Metropolis is a sci-fi, silent, expressionist film by Fritz Lang in Germany released in 1927. It is one of the first science fiction feature length movies and a pioneer of the genre.
It is about a futuristic, urban dystopia that was found by critics to be beautiful and the special effects at the time were complex and very well done.
Fritz Lang
Friedrich Christian Anton "Fritz" Lang was an Austrian-German-American filmmaker, screenwriter, film producer, and actor.
He was one of the best known "emigres" from the German school of expressionism, and was even dubbed by the British Film Institute as the "Master of Darkness"
Nosferatu
Nosferatu is a 1922 German expressionist horror film by F. W. Murnau. The film was an unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker's Dracula with some things changed. Stoker's heirs sued and the court ruled to have copies of the film destroyed but some copies have survived and the film came to be regarded as an influential film masterpiece.
Greta Garbo
Greta Garbo was a Swedish-born American actress during the 1920s and 1930s.
She was nominated three times for the Academy Award for Best Actress and the American Film institute ranked her fifth on their list of greatest female stars of classic Hollywood cinema in 1999.
Dr Mabuse the Gambler
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler is a film directed by Fritz Lang that was released in 1922. It is a silent film that is four and a half hours long.
The movie is a thriller about a character named Dr. Mabuse who is a criminal mastermind, doctor of psychology, and master of disguise.
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is a 1920 German silent, horror film by Robert Wiene.
The story is about a insane hypnotist who uses a somnambulist to commit murders. The film features dark and twisted visuals such as structures of unusual shape that bend at odd angles.
The Fighting Temeraire
The Fighting Temeraire tugged to her last berth to be broken up, 1838 is an oil painting by the English artist J. M. W. Turner. HMS Temeraire was one of the last second-rate ships of the line to have played a distinguished role in the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805. [more]
Liberty Leading the People
Liberty Leading the People is a painting by Eugène Delacroix commemorating the July Revolution of 1830, which toppled King Charles X of France. [more]
Ophelia
Ophelia is a painting by British artist Sir John Everett Millais, completed between 1851 and 1852. It depicts Ophelia, a character from Hamlet, singing before she drowns in a river in Denmark. [more]
The Music Lesson
The Music Lesson or Lady at the Virginals with a Gentleman by Jan Vermeer, is a painting of young female pupil receiving the titular music lesson. [more]
