Werner Krauss Movies

In China, Professor Gesellius has completed his long research on the many uses of opium. When he is about to return home, he hears about a special...

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

On New Year′s Eve 1871 Annelie is born – 15 minutes too late, since her parents had calculated her birth to be exactly at midnight. These...

An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the water.

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

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...

Escape from the Golden Dungeon is the second part of the two-part silent movie Christian Wahnschaffe.

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner...

Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil...

Murderer “Boss” Huller—after having spent ten years in prison—breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

A woman with a troubled past connects with two refugees while working at a homeless camp after World War II.

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical...

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

Xanten am Rhein, 1870/1871. Roffer Rottwinkel has two sons. His favorite is Mathias, whom he prefers to Lonius, a quiet and introspective man. ...

The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to...