Henny Porten Movies

After eight years in exile Martin returns to Berlin. He was involved in the German Revolution of 1918/1919 and had to leave the country as a result....

Short film produced by Messter-Film for the Seventh War Bond drive.

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...

An interfering mother plans husbands for her three daughters as they come of marriageable age. However she pays no attention to her daughters own...

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

In 1766, the young English princess Caroline Mathilde is sent to Denmark to marry the King Christian VII. The marriage is unhappy and Caroline...

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

A continuation of the film "Familie Buchholz": To Wilhelmine Buchholz, the concept of a marriage based on love is somewhat scary, although she hears...

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

Based on an 1884 novel by Julius Stinde, it is a family chronicle set in late nineteenth century Berlin.

An inventor leaves his family after finding success with the financial help of his wife; in despair, the wife walks into the water with their child.

A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.

First feature film produced by the German pioneer Oskar Messter

Based on a novel by Paul Lindau.