Expressionism Movies

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

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

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...

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

An abstract collage representing the disorientation inherent in the existence of thought.

Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

Seeking connection after a yearlong research project, Casey travels to the town of a man she had met at university to see if they can pick up where...

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...

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

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

Loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep', this film follows Jude Slater, a man who has recently inherited the...

During the pandemic, a 14 year old boy remains stuck in his school dormitory while his mother tries to contact him.

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore...

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion.

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

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

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches.