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F.W. Murnau

Director, Actor

Filmography (All Films)

 
NosferatuNosferatu (1922) Aro Favourite
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach
Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
Last Laugh, TheLast Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
FaustFaust (1926) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
Innovative camera tricks and production design distinguish this rendering of the literary staple about a man who sells his soul to the devil.…
TartuffeTartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha
This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
SunriseSunrise (1927) Aro Favourite
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing
The first American outing from the master of German Expressionism turned out to be perhaps his best film of all. He instils an electric charge on a…
City GirlCity Girl (1930) Recommended
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
TabuTabu (1931)
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier
A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…

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