Henny Porten Movies

A young academic decides to accept guardianship of the daughter of a late friend. Expecting her to be a young child, the household is shocked to find...

Two statues come to live and start to sing.

Consul Petersen and his wife are desperate, because they lost their only child and can’t have another. At the same time, the maid Anna is...

An impoverished nobleman would rather chase after the local milkmaid than seek a wealthy match, to the chagrin of his family.

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...

Two rich men decide that their son and daughter will marry when they're grown. Now, as adults, the fathers decide the two should meet. It doesn't go...

We see the drunkard's wife, whose home has been destroyed by alcohol. They have two children, a girl of 5 years and an infant at the mother's breast,...

A patient with chronic anemia marries her doctor, but falls in love with his colleague.

Although Cäcilie Angerapp is happily married to the merchant Arved Angerapp, she does not feel fulfilled by her life, which is defined by luxury...

Baruch Mayer, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an...

Although she is known as a patron of the arts, a graceful duchess nevertheless refuses her nephew to marry an enterprising actress in this German...

A continuation of the film "Familie Buchholz": To Wilhelmine Buchholz, the concept of a marriage based on love is somewhat scary, although she hears...