Henny Porten Movies

When a poor tenant in a Berlin tenement is suspected of stealing coal from a cellar, she sets a trap to find the real thief.

Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go...

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his...

Countess Marlene, a young and impoverished widow, is set to marry an old and wealthy count when she falls for a painter.

An old count has been keeping an eye on the granddaughter of his lock-keeper for quite some time. But the young Maria is in love with the young...

A production company holds a public competition for film ideas. The winning letter tells of a young woman's lost love in the 1840's. It is, in fact,...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene