List of the best Emil Jannings movies: The Last Laugh(1924), The Last Command(1928), Waxworks(1924), The Way of All Flesh(1927), The Blue Angel(1930), The Eyes of the Mummy(1918), Loves of Pharaoh(1922), Faust(1926), Passion(1919), The Merry Jail(1917), Anna Boleyn(1920) ... ...
Drama
Germany
1924
73 Minutes
Emil Jannings Maly Delschaft Max Hiller Emelie Kurtz Hans Unterkirchen Olaf Storm Emma Wyda Georg John
An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
Drama, Romance, History
USA
1928
90 Minutes
Emil Jannings Evelyn Brent William Powell Nicholas Soussanin Michael Visaroff
revolutionary russian general director extra gripping disheartening intense russia hollywood movie set revenge role reversal humiliation insanity movie making fall rivalry transformation 1920s
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Horror
Germany
1924
60 Minutes
Harun al Raschid
Emil Jannings Leo Birinsky Conrad Veidt Werner Krauss William Dieterle
wax museum owner daughter poet caliph ivan the terrible jack the ripper creepy dreamy germany baghdad moscow london wax museum revenge bloodlust paranoia love revenge wretched excess escape
A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.
Drama
USA
1927
90 Minutes
Emil Jannings Belle Bennett Phyllis Haver Donald Keith Fred Kohler
father wife son moll gangster henchman chilling melodramatic household bank train car street milwaukee family seduction robbery accidental killing poverty desperation
A happy bank clerk loses his identity after a robbery and is then presumed dead.
Drama
1930
94 Minutes
Emil Jannings Marlene Dietrich Hans Albers Kurt Gerron Rosa Valetti Eduard von Winterstein Reinhold Bernt Hans Roth Rolf Müller Robert Klein-Lork
teacher singer student lover cabaret performer sultry melodramatic school nightclub germany apartment infatuation infidelity jealousy fall temptation 1930s
Josef von Sternberg's classic tells of a middle-aged professor whose obsession with a young cabaret singer leads to his downfall.
Horror
1918
66 Minutes
Emil Jannings Pola Negri Max Laurence Harry Liedtke Margarete Kupfer
Drama, History
1922
100 Minutes
Emil Jannings Paul Biensfeldt Friedrich Kühne Albert Basserman Harry Liedtke Paul Wegener
War ensures when an Egyptian king's (Emil Jannings) desire for a slave girl (Friedrich Kühne) leads him to reject an arranged marriage with an Ethiopian princess.
Drama
Germany
1926
117 Minutes
Mephisto
Gösta Ekman Emil Jannings Camilla Horn Yvette Guilbert William Dieterle
alchemist angel demon dark melodramatic creepy germany aging redemption deception greed fall sacrifice love middle ages
The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
History, Drama
Germany
1919
85 Minutes
König Louis XV
Pola Negri Emil Jannings Harry Liedtke Eduard von Winterstein Reinhold Schünzel Elsa Berna Karl Platen Bernhard Goetzke Magnus Stifter Fred Immler Gustav Czimeg
poor woman louis xv mistress minister cardinal richelieu soldier melodramatic passionate touching france kingdom guillotine royal court madame du barry affair french revolution execution royalty doomed romance rise
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Comedy
Germany
1917
48 Minutes
Quabbe
Harry Liedtke Emil Jannings Paul Biensfeldt Erich Schönfelder
A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
History, Drama
1920
133 Minutes
König Heinrich VIII.
Henny Porten Emil Jannings Paul Hartmann Ludwig Hartau Aud Egede Nissen Hilde Müller Ferdinand von Alten Maria Reisenhofer Adolf Klein Wilhelm Diegelmann Friedrich Kühne
The mother (Emil Jannings) of the future Queen Elizabeth loses her head to King Henry VIII (Henny Porten) in 1536.