Cosmic Voyage
This 1935 Soviet sci-fi flick imagines the first crewed mission to the Moon led by maverick rocket scientist Professor Sedikh (Sergei Komarov), in the face of opposition from his rival […]
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Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror
Happy-go-lucky estate agent Hutter (definitely not Harker for legal reasons) is sent to Transylvania in this unauthorised Dracula adaptation from 1922. Changing the names and moving the bloodsucking action from Whitby to […]
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
During a rash of murders of young blonde women in London, Daisy (June Tripp) finds herself torn between her Met policeman boyfriend (Malcolm Keen) and a solitary lodger (Ivor Novello). […]
The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
A young man (Friedrich Fehér) recounts the tale of the mysterious circus performer Dr Caligari (Werner Krauss ), his future-seeing somnambulist (Conrad Veidt), and the traumatic series of murders that […]
The Passion of Joan of Arc
In perhaps the earliest ever courtroom drama Joan, or Jeanne, of Arc (Renée Jeanne Falconetti) is on trial following her failed attempt to lead the French against the invading English, […]
Napoleon
Charting the meteoric rise of one of the most influential figures in European history, from his humble beginnings in Corsica to conquering Italy for the French, this 1927 epic breaks […]
Der müde Tod
A young woman (Lil Dagover) bargains with Death to save the live of her beloved (Walter Janssen). She is sent to three historical periods where she is required to save […]
Vampyr
Vampyr is a German expressionist film from 1932 which tells the tale of Allen Grey (Julian West), a drifter who finds himself in a house in the countryside where a […]
