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1. The Golem (1920)
Unrated | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 8,552
2. The Student of Prague (1913)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a ... See full summary »
Directors: Hanns Heinz Ewers, Stellan Rye | Stars: Paul Wegener, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova, John Gottowt
Votes: 2,406
3. The Golem (1914)
60 min | Horror
An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen | Stars: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen, Lyda Salmonova, Rudolf Blümner
Votes: 1,243
4. Burning Hearts (1945)
111 min | Drama, History, Romance
During Napoleon's German campaign, the city of Kolberg is isolated from Prussian forces. Residents organize resistance against the French army besieging and bombarding the city, refusing to surrender.
Directors: Veit Harlan, Wolfgang Liebeneiner | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Horst Caspar, Gustav Diessl
Votes: 759
5. A Daughter of Destiny (1928)
108 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
Director: Henrik Galeen | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich, Wolfgang Zilzer
Votes: 433
6. Passion (1919)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 1,009
7. The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
100 min | Drama, History
The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt, Friedrich Kühne
Votes: 663
8. The Magician (I) (1926)
Passed | 83 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A magician/alchemist, seeking to create life, finds that he needs the "blood of a virgin" to continue his experiments. He sends out his dwarf assistant to pick out the right girl.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Paul Wegener, Firmin Gémier, Iván Petrovich
Votes: 867
9. Sumurun (1920)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist
Votes: 823
10. The Golem and the Dancing Girl (1917)
Horror, Comedy
As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. Complications ensue.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Rochus Gliese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Rochus Gliese, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Votes: 60
11. Der Fall Molander (1945)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Paul Wegener, Irene von Meyendorff, Werner Hinz, Erich Ponto
12. Der große König (1942)
118 min | Drama, History, War
A story of Prussian king (from 1740 to 1786) Frederick II the Great.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Otto Gebühr, Kristina Söderbaum, Gustav Fröhlich, Hans Nielsen
Votes: 321
13. Hans Westmar (1933)
95 min | Biography
Student Hans is so appalled by decadent Berlin and the schemes of the Communist Party that he inspires the Nazi cohorts of his fellow storm troopers to actively fight the Communists who in turn conspire to assassinate him.
Director: Franz Wenzler | Stars: Emil Lohkamp, Paul Wegener, Heinrich Heilinger, Irmgard Willers
Votes: 1,476
14. The Living Dead (1932)
89 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi, Horror
A crazed scientist murders his wife, walls her up, then flees. A reporter sets out to track him down.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Maria Koppenhöfer, Blandine Ebinger, Eugen Klöpfer
Votes: 146
15. The Strange Case of Captain Ramper (1927)
50 min | Drama, Horror
A man lives alone in the wilderness for years, practically becoming an animal in his mind. When he comes across humans again, they believe him to be a yeti.
Director: Max Reichmann | Stars: Paul Wegener, Mary Johnson, Hugo Döblin, Kurt Gerron
Votes: 42
16. Lucrezia Borgia (1922)
75 min | Drama, History, War
Rodrigo Borgia, Pope Alexander VI, has three adult children: Juan, who is virtuous and has a sweetheart who is a woman of the people, Lucrezia, who is virtuous and wants to marry Alfonso, ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Liane Haid, Albert Bassermann, Paul Wegener
Votes: 115
17. Living Buddhas (1925)
139 min
Two scientists get entangled in the theft of a Holy Tibetan document, a Sutra. As they rescue a Tibetan girl, one is apprehended and the other recovers the Sutra.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Asta Nielsen, Käthe Haack, Gregori Chmara
Votes: 24
18. Die Weber (1927)
93 min | Drama
During the 1840s a group of Silesian weavers stage an uprising due to their concerns about the Industrial Revolution's impact of their lives.
Director: Frederic Zelnik | Stars: Paul Wegener, Valeska Stock, Hermann Picha, Hertha von Walther
Votes: 92
19. Mein Leben für Irland (1941)
90 min | Drama
"My Life for Ireland" is a Nazi-made anti-British propaganda film about a group of Dublin schoolboys who unwittingly become pawns of the British and seek redemption by avenging their fallen IRA fathers in the Irish War of Independence.
Director: Max W. Kimmich | Stars: Anna Dammann, René Deltgen, Paul Wegener, Werner Hinz
Votes: 79
20. The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918)
64 min
A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Clemens Kaufung, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Votes: 18
21. King August the Strong (1936)
108 min | Biography, Drama, History
An egotistical Saxon monarch reclaims the throne of Poland from the Swedish Karl XII in 1709 with Russian help.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Stanislaw Wasylewski | Stars: Michael Bohnen, Lil Dagover, Marieluise Claudius, Günther Hadank
Votes: 10
22. Diesel (1942)
109 min | Biography, History
Director: Gerhard Lamprecht | Stars: Willy Birgel, Hilde Weissner, Paul Wegener, Josef Sieber
Votes: 36
23. Monna Vanna (1922)
70 min | Drama
Guido Gurlino, head of the Pisan army, wants the Florentine Maddalena Pazzi, but she rejects him, in love with Vitelli, head of the Florentine armies. Gurlino then kidnaps young Giovanna ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Eichberg | Stars: Lee Parry, Paul Wegener, Hans Stürm, Paul Graetz
24. The Immortal Heart (1939)
107 min | Drama, History
Biography of Paul Henlein, the man who invented the pocket watch.
Director: Veit Harlan | Stars: Heinrich George, Kristina Söderbaum, Paul Wegener, Raimund Schelcher
Votes: 75
25. A Man Wants to Get to Germany (1934)
89 min | Action
On the eve of the Great War, an expatriate German working in Latin America learns that the Fatherland is in peril, and risks various obstacles to get back to Europe to join the ranks of fighting men.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Karl Ludwig Diehl, Hermann Speelmans, Brigitte Horney, Hans Leibelt
Votes: 31
26. Shiva und die Galgenblume (1993)
Thriller
Detective Dongen, known as Shiva, exposes a Russian artist as a counterfeiter. Obsessed with his work he had unconsciously etched a motif from his picture "Man on the Gallows" on the plates with which he produced his counterfeit money.
Director: Hans Steinhoff | Stars: Hans Albers, Gerhard Bienert, Ernst Dernburg, Erich Dunskus
Votes: 27
27. Nachtgestalten (1920)
106 min | Horror
Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Reinhold Schünzel, Erna Morena, Erik Charell
Votes: 22
28. Svengali (1927)
Drama
Remake of the famous novel, "Trilby"
Director: Gennaro Righelli | Stars: Paul Biensfeldt, Teddy Bill, Hans Brausewetter, Anita Dorris
29. Dagfin (1926)
Director: Joe May | Stars: Paul Richter, Alfred Gerasch, Marcella Albani, Hedwig Wangel
30. Die Stunde der Versuchung (1936)
75 min | Mystery
Irene is unhappy because her lawyer husband Dr. Leuttern never has time for her. Womanizer Mac Norris slyly benefits from her depression and lures her to his apartment. As she struggles to fend him off a shot is fired and Mac collapses.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Lída Baarová, Harald Paulsen, Theodor Loos
31. Hochzeit auf Bärenhof (1942)
98 min
Director: Carl Froelich | Stars: Heinrich George, Paul Wegener, Ilse Werner, Ernst von Klipstein
Votes: 20
32. Stronger Than Love (1938)
94 min | Drama, Romance
In this blood and soil melodrama, the daughter of the chief forester is torn between love for a reprobate painter and the duty to wed the assistant forester, a widower with a boy.
Director: Joe Stöckel | Stars: Karin Hardt, Leny Marenbach, Paul Richter, Iván Petrovich
33. Fundvogel (1930)
Drama
Director: Wolfgang Hoffmann-Harnisch | Stars: Paul Wegener, Camilla Horn, Francis Lederer, Gertrud de Lalsky
34. The Right to Love (1939)
Drama
A lowly maid briefly comes between the gracious daughter of a rich Tyrol landowner and the good looking, educated son of semi prosperous German peasants.
Director: Joe Stöckel | Stars: Magda Schneider, Anneliese Uhlig, Viktor Staal, Rolf Wanka
Votes: 8
35. Der große Mandarin (1949)
105 min
Director: Karl-Heinz Stroux | Stars: Paul Wegener, Carsta Löck, Käthe Haack, Christiane Felsmann
Votes: 16
36. Survival (1927)
100 min
Balzac adaptation: Escaped convict moves into a brothel where he becomes father to a boy. But his advantageous position is eventually threatened by one of the whores who has fallen in love with the convict's grown up son.
Director: Manfred Noa | Stars: Paul Wegener, Andrée Lafayette, Werner Fuetterer, Nien Soen Ling
37. Der Galeerensträfling (1919)
Drama
Directors: Rochus Gliese, Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Paul Hartmann, Ernst Deutsch
38. In geheimer Mission (1938)
91 min
Director: Jürgen von Alten | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Camilla Horn, Ruth Hellberg, Paul Wegener
Votes: 7
39. Rübezahls Hochzeit (1916)
83 min | Drama
The people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops.
Directors: Rochus Gliese, Paul Wegener | Stars: Arthur Ehrens, Rochus Gliese, Hedwig Gutzeit, Georg Jacoby
Votes: 41
40. Vanina (1922)
68 min | Drama
Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
Director: Arthur von Gerlach | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Paul Wegener, Paul Hartmann, Albrecht Viktor Blum
Votes: 74
41. Old Brandis' Eyes (1913)
Drama, Fantasy
The gift of seeing into the hearts of others is given to a young artist by Brandis. He now looks at the people he comes into contact with and realizes they are not what they appear.
Director: Stellan Rye | Stars: Alexander Moissi, Lothar Körner, Grete Berger, Jean Ducret
42. Der Yoghi (1916)
An Indian mystic uses his power of invisibility to scare a young inventor.
Directors: Rochus Gliese, Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmonova, Hedwig Gutzeit, Fritz Huf
43. Der Augenzeuge (1946–1980)
News
Stars: Erich Honecker, Ernst Legal, Wilhelm Pieck, Tatjana Gsovsky
44. Der Weg nach Shanghai (1936)
90 min | Drama
Spanning the years between the Bolshevik Revolution and 1930, this Negri vehicle focuses on an exiled Russian noblewoman who has lost track of her daughter and of a young officer she pined for.Until she finds them both again and together.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Pola Negri, Wolfgang Keppler, Gustav Diessl, Susi Lanner
Votes: 13
45. Marschall Vorwärts (1932)
101 min
Director: Heinz Paul | Stars: Paul Wegener, Traute Carlsen, Hans Graf von Schwerin, Elga Brink
46. Inge and the Millions (1933)
96 min
A secretary working for a greedy, corrupt banker, who plots with his cronies to smuggle funds into Switzerland, decides to turn her boss over to the authorities.
Director: Erich Engel | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Carl Esmond, Paul Wegener, Otto Wallburg
Votes: 19
47. The Girl Friend of a Big Man (1934)
97 min
A renowned actress rescues a small theater, which is on the verge of bankruptcy.
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Karl Ludwig Diehl, Jessie Vihrog, Hans Brausewetter
Votes: 12
48. Dr. phil. Doederlein (1945)
Director: Werner Klingler | Stars: Heinrich George, Käthe Haack, Hans Nielsen, Paul Wegener
49. Unter Ausschluß der Öffentlichkeit (1937)
96 min
Director: Paul Wegener | Stars: Olga Tschechowa, Iván Petrovich, Sabine Peters, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9
50. Apokalypse (1918)
12 min | Short
Director: Rochus Gliese | Stars: Ernst Deutsch, Maria Fein, Paul Hartmann, Lyda Salmonova