Expressionism Movies

A girl, a ghoul, a vampire, a bloodstain... who is it?, what happened? We found it on the floor

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

Documentary about the life and work of Mário Eloy, one of the greatest painters of the second generation of modernism in Portugal.

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates...

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion.

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl.

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches.

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions...

This movement marks the beginning of modern art in Germany. It is the German equivalent of French Fauvism, from which it draws its main inspiration,...

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

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919...

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who...

For the whole of his long life Emil Nolde, the leading German Expressionist, luxuriated in colour. Before the First World War in Berlin he made many...

A banker, after a prophetic meeting with a Gypsy fortune teller, becomes delusional as he searches for a trunk which the seer has told him holds the...

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...