Paul Leni Movies

Das Wachsfigurenkabinett is a movie starring Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, and Werner Krauss. A wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories.

The Man Who Laughs is a movie starring Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, and Julius Molnar. When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.