Expressionism Movies

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...

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

A short animated film by Dušan Vukotić.

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...

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

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

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

On February 26, 1920, Robert Wiene's world-famous film The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari premiered at the Marmorhaus in Berlin. To this day, it is...

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...

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

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

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

A space occupies it, awaiting to be unlocked by a freeing action or notion. What lies ahead is its determination.

A baby, John, who was abandoned in the church with a horse-headed koto on his side. His grandfather was once a Morin Khuur player and died in the...

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

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...

An abstract collage representing the disorientation inherent in the existence of thought.