Expressionism Movies

Alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals was one of the key figures in 17th century Dutch art. But unlike his contemporaries, who tended to paint...

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...

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...

Sound and Image scape by Mateo Berman-Sample.

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...

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...

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...

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad...

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.

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...

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

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

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...

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

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

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...

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

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

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!