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Graf Sylvains Rache (1920)
Character: N/A
Comedy about dare devil Emile who falls in love with Madeleine. The consequences are devastating.
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Das Feuer (1914)
Character: Willy Warnberg
Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden shed and sets fire to it.
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Das Martyrium (1920)
Character: Verliebter Neffe
Intrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.
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Kreuzzug des Weibes (1926)
Character: Der moderne Mann
A working-class couple with four children live in extreme poverty in a rear building. When the woman becomes pregnant again, she goes to a young doctor and asks him to terminate the pregnancy, as the child would be too much of a burden for her. The doctor refuses to perform the procedure because it is against the law, so she has the abortion herself and dies in the process. The public prosecutor has the man arrested and the four children are left to fend for themselves.
The prosecutor's fiancée, a young teacher, lives in the front building. When she is raped and becomes pregnant in her apartment by the porter's wife's mentally disturbed son, the doctor, deeply affected by the case of the working-class couple, performs an illegal abortion on the teacher and confronts the public prosecutor with the case of his own fiancée. The public prosecutor resigns because he can no longer reconcile his office with his conscience.
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Der Knabe in Blau (1921)
Character: Thomas von Weerth
A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor. Lost film, minor fragments survive
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Die Königin seines Herzens (1928)
Character: N/A
The young Queen of Nlilrania and her consort, Prince Ferdinand, are deeply attached to each other, but a hectic youth in Vienna has left him with a flirtatious disposition. An old flame visits the palace, and the Queen apparently has justification for her jealousy. She orders her husband to remain in his apartments. He retaliates by returning the key of the door between their rooms. After a furious scene he departs for Vienna with the Countess. The Queen secretly follows with her aide-de-camp. in the train they encounter sonic officers, and the Queen not only dances, but at Vienna goes to the Arts Ball, where her husband awaits the Countess. Though masked, he recognizes her, and reconciliation ensues.
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Die Moral der Gasse (1925)
Character: Sohn des Viehgroßhändlers
Explores the ethics of a Berlin street during the Weimar era and the struggle for survival in a shady environment.
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Der rote Henker (1920)
Character: Didier
France in the first half of the 17th century, at the time of the Duke and all-powerful Cardinal Richelieu. The courtesan Marion Delorme falls in love with the nobleman Didier de Lassigny, although she is still with another nobleman at the time, the Marquis de Saverny. Marion then leaves the Marquis. This leads to a duel between the two aristocratic gentlemen, although duels were strictly forbidden in these circles by Richelieu. When this becomes known, Didier is put in chains and sentenced to death. Marion sacrifices herself for the sake of her new love, but the sacrifice is in vain. Didier, who refused to flee, is finally beheaded by order of the "red executioner" Richelieu.
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Jimmy, ein Schicksal von Mensch und Tier (1923)
Character: Percy von Glauburne
Captain Bryde, who is a guest of young Percy, Duke of Glauburne, rescues the artist Maud and her bear Jimmy, the only survivors of a shipwreck. Maud and her bear find shelter in the Duke's castle, but immediately arouse the jealousy of Percy's girlfriend Ethel
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Gräfin Küchenfee (1918)
Character: melancholischer Verehrer
Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
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Moral (1928)
Character: Dobler
When a travelling troupe threatens to unleash a saucy Berlin revue on the provincial town of Emilsburg, the local Morality Society, a band of sanctimonious middle-aged men, stages a protest. Meanwhile, the reigning monarch is concerned that his son and heir is not living his life to the full. Ninon d’Hauteville, a showgirl and the revue’s star attraction, takes a job as piano teacher to the young prince after her engagement at the local theatre was brought to a premature end, a result of the Morality Society’s interference. It doesn’t take long for those hypocrites to get wind of this. While on the outside they appear to be concerned with running the immoral woman out of their town, behind closed doors they rank among the new piano teacher’s most ardent pupils. However, Ninon, out to right the wrong done against her, secretly keeps a “diary” of their visits, recording each encounter on film with a hidden camera.
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Die keusche Susanne (1926)
Character: Henry, Renés Freund
Naughty Susanne leads an exciting double life between her hometown and Paris: in the provincial nest she is considered the ever virtuous and down to earth girl, while in the cosmopolitan city she always escapes to, she is the queen of the night, sophisticated and seductive. In Paris, she meets René and begins to recruit him, but she has a noble competitor: Jacqueline. A spirited love triangle begins, complicated by the interventions of uncomprehending moral preachers. Their befitting final finds the story in the Moulin Rouge.
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Die Herrin der Welt 4. Teil - König Macombe (1919)
Character: Creed Merville
Through the plan hidden in Astarte's jewelry, Maud Gregaards, Kien-Lung and Consul Madsen get on the trail of the Queen of Sheba's treasure. Their search takes them to Africa, where they want to know from King Makombe the location of the Fire Mountain, near which the legendary city of Ophir, the center of the Astarte cult, is said to be.
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Das Tagebuch des Dr. Hart (1918)
Character: Graf Bronislaw Krascinsky
Dr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
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Die Motorbraut (1925)
Character: Hans von Corell
Eva, an inventor, nearly runs over Frank, a fugitive, with her car. She decides to give him work instead of turning him in, and together they complete a motorboat engine for an upcoming race.
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Die weißen Rosen (1916)
Character: Count Adam
The actress Thilda Wardier is courted by the wealthy Adam de Rochord, who presents her with a large bouquet of white roses every time they see each other. When Thilda is brought on board by a prestigious theatre in Ostend and wants to look suitably refined for the occasion, she borrows an expensive piece of family jewellery from Adam. However, a criminal gang staying in the same hotel as Adam and Thilda gets wind of the jewellery, and they cleverly manage to steal it and replace the real stones with fake ones. The precious loot now proceeds to pass through many different bouquets of white roses before ending up in the right hands again.
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Die Insel der Seligen (1913)
Character: Vertraeumter Juengling
Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.
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Ikarus, der fliegende Mensch (1918)
Character: Günther Ellinghaus
Two French spies, Baron d’Aubigny and Clemence de Montignon, blackmail German engineer Günther Ellinghaus with his gambling debts into handing over his construction plans for the new Ikarus engine. He flees to New York and works as a waiter. When World War I breaks, he signs on as a fireman on a Dutch ship and returns to Europe. He becomes a fighter pilot in Germany and faces the former spies as his enemies. After an emergency landing he is taken into their headquarters. He escapes an attempted murder and fights his enemies in an air battle. Both of them survive and after the war Ellinghaus offers them his hand in reconciliation.
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Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson (1920)
Character: Creed Merville
After the death of Alan Stanley, Maud Fergusson seeks revenge. On her behalf, the detective Hunt begins to investigate and proves that Murphy is responsible for the murder. Maud's revenge plan involves launching a newspaper campaign against Murphy, defaming and embarrassing him.
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Die Herrin der Welt, 7. Teil - Die Wohltäterin der Menschheit (1920)
Character: Creed Merville
Billionaire Maud Fergusson lives happily with engineer Allan Stanley. Nothing stands in the way of their love wedding - except Maud's dark past. She has told Allan everything about herself, but he insists on knowing the name of her former seducer - otherwise he won't be able to marry her.
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Algol - Tragödie der Macht (1920)
Character: Reginald Herne
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.
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