Expressionism Movies

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are...

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates...

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the...

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

In the ruins of a world devoured by human greed, the last man plunges into a decadent frenzy: devouring rare plants, octopus flesh, the final drops...

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

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...

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

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change.

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