Set around the year 2000, a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and, on the surface, appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living ... Read more
The biggest-budgeted movie ever produced at Germany's UFA, Fritz Lang's gargantuan Metropolis consumed resources that would have yielded upwards of 20 conventional features, more than half the studio'... Read more
Set around the year 2000, a mammoth city is ruled by the super-efficient industrialist Jon Fredersen (Alfred Abel) and, on the surface, appears to be a utopian dream with wealthy inhabitants living ... Read more
German director Lotte Reiniger spent three years making this silent animated film based on the Arabian Nights legends. The dashing Prince Achmed saves a lovely damsel from evil witches and mythical ... Read more
SPIONE (or SPIES as it translates in English)) was the first independent production of German thriller director Fritz Lang. The years-ahead-of-its-time plotline involves Russian espionage activity in ... Read more
With his third version of THE GOLEM, director, writer, and actor Paul Wegener is credited with creating the first horror movie series, and historians consider THE GOLEM AND THE DANCER (his 1917 ... Read more
Fantomas, the mysterious arch-criminal who holds Paris in the grip of terror, was first brought to the screen by this legendary serial by celebrated French cinema pioneer Louis Feuillade. The ... Read more
In one of Buster Keaton's funniest films, our hero is separated from his beloved by a high fence between their tenement flats. But he nonchalantly performs daring acrobatic feats as he traverses ... Read more