 year old boy, spends a holiday with his mother at a plush hotel in Switzerland. His father, a busy lawyer, remains at the family home in Vienna. When he sees a stylish motorcar pull up at the hotel, Edgar wastes no time befriending its owner, an amiable dandy. The latter pays more attention to the boy’s mother than to the boy himself, and decides to use Edgar to wheedle his way into her affections. When Edgar realises he has been used, he is far from happy...
poster
?

Die große und die kleine Welt (1921)
N/A
poster
?
6.5
/145/

The Trunks of Mr. O.F. (1931)
In the very old-fashioned town of Ostend suddenly 13 suitcases are delivered to the hotel, with a note, that O.F. will be here soon and needs 6 rooms (the hotel just has five). This event, probably the biggest in 300 years, starts a small wave of modernisation, yet everybody is wondering who O.F. is. Journalist Stix and architect Stark have an idea how to use this event. They proclaim, that O.F. is a former citizen of the town, who became a millionaire abroad. They tell their fellow citizens that the town still needs modernisation, like better hotels, nightclubs, shops, etc. And soon, Ostend is a boomtown, then a capital. The architect, responsible for the new buildings is finaly allowed to marry the mayor's daughter, while Stix marries the cabaret star and the widowed mayor his new secretary. The only problem is, O.F. hasn't shown up, while finance experts from all over the world are trying to solve the depression problem.
poster
69
?
6.5
/174/
70
/1/
73
/5/

Mad Love (1921)
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to meet her, but when Sappho actually meets him, he is unaware that she is the woman who drove Andreas to be institutionalised. Sappho genuinely falls in love with Richard, and decides to leave her vampy ways and her older lover behind her so that she can have him.
poster
?
6.4
/20/
60
/2/

Giftgas (1929)
Arnold Horn, a young idealistic chemist, discovers a compound that can be used for the production of an effective deadly poisonous gas. Against his will the chemical factory starts production of the poison gas to increase the value of their shares.


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