Expressionism Movies

A student film, expressionist adaptation of Joker (2019, dir. Todd Phillips) in stop motion.

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the...

The plot revolves around two completely different and distant women — a nurse and a fashion model — who are haunted by their own spectre...

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60,000 Marks and leaves...

In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills...

In Edo-era Japan, a ukiyo-e artist languishes in his master’s shadow. Creatively stifled, he finds consolation in the company of a prostitute,...

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad...

While a young woman sleeps unawares in her bed, three creatures emerge from her dreams and playfully wreak havoc on her room. Before the woman wakes...

In this film essay, critic Peter Buchka explores the German cinema of the 1920s, ranging from the disquieting images of Fritz Lang's Metropolis to...

While an anatomy seminar prepares to examine the cadaver of Franz Wozzeck in the name of scientific progress, medical student Büchner excoriates...

With a pair of scissors and some paper, he turned his art into a weapon the Nazis feared. A look back at the eventful career of satirist John...

After the death of her mother, a woman is tormented by memories of her childhood, and nightmares.

Woken up from a delightful dream, a nondescript citizen finds himself irredeemably able to see what is decreed forbidden. Dreading the outcome of his...

A film student goes to sleep and wakes up in a world similar to German expressionism, but the beings in that world have similarities with the girl.

No Days Off for Death” is a film that depicts an altered rendition of our own world to explore themes of grief and over corporatisation, the...

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...

Sound and Image scape by Mateo Berman-Sample.

mens·beeld (het; o; meervoud: mensbeelden) A "Mensbeeld" is a well-thought-out and coherent representation of what it means to be human....

Pierrot is thrust into Little Town as a private investigator. There, he must unravel the mystery of the Red Royal Rubies and save his true love!

Between the depths of grief and the bliss of friendship, Gabriel teams up with his friends to create a film written by his late grandfather, who...