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F.W. Murnau
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F.W. Murnau - what members say
review by from Bognor Regis
The original Dracula film! 30 June 2005
review by Jacuzzi from Birkenhead
Eureka has the last laugh 6 October 2008
F.W. Murnau - filmography
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Tabu
on DVD
(1931)
Starring: Anna Chevalier, Matahi
Director: F.W. Murnau
Certificate: 
Filmed in Tahiti, the story of a fisherman who falls in love with a beguiling woman who has been forbidden to men. German Expressionist director F.W. Murnau's last film is one of the most gorgeous black & white films ever made. Pioneering documentarian Robert Flaherty (NANOOK OF THE NORTH) co-..read more »
 
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from 234 members
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City Girl
(1930)
Starring: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan
Director: F.W. Murnau
Certificate: 
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Director F.W. Murnau began CITY GIRL as a silent film, hoping to match the artistic triumph of his earlier SUNRISE. Murnau was frustrated by two elements: Fox's decision to hastily convert the film into a talkie, and his inability to secure the services of SUNRISE star Janet Gaynor. The director ..read more »
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from 43 members
Not available for rental
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City Girl - Blu-ray
(1930)
Starring: Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan
Director: F.W. Murnau
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After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W. Murnau turned his attention to this vivid, painterly study of an impulsive and fragile marriage among the wheatfields of Minnesota. During a brief stay in Chicago, innocent farmer s son Lem falls for and weds Kate, a ..read more »
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from 84 members
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Sunrise
(1927)
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Director: F.W. Murnau
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SUNRISE chronicles the murderous desires--and ultimate repentance--of a wayward husband. Deeply attracted by a sophisticated vamp who worms her way into the couple's simple country existence, the man agrees to take his wife into the city by rowboat... with plans to drown her on the way. In the ..read more »
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from 1,806 member
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Sunrise - Blu-ray
(1927)
Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Director: F.W. Murnau
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SUNRISE chronicles the murderous desires--and ultimate repentance--of a wayward husband. Deeply attracted by a sophisticated vamp who worms her way into the couple's simple country existence, the man agrees to take his wife into the city by rowboat...with plans to drown her on the way. In the midst ..read more »
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from 170 members
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Tartuffe
on DVD
(1926)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Lil Dagover, Werner Krauss
Director: F.W. Murnau
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An expressionistic retelling of the classic Moliere story, Murnau contemporized his version by setting the exploration of morality and hypocrisy amidst a housekeeper's murder plot. Here, the housekeeper (Rosa Valetti) schemes to poison her employer (Hermann Picha) in order to take control of his ..read more »
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from 216 members
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Faust
(1926)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Director: F.W. Murnau
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F.W. Murnau's FAUST stars the inimitable Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles, to whom the hapless and aging Faust sells his soul for renewed youth, as well as wealth and power. Based on Goethe's interpretation of the age-old legend, Murnau merely uses the story as a starting point for an incredibly ..read more »
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from 964 members
Not available for rental
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The Last Laugh
on DVD
(1924)
Starring: Emil Jannings, Kurt Hiller, Emelie Kurtz
Director: F.W. Murnau
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One of the most brilliant of all German Expressionist silent films, Murnau's THE LAST LAUGH uses a constantly moving and subjective camera to capture the emotional anguish of a man whose life is suddenly devoid of meaning. Because of his age, an elderly doorman at a hotel finds himself ..read more »
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from 803 members
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Nosferatu - Industrial Mix
on DVD
(1922)
Starring: Gustav Boltz, Max Schreck, Karl Etlinger
Director: F.W. Murnau
Certificate: 
A Gothic Industrial Mix
From the diary of Johann Cavallius, comes a bloody tale of terror as the evil of Count Dracula, the Nosferatu, descends upon the unsuspecting Hamlet of Bremen. Jonathon Harker is snared in the bloody web of the vampyre during a long journey over the Carpathian Mountains to ..read more »
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from 114 members
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Schloss Vogelod
on DVD
(1921)
Starring: Paul Bildt, Olga Tschenova, Paul Hartman
Director: F.W. Murnau
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SCHLOSS VOGELROD has been described as director F.W. Murnau's warm-up for his subsequent NOSFERATU. At this point in his career, Murnau was more interested in effects than in story or characterization, but those effects were among the best within the boundaries of Germany's 'Caligari School'. The ..read more »
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F.W. Murnau facts
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...rected by one of the masters who emerged from the German exprexionist movement, F.W. Murnau. This truly is the predecessor of all modern horror films, with imagery which h...
