Movies: Expressionism

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 the number 9413 written on his forehead....

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

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Loosely inspired by H.P. Lovecraft's short story 'Beyond the Wall of Sleep', this film follows Jude Slater, a man who has recently inherited the house of an important figure in the town of Freasdal. What horrors lay in wait beneath the foundations of...

The cosmos of the incurable Margarethe. Her journey through the mysteries of the Egyptian underworld. Will she be coming forth by day? Film in two parts by Carsten Frank....

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 atomic bombing of Nagasaki. The brilliantly colored images have an avant-garde charm while hiding the sa...

Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German director F.W. Murnau....

A cinematic version of the Royal Winnipeg Ballet's adaptation of Bram Stoker's gothic novel Dracula. Filmed in a style reminiscent of silent Expressionist cinema of the early 20th century (complete with intertitles and monochrome photography), it use...

Under the constant watch of The Eyes, Misha lives within an environment of constant fear and hypervigilance. They live this way until they are interrupted in their work one day when a creature in the old vent above their station drops fragments of an...

Seeking connection after a yearlong research project, Casey travels to the town of a man she had met at university to see if they can pick up where they left off. Upon arriving at her lodging, she is greeted by some strange characters, staying in a r...

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 considered a manifesto of German expressionism; a legend of cinema and a key work to understand the nature of...

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

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A young man has been mutilated into a cyborg warrior, known as Bovine Rider, by the intergalactic alien council called FORESIGHT. FORESIGHT instruct him to battle another rider to complete his training so that they can have a warrior to control and l...

Disturbed by an irrational aversion to his house owner's unsettling left eye, man contemplates murder to escape the disturbing presence and restore peace to his disrupted lifestyle...

The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank....

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human. Human images are linked to (historically determined) philosophical, philosophical or religious convictions....

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

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