Henny Porten Movies

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil...

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is,...

A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact,...

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult...

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and...

Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go...

A farmer's wife decides to take her children and leave her gambling addict husband.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted...