Emil Jannings Movies

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Gösta Ekman

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

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

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Cast: Emil Jannings

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

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,...

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Emil Jannings

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pola Negri

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Rüdiger Suchsland

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Harry Liedtke

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pola Negri

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emil Jannings

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

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...

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

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Cast: Lil Dagover

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

German chancellor Otto von Bismarck promises the dying emperor Wilhelm I. to be loyal to his grandson. But the gap between young Kaiser Wilhelm II....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elisabeth Bergner

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

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emil Jannings

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Emil Jannings

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Rupp (Jannings) is a former butcher, made rich in the meat packing industry as a result of the reversal of fortunes brought on by WWI. He is crude,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

The man who broke the jug, the judge, is trying a case who determine who broke the jug. Long before the evidence becomes conclusive against the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emil Jannings

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Cast: Emil Jannings

Der Herrscher (The Sovereign) was based on Before Sunset, a play by Gerhart Hauptmann. The great Emil Jannings stars as Mathias Clausen, a self-made...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

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The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

This film is a fascinating showcase for Emil Janning's theatrical play. He's a gentle school teacher who believes in his boys and is easily fooled...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Two inspiration sources appear clearly: contemporary American gangster movies and Alfred Döblin’s novel Berlin Alexanderplatz (1929).

Genre: Crime

Cast: Emil Jannings

An anti-British propaganda film from Nazi Germany which depicts the life of the South African politician Paul Kruger and his eventual defeat by the...

Genre: History

Cast: Emil Jannings

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Emil Jannings

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erna Morena

An enslaved girl, Leila, is bought by Vaco Juan Riberda as a gift for his friend, Dr. Jan van Zuylen. van Zuylen is outraged, and refuses. Years...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ellen Richter

Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Baby Peggy

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Paul Bildt

German silent film

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

An extremely jealous artist slips into a monkey costume and kills all those men who come too close to his wife, another artist.

Genre: Horror

Cast: Emil Jannings

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.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henny Porten

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

This movie was featured on the DVD release of Der letzte Mann in 2004 in Germany.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Helene Luckow

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bruno Decarli

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Genre: Drama

Cast: Erna Morena

An ambitious wife spends all of her husband's hard-earned money and then commits suicide out of remorse.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alexander von Antalffy

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Cast: Alfred Breiderhoff

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Cast: Louis Ralph

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

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Genre: Documentary

Cast: William Dieterle

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's 1931 play Fanny.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

This 1940 presentation features highlights of earlier (1928 onward) Oscar ceremonies including Shirley Temple and Walt Disney, plus acceptance...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carey Wilson

Genre: Drama

Cast: Peter Elsholtz

The husband of Countess Manon Moreau is found murdered. André Rabatin, who belongs to the same club as Count Moreau, is the suspect. Rabatin,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mia May

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Mia May

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

"Basher Bill," a retired prizefighter turned criminal, pretends to reform by joining a Salvation Army shelter in London run by a pious wraith named...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

André Frey, a bohemian artist, woos and wins a rustic Swiss maid, promising to return to her after a visit to the city. The girl, Vroni, finds...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

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

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ernst Deutsch

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fritz Kortner

Lorenz Ferleitner has worked his way up from a poor but gifted farm boy to a recognized master builder. When a new cathedral is to be built, he is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Prim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pola Negri

Die Ratten was produced by actress and singer Grete Ly. Her company, Grete Ly-Film, made five films between 1919 and 1921. Die Ratten, which is based...

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Cast: Emil Jannings

The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Nadja Uhl

German documentary about Hollywood

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charlie Chaplin

A married restaurant owner is persuaded to become a bootlegger by a beautiful young girl. When he starts making money at it, she steals it, then runs...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henny Porten

An examination of the 1941 German blockbuster "Uncle Krüger", a film about the Boer War and the British concentration camps in south Africa,...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Emil Jannings

Genre: Drama

Cast: Emil Jannings