Expressionism Movies

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is...

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills...

A teenage boy is home alone for the weekend but when nocturnal creatures living in his attic escape, he must survive.

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United...

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration,...

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919...

The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egyptian underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? Film in two...

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl.

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre...

After the death of her mother, a woman is tormented by memories of her childhood, and nightmares.

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent...

Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German...

A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić.