Movies: Asta Nielsen
- 1925
The Joyless Street (1925)
The Joyless Street6.81925HD
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....
- 1910
The Abyss (1910)
The Abyss6.31910HD
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 Rud...
- 1923
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity (1923)
I.N.R.I. – A Film of Humanity4.81923HD
From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain....
- 1927
Tragedy of the Street (1927)
Tragedy of the Street5.81927HD
Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking care of him and spends her life savings into a cake shop to move further away from prostitution, but ...
- 1913
The Suffragette (1913)
The Suffragette4.61913HD
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....
- 1914
Little Angel (1914)
Little Angel5.91914HD
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 ea...
- 1918
The Queen of the Stock Exchange (1918)
The Queen of the Stock Exchange5.71918HD
Mine owner Helene has a crush on the manager. He is however, enamored with Helene's cousin Lina....
- 1920
Steuermann Holk (1920)
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- 2016
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film (2016)
Play On! Shakespeare in Silent Film5.82016HD
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 T...
- 1925
Hedda Gabler (1925)
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Silent adaptation of the famous play by Henrik Ibsen. This film is believed to be lost....
- 1919
Towards the Light (1919)
Towards the Light5.71919HD
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 himsel...
- 2020
Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema (2020)
Sex, Sensations & Superstars: The History of Danish Silent Cinema02020HD
Documentary on the rise and fall of the Danish silent film industry....
- 1923
Earth Spirit (1923)
Earth Spirit5.51923HD
When the old, wealthy Doctor Schön takes Lulu under his wing, he has no idea that she will be his certain death. Young and beautiful, Lulu is endowed with tremendous erotic charisma that utterly enchants any man in her reach. Although Schön sees disa...
- 1911
The Black Dream (1911)
The Black Dream4.71911HD
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 co...
- 1921
Hamlet (1921)
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A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince' Hamlet. Her father poisoned by a venomous snake placed by the treacherous Claudius, Hamlet fakes madness to in...
- 1921
Wandering Souls (1921)
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- 1911
The Traitress (1911)
The Traitress4.41911HD
A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him....
- 1912
Der Totentanz (1912)
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Bella is married to engineer Burk who meets with an accident. To provide an income she starts as a performer, but happen to meet an infatuated, intriguing composer. On the brink of marital ruin, she kills the composer....
- 1927
The Vice of Humanity (1927)
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Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has died, but years later the daughter rediscovers her mother appearing on stage. Mangol pursues the dau...
- 1914
Das Kind ruft (1914)
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Ernest Schiller, a wealthy merchant, has the cherished ambition to secure as his son-in-law the Count De Grechy, a member of the nobility. His ambition is about to be realized, for the Count has accepted an urgent invitation to be Schiller's guest. H...