The Street of Sorrow (1925)

In the shadowed streets of post-WWI Vienna, two women try to survive in the big city. Marie, desperate to escape her abusive home, seeks solace with Egon, a bank clerk entangled with the city's elite. Grete, the daughter of a destitute civil servant, struggles to support her family amid rampant inflation and dwindling hope. As they descend into a world of moral compromise, their paths cross with sinister figures.