Cast: Henny Porten

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Henny Porten. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


Anne Boleyn

1920 · Movie · 124 min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Emil Jannings · Hedwig Pauly-Winterstein · Hilde Müller · Ludwig Hartau

Synopsis Sumptuous historical recreation qualified as 'the greatest film of all times'. A robust, brutal and cruel Henry VIII played by Emil Jannings contrasts with the innocence of Henny Porten's Anne Boleyn. Two architects directed construction of the replicas of the...

6.6

268 votes

6.6

268 votes

Backstairs

1921 · Movie · 60 min. · Germany

Direction Leopold Jessner · Paul Leni

Cast Henny Porten · William Dieterle · Fritz Kortner · Eugene Dieterle

Synopsis A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. She, however, is in love with a wealthy, handsome young man. Desperate to win her love,...

6.6

56 votes

6.6

56 votes

Kohlhiesel's Daughters

1920 · Movie · 50 min. · Germany

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Jakob Tiedtke · Henny Porten · Emil Jannings · Gustav von Wangenheim

Synopsis Somewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel...

6.5

145 votes

6.5

145 votes

Refuge

1928 · Movie · 129 min. · Germany

Direction Carl Froelich

Cast Henny Porten · Max Maximilian · Margarete Kupfer · Alice Hechy

Synopsis "Zuflucht" directed by Carl Froelich in the late 20’s is an interesting melodrama about a revolutionary longhaired man (Herr Francis Lederer) who spent nine years in Russia where he ignored the worries that this fool decision has caused his bourgeois...

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The Wandering Light

1916 · Movie · 72 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Theodor Becker · Bruno Decarli · Henny Porten · Emil Rameau

Synopsis A Count marries a woman who come to wrongly believe that he is mad.

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Komödianten

1941 · Movie · 111 min. · Germany

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Scandal About Eva

1930 · Movie · 96 min. · Germany

Direction Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Cast Henny Porten · Oskar Sima · Ludwig Stössel · Paul Henckels

Synopsis An engaged woman discovers her fiancé has a four year old son. Pretending to take a cure she travels to the boy's foster-parents to make his acquaintance.

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Lyrisch nitraat

1991 · Documentary · 50 min. · Netherlands

Direction Peter Delpeut

Cast Lyda Borelli · Henny Porten · Anni Timm

Synopsis This film is a compilation of scenes from silent films made between 1905 and 1915 that sat in storage in an Amsterdam cinema for many years. The title refers to the deteriorating nitrate film stock used in these films.

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Inge Larsen

1924 · Movie · 85 min. · Germany

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Das Fräulein von Scuderi

1955 · Movie · 99 min. · Sweden

Direction Eugen York

Cast Henny Porten · Willy A. Kleinau · Anne Vernon · Roland Alexandre

Synopsis Several men have been murdered lately, mostly rich lovers on their way to meet their mistresses with gifts of fine jewelry. To fight this scourge, King Louis XIV decides to create a special court named "La chambre ardente", designed to...

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The Homecoming of Odysseus

1918 · Movie · 68 min. · Germany

Direction Rudolf Biebrach

Cast Henny Porten · Bruno Decarli · Arthur Bergen

Synopsis Rudolf Biebrach's film with Henny Porten in the leading role transfers the well-known material of Odysseus to Upper Bavaria. Odysseus, who took ten years to return from the war to his wife, has become a suitor and mountain guide rejected...

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Der Kaufmann von Venedig

1923 · Movie · 128 min. · Germany

Direction Peter Paul Felner

Cast Werner Krauss · Henny Porten · Harry Liedtke · Carl Ebert

Synopsis The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money from him. If...

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