Ferdinand von Alten Movies

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

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...

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

a silent movie by Heinz Paul

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...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A lost film.

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.

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

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

German silent film about the life of Martin Luther

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

The young Crown Princess Luise of Mecklenburg-Strelitz grows up sheltered in the North German countryside in the late 18th century and develops into...

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