Henny Porten Movies

A lost film.

Carola has been running the family-owned circus alone since her husband’s death, but she suddenly finds herself at odds with her three adult...

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.

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

The film "Der Kaufmann von Venedig" ( The Jew Of Mestri ) was written, produced and directed by Peter Paul Felner in the silent year of 1923 and is a...

Henny Porten plays the dual role of a rather indecorous Countess and her kitchen maid Karoline Blum, an amateur actress.

An 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,...

The 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...

Olga, a woman of the demimonde, is shot in her apartment. The bullet was deflected by something, otherwise it would have killed Olga. Witnesses heard...

Alessandra, illegitimate daughter of a count, is raised in a circus. Everyone would like her to marry Anton, a rough gamekeeper, but she escapes...

A moron buys a worthless piece of land, which a swindler passed off as an oil field.

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge,...

Compilation of film clips from 1905-1915, found footage of silent movies and documentaries from the Jean Desmet Archive of the Netherlands Film...