MetropolisMetropolis
In a towering future city split between idle rulers and underground workers, the ruler's son falls for a prophet of the workers, and an inventor builds a robot in her image.
Haukley's Top 10 Picks
Our ten favorites from the library: the films we'd put on first for a friend who thinks old movies are slow. Fritz Lang's Metropolis and F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu still shape how science fiction and horror look a century later; Buster Keaton's The General and Harold Lloyd's Safety Last! are stunt comedy nobody has topped; and His Girl Friday talks faster than most films made since.
Metropolis
The GeneralThe General
When Union spies steal his beloved locomotive, a Southern train engineer chases it deep behind enemy lines in one of the great chase comedies.
NosferatuNosferatu
A real-estate clerk travels to the Carpathians to close a sale with the reclusive Count, who then follows him home bringing plague and death.
Night of the Living DeadNight of the Living Dead
Strangers barricade themselves inside a Pennsylvania farmhouse as the recently dead rise and close in through the night.
His Girl FridayHis Girl Friday
A fast-talking newspaper editor schemes to stop his star reporter, who is also his ex-wife, from quitting and remarrying by handing her one last big story.
Safety Last!Safety Last!
A small-town go-getter promises his sweetheart he has made it big in the city, then has to climb the outside of a skyscraper to prove it.
Sherlock Jr.Sherlock Jr.
A small-town projectionist who dreams of being a detective falls asleep on the job and walks straight into the movie on screen.
SintelSintel
A lone young woman crosses a harsh fantasy world to find the baby dragon she rescued and raised, which was snatched away from her.
The Phantom of the OperaThe Phantom of the Opera
A disfigured genius haunting the cellars beneath the Paris Opera grooms a young singer for stardom, and will kill anyone who stands in his way.
Carnival of SoulsCarnival of Souls
After surviving a car crash into a river, a church organist starts a new life in Utah but is stalked by a ghoulish figure and drawn to an abandoned pavilion.