List of the best Georg Wilhelm Pabst movies: Diary of a Lost Girl(1929), Westfront 1918(1930), The Mistress of Atlantis(1932), The Threepenny Opera(1931), Pandora's Box(1929) ... ...
Drama
Germany
1929
96 Minutes
Director
Louise Brooks Fritz Rasp Josef Rovenský Sybille Schmitz Valeska Gert Edith Meinhard
young woman chemist assistant mother director friend dark tense profound germany pharmacy apartment reform school brothel mansion rape prostitution father/daughter relationship friendship redemption
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
War, Drama
Germany
1930
90 Minutes
Director
Fritz Kampers Gustav Diessl Claus Clausen Gustav Püttjer Jackie Monnier Hanna Hoessrich Else Heller Aribert Mog Vladimir Sokoloff
lieutenant student soldier wife mother friend brooding dark disheartening somber france trenches battlefield village germany world war i horrors of war disillusionment death military life
A group of German solders fight on the front line in France at the end of World War I.
Fantasy, Adventure, Romance
1932
81 Minutes
Director
Brigitte Helm John Stuart Gustav Diessl Gibb McLaughlin Mathias Wieman Florelle Tela Tchaï Georges Tourreil
Two soldiers are on a search for the Atlantis in the Sahara; they are captured by raiders from the lost city and they are taken before its beautiful queen.
Musical
1931
113 Minutes
Director
Lotte Lenya Rudolph Forster Fritz Rasp
The satiric 1928 Brecht-Weill stage production formed the basis for this tale of a daring turn-of-the-century gangster.
Drama
1929
110 Minutes
Director
Louise Brooks Fritz Kortner Francis Lederer Carl Goetz Alice Roberts Daisy d'Ora Krafft-Raschig Michael v. Newlinsky Sig Arno Gustav Diessl
sexy woman publisher circus performer theatrical producer friend creepy intricate melodramatic family home ship train theater london infatuation love ambition wretched excess fall 1880s
G.W. Pabst's account of a young woman's downfall emphasizes years of her catering to her sexual appetite.