Películas de Ferdinand von Alten

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

A nobleman gradually falls in love with a woman he was forced by relatives to marry, against his will.

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to...

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father's will—and runs away to France...

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

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...

The adventures of smart soldier Gustav Diestelbeck include managing his superior officer, competing for the canteneer's daughter, evading punishment...

This German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid...

Hokuspokus is a 1930 German comedy film directed by Gustav Ucicky and starring Lilian Harvey, Willy Fritsch and Oskar Homolka. It was an adaptation...

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the...

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...

The title of this heavily plotted German melodrama translates as "This One or None". Gitta Alpar stars as Eve, whose emotions are torn between two...

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of...

"The Secret Power" - Hardly anyone who strays into the emigrant's restaurant "Strange Bird" would suspect that the porter once was a general, the...

Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman...

Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in...

A lost film.

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

Trying to kill herself, Mary is saved by rich Roswolsky.

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

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.

A aristocratic lieutenant is forced to resign his commission and give up his career in the cavalry after having defended himself against deliberate...

The film was an epic portrayal of the life of Catherine the Great of Russia.

German crime film