Emil Jannings Movies

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

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...

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

German documentary about Hollywood

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

After his first wife dies, the driver of a cart marries his ambitious and shrewish maid who brings him nothing but trouble.

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

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

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

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