Willy Haas

When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count's second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full with petroleum, he changes his allegiance... Greed and death. (imdb)

Thérèse, sick of her husband convinces her artist lover to do away with him.

A girl from Tonka goes to Prague to become a prostitute. She returns home for love, but finds it hard to put her past behind her.

Die Weber (1927), a rousing German tale of the 1844 weavers' revolution. (bfi.org.uk)

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

After explosion in factory, the two brothers Wenzel and Michael start a new life. Wenzel gets rich on the stock market, Michael builds a settlement colony for the unemployed. Tragedy begins when Wenzel chooses the wrong woman.