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A laundry worker is seen as a soft silhouette through a hanging white sheet bearing the title Shadows.
Shadows
1922 · Tom Forman70 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A Chinese laundryman in a coastal town becomes entangled in the lives of neighbours divided by grief, prejudice, and religious hypocrisy.

SanftDüsterMäßig fordernd
Two faint profiles appear in textured tree bark among pale pink blossoms.
Smilin' Through
1922 · Sidney Franklin96 Min. · Romantic melodrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An old grief shapes a guardian’s response when the young woman he raised falls in love with a man connected to the past.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
A figure hesitates at the bottom of a cramped stairway under oversized title lettering.
Crime and Punishment
1923 · Robert Wiene135 Min. · Psychological drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A student convinced of his exceptional right to act commits murder and discovers that an idea cannot contain the consequences.

DüsterUngewöhnlichMit Geduld
A hunched figure grips a hanging rope beneath a large window shadow.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 · Wallace Worsley100 Min. · Romance
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Quasimodo’s devotion to Esmeralda unfolds amid persecution, desire, and enormous recreations of medieval Paris.

DüsterRomantischWenig fordernd
A large Roman numeral X on cracked stone meets angular concrete forms.
The Ten Commandments
1923 · Cecil B. DeMille136 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Biblical spectacle gives way to a modern morality tale about two brothers who choose opposite relationships to law and desire.

SpannungsvollDüsterMäßig fordernd
A fence divides dry ochre fields, with a strip of green grass passing through a gap beneath the title To the Last Man.
To the Last Man
1923 · Victor Fleming70 Min. · Western
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A long-running feud pulls two frontier families towards violence even as younger relationships suggest another route.

SpannungsvollDüsterMäßig fordernd
Greed — Gold lettering and scattered coins recede into an empty desert.
Greed
1924 · Erich von Stroheim140 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A former miner’s marriage and friendships collapse after a lottery win turns ordinary insecurity into consuming possession.

DüsterSpannungsvollMäßig fordernd
Three soil-covered potatoes rest in dark folded cloth.
Isn't Life Wonderful
1924 · D. W. Griffith120 Min. · Social drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A displaced family in post-war Germany tries to secure food, work, shelter, and a future amid inflation and scarcity.

DüsterSanftMäßig fordernd
The Last Laugh lettering on an immense teal revolving hotel door, with Momo pushing a panel beside an oversized doorman coat.
The Last Laugh
1924 · F. W. Murnau90 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An ageing hotel doorman loses his prestigious uniform and tries to hide the demotion from neighbours who measure him by it.

DüsterSchönWenig fordernd
Two opposing pale and charcoal profiles share a flowing arrangement beneath the film title.
The White Shadow
1924 · Graham Cutts42 Min. · Melodrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.

RätselhaftDüsterMit Geduld
Battleship Potemkin: A monumental paper battleship, red waves and descending stairways form a bold diagonal composition.
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein73 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

The montage that taught cinema how to shout.

SpannungsvollDüsterMit Geduld
A pulpit casts bar-like shadows against stained-glass colours.
Body and Soul
1925 · Oscar Micheaux93 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An escaped convict poses as a preacher, exploiting a community’s trust; Paul Robeson also plays the preacher’s upright twin.

SpannungsvollDüsterWenig fordernd
An empty market stall faces a brightly lit shop across a wet street.
Joyless Street
1925 · Georg Wilhelm Pabst148 Min. · Social drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

In inflation-stricken Vienna, two neighbouring women face hunger, exploitation, and sharply unequal chances of escape.

DüsterSpannungsvollMit Geduld
Overlapping washing hangs from lines, with the title printed across a pale sheet.
Slums of Berlin
1925 · Gerhard Lamprecht113 Min. · Social drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Working-class lives in Berlin are shaped by unemployment, crowded housing, crime, and the fragile effort to remain a family.

DüsterSpannungsvollMit Geduld
A worn wool sleeve and a pale silk sleeve meet in a close cropped embrace.
Stella Dallas
1925 · Henry KingMelodrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A working-class mother confronts the social distance between her own life and the future she wants for her daughter.

DüsterRomantischMäßig fordernd
A soldier walks from bright parade confetti into a muddy battlefield.
The Big Parade
1925 · King Vidor, George W. Hill130 Min. · War drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An idle young American enlists for the First World War, forms friendships in France, and discovers how quickly adventure becomes loss.

SanftDüsterWenig fordernd
A worn hand presses fragmented terrain paper beneath imposed straight property lines.
The Vanishing American
1925 · George B. Seitz110 Min. · Western drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A Navajo man confronts dispossession, war service, and a romance constrained by the white institutions governing his community.

DüsterRomantischMit Geduld
A small piece of red-and-white striped fabric floats in a large turquoise whirlpool.
The Whirlpool of Fate
1925 · Jean Renoir71 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An orphaned girl enters the life of a travelling showman and a new rural community in Jean Renoir’s early feature.

SanftDüsterMäßig fordernd
Original illustration for Faust: A tiny scholar's candle-lit desk under an immense swirling mantle of storm clouds shaped by light rather than a literal face.
Faust
1926 · F. W. Murnau106 Min. · Silent film

Eine Wette um die Seele eines Mannes weitet sich unter einem Himmel, der aus Schatten gebaut scheint, zu Pest, Begehren, Flug und Tragödie aus.

DüsterSchönMäßig fordernd
A woman in a long pale pink dress faces away from us between curtains, above audience silhouettes.
Nana
1926 · Jean Renoir150 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A performer’s social ascent and destructive relationships expose the appetites and hypocrisy of the men who try to possess her.

DüsterRomantischMit Geduld
Large distressed black and red title lettering fills ochre paper above muddy marks.
What Price Glory?
1926 · Raoul Walsh116 Min. · War comedy drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two rival Marines carry their feud and romantic competition into the First World War, where bravado meets mass violence.

LustigDüsterMäßig fordernd
Black trouser legs and polished shoes step along a sloping green shape below the title.
Downhill
1927 · Alfred Hitchcock105 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A privileged schoolboy accepts blame for a friend, is expelled and disowned, then descends through increasingly unstable social roles.

DüsterUngewöhnlichMäßig fordernd
A hand reaches from a ragged sleeve towards a figure in a pale fur-trimmed coat across torn purple paper.
Mockery
1927 · Benjamin Christensen66 Min. · Historical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

During the Russian Revolution, an illiterate peasant helps a countess escape and turns devotion into a possessive fantasy that neither class upheaval nor gratitude can satisfy.

DüsterSpannungsvollMäßig fordernd
An empty worn coat and a child's pale shirt reach toward a narrow gap on a plain ground.
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1927 · Harry A. PollardHistorical melodrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A large-scale adaptation of Stowe’s novel follows families separated by slavery. Its 1927 silent premiere and later recorded-score release belong to different presentations.

DüsterSpannungsvollMit Geduld
Original illustration for Wings: Two WWI biplanes far apart bank through voluminous ivory clouds above a tiny geometrical patchwork landscape.
Wings
1927 · William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast144 Min. · War
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two young pilots carry rivalry, friendship, and romantic misunderstanding into the aerial violence of the First World War.

RomantischDüsterWenig fordernd
Two figures carrying bundles walk through a wide, golden landscape.
Ramona
1928 · Edwin Carewe78 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young woman of mixed heritage leaves a hostile household with the Indigenous man she loves, only to face displacement, poverty, and violence.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
The Crowd — Office windows and crowds merge with monumental lettering.
The Crowd
1928 · King Vidor98 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

One ambitious office worker discovers how difficult it is to remain an individual inside a modern city.

DüsterSanftMäßig fordernd
Original illustration: An engraved nocturnal dock with a steamer, coiled rope, wet planks and glowing windows beneath the title.
The Docks of New York
1928 · Josef von Sternberg75 Min. · Romance
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A coal stoker on one night of shore leave rescues a woman from the water, and their hurried marriage tests whether either can imagine a life beyond the docks.

RomantischDüsterWenig fordernd
An empty film-set chair under a spotlight casts an imperial figure's shadow.
The Last Command
1928 · Josef von Sternberg88 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A former Russian general, now an impoverished Hollywood extra, is cast by a director who recognises him from the revolution that destroyed his old life.

DüsterSchönMäßig fordernd
A girl's hands protect a lit match whose warm glow opens into translucent fantasy shapes.
The Little Match Girl
1928 · Jean Renoir, Jean Tedesco32 Min. · Fantasy drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A poor girl selling matches on a winter street escapes hunger and cold through visions that grow increasingly elaborate.

DüsterSchönMäßig fordernd
A close-up drawing of a grinning man resting his cheek on his hand, with tents behind him.
The Man Who Laughs
1928 · Paul Leni110 Min. · Romance
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A performer whose face was surgically fixed into a grin is pulled between love, spectacle, and aristocratic power.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
The Passion of Joan of Arc — A white flower and severe architectural shadows form a stark woodcut.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer81 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A face, a trial, and nowhere for the truth to hide.

DüsterSchönMit Geduld
A bride's long pale train crosses rows of dark-clothed figures viewed from above.
The Wedding March
1928 · Erich von Stroheim113 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An impoverished Viennese prince falls for a working-class woman while family debt and social expectation prepare marriages for both of them.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
Original illustration for The Wind: A lonely timber house at lower right almost swallowed by long sweeping engraved arcs of sand and wind; one small amber-lit window.
The Wind
1928 · Victor Sjöström95 Min. · Romance
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young woman arrives on an isolated Texas plain where relentless wind turns social danger into psychological siege.

SpannungsvollDüsterMäßig fordernd
A woman at a dressing-room mirror looks toward a distant stage curtain.
Applause
1929 · Rouben Mamoulian82 Min. · Musical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An ageing burlesque performer tries to keep her convent-raised daughter away from the backstage life that has consumed her.

DüsterSchönWenig fordernd
Original illustration: A cut-paper piano keyboard becomes a staircase beside a trumpet, dancing shoes and large Black and Tan lettering.
Black and Tan
1929 · Dudley Murphy19 Min. · Musical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A struggling pianist and his dancer partner face poverty, illness, and the cost of accepting work that could separate them.

SchönDüsterWenig fordernd
A man's profile is assembled from torn blue, rust-coloured and monochrome paper strips, with buildings below.
Fragment of an Empire
1929 · Fridrikh Ermler110 Min. · Political drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.

UngewöhnlichDüsterMit Geduld
Pandora's Box — A glove and camellia rest beside an enigmatic dressing-room mirror.
Pandora's Box
1929 · G. W. Pabst132 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
Dark ink spreads across the creases and handwriting of a folded letter.
The Letter
1929 · Jean de Limur62 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A woman who killed her lover claims self-defence, until a letter threatens the account on which her marriage and trial depend.

SpannungsvollDüsterWenig fordernd
Three figures stand apart at a pale seawall, looking in different directions.
The Manxman
1929 · Alfred Hitchcock100 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two lifelong friends love the same woman on the Isle of Man, and a promise made before one man leaves creates a private tragedy on his return.

RomantischDüsterWenig fordernd
Two hands wrap around a cold hand in a close view.
The River
1929 · Frank Borzage55 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A young man tending an isolated river property meets a woman bound to an absent lover, and winter turns their encounter into dependence.

RomantischDüsterMit Geduld
Un Chien Andalou: Paper ants fall from a glove above a bicycle wheel, moon and surreal stairways.
Un Chien Andalou
1929 · Luis Buñuel16 Min. · Experimental
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Sixteen minutes of dream logic sever cause from effect and make familiar objects suddenly unsafe.

UngewöhnlichDüsterMit Geduld
Two cropped women's profiles face each other across a wide pale gap.
Woman to Woman
1929 · Victor Saville90 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An English soldier loses his memory of Lola, the dancer he loved in Paris. Their later reunion brings his wartime promise into conflict with his marriage.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd
A classroom line continues across a trench landscape and a soldier's helmet.
All Quiet on the Western Front
1930 · Lewis Milestone152 Min. · War
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

German schoolboys enlist with patriotic excitement and encounter a trench war that steadily dismantles every promised meaning.

DüsterSpannungsvollMäßig fordernd
The word Distress is compressed into a deep fold in pale blue-grey paper.
Distress
1930 · Jean DurandDrama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Jean Durand’s Détresse was filmed in 1929 and released in France on 23 May 1930.

DüsterSanftMit Geduld
Earth: Apples and wheat fill the foreground of a sunlit farming landscape beneath storm clouds.
Earth
1930 · Alexander Dovzhenko90 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Wheat, rain, faces, and a new tractor carry a village drama beyond the limits of propaganda.

SchönDüsterMäßig fordernd
Newspaper fragments, talking mouths and hands overlap around a table.
Juno and the Paycock
1930 · Alfred Hitchcock96 Min. · Tragicomedy
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A Dublin family facing poverty believes an inheritance will rescue them, while political violence and self-deception close in.

LustigDüsterMäßig fordernd
Original illustration: An empty blue cabaret chair and feather fan beneath a spotlight and The Blue Angel lettering.
The Blue Angel
1930 · Josef von Sternberg108 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A strict schoolteacher follows his pupils into a nightclub and becomes obsessed with the performer he intended to discipline them for watching.

DüsterUngewöhnlichWenig fordernd
Small biplanes cross a blue-grey sky above long diagonal bands of cloud.
The Dawn Patrol
1930 · Howard Hawks90 Min. · War drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A First World War squadron commander must keep sending inexperienced pilots into combat while the officers beneath him mistake responsibility for indifference.

SpannungsvollDüsterWenig fordernd
Five men huddle together beneath a pale disc, rendered in rough black and cream strokes on rust red.
Hell on Earth
1931 · Victor Trivas93 Min. · War drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Five men from different backgrounds shelter between the front lines of the First World War; only one understands all their languages.

DüsterSpannungsvollMit Geduld
M: A monumental red M towers over a streetlamp, an empty balloon string and cobbled shadows.
M
1931 · Fritz Lang110 Min. · Thriller
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A child-killer hunted by the whole underworld. Electric.

SpannungsvollDüsterMäßig fordernd
A woman in a green dress strides across long geometric shadows beside factory buildings.
Possessed
1931 · Clarence Brown74 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A factory worker leaves her small town for New York, becomes the companion of a wealthy lawyer, and confronts the social limits placed on their relationship.

RomantischDüsterWenig fordernd
A woman seen from behind faces an elevated row of dark-coated jurors, with the title Resurrection between them.
Resurrection
1931 · Edwin Carewe81 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A privileged man confronts the damage caused by an earlier relationship when the woman he abandoned appears before a court as a defendant.

DüsterRomantischMit Geduld
Two trails of footprints run along a sandy beach towards foamy blue surf.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
1931 · F. W. Murnau81 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Two young islanders flee after the woman is declared sacred and forbidden, but colonial money and religious authority follow their escape.

SchönDüsterWenig fordernd
A boy rests a hand on the head of a man sitting hunched on a stool against yellow.
The Champ
1931 · King Vidor85 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A washed-up boxer tries to remain a hero to his young son while gambling, alcohol, and an unstable life make love an insufficient plan.

SanftDüsterWenig fordernd
A woman holds a dark clasp purse while another hand grips her wrist and a folded paper enters above.
The Cheat
1931 · George Abbott74 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Debt, secrecy, and coercion tighten around a married woman after private risk-taking gives a predatory man power over her.

SpannungsvollDüsterMit Geduld
A dark glass bottle tilts across orange, its paper label bearing the title.
The Public Enemy
1931 · William A. Wellman83 Min. · Drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A Chicago street boy turns Prohibition crime into a career whose speed leaves loyalty and family behind.

SpannungsvollDüsterWenig fordernd
Rough black title lettering fills yellow paper crossed by torn pink strips.
The Threepenny Opera
1931 · Georg Wilhelm Pabst110 Min. · Musical drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

Criminal celebrity Mackie Messer marries Polly Peachum and provokes her father into mobilising London’s thieves, beggars, and police against him.

LustigDüsterMäßig fordernd
Two hands reach towards one another from white and khaki sleeves against pale blue.
A Farewell to Arms
1932 · Frank Borzage88 Min. · Romantic war drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

An American ambulance driver and a British nurse fall in love in wartime Italy, where military duty and institutional interference repeatedly separate them.

RomantischDüsterWenig fordernd
Two figures are seen from behind, their dark coats and shoulders close together.
Back Street
1932 · John M. Stahl86 Min. · Romantic drama
Zusammenfassung auf Englisch

A woman accepts a life kept out of public view as the long-term lover of a wealthy married man.

RomantischDüsterMäßig fordernd

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