Expressionism Movies

This film explains what James Ensor (1860-1949) meant for the development of art and makes palpable where he got his inspiration from.

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills...

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is...

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919...

The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egyptian underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? Film in two...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are...

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion.

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!

A girl, a ghoul, a vampire, a bloodstain... who is it?, what happened? We found it on the floor

A fantastic fashion show with the most marvelous sights the screen has ever seen!

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the...