Movies: Paul Leni
- 1928
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
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Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. ...
- 1927
The Cat and the Canary (1927)
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Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns o...
- 1928
The Last Warning (1928)
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A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast....
- 1924
Waxworks (1924)
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A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for ea...
- 1921
Backstairs (1921)
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In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hop...
- 1921
Lady Hamilton (1921)
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The married Lady Emma Hamilton has an ill fated romance with Admiral Horatio Nelson....
- 1926
Manon Lescaut (1926)
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A French adventurer fights to save a woman in the life of prostitution....
- 1925
Der Farmer aus Texas (1925)
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- 1918
Das Rätsel von Bangalor (1918)
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- 1920
Patience (1920)
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Film by Paul Leni and Felix Basch...
- 1918
The Diary of Dr. Hart (1918)
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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 dau...
- 1925
Rebus-Film Nr. 1 (1925)
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An "extra" shown in two parts at the movie theater, before and after a feature: part one gives the clues to six words in a crossword puzzle, part two gives the answers. In addition to the visual clues, which are clips of a party, an Asian country, a ...
- 1926
Cab No. 13 (1926)
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The film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 1...
- 1924
Love Letters of Baroness S (1924)
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A married society woman strikes up a romance with a young musician. She introduces the man to high society. The society woman eventually decides to break off the relationship and the musician attempts to blackmail her....
- 1926
Wie einst im Mai (1926)
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- 1921
Die Geierwally (1921)
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"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He ha...
- 1926
The Golden Butterfly (1926)
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A restaurant cashier, who has a mutual attraction to the restauranteur, has a secret passion for dance. As soon as she finishes work she is off down to the dance studio for a practice. She has a chance meeting with a handsome impresario, who promises...
- 1924
The Film in the Film (1924)
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The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors of the era at work on the set including Fritz Lang, Robert Wiene, and E.A. Dupont....
- 1915
Stuart Webbs: Die Toten erwachen (1915)
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In this tangled case, Webbs is called in to solve a string of alleged suicides. The case is very opaque - nothing is what it seems at first glance. Are the suicides really dead? Webbs initially suspects an Indian servant of a nobleman, but thanks to ...
- 1919
Intoxication (1919)
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Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed. This film is considered lost....