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This is a list of the most notable [[film]]s produced in the '''[[German Empire]]''' until 1918, in year order.

It includes [[Cinema of Germany|German films]] from the introduction of the medium to the resignation of the [[William II, German Emperor|Emperor]] at the end of [[World War I]]. Many of these films laid the groundwork for [[German expressionist cinema|German Expressionism]].

For an alphabetical list of articles on films of the period see [[:Category:Films of the German Empire]].

== 1890s ==

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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1895 in film|1895]]'''
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| ''[[Akrobatisches Potpourri]]'' || [[Max Skladanowsky|Max & Emil Skladanowsky]] || Grunato family || Documentary || Release: Nov. 1
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| ''[[Bauerntanz zweier Kinder]]'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] || || Documentary || Release: Nov 1
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| ''[[Boxing Kangaroo (film)|Boxing Kangaroo]]'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] || Mr Delaware || Documentary || Release: Nov 1
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| ''The German Emperor Reviewing His Troops'' || [[Birt Acres]] ||  ||  || Earliest known footage of Kaiser Wilhelm
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| ''[[Opening of the Kiel Canal]]'' || [[Birt Acres]] ||  ||  || Early footage of Kaiser Wilhelm
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| ''[[Serpentinen Tanz]]'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] || || Documentary || Release: Nov 1
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1896 in film|1896]]'''
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| ''Leben und Treiben am Alexanderplatz'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] ||  ||  ||
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1897 in film|1897]]'''
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| ''Apotheose II'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] ||  ||  ||
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1898 in film|1898]]'''
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| ''Kaiser von Deutschland, der Kaiser von Österreich und der König von Sachsen am Tage der Jubiläumsfeier in Dresden'' ||  ||  ||  || English: ''The Kaiser of Germany, the Kaiser of Austria and the King of Saxony on the day of the Jubilee Fair in Dresden''
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1899 in film|1899]]'''
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| ''German Lancers'' ||  ||  ||  || A parade of the famous Second Guards, one of Emperor William's favorite regiments.
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| ''When the Bugle Sounds 'Charge' '' ||  ||  ||  || An attack by the famous Second Guards Regiment of Emperor William's Army on the Paradefeld.
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== 1900s ==

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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1900 in film|1900]]'''
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| ''Einzug unserer Chinakrieger in Berlin am 16.12.1900'' ||  ||  ||  || English: ''The Entry of Our China Soldiers in Berlin on Dec. 16, 1900'' (about Boxer Rebellion?)
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| ''Eine moderne Jungfrau von Orleans'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] ||  ||  || English: ''A Modern Maid of Orleans''
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1901 in film|1901]]'''
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| ''Einzug der Königin von Holland mit ihrem Gemahl in Schwerin'' ||  ||  ||  || English: ''The Entry of the Queen of The Netherlands with her Consort in Schwerin''
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1902 in film|1902]]'''
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| ''[[When Knighthood Was in Flower (1902 film)|When Knighthood Was in Flower]]'' ||  ||  ||  ||
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1903 in film|1903]]'''
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| ''Mr. Krebs in seiner senationellen Schleifenfahrt'' || [[Arthur Robison]] ||  ||  || English: ''Mr. Krebs in his Sensational Bicycleride''
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| ''Der lustige Ehemann'' || [[Otto Julius Bierbaum]] ||  ||  ||
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1904 in film|1904]]'''
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| ''The Whistling Bowery Boy'' || [[Oskar Messter]] ||  ||  ||
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| ''Kämpfe vor Port Arthur'' ||  ||  ||  || English: ''The Campaign for Port Arthur''
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1905 in film|1905]]'''
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| ''Eine Fliegenjagd oder Die Rache der Frau Schultze'' || [[Max Skladanowsky]] ||  ||  || English: ''Hunting a Fly; Or, The Revenge of Frau Schultze''
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| ''Afrikanische Kriegsbilder'' ||  ||  || War documentary || English: ''African War Pictures''
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1906 in film|1906]]'''
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| ''Apachentanz'' || [[Oskar Messter]], Albert Kutzner || [[Henny Porten]], [[Rosa Porten]] ||  || English: ''Apache Dance'' ([[Apache (dance)|A French dance]])
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|''Meißner Porzellan'' || [[Franz Porten]], [[Oskar Messter]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Rosa Porten]] ||  || 
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1909 in film|1909]]'''
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| ''Prosit Neujahr 1910!'' || [[Guido Seeber]] ||  || Animated film || First animated German film
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== 1910-1912 ==

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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1910 in film|1910]]'''
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| ''[[Arsène Lupin contra Sherlock Holmes]]'' || [[Viggo Larsen]] || [[Viggo Larsen]], [[Paul Otto]] || Crime || 5 part serial 
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| ''[[Die geheimnisvolle Streichholzdose]]'' || [[Guido Seeber]] ||  || Animated film || [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kDsgA1kBD28 Available online here]
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| ''[[Sumurûn]]'' || [[Max Reinhardt]] ||  ||  ||
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1911 in film|1911]]'''
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| ''[[Gipsy Blood (1911 film)|Gipsy Blood]]'' || [[Urban Gad]] || [[Asta Nielsen]] || Drama || {{aka}} ''Heißes Blut''
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| ''{{ill|Das Liebesglück der Blinden|de}}'' || {{ill|Curt A. Stark|de}}, [[Heinrich Bolten-Baeckers]] || [[Henny Porten]] || Drama || English: ''The Love of a Blind Girl'' <br> or <br> ''The Happy Love of a Blind Girl''
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| ''{{ill|Den sorte drøm|da||de|Der schwarze Traum|fi|Musta uni|it|Il sogno nero|no}}'' || [[Urban Gad]] || [[Asta Nielsen]] || Drama || {{aka}} ''Der schwarze Traum''. <br> German-Danish co-production
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| ''[[Die Suppe]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || partly animated film || An advertisement for [[Maggi-Wuerze]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nENYR_GA1fs Available online here]
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| ''[[The Traitress]]'' || [[Urban Gad]] || [[Asta Nielsen]], [[Max Obal]], [[Robert Valberg]] || Drama || 
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| {{Year header}} | '''[[1912 in film|1912]]'''
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| ''[[The Dance of Death (1912 film)|The Dance of Death]]'' || [[Urban Gad]] || [[Asta Nielsen]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[In Nacht und Eis]]'' || [[Mime Misu]] ||  || Disaster || English: ''In Night and Ice''; first German Titanic film ever made
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| ''[[Das Mirakel (1912 film)|Das Mirakel]]'' || [[Mime Misu]] ||  ||  ||
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| ''[[Der Nähkasten ]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || animated film ||
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| ''[[The Oath of Stephan Huller (1912 film)|The Oath of Stephan Huller]]'' || [[Viggo Larsen]] || [[Viggo Larsen]], [[Wanda Treumann]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Poor Jenny (film)|Poor Jenny]]'' || [[Urban Gad]] || [[Asta Nielsen]] || Drama ||
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| ''{{ill|Der Schatten des Meeres|de}}'' || {{ill|Curt A. Stark|de}} || [[Henny Porten]] || Drama || English: ''In the Shadow of the Sea ''
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| ''[[Tanz der Flaschen (Kupferberg Gold)]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || animated film ||
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| ''[[Tanz der Flaschen (Maggi)]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || animated film || An advertisement for [[Maggi-Wuerze]]
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==1913==
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| ''{{ill|Der Film von der Königin Luise|de}}'' || [[Franz Porten]] || [[Hansi Arnstaedt]] || [[biopic]] || English: ''A Film of Queen Louise''; in 3 parts
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| ''{{ill|Die Insel der Seligen|de}}'' || [[Max Reinhardt]] || [[Ernst Hofmann]], [[Willy Prager]], [[Wilhelm Diegelmann]], [[Leopoldine Konstantin]] || Fantasy ||
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|''{{Ill|The Life and Works of Richard Wagner|de|Richard Wagner (1913)}}'' || [[Carl Froelich]]<br />[[William Wauer]] || [[Giuseppe Becce]], [[Olga Engl]] || [[biopic]] || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.barbican.org.uk/film/event-detail.asp?ID=15334|title=What's on – Cinema &#124; Barbican}}</ref>
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| ''[[Der neue Schreibtisch]]'' || [[Karl Valentin]] || [[Karl Valentin]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[The Other (1913 film)|The Other]] || [[Max Mack]] || [[Albert Bassermann]] || Thriller ||
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| ''{{ill|Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913 film)|de|3=Das rosa Pantöffelchen (1913)|lt=Das rosa Pantöffelchen}}'' || [[Franz Hofer (director)|Franz Hofer]] || [[Dorrit Weixler]] || Comedy || English: ''The Pink Slippers''
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| ''{{Ill|Der Steckbrief|it|Mandato di cattura (film 1913)}}'' || [[Franz Hofer (director)|Franz Hofer]] || {{ill|Paul Meffert|de}}, [[Maria Forescu]] ||  ||
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| ''[[The Student of Prague (1913 film)|The Student of Prague]]'' || [[Stellan Rye]], [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]] || Horror || English: ''A Bargain With Satan''
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| ''[[The Weapons of Youth]]''|| [[Friedrich Müller (director)|Friedrich Müller]]||[[Gertrud Gräbner]], [[Conrad Wiene]]|| || Screenplay by [[Robert Wiene]]
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==1914==
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| ''[[The Armoured Vault (1914 film)|The Armoured Vault]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Ernst Reicher]], [[Hermann Picha]], [[Fritz Richard]] || Thriller ||
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| ''[[Detektiv Braun]]''||[[Rudolf Meinert]]||[[Alwin Neuß]], [[Friedrich Kühne]]||Crime||
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| ''[[The Firm Gets Married (1914 film)|The Firm Gets Married]]''|| [[Carl Wilhelm]] || [[Victor Arnold (Austrian actor)|Victor Arnold]], [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[Die geheimnisvolle Villa]]'' || [[Joe May]] ||[[Ernst Reicher]], [[Werner Krauss]] || ||
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| ''[[He This Way, She That Way]]''|| [[Robert Wiene]]||[[Max Zilzer]], [[Manny Ziener]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[Der Hund von Baskerville]]'' || [[Rudolf Meinert]] || [[Alwin Neuß]], [[Friedrich Kühne]]  || Crime ||
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| ''[[The Iron Cross]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Friedrich Kühne]], [[Hedda Vernon]], [[Hanni Weisse]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Ivan Koschula]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Rudolph Schildkraut]], [[Hanni Weisse]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Little Angel (film)|Little Angel]]''|| [[Urban Gad]]||[[Asta Nielsen]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Man in the Cellar]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Ernst Reicher]], [[Max Landa]], [[Olga Engl]] || Thriller ||
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| ''[[Miss Piccolo]]'' || [[Franz Hofer (director)|Franz Hofer]] || [[Dorrit Weixler]], [[Ernst Lubitsch]], [[Alice Hechy]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[The Silent Mill]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Alfred Abel]], [[Ferdinand Bonn]], [[Robert Valberg]] || Drama ||
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| ''{{ill|Eine venezianische Nacht|de}}'' || [[Max Reinhardt]] || [[Alfred Abel]], [[Maria Carmi]] ||  ||
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==1915==
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| ''[[Aufs Eis geführt]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || Ernst Lubitsch, [[Albert Paulig]] || Comedy || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/513933/aufs-eis-gefuhrt|title = Aufs Eis gefuhrt}}</ref>
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| ''[[Berlin im Kriegsjahr]]''|| [[Carl Wilhelm]] ||||documentary||
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|''[[The Canned Bride]]''||[[Robert Wiene]] ||[[Margarete Kupfer]], [[Guido Herzfeld]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Dancer (1915 film)|The Dancer]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Leopoldine Konstantin]], [[Bruno Kastner]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Deutsche Kriegswoche]]''|| [[Carl Wilhelm]] ||||documentary||
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|''[[Fluch der Schönheit]]'' || [[D.J. Rector]] || [[Maria Carmi]], [[Hans Mierendorff]] || Drama || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.earlycinema.uni-koeln.de/films/view/22218|title = The German Early Cinema Database: Film Supply 1895-1920: Infos}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Golem (1915 film)|Der Golem]]'' || [[Henrik Galeen]], [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]] || Horror ||
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| ''[[Ein Held des Unterseebootes]]''|| [[Walter Schmidthässler]] ||||documentary||
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| ''[[Laugh Bajazzo]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Rudolph Schildkraut]], [[Alfred Abel]], [[Hanni Weisse]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[No Sin on the Alpine Pastures (1915 film)|No Sin on the Alpine Pastures]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Emmy Wyda]], [[Lupu Pick]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[Photographischer Wettbewerb]]''||||||documentary||
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| ''[[Robert and Bertram (1915 film)|Robert and Bertram]]''||[[Max Mack]]||[[Eugen Burg]], [[Ferdinand Bonn]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Tunnel (1915 film)|The Tunnel]]''||[[William Wauer]]||[[Friedrich Kayßler]], [[Fritzi Massary]]|| Science fiction ||
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| ''[[The Vice (1915 film)|The Vice]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Alfred Abel]], [[Rosa Valetti]], [[Arthur Wellin]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Der Zahnteufel]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || partly animated film || An advertisement for [[Beiersdorfer]] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYgusDBidl4 Available online here]
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| ''[[Zucker und Zimt]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Ernst Matray]], [[Alice Hechy]] || Comedy || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/513934/zucker-und-zimt|title=Zucker und Zimt}}</ref>
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|}

==1916==
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| ''[[Bogdan Stimoff]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Carl Goetz]], [[Georg Reimers]] || Drama || Co-production with Austria and Bulgaria
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| ''[[The Confessions of the Green Mask]]'' || [[Max Mack]] || [[Alfred Abel]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Doktor Satansohn]]'' || [[Edmund Edel]] || [[Hans Felix (actor)|Hans Felix]], [[Marga Kohler]], [[Ernst Lubitsch]] ||Comedy||<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/513927/doktor-satansohn|title = Doktor Satansohn}}</ref>
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| ''[[Frau Eva]]''|| [[Robert Wiene]]||[[Erna Morena]], [[Emil Jannings]]||Drama||
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| ''[[His Coquettish Wife]]'' || [[Hubert Moest]] || [[Hedda Vernon]], [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[Homunculus (film)|Homunculus]]'' || [[Otto Rippert]] || [[Olaf Fønss]] || Science fiction || 6 part serial
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| ''[[The Knitting Needles]]'' || [[Hubert Moest]], [[Otto Rippert]] || [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]], [[Käthe Haack]], [[Olga Engl]] || Comedy ||
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|''[[Lehmann's Honeymoon]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Guido Herzfeld]], [[Arnold Rieck]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[Leutnant auf Befehl]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Max Gulstorff]], [[Ossi Oswalda]] || Drama || <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.earlycinema.uni-koeln.de/films/view/28351 |title=The German Early Cinema Database: Film Supply 1895-1920: Film: Leutnant auf Befehl |access-date=2017-04-04 |archive-date=2017-04-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405170204/http://www.earlycinema.uni-koeln.de/films/view/28351 |url-status=dead }}</ref>
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|''[[Die Peitsche]]''|| [[Adolf Gartner]] || [[Ernst Reicher]], [[Nelly Ridon]] || Drama || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/493056/die-peitsche|title=Die Peitsche}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Queen's Love Letter]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Arthur Schröder]]||Comedy||
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|''[[The Queen's Secretary]]''|| [[Robert Wiene]]||[[Käthe Dorsch]], [[Ressel Orla]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Robber Bride (film)|The Robber Bride]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Friedrich Feher]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[Rose on the Heath]]'' || [[Franz Hofer (director)|Franz Hofer]] || [[Lya Ley]], [[Fritz Achterberg]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Rübezahl's Wedding]]''|| [[Rochus Gliese]], [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Lyda Salmonova]]|| Drama || <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmHePz9Hmps|title = - YouTube|website = [[YouTube]]}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/ruebezahls-hochzeit_ea43d4a6a86a5006e03053d50b37753d |title=Rübezahls Hochzeit &#124; filmportal.de |access-date=2017-11-12 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140315055854/http://www.filmportal.de/en/movie/ruebezahls-hochzeit_ea43d4a6a86a5006e03053d50b37753d |archive-date=2014-03-15 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007279/|title = Rübezahls Hochzeit|website = [[IMDb]]}}</ref>
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|''[[Shoe Palace Pinkus]]''||[[Ernst Lubitsch]]||Ernst Lubitsch, [[Guido Herzfeld]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Sin of Helga Arndt]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Mia May]], [[Frida Richard]] || Drama ||
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|''[[Ein Tag bei der Armee Boehm-Ermolli]]''||||||documentary||
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| ''[[Tyrannenherrschaft – Aus Polens schwerer Zeit]]'' || [[Franz Porten]] ||  ||  || English: ''Tyrannical Overlords – From Poland's Dark Time''
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| ''[[The Uncanny House]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Werner Krauss]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]], [[Lupu Pick]] || Mystery || Released in three parts
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| ''[[Under the Spell of Silence]]'' || [[Hanna Henning]] || [[Reinhold Schünzel]], [[Olga Engl]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Vengeance Is Mine (1916 film)|Vengeance Is Mine]]''||[[Rudolf Meinert]]||[[Hans Mierendorff]], [[Marie von Buelow]] ||Crime||
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| ''[[The Wandering Light]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Bruno Decarli]]||Drama
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| ''[[Werner Krafft]]'' || [[Carl Froelich]] || [[Eduard von Winterstein]], [[Erika Glässner]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Drama|| <ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.german-films.de/filmarchive/browse-archive/view/person/person/schuenzel/|title=German Films: Personal Info: Reinhold Schuenzel}}</ref>
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| ''[[The Yogi]]'' || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Rochus Gliese]] || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Lyda Salmonova]] || Drama || 
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==1917==
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| ''[[Badeleben im dritten Kriegsjahr an der Ostsee]]'' || [[William Karfiol]] ||  || documentary || 
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| ''[[Berliner Leben im dritten Kriegsjahr Frühling 1917]]'' || ||  || documentary || 
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| ''[[Ein Boxkampf mit John Bull]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || Animated propaganda film || [https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/57407?q=Julius+Pinschewer Available online here]
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| ''[[The Diamond Foundation]]'' || [[Johannes Guter]] || [[Ernst Reicher]], [[Marija Leiko]], [[Frida Richard]] || Crime ||
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| ''[[Dornröschen (1917 film)|Dornröschen]]'' || [[Paul Leni]] || [[Mabel Kaul]], [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Käthe Dorsch]] || Fairy tale ||
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| ''[[Dr. Hart's Diary]]'' || [[Paul Leni]] || [[Heinrich Schroth]], [[Käthe Haack]] || War ||
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|''[[Fear (1917 film)|Fear]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Bruno Decarli]], [[Conrad Veidt]]||Horror||
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| ''[[Das fidele Gefängnis]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Emil Jannings]]  || Comedy || English: ''The Merry Jail''
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| ''[[Frank Hansen's Fortune]]''||[[Viggo Larsen]]||[[Viggo Larsen]], [[Lupu Pick]] ||Western||
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| ''[[Germany and Its Armies Today]]''|||| ||documentary|| Compilation of war films edited together for export
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| ''[[The Giant's Fist]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Johannes Riemann]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Hans Trutz in the Land of Plenty]]'' || [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Lyda Salmonova]], [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || Fantasy ||
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| ''[[Hilde Warren und der Tod]]'' || [[Joe May]] || Written by and starring [[Fritz Lang]] ||  ||
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|''[[Imprisoned Soul]]''||[[Rudolf Biebrach]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Paul Bildt]]||Drama||
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| ''[[Jan Vermeulen, the Miller of Flanders]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Fred Immler]], [[Leo Lasko]] || War || 
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| ''[[John Bull (1917 film)|John Bull]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || Animated propaganda film || [https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/40178?topic=doc6hr6pmzk3vr18xa16jx&start=00%3A00%3A00.00&end=00%3A02%3A38.23 Available online here]
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| ''[[Let There Be Light (1917 film)|Let There Be Light]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Bernd Aldor]], [[Hugo Flink]] || Drama || Followed by three other parts 
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| ''[[Life Is a Dream (1917 film)|Life Is a Dream]]''|| [[Robert Wiene]]||[[Emil Jannings]], [[Bruno Decarli]]||Drama||
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| ''[[The Lord of Hohenstein]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Bernd Aldor]], [[Rita Clermont]], [[Lupu Pick]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[The Lost Paradise (1917 film)|The Lost Paradise]]'' || [[Bruno Rahn]] || [[Mady Christians]], [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[The Love of Hetty Raimond]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Mia May]], [[Bruno Decarli]], [[Heinrich Peer]] || Drama || 
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| ''[[Die Marokkodeutschen in der Gewalt der Franzosen]]''||[[Waldemar Hecker]]||||documentary||
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| ''[[The Man in the Mirror (1917 film)|The Man in the Mirror]]''||[[Robert Wiene]]||[[Maria Fein]], [[Bruno Decarli]]||Drama||
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|''[[The Marriage of Luise Rohrbach]]''||[[Rudolf Biebrach]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Emil Jannings]]||Drama||
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| ''[[Mountain Air (film)|Mountain Air]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[The Onyx Head]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Max Landa]], [[Leopoldine Konstantin]] || Crime ||
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| ''[[The Path of Death]]'' || [[Robert Reinert]] || [[Maria Carmi]], [[Carl de Vogt]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[The Picture of Dorian Gray (1917 German film)|The Picture of Dorian Gray]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Bernd Aldor]] || Drama || 
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|''[[The Princess of Neutralia]]''||[[Rudolf Biebrach]]||[[Henny Porten]], [[Paul Bildt]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[The Ring of Giuditta Foscari]]'' || [[Alfred Halm]] || [[Emil Jannings]], [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Erna Morena]] || Drama || 
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| ''[[Das Säugetier]]'' || [[Robert L. Leonard]] ||  || Animated propaganda film || [https://vimeo.com/194953968 Available online here]
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| ''[[The Sea Battle]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Emil Jannings]], [[Werner Krauss]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || War ||
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| ''[[The Spy (1917 German film)|The Spy]]'' || [[Karl Heiland]] || [[Ferdinand Bonn]], [[Ellen Richter]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Spy drama ||
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| ''[[Steadfast Benjamin]]''|| [[Robert Wiene]]||[[Arnold Rieck]], [[Guido Herzfeld]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[Unusable (film)|Unusable]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Adele Sandrock]], [[Grete Diercks]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Wedding in the Eccentric Club]]''|| [[Joe May]] || [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Kathe Haack]], [[Bruno Kastner]] || Drama || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8574fbbc|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170401233204/http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8574fbbc|url-status=dead|archive-date=April 1, 2017|title=Die HOCHZEIT IM EXCENTRIC-CLUB (1917)}}</ref>
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| ''[[When Four Do the Same]]''||[[Ernst Lubitsch]]||[[Ossi Oswalda]], [[Emil Jannings]]||Comedy/Drama||
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|  ''[[When the Dead Speak]]'' || [[Robert Reinert]] || [[Maria Carmi]], [[Carl de Vogt]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[When the Heart Burns with Hate]]'' || [[Kurt Matull]] || [[Pola Negri]], [[Hans Adalbert Schlettow]] || Drama ||
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|}

==1918==
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! width=22% | Cast
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! width=28% | Notes
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| ''[[The Adventure of a Ball Night]]'' || [[Viggo Larsen]] || [[Gertrude Welcker]], [[Paul Bildt]], [[Paul Biensfeldt]] || Adventure ||
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| ''[[Agnes Arnau and Her Three Suitors]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Hermann Thimig]], [[Kurt Ehrle]] || Comedy ||
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| ''[[Alraune, die Henkerstochter, genannt die rote Hanne]]'' || [[Eugen Illés]], [[Joseph Klein (actor)|Joseph Klein]] ||  ||  ||
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| ''[[Die Augen der Mumie Ma]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] ||  ||  ||
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| ''[[The Ballet Girl (1918 film)|The Ballet Girl]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Ossi Oswalda]], [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Margarete Kupfer]] || Comedy || 
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|  ''[[The Beggar Countess]]'' || [[Joe May]], [[Bruno Ziener]] || [[Mia May]], [[Heinrich Peer]], [[Johannes Riemann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[The Blue Lantern]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Ferdinand von Alten]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Bukarest im dritten Kriegsjahr]]'' ||  ||  || documentary || 
|-
| ''[[Carmen (1918 film)|Carmen]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Pola Negri]], [[Harry Liedtke]] || Drama || aka ''Gypsy Blood''
|-
| ''[[Colomba (1918 film)|Colomba]]'' || [[Arzén von Cserépy]] || [[Erna Morena]], [[Werner Krauss]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Drama ||
|-
|''[[Countess Kitchenmaid]]''|| [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Heinrich Schroth]]||Comedy||
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| ''[[Diary of a Lost Woman]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Erna Morena]], [[Conrad Veidt]], [[Werner Krauss]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Doctor Schotte]]'' || [[William Wauer]] || [[Albert Bassermann]], [[Elsa Bassermann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Europe, General Delivery]]'' || [[Ewald André Dupont]] || [[Max Landa]], [[Guido Herzfeld]] || Mystery ||
|-
| ''[[Father and Son (1918 film)|Father and Son]]'' || [[William Wauer]] || [[Albert Bassermann]], [[Elsa Bassermann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Ferdinand Lassalle (film)|Ferdinand Lassalle]]'' || [[Rudolf Meinert]] || [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]], [[Hanna Ralph]] || Biopic ||
|-
| ''[[The Flight of Arno Jessen]]'' || [[Richard Eichberg]] || [[Ernst Rückert]], [[Eva Speyer]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[The Foreign Prince]]'' || [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Lyda Salmonova]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Five Minutes Too Late]]'' || [[Uwe Jens Krafft]] || [[Mia May]], [[Johannes Riemann]], [[Bruno Kastner]] || Thriller ||
|-
| ''[[The Flyer from Goerz]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Ellen Richter]], [[Harry Liedtke]] || War ||
|-
| ''[[The Ghost Hunt]]'' || [[Johannes Guter]] || [[Ernst Reicher]], [[Esther Carena]], [[Aruth Wartan]] || Crime ||
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| ''[[His Majesty the Hypochondriac]]'' || [[Frederic Zelnik]] || [[Grete Diercks]], [[Kurt Vespermann]] || Comedy ||
|-
| ''[[The Homecoming of Odysseus (1918 film)|The Homecoming of Odysseus]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]]|| [[Henny Porten]], [[Bruno Decarli]]||Comedy||
|-
|''[[Ikarus, the Flying Man]]'' || [[Carl Froelich]] || [[Gustav Botz]], [[Esther Carena]], [[Olga Engl]] || Spy drama || <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.filmaffinity.com/en/film759353.html|title = Ikarus, the flying Man (1918)}}</ref>
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| ''[[In the Castle by the Lake]]'' || [[Eugen Burg]] || [[Wanda Treumann]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]], [[Karl Beckersachs]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Jettchen Gebert's Story]]'' || [[Richard Oswald]] || [[Mechthildis Thein]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[The Lady, the Devil and the Model]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Alfred Abel]], [[Eugen Rex]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Lorenzo Burghardt]]'' || [[William Wauer]] || [[Albert Bassermann]], [[Elsa Bassermann]], [[Käthe Haack]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Mania (1918 film)|Mania]]'' || [[Eugen Illés]] || [[Pola Negri]], [[Arthur Schröder]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Midnight (1918 film)|Midnight]]'' || [[Ewald André Dupont]] || [[Max Landa]], [[Karl Beckersachs]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Crime ||
|-
| ''[[Ich möchte kein Mann sein]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] ||[[Ossi Oswalda]], [[Curt Goetz]], [[Ferry Sikla]]  ||  ||
|-
| ''[[The Nun and the Harlequin]]'' || [[Alfred Halm]] || [[Frederic Zelnik]], [[Lya Mara]], [[Paul Bildt]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Ein neuer Dreibund]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || Animated propaganda film || [https://www.filmothek.bundesarchiv.de/video/566818?q=Ein+neuer+Dreibund Available online here]
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| ''[[The Pied Piper of Hamelin (1918 film)|The Pied Piper of Hamelin]]'' || [[Paul Wegener]] || [[Paul Wegener]], [[Lyda Salmonova]], [[Wilhelm Diegelmann]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Precious Stones (film)|Precious Stones]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Paul Bildt]], [[Henny Porten]], [[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[The Prisoner of Dahomey]]'' || [[Hubert Moest]] || [[Fritz Delius (actor)|Fritz Delius]], [[Paul Hartmann (actor)|Paul Hartmann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Put to the Test]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Heinrich Schroth]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Comedy ||
|-
| ''[[The Rat (1918 film)|The Rat]]'' || [[Joe May]], [[Harry Piel]] || [[Heinrich Schroth]], [[Olga Engl]], [[Käthe Haack]] || Crime ||
|-
| ''[[Das Rätsel von Bangalor]]'' || [[Paul Leni]], [[Alexander Antalffy]] ||  ||  ||
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| ''[[The Ringwall Family]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Bruno Decarli]], [[Kurt Vespermann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[The Rosentopf Case]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Ernst Lubitsch]], [[Trude Hesterberg]], [[Margarete Kupfer]] || Comedy ||
|-
| ''[[The Sacrifice (1918 film)|The Sacrifice]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Mia May]], [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Anton Edthofer]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Sadja]]'' || [[Adolf Gärtner]], [[Erik Lund (director)|Erik Lund]] || [[Eva May]], [[Hans Albers]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[The Salamander Ruby]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Bruno Decarli]], [[Mechthildis Thein]], [[Hugo Flink]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Der Schreiber und die Biene]]'' || [[Julius Pinschewer]] ||  || partly animated film || An advertisement for [[Eduard Beyer]] 
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| ''[[The Seeds of Life (film)|The Seeds of Life]]'' || [[Georg Jacoby]] || [[Emil Jannings]], [[Hanna Ralph]] || Drama || Released in three parts 
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| ''[[The Serenyi]]'' || [[Alfred Halm]] || [[Lya Mara]], [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]], [[Conrad Veidt]] || Comedy ||
|-
| ''[[The Son of Hannibal (1918 film)|The Son of Hannibal]]'' || [[Viggo Larsen]] || [[Viggo Larsen]], [[Käthe Haack]] || Drama ||
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| ''[[Spring Storms]]'' || [[Fern Andra]] || [[Fern Andra]], [[Josef Peterhans]], [[Reinhold Schünzel]] || Drama ||
|-
|''[[The Story of Dida Ibsen]]''||[[Richard Oswald]]||[[Anita Berber]], [[Conrad Veidt]]||Drama||
|-
| ''[[The Toboggan Cavalier]]'' || [[Ernst Lubitsch]] || [[Ossi Oswalda]], [[Harry Liedtke]] || Comedy ||
|-
| ''[[The Victors (1918 film)|The Victors]]'' || [[Rudolf Biebrach]] || [[Henny Porten]], [[Arthur Bergen]], [[Bruno Decarli]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Waves of Fate]]'' || [[Joe May]]|| [[Mia May]], [[Erich Kaiser-Titz]], [[Georg John]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[Der Gelbe Schein|The Yellow Ticket]]'' || [[Eugen Illés]] || [[Pola Negri]], [[Harry Liedtke]], [[Victor Janson]] || Drama || 
|-
| ''[[Your Big Secret]]'' || [[Joe May]] || [[Mia May]], [[Käthe Haack]], [[Johannes Riemann]] || Drama ||
|-
| ''[[The Zaarden Brothers]]'' || [[William Wauer]] || [[Albert Bassermann]], [[Elsa Bassermann]], [[Marija Leiko]] || Drama ||
|}

==References==
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{{Cinema of Germany}}

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[[Category:1890s in German cinema|Films]]
[[Category:Lists of 1900s films|German]]
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