Hidden Genre Gems In Alignment with the style of Arabella: Cult Guide

Dir: Karl Grune

A couple are at the theatre with a playwright friend. At the end of the play the jealous husband strangles his wife to death. When the play ends, the man talks to his friend about such a nonsensical finale, telling the author that no man with any sense ever gets jealous enough to choke his wife in these modern times. The playwright decides to test this supposedly perfect couple about their happy feelings for each other.

Dir: Karl Grune

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Abdul the Damned perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

In 1908, Sultan Abdul Hamid faces resistance from the Young Turk party, while also becoming infatuated with a visiting Austrian singer.

Dir: Karl Grune

A mill situated on the border between two unnamed countries and the residents therein become pawns in a future war.

Dir: Karl Grune

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Am Rande der Welt perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

"Comedians" - Axel Swinborne is a celebrated stage star. Although much in demand, he now wants to recover and travel by train on vacation. He leans out of the window at full speed, as happens a momentous mishap: his jacket gets tangled on the window lever so unhappy that it ejects the suction force out of the window.

Dir: Karl Grune

After explosion in factory, the two brothers Wenzel and Michael start a new life. Wenzel gets rich on the stock market, Michael builds a settlement colony for the unemployed. Tragedy begins when Wenzel chooses the wrong woman.

Dir: Karl Grune

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Komödianten perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fictionalized version of the real-life 18th-century French transgender soldier, diplomat, and spy.

Dir: Karl Grune

When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who resembles him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.

Dir: Karl Grune

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Two Brothers perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Presents two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.

Dir: Karl Grune

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Karl Grune

Waterloo is a German made movie that depicts the soldiers of Belgium + The Netherlands; Brunswick; England, Ireland, Scotland + Wales; Hanover; Nassau; and Prussia's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815.