Emil Jannings Movies

A wife, bored by her overweight slob of a husband, gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet.

The only surviving excerpt of a documentary on film production in Weimar Germany, featuring the different personalities of several famous directors...

The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.

An adaptation of the Gerhart Hauptmann play of the same name. A young farmer's daughter is used and abused by the men in her life.

Film journalist and critic Rüdiger Suchsland examines German cinema from 1933, when the Nazis came into power, until 1945, when the Third Reich...

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

A pharaonic tragedy to the content that spans six different eras. In the first episode, the emergence and dramatic end of the love story between the...

The story of the stormy relationship between King Friedrich Wilhelm and his son, who later became known as King Frederick the Great of Prussia.

Country Dr. Robert Koch is desperate: a tuberculosis epidemic is decimating the children in his district and no one is able to do anything about it....

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

Also known as Darling of the Gods, this was Emil Jannings' second talkie appearance. Jannings stars as famed operatic singer Albert Winkelmann, who...

A silent movie by Robert Wiene

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.