Asta Nielsen Movies

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their...

Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling...

Ester escapes an orphanage and finds employment with Dr. Hoff and later with dramatist Hugo Mayerling. After reading a play of his she succeeds on...

Comedy about dare devil Emile who falls in love with Madeleine. The consequences are devastating.

Zirzi witnesses the murder of Professor Wormser.

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are...

When Lis meets her fiancé for the first time, she is severely disappointed. Having dreamed of a dashing, mysterious Latino man, she instead...

Asta Nielsen: pioneer of cinema and first European film star, tragedienne and comedienne, writer and artist. As a working-class child and single...

Jonna cheats on her husband with a chauffeur and is discovered by her husband. After the divorce, she falls into a life of theft and poverty until...

Drama about Auca's relationship with two highwaymen, Ruggiero and Danilo. After the loss of a child, Auca throws herself into an abyss.

Silent adaptation of the famous play by Henrik Ibsen. This film is believed to be lost.

When architect Ernstein falls for secretary Paula, his wife makes sure, that she is fired and evicted from her apartment. When she finds herself...

Growing up with mean foster parents, Lotte is employed as a kitchen maid with the von Harten family. After a dramatic interlude, including an...

Tamara becomes addicted to cocaine but hides from her daughter by moving in with the dealer Mangol. The father tells his daughter that her mother has...

Auguste is an aging prostitute who falls in love with Felix, a younger student. While Felix has strayed away from his parents, Auguste starts taking...

A deranged woman artist falls in love with a young sculptor. The impossible love ends tragically.

Jenny, a cleaner, is seduced by a local playboy, Edouard. Jenny's parents reject her after she spends the night with him. She finds a job as a...

The gorgeous 40-year-old Elsie Lindtner lives in a beautiful house, and is married to a respectable university professor. And yet, there’s...

Wanda marries a Count but falls in love with his son. When their relationship is discovered by the Dowager Countess, she locks them in the garden...

A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is...