Direction: Robert Wiene

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Robert Wiene. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920 · Movie · 77 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Werner Krauss · Conrad Veidt · Friedrich Feher · Lil Dagover

Synopsis The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) is a German Expressionist silent film that follows Francis as he recounts a haunting tale. In a small German town, the mysterious Dr. Caligari arrives with a somnambulist named Cesare, who awakens only under...

8.1

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8.1

19K votes

The Hands of Orlac

1924 · Movie · 92 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Conrad Veidt · Alexandra Sorina · Fritz Kortner · Carmen Cartellieri

Synopsis After a terrible accident, famous pianist Orlac receives the hands of an executed murderer. The operation is a success, yet Orlac starts to feel his new hands have desires of their own...

6.8

534 votes

6.8

534 votes

Crime and Punishment

1923 · Movie · 135 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Gregori Chmara · Elisabeta Skulskaja · Alla Tarasova · Andrei Zhilinsky

Synopsis Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a crooked loaning house,...

6.6

67 votes

6.6

67 votes

5.5

26 votes

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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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Der Rosenkavalier

1925 · Movie · 105 min. · Austria

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Michael Bohnen · Huguette Duflos · Paul Hartmann · Jaque Catelain

Synopsis On January 10, 1926, fifteen years after the premiere of the opera “Der Rosenkavalier”, a second Rosenkavalier premiere was staged in the Sächsische Staatsoper in Dresden, Germany: this time it was a film, accompanied by Richard Strauss’s opera music –...

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The Queen's Secretary

1916 · Movie · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Alexander Antalffy · Käthe Dorsch · Guido Herzfeld · Margarete Kupfer

Synopsis A young Queen secretly marries the commander of her bodyguard, but things are complicated when his ex-lover arrives with a touring opera company.

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Polizeiakte 909

1933 · Movie · 81 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Liane Haid · Viktor de Kowa · Valery Inkijinoff · Veit Harlan

Synopsis About a group of Japenese living in Paris and planning a terrorist act against the French government. Liane Haid, a nightclub singer, falls in love with Inkijinov and leaves her boyfriend de Kowa. She steals an important document, de Kowa...

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Steadfast Benjamin

1917 · Movie · 73 min. · Germany

Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Arnold Rieck · Guido Herzfeld · Martha Altenberg · Magda Madeleine

Synopsis After inheriting a large sum of money, a shoe store worker has to continue in his job due to his ten-year contract, but lives the high life each night.

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Ultimatum

1938 · Movie · 83 min. · France

Direction Robert Wiene · Robert Siodmak

Cast Erich von Stroheim · Abel Jacquin · Bernard Lancret · Dita Parlo

Synopsis About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.

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Direction Robert Wiene

Cast Mady Christians · André Roanne · Livio Pavanelli · Ly Josyanne

Synopsis A young Prince in Paris for his education, inherits the throne when his father abdicates. But a clause in the constitution states that the new King needs to be sworn in by noon the following day or he will forfeit...

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