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Dir: Benjamin Christensen

Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Devil's Circus perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Mary (Shearer) and Carlstop (Mack) are lovers. The former is a trapeze artist, while the latter is a pickpocket. Mary gets entangled in a nearly fatal situation with Lieberkind (Miljan), a lion-tamer, and his jealous wife Yonna (Myers), who victimizes Mary.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

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

Before a planned African expedition, a man's fiancée worries that her father's guest plans to steal one of his rubies. The couple is kidnapped and held prisoner at a mysterious, creepy house. Strange things are afoot at Satan's house.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

Four heirs to a family fortune are summoned to appear at the family estate for the reading of the will, where they meet the estate's staff, which includes a nurse, a crazed doctor, and a sinister handyman.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

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

A young woman doesn't want to get married, but simply live together with the man she loves. This leads to problems when the man dies and she's left with a child.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

American comedy mystery film directed by Benjamin Christensen.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

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

Gangsters John Finchley and James Kent operate a speakeasy in New York called "The Hawk's Nest", and Dan Daugherty is the owner of a rival nightclub that also caters to Chinatwon tourists. Daugherty frames Kent and the latter is sent to prison for the murder of a graft-taking politician. Daugherty is also upset with Finchley for protecting a dancer, Madelon Arden, whom Daugherty has a thing for, so matters are getting a bit dicey between these two underworld bosses. They don't improve any when Madelon and Finchley become real good friends. Finchley is working hard on pinning the murder of the politician on the real murderer, which he knows is Daugherty, but he has to enlist the aid of the leader of a Chinese-Tong, Sojin, to get it done.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

A war blind painter marries his nurse, but after he can see again through an operation, he does not recognize her. Then she decides to leave him in order to return to his service under a different name.

Dir: Benjamin Christensen

A criminal escapes from prison, however a betrayal leads to his second arrest.