Henny Porten
Actor · 1890 – 1960 · Magdeburg, Germany
Frieda Ulricke "Henny" Porten (7 January 1890 – 15 October 1960) was a German actress and film producer of the silent era, and Germany's first major film star. She appeared in more than 170 films between 1906 and 1955.
Movies24
Movie9.0ComedyHenny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.
MovieComedya silent movie by Robert Wiene
Movie9.0ComedyRemake of an Ernst Lubitsch silent comedy about a farm boy who is fond of two sisters, one of whom is beautiful, the other, not so much.
Movie7.0DramaAn art student in love with her instructor poses for his sculpture. She leaves him and the world of art when she finds out he is married. The statue, created with purpose of symbolizing guilt, comes back to haunt her.
Die Schuld
1919 · 1 votes
Movie8.0ComedyA moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.
Movie8.0DramaMonika Vogelsang
1920 · 1 votes
Movie7.0DramaA lost film.
Movie7.0DramaDie Sieger
1918 · 1 votes
- Movie8.0Documentary
Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film Museum. Jean Desmet was one of the first Dutch film distributors. Lyrisch nitraat is a tribute to the craftsmanship of early filmmakers, but also shows the brittleness of old nitrate films. Composed as an opera about love and death, set to music by Bizet, Masek and Puccini.
Movie6.2MysteryDramaIn a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.
Movie9.0Her Sport is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Rudolf Biebrach and starring Henny Porten, Georg H. Schnell and Hermann Thimig. A man-hating young woman tries to break up her friend's new marriage, but while in the Alps she meets her own ideal man.
Movie6.2Drama"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.
Die Geierwally
1921 · 3 votes
Movie8.0DramaViolantha
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Erloschenes Licht
1913 · 1 votes
Movie6.9HistoryDramaThe story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
Anna Boleyn
1920 · 28 votes
- Movie1.5
Apachentanz
1906 · 1 votes
Movie10.0Drama- Movie10.0Drama
Inge Larsen
1924 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaAfter divorcing her husband Hans, who had started a relationship with another woman because of her infertility, Maria Immermann leaves their shared apartment and moves to Berlin.
Mutterliebe
1929 · 1 votes
Movie7.0Nordlandrose
1914 · 1 votes
- Movie5.0Drama
Alessandra, illegitimate daughter of a count, is raised in a circus. Everyone would like her to marry Anton, a rough gamekeeper, but she escapes helped by Count Erwin. The young girl falls in love with her savior but he has no serious intentions.
Alexandra
1915 · 2 votes
- Movie8.0Comedy
Die Hotelratte
1928 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaDas Ende vom Liede
1915 · 1 votes
Movie10.0DramaLotte
1928 · 1 votes