Werner Krauss — Actor (25)
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari
8.3 (6 ratings) director: Robert Wiene actor: Werner Krauss / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Il gabinetto del Dr. Caligari / Dr. Caligaris Kabinet …
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
德国电影 德國早期表現主義 表现主义
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Waxworks (1924) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB WikiData IMDb
Das Wachsfigurenkabinett
director: Leo Birinski / Paul Leni actor: Emil Jannings / Conrad Veidt …
other title: Il gabinetto delle figure di cera / Das Wachsfigurenkabinett …
A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.
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Opium (1919) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Opium
director: Robert Reinert actor: Eduard von Winterstein / Hanna Ralph …
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 variety that produces fabulous sensations because of the way it is made, but can also cause the total destruction of the mind and body of the person who consumes it.
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Paracelsus (1943) [Movie] TMDB
Paracelsus
director: G.W. Pabst actor: Werner Krauß / Mathias Wieman …
other title: Paracelse
The story of the Renaissance-era Swiss physician, alchemist and astrologer Philippus Aureolus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim, better known to the world as Paracelsus.
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Tartuffe (1926) [Movie] WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB
Herr Tartüff
director: F. W. Murnau actor: Emil Jannings / Werner Krauss …
other title: Tartufo / Herr Tartüff …
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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The Student of Prague (1926) [Movie] IMDb WikiData NeoDB Douban TMDB
Der Student von Prag
director: Henrik Galeen actor: Conrad Veidt / Elizza La Porta …
other title: Der Student von Prag / L'étudiant de Prague …
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 find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...
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Süss, the Jew (1940) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Jud Süß
director: Veit Harlan actor: Ferdinand Marian / Werner Krauss …
other title: Suss l'ebreo / Jud Süß …
Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
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Joyless Street (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb Douban TMDB
Die freudlose Gasse
director: G.W. Pabst actor: Werner Krauss / Jaro Fürth …
other title: La via senza gioia / Die freudlose Gasse …
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.
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Secrets of a Soul (1927) [Movie] WikiData Douban IMDb TMDB
Geheimnisse einer Seele
director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst actor: Werner Krauß / Ruth Weyher …
other title: Il mistero dell'anima / Mistérios de Uma Alma …
Scientist Martin Fellmann is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares, he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.
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A Night of Horror (1917) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Nächte des Grauens
director: Richard Oswald / Arthur Robison actor: Emil Jannings / Werner Krauss …
other title: Nächte des Grauens / Nuit d'horreur
An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.
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Shattered (1921) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Scherben
director: Lupu Pick actor: Werner Krauss / Edith Posca …
other title: Destroços / Scherben …
The everyday lives of a poverty-stricken railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape. One day, they receive a telegram announcing the arrival of the section inspector, who is to live with the family. After his arrival, a downward spiral begins.
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The Dance of Death (1919) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Der Totentanz
director: Otto Rippert actor: Werner Krauss / Sascha Gura …
other title: Der Totentanz / Totentanz
In this apparently lost film, a beautiful dancer's sexual allure is used by an evil cripple to entice men to their deaths. Falling in love with one of the potential victims, she is told by the cripple that he will set her free if her lover, actually a murderer himself, survives and escapes a bizarre labyrinthe which runs beneath the cripple's house.
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Everyman (1916) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Jedermann
actor: Werner Krauss / Johanna Terwin
other title: Jedermann
Based on several medieval mystery plays, including the late 15th-century English morality play "Everyman". The premise is that the good and evil deeds of one's life will be tallied by God after death, as in a ledger book. The drama is the allegorical accounting of the life of Everyman, who represents all mankind.
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The Film in the Film (1924) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Der Film im Film
director: Friedrich Porges actor: Ernst Deutsch / E.A. Dupont …
other title: Der Film im Film
The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont.
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Prostitution (1919) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus
director: Richard Oswald actor: Fritz Beckmann / Anita Berber …
other title: Die Prostitution, 1. Teil - Das gelbe Haus / Die Prostitution
Hedwig and Lola, two sisters of opposite temperaments, have their lives upended in when Lola decides to pursue prostitution and Hedwig is forced into it.