Expressionism Movies

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by th...

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their host… and t...

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

After the death of her mother, a woman is tormented by memories of her childhood, and nightmares.

A dystopian future set in a totalitarian world , where a young man's life is about to change.

Woken up from a delightful dream, a nondescript citizen finds himself irredeemably able to see what is decreed forbidden. Dreading the outcome of his...

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre after going t...

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 passe...

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 the...

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is considere...

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

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

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 u...

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

With a pair of scissors and some paper, he turned his art into a weapon the Nazis feared. A look back at the eventful career of satirist John Heartfie...

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

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 baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the atom...

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!

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