十九世纪六十年代的布拉格：巴尔丁是个受欢迎的英俊学生，他是镇上最厉害的击剑手。他和他的朋友达尔，都喜欢店主的侄女莉迪亚。当学生们帮莉迪亚庆生时，歌剧明星茱莉亚来到了旅店。巴尔丁平静的生活开始发生变化。他迷恋上茱莉亚，但茱莉亚已经有了一位仰慕者，就是富有的花花公子沃迪思男爵。一个穷学生要怎样与之竞争？这时，神秘的卡皮斯医生出现了，他似乎与茱莉亚有千丝万缕的联系，而且深深的嫉妒着沃迪思男爵。卡皮斯医生为巴尔丁指引了一条道路，却要巴尔丁付出的超乎想象的代价，他的风险他的理智他的生命，甚至是他的灵魂……（豆瓣电影字幕翻译2.0小组）

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli - but on a strange condition...

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger. Meanwhile Orlok's servant, Knock, prepares for his master to arrive at his new home.

In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered. Written by Doug Sederberg <[email protected]>

1920 film by Paul Wegener, Carl Boese