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Asta Nielsen is often considered the 'first international movie star', and was an explosively popular female lead through the 1910s and 20s. Though born in Denmark, she mostly worked in Germany and starred in over 70 films, usually directed by her husband Urban Gad. She was known for her boyish looks and had her breakout in the erotically charge... more

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Joyless Street

(1925)

Drama

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.

Runtime:

150 min

Director:

G.W. Pabst

Cast:

Werner Krauß, Jaro Fürth, Greta Garbo, Greta Garbo, Asta Nielsen

7.2

75%

N/A

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The Abyss

(1910)

Drama

Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing circus rider Rudolf. But circus life with Rudolf quickly turns out to be anything but happy, and Magda comes to a tragic end.

Runtime:

41 min

6.6

N/A

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Hamlet

(1921)

Drama

Free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama: The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy. Thus, the girl lives her whole life as Prince Hamlet. When the King is killed in an assault by Hamlet′s uncle, Hamlet seeks revenge. His friend Horatio, whom Hamlet secretly loves, is the only one who is let in on the revenge plans. When Hamlet ...

Runtime:

112 min

Director:

Svend Gade, Heinz Schall

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Heinz Stieda, Eduard von Winterstein

7.1

N/A

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The Black Dream

(1911)

Drama

Stella, a circus princess, has two suitors: young, handsome Count Waldberg and the greying, hidebound jeweller Hirsch. Stella’s love for Waldberg drives Hirsch mad with jealousy. He will stop at nothing to be near the woman of his dreams. When the count loses a staggering sum to the jeweller in a gambling duel, Stella embarks on a fate...

Runtime:

53 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Valdemar Psilander, Gunnar Helsengreen

6.2

N/A

Tragedy of the Street

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Tragedy of the Street

(1927)

Drama

Before road movies there were street films, a distinct cycle within German silent cinema. The essential ingredient - misalliance between bourgeois and slum dweller - is present here, though somewhat displaced by Asta Nielsen's star persona. She plays an aging hooker who falls for handsome Felix, a student who has rowed with his parents...

Runtime:

85 min

Director:

Bruno Rahn

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Hilde Jennings, Oskar Homolka, Werner Pittschau, Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein

6.7

N/A

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Little Angel

(1914)

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. ...

Runtime:

49 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Alfred Kuehne, Max Landa, Fred Immler, Bruno Kastner

7.3

N/A

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Towards the Light

(1919)

Drama

Countess Ysabel is a young and rich woman with many suitors. An elegant and adventurous baron has managed to win her heart, but she anyway continues to play with other men’s feelings. Nemesis hits her when a young man with a broken heart kills himself, and the baron at the same time reveals a horrible secret. Ysabe'ls world seems to fa...

Runtime:

65 min

Director:

Holger-Madsen

Cast:

Asta Nielsen

6.3

N/A

The Queen of the Stock Exchange

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The Queen of the Stock Exchange

(1918)

Drama

Mine owner Helene has a crush on the manager. He is however, enamored with Helene's cousin Lina.

Runtime:

63 min

Director:

Edmund Edel

Cast:

Asta Nielsen

6.1

N/A

Earth Spirit

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Earth Spirit

(1923)

Drama

Dr. Schön marries a lower class girl, Lulu. Young and voluptuous she attracts the attention of the all the male gender, but the doctor will not let her go.

Runtime:

50 min

Director:

Leopold Jessner

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Albert Bassermann, Carl Ebert, Rudolf Forster, Alexander Granach

6.1

N/A

Vanina

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Vanina

(1922)

Drama

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.

Runtime:

68 min

Director:

Arthur von Gerlach

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Paul Wegener, Paul Hartmann, Albrecht Viktor Blum, Bernhard Goetzke

6.0

N/A

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Poor Jenny

(1912)

Jenny, a cleaner, is seduced by a local playboy, Edouard. Jenny's parents reject her after she spends the night with him. She finds a job as a vaudeville dancer, but ultimately winds up in the gutter.

Runtime:

34 min

6.2

N/A

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The Film Prima Donna

(1913)

Drama

Film star Ruth Breton has a habit of falling in love. When dating Walter she meets Von Zornhorst. When Zornhorst discards her, she pines away. As a last token of his love for Ruth, Walter writes a play for her, but during the final act of "Pierrot's Death", Ruth expires.

Runtime:

17 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Asta Nielsen

6.8

N/A

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Zapata's Gang

(1914)

Comedy, Crime

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

Runtime:

42 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Fred Immler, Senta Eichstaedt, Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Mary Scheller

6.4

N/A

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The Merry-Go-Round

(1920)

Drama

Drama about street walker Elena who marries shop keeper Albert. When her former pimp Peter shows up, her life is ruined. She shoots him and poisons herself. The original 1920 release ran 98 minutes.

Runtime:

98 min

Director:

Richard Oswald

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Conrad Veidt, Eduard von Winterstein, Irmgard Bern, Theodor Loos

6.4

N/A

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A Romany Spy

(1912)

Drama

Gypsy girl Zidra falls in love with the lieutenant she is supposed to spy on.

Runtime:

37 min

6.7

N/A

Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

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Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film

(2016)

A compilation of scenes from Shakespeare adaptations made in the earliest days of cinema, including versions of King Lear, Twelfth Night, Hamlet, Richard III and The Merchant of Venice, as well as less frequently filmed plays such as Henry VIII and The Winter's Tale.

Runtime:

63 min

Cast:

John Gielgud, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Charles Kent, Asta Nielsen

6.6

N/A

The Suffragette

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The Suffragette

(1913)

Drama

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.

Runtime:

60 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Asta Nielsen

5.6

N/A

Der Absturz

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Der Absturz

(1923)

Variety star Kaja falls in love with fisherman Peter. But he in a unfortunate situation kills a man and is sentenced to ten years imprisonment. Kaja promises to wait for him, but things goes badly for her, and when she stands at the prison gate on the day of his release he doesn't recognizes her....

Runtime:

106 min

Director:

Ludwig Wolff

Cast:

Asta Nielsen, Gregori Chmara, Ivan Bulatov, Albert Bozenhard, Adele Sandrock

8.0

N/A

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(1913)

The general's daughter spies on her fiancé to achieve information.

Runtime:

61 min

Director:

Urban Gad

Cast:

Charly Berger, Siegwart Gruder, Frau Lumbye, Paul Meffert, Asta Nielsen

6.0

N/A

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Impossible Love

(1932)

Drama

Runtime:

88 min

5.8

N/A

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