Georg Wilhelm Pabst

G.W. Pabst's film that catapulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim and made her 'the' icon of the Jazz Age tells the tragic story of Lulu... (imdb)

A old German mine was split in two after the end of WWI because of the new border. In the French part a fire breaks out. The German minwers send a rescue group in, helping their French comrades... (imdb)

A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him. (imdb)

Thymiane is a beautiful young girl who is not having a storybook life. Her governess, Elizabeth, is thrown out of her home when she is pregnant, only to be later found drown. That same day, her father already has a new governess named Meta. Meinert, downstairs druggist, takes advantage of her and gets Thymiane pregnant. When she refuses to marry, her baby is taken from her and she is put into a strict girls reform school... (imdb)

In London at the turn of the century, the bandit Mack the Knife marries Polly without the knowledge of her father, Peachum, the 'king of the beggars'. (imdb)

A group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks. (imdb)

The French version of G.W.Pabst's monumental three-language (English, French and German - separate versions each) filming of Cervantes' classic novel. The German version seems to be lost, but it is spoken of in three books, "The Film Till Now", and two of Pauline Kael's books of movie criticism. (imdb)

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested... (imdb)

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy. (imdb)

English language version of Don Quixote, shot simultaneously with the German and French versions and, like those, starring Feodor Chaliapin, but with a different supporting cast. In 16th cent. Spain, an aging Don gone mad from reading too many romances proclaims himself a knight and sets out with his squire to revive the age of chivalry. He mistakes a play about chivalry for the real thing, inns for castles, flocks of sheep for armies, convicts for wronged prisoners, and windmills for giants. (imdb)

a convoluted tale of a chemistry professor (Caligari's Werner Krauss) haunted by inexplicable resentments. The professor doesn't really dislike his wife's cousin, who is returning after several years in India: why, then do thoughts of murder keep entering his head? (allmovie.com)

In this mythical fantasy, the evil queen of Atlantis lives in a magnificent palace, the halls of which are filled with the mummified remains of former lovers. (allmovie.com)

On the surface a straightforward tale of the search for a buried treasure, the film is a textbook example of German expressionism, with the passions of the protagonists conveyed as much through symbolism as action. (allmovie.com)

Based on the real life of German spy Anne Marie Lesser during World War I.

In a small corner of Paris the daily lives of ordinary people intertwine despite differences in social status.

Pierre is a young and handsome circus rider whose mother has long tolerated his amorous adventures but becomes genuinely concerned when he actually falls in love. (imdb)

When a young woman who drowns is last seen in the home of a Jewish family, prejudice arouses suspicion in the village.

A young girl whose father is a divorce lawyer is put in a boarding school, where her classmates join together to protest against divorce.

A group of French soldiers in Africa stumble upon the lost city of Atlantis and discover strange secrets.

A lonely neglected housewife falls in with a group of Berlin nightclub patrons and considers potential lovers.

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance. (imdb)

French version of Pabst's The 3 Penny Opera where a bandit, Mack the Knife, marries the daughter of an underworld kingpin.

A group of men of differing circumstances and personalities gather at a monastery to undergo a course of spiritual reappraisal. (imdb)

Young Dalia Rossi is mistaken for a mad person and is committed to "Villa Felicità", a mental institution run by Professor Ruiz. (imdb)

A cave exploring scientist strains his relationship with his lovely girlfriend with his devotion to his job, to which she responds by searching out love in other places.

A group of Japanese spies attempt to convince a group of Russians in Shanghai to aid in their plans to control China.

A stage director fights for her performers after one of them is banished from the theater.

Biopic of Paracelsus, a 16th century Swiss healer who was ostracized for writing in German instead of Latin and challenging the authority of the time.

A disintegrating marriage leads to murder and a trial.

A composer and his singer lover meet a count who attempts to steal the singer's heart.

Bettina, a young up and coming dancer is entreated to give the performance of a lifetime by her coaches.

Dramatization of the July 20th, 1944 attempt by German officers to assassinate Hitler.

Dramatization of the final days of Hitler's life.

Mireille, a Frenchwoman, has married a westernized Turkish diplomat. Thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, she accepts to follow Vedad Bey, her husband, to his native country. An unfortunate choice indeed as Turkey is not the way she pictured it. Tradition rules the Turkish society and Mireille just cannot be a free woman any longer. There, she is supposed to obey her husband and that is all there is to it. Or is it?... (imdb)