Bay Area digital-effects wizard David Lee Fisher offers an enticing visual remix of the 1920 German expressionist classic with this innovative updating that places contemporary performers against ... 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
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
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 ... Read more
The hapless and ageing Faust sells his soul to Mephistopheles for renewed youth, wealth and power in this baroque and unforgettable version of the classic tale. Here the story is a starting point for ... Read more
It's New Year's Eve and three drunks discuss a legend that says that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive the Phantom Chariot for a year picking up the souls ... Read more
While most often associated with classic Hollywood romantic comedies, Ernst Lubitsch's career in Germany was as interesting and important as his contemporaries Fritz Lang and F.W. Murnau. Collected ... Read more
COUER FIDELE (True Heart) is a classic of early French cinema and established its fledgling director Jean Epstein as a major talent as a filmmaker. The film is the story of a barmaid who finds ... Read more