Release Date: 1979-01-17

Overview: A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.

Rating: 7.273 (1037 votes)

Release Date: 1920-02-27

Overview: Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Rating: 7.926 (1710 votes)

Release Date: 1924-12-23

Overview: An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel, is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

Rating: 7.769 (338 votes)

Release Date: 1922-06-11

Overview: This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Rating: 7.076 (316 votes)

Release Date: 1922-09-18

Overview: Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

Rating: 7.643 (420 votes)

Release Date: 1927-11-04

Overview: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Rating: 7.821 (866 votes)

Release Date: 1925-12-24

Overview: A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.

Rating: 7.6 (1247 votes)

Release Date: 1923-04-01

Overview: When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Rating: 7.724 (553 votes)

Release Date: 1932-04-09

Overview: In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.

Rating: 7.432 (656 votes)

Release Date: 1925-04-28

Overview: Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

Rating: 7.348 (240 votes)

Release Date: 1929-01-30

Overview: The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

Rating: 7.5 (252 votes)

Release Date: 1923-11-09

Overview: An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Rating: 5.8 (87 votes)

Release Date: 1937-06-04

Overview: A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferred to a high-security fortress, they must concoct a plan to escape beneath the watchful eye of aristocratic German officer von Rauffenstein, who has formed an unexpected bond with de Boeldieu.

Rating: 7.864 (749 votes)

Release Date: 1931-11-21

Overview: Henry Frankenstein pieces together body parts in the hope of bringing a human-like creature to life. The mad scientist’s dreams are shattered by his monstrous creation awakening with rage to a world that hates and fears him.

Rating: 7.472 (1727 votes)

Release Date: 1927-02-06

Overview: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Rating: 8.102 (2974 votes)

Release Date: 1921-01-21

Overview: A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Rating: 8.146 (2272 votes)

Release Date: 1924-04-17

Overview: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

Rating: 8.049 (1104 votes)

Release Date: 1931-05-11

Overview: In this classic German thriller, Hans Beckert, a serial killer who preys on children, becomes the focus of a massive Berlin police manhunt. Beckert's heinous crimes are so repellant and disruptive to city life that he is even targeted by others in the seedy underworld network. With both cops and criminals in pursuit, the murderer soon realizes that people are on his trail, sending him into a tense, panicked attempt to escape justice.

Rating: 8.069 (2362 votes)

Release Date: 1972-12-29

Overview: A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.

Rating: 7.457 (1188 votes)

Release Date: 2024-12-25

Overview: A gothic tale of obsession between a haunted young woman and the terrifying vampire infatuated with her, causing untold horror in its wake.

Rating: 6.696 (3288 votes)