Pandora's Box (1929), M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder (1931), Faust (1926), Sunrise (1927), Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari (1920), Das Testament des Dr. Mabuse (1933), Diary of a Lost Girl (1929), Nosferatu (1922) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best German Expressionism movies.
Storyline: The owner of a Waxmuseum needs for three of his models stories to be told to the audience. For that reason he has hired a writer, who after one look at the owner's pretty daughter, starts writing stories featuring the models, the daughter and himself. In the first, he is a baker, married to the girl, who is a little bit too much flirting with the customers, among them the wezir of sultan Harun Al-Rashid, who has just ordered his execution because the smell from the bakery is drifting to his palace, yet Harun Al-Rashid wants to meet the beautiful girl himself, while an angry baker is trying to get the Sultan's whishing ring to proof he's not a weakling... The second story is about Tzar Ivan the Terrible who likes watching people die together with his court-chemist. When he orders the execution of the chemist, the chemist thinks of a nice revanche, but till the revanche works, a nobleman is murdered, his daughter kidnapped by Ivan and her groom tortured. While writing the third story about Jack the Ripper, he falls asleep and dreams he and the girl are pursued by that serial killer.—Stephan Eichenberg <eichenbe@fak-cbg.tu-muenchen.de>
Plot Keywords: horror, fantasy, silent film, classic, black and white, supernatural, thriller ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Felisberto Fernandez is a piano tuner of exceptional skill, hired by Dr. Emmanuel Droz to come to a remote clinic to clean and refurbish Droz's seven automatons, elaborate mechanical constructs. Droz wants the work done quickly, in time for an opera he's staging for himself. Fernandez's attentions are captured by two women at the clinic, Assumpta, the clinic's manager, and Malvina van Stille, a patient who is also a superb singer. Fernandez works on the machines and is drawn to the women while Droz may be manipulating more than the automatons. Do emotions and choice play any part, or it is all opera?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: fantasy, surreal, gothic, dark fairy tale, dreamlike, visual art, poetic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When the annual fair comes to town, murder, madness and mayhem creep in its shadows. Dr. Caligari, a mysterious hypnotist, appears to control every move of his bizarre, clairvoyant sleepwalker, but does he?
Plot Keywords: horror, mystery, psychological thriller, german film, classic remake, black and white, expressionism ...
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