Ferdinand von Alten Movies

At the height of Reign of Terror Maximilien Robespierre orchestrates the trial and execution of several of his fellow leading French revolutionaries...

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don't go entirely as planned.

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

In the last years of his life, Bavarian king Ludwig II (1845 – 1886) devotes himself to ambitious architectural projects, which strain the...

When Gräfin Mariza visits her country estate it is certainly an event. She gives a party to celebrate her engagement to a certain Koloman...

A banker who had fallen out with his family stipulated in his will that his fortune should only pass to the person in possession of the five keys he...

Madame Récamier hosts fashionable and influential salons. Her beauty and intelligence attract many suitors, and her politics put her in...

A lost film.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

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...

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...

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

The film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.