
Asphalt, 1929 – the Berlin underworld touches a policeman's life, film noir classic by Joe May. 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.
Metropolis, 1927 – Berlin-inspired futuristic classic by Fritz Lang. Berlin: Symphony of a Metropolis ( Berlin: Die Sinfonie der Großstadt), 1927 – expressionist documentary film of 1920s Berlin by Walter Ruttmann. People to Each Other ( Menschen untereinander), 1926 – in a typical Berlin town house the residents manifold lives from different social backgrounds are shown. The Last Horse Carriage in Berlin ( 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. Variety ( Varieté), 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. 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.
Mabuse, der Spieler), 1922 – first (silent) film about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang.