List of Films Set in Berlin - 1920s

1920s

1922

• Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler), 1922 - first (silent) film about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang.

1924

• The Last Laugh (Der Letzte Mann), 1924 - The aging doorman at a Berlin hotel is demoted to washroom attendant but gets the last laugh, by F.W. Murnau.

1925

• Varieté (Variety), 1925 - Circus melodrama set in Berlin, with the circus scenes in the Berlin Wintergarten, by Ewald André Dupont.
• Slums of Berlin (Die Verrufenen), 1925 - an engineer in Berlin is released from prison, but his father throws him out, his fiancée left him and there is no chance to find work. Directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.

1926

• Die letzte Droschke von Berlin, 1926 - showing the life of an old coachman in Berlin still driving the droshky during the time when the automobile arises. Directed by Carl Boese.

1927

• Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt), 1927 - Expressionist documentary film of 1920s Berlin by Walter Ruttmann.
• Metropolis, 1927 - Berlin-inspired futuristic classic by Fritz Lang.

1928

• Refuge (Zuflucht), 1928 - a lonely and tired man comes home after several years abroad, lives with a market-woman in Berlin and starts working for the Berlin U-Bahn. Directed by Carl Froelich.

1929

• Asphalt, 1929 - The Berlin underworld touches a policeman's life, Film Noir classic by Joe May.
• Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück, 1929 - depicts the cruelty of poverty in Wedding district and Communism as a rescuing force that reaches a mother and a child too late. Directed by Phil Jutzi.