Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Duetsch. Based on the Jewish folk legend that influenced the American film Frankenstein, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior out of clay to protect his... more
Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Phol. This space adventure is a brilliant sci-fi follow-up to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Using cutting-edge astrophysics for 1929, this film about a band of explorers... more
One hundred-forty seminal silent shorts produced by Thomas Edison's self-named movie studio between 1891-1918, restored and with new musical scores, are featured in this four-disc collection. Trace... more
Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall. A desperately lonely barman and a woman meet for sex every Wednesday. Things spiral out of control when he follows her home one night and discovers she is... more
A haunting exploration of love, loss and grief, director François Ozon's acclaimed drama features Charlotte Rampling as English-born teacher Marie Drillon, whose French husband vanishes while... more
Priscilla Dean, Lon Chaney, Wheeler Oakman. When her father is framed for murder, a tough-as-nails jewel thief partners with a safecracker to plot their own double-cross against the man who set him... more
Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe. Set in chic 1950s Paris with a classic jazz score by Thelonious Monk, this tale of love, sex and betrayal is tres French. A scandalous married couple help one another... more
Carl De Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John. An adventurer sets out on a quest for Incan gold and a large diamond only to find that he is dogged by a vicious underground network of thieves and murderers... more
Paul Roberson, Spencer Williams, Laurence Criner, Herb Jeffries. Witness the birth of African-American cinema with a dozen feature-length movies spanning the silent era into the 1940s, as well as... more
The first film made outside his native Russia by director Andrei Tarkovsky is a hauntingly beautiful portrait of a Russian poet and musicologist who travels to a spa village in Italy's Tuscany region... more
This remarkable collection of 39 silent farces produced by the Vitagraph Studios over 1907-1922 offers the preserved comic craft of John Bunny, Larry Semon, Frank Daniels, Edith Storey, Mr. And Mrs.... more
A naive teen is befriended by a party girl and quickly begins boozing and sleeping around. But after she is labeled a sexual delinquent and has a back-alley abortion, she discovers the tragic... more
Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman. This colossal adaptation of the classic tale of a deal with the devil presents the struggling Dr. Faustus and the fiend Mephisto in the operatic glory that befits them. Is... more
Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, FriedrichFeher. This landmark German Expressionist film tells a nightmarish tale about a magician who hypnotizes victims to carry out his evil schemes. Directed by Robert... more
This foreboding and unforgettable tale of life on the brink of a potential nuclear disaster was the final work of director Andrei Tarkovsky and the winner of the Special Jury Prize at Cannes. As... more
Louise Brooks, Joseph Rovensky. An unplanned pregnancy sends a young woman's life into a tailspin. She begins an arduous struggle to rise above social disapproval and vows to promote respect for all... more
The complete silent films of German cinema's supreme stylist. A twelve-disc collection including Metropolis (1927), Die Nibelungen (1924), Spies (1928), Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922), Destiny (1921),... more
Bette Davis, Leslie Howard. A well-known doctor's affair with an ill-mannered waitress gets him into trouble. Davis made her first big splash in Hollywood in this terrific production of the W.... more
In the 17th century, reclusive composer Jean de Saint-Colombe (Jean-Pierre Marielle) turned away the young Marin Marais (Guillaume Depardieu), who'd come seeking an apprenticeship. The old man's... more
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. Meet the terrifying masked phantom who lurks inside the Paris Opera House in this first film version of the timeless legend. Silent. 2 DVDs or 2 Blu-ray Discs.... more
The Soldier's Tale is an animated classic by the renowned New Yorker illustrator R.O. Blechman, based on Igor Stravinsky's 1918 composition. This poetic tale revolves around a young soldier's return... more
Delphine Seyrig, Giorgio Albertazzi, Sacha Pitoeff. Director Alain Resnais' critically acclaimed classic about one lover's claim that he already had consummated their relationship one year earlier.... more
Olaf Fönss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt. An Indian maharajah plots revenge against his beautiful wife and the British officer who stole her love. One of the greatest epics ever filmed, this lavish... more
This remarkable collection offers 21 acclaimed brief experimental films created between 1922-2022 by Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Flaherty, Man Ray, Marcel Duchamp, and many others, all complemented by... more
Director Walerian Borowczyk's final feature is an erotic thriller centering on fashion buyer Hugo (Mathieu Carrière), who becomes enamored with a beautiful prostitute (Marina Pierro) he meets in the... more