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Nosferatu (1922)
(1922) [PG]

Nosferatu is the original Dracula movie and still, after eighty years, the scariest. When Bram Stoker's widow refused to grant Murnau the rights to Dracula, Murnau and his screenwriter Henrik Galeen simply changed the characters' names and went ahead with the film, creating one of the great...  More

The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari
(1919) [E]

Arguably the First GREAT Horror Film ever made Francis and his friend Alan visit a fair in the small German town of Holstenwall where a sideshow is run by the mysterious Dr Caligari. Caligari is exhibiting a Somnambulist, Cesare; who has slept for 23 years and knows the secrets of the past and...  More

Metropolis : Director's Cut (2 disc Reconstructed and Restored Edition)
(1927) [PG]

NEW PRINT: Now for the first time fully restored and digitally remastered.

Newly restored to the vision of master filmmaker Fritz Lang to celebrate the film's 76th Anniversary.

Perhaps the most famous and influential of all silent films, Metropolis had for 75 years been...  More

Man With A Movie Camera
(1929) [G]

Man With a Movie Camera is an extraordinary piece of filmmaking. An exuberant montage of urban Russia, it represents the people of the city at work and at play, and the machines that keep the city going with energetic lyricism. A member of the Soviet avant-garde, Vertov used a variety of...  More

Strike
(1925) [PG]

The first full-length feature project of pantheon Russian filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein, Strike is a government-commissioned celebration of the unrealized 1905 Bolshevik revolution. The story is set in motion by a series of outrages and humiliations perpetrated on the workers of a metalworks plant....  More

Un Chien Andalou (2 disc set)
(1929) [M]

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s unfathomable short from 1929 is a masterpiece of filmmaking guile and audacity, a shocking celluloid dreamscape that destroyed film convention with bizarre images that still resonate today.

The film opens with a young Buñuel sharpening a knife, a...  More

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (2 disc set)
(1927) [R]

An attractive woman from the city, on vacation, stays in a small farming community and dazzles a young married farmer. The wicked woman suggests that the man's deceptively dowdy-looking wife might "accidentally" drown. Can he, will he go through with it? The scene changes; in unexpected company,...  More

Napoleon
(1927) [G]

A massive epic biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant...  More

The Three Ages
(1923) [G]

Love hasn’t changed much over the ages. Or has it? In Buster Keaton’s first independent feature film, he parodies love and romance across the prehistoric, roman and ‘modern’ ages. A keen satire of DW Griffith's Intolerance, this early classic from Keaton, arguably cinema's greatest-ever...  More

The Farmer's Wife
(1928) [PG]

This first film version of Eden Philpotts' play The Farmer's Wife was directed by Alfred Hitchcock. The story involves a roughhewn widowed farmer (Samuel Sweetland) in search of a new bride. Every candidate for the "title" proves insufficient, either because they fail to meet the farmer's...  More