Max Ruhbeck Movies

The homunculus and his companion Edgar Rodin make an invention that would allow the hateful homunculus to destroy the world. But first he wants to...

The niece and nephew of an eccentric millionaire try to get a share of the now deceased millionaire's inheritance from his adopted son who delights...

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...

German adaptation of Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Murders in the Rue Morgue”.

A silent German film directed by Austrian director Emmerich Hanus with Martha Novelly and Kurt Vespermann in the leads.

A husband has to leave his lover for a while, but when he returns, she loves someone else.

An adaptation of the eponymous novella by Jeremias Gotthelf.

Twenty years ago, the Count of Groningen left his ancestral castle. Since then, it is said to be haunted. Shortly before his escape from the dark...

A wealthy man is found bludgeoned to death near a railway. The question is, who killed him and why?

A dancer obtains the pardon of a conspirator.

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, 1930) and Metropolis (1926), 'Homunculus' was the...