Must-Watch List in the Vein of Confession: Cult Guide

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe May

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Herrin der Welt 3. Teil - Der Rabbi von Kuan-Fu perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Edward LeSaint

When famous opera singer Elinore Duane undergoes an operation on her throat, she has a series of ether-induced visions. In one, she is transported to ancient Rome where she appears as a much-admired woman in love with Paul, a young heretic, and at odds with Lutor, the high priest. To save her love, she poisons Lutor with her ring. After several other visions which involve variations on this love triangle, Elinore awakens to discover that Lutor is actually her doctor, Sascha Jaccard, and that Paul is the son of a friend who has come to visit the recovering prima donna.

Dir: Bruno Ziener

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

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe May

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Eva, wo bist du? perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe May

Lavinia Morland marries a rich banker in order to obtain money to care for a sick artist with whom she is in love. A woman tells the banker of this state of affairs and he hires a disreputable and bogus count to compromise his wife so that he may obtain a divorce. She kills her husband when she finds he has trapped her, but her story told in court procures her release.

Dir: Joe May

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

Ralph O'Donell owns one of the largest breweries in Chicago. Eventually he marries his sweetheart Helene Berger. When Helene's aunt dies in Europe she become a universal heir overnight.

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Joe May

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of an extremely gaunt and sepulchral Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.