Expressionism Movies

Alongside Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals was one of the key figures in 17th century Dutch art. But unlike his contemporaries, who tended to paint...

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...

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

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

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

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

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

Documentary made in two parts by Luciano Berriatúa. This first part focuses on childhood, personal life and the early works in films by German...

Four strangers meet in a mysterious home. There for different reasons, they slowly begin to realize something is terribly wrong with their...

Emil Nolde was a Nazi – and so what, asks contemporary German artist Daniel Richter. “It’s a moralistic debate. A debate, that...

The first release of the Residents' film debut "Vileness Fats", in a re-edited and re-scored form.

The extraordinary work of the American artist Philip Guston is a milestone in modern painting. Guston is one of the most discussed painters of his...

A vampire tries to sleep, but a terrible predator approaches.

In the ruins of a world devoured by human greed, the last man plunges into a decadent frenzy: devouring rare plants, octopus flesh, the final drops...

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...

A fantastic fashion show with the most marvelous sights the screen has ever seen!

A traumatized man returning home from war discovers that his wife has slipped into the underclass.

Estranged lovers reconnect through the power of the Magic Conch Shell.

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...