Asta Nielsen Movies

The Joyless Street

73/100

Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered...

Hamlet

72/100

Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which...

Die Fackelträger

62/100

Spoiled Ysabel marries a man of respectability but he later turns out to a criminal. Consequently, her mother breaks down, and on her deathbed, Ysabel wows to become an evangelist.

Vanina oder Die Galgenhochzeit

61/100

Vanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.

Jomfru Trofast

Yoing Tone's uncle gets the much poorer young man Tellef sent out to the sea after she falls in love with him. The pledge eternal love, and stays unmarried, but Tellef is told she is to marry. But Tellef turns up again.

Rausch

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is revealed.

Den sorte drøm

62/100

Two men of high rank are both wooing the beautiful and famous equestrian acrobat Stella. While Stella ignores the jeweler Hirsch...

Fante-Anne

65/100

The story of an orphaned girl brought up by the Storlein family. Young Anne (Asta Nielsen) is brought as an infant to the Storlein farm by her mother...

Dirnentragödie

67/100

Die Börsenkönigin

61/100

Mine owner Helene has a crush on the manager. He is however, enamored with Helene's cousin Lina.

Die Suffragette

56/100

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.

Das Eskimobaby

68/100

Young Polar Explorar brings Eskimo Ivigtut to his parents in Berlin. After experiencing Western culture, she finds herself pregnant but the explorer comes to her rescue.

Das Liebes-ABC

61/100

Comedy about Lis and boring fiancée Philip. Luring him to Paris she dresses up in men's clothing to go about town. Lis' arriving father discovers her plot and after trial and tribulation Lis finally marries Philip.

The Great Moment

59/100

Crown of Thorns

64/100

Nach dem Gesetz

Idealistic journalist trying to help young doctor financially. In her pursuit of raising money she frequents a loan shark, finally killing him.

Small Town Sinners

Even though Grandad died years ago, the innkeeper continues to draw his pension. In order to keep the scam going they to find a substitute for Grandad. The snooping insurance agent and the innkeeper's wife fall in love and elope to Berlin.

The Sunken

Drama located in Heinrich Zille-Berlin. Anna's lonely struggle with the social misery surrounding her. A society run by profiteers and brutal capitalism.

Hedda Gabler

Hedda lives a bourgeois existence riddled with complacency and hypocrisy. She decides to break out of this dullness at all costs.