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MetropolisMetropolis (1926) Aro Favourite
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…
Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design. Set around the year 2000, a…
Metropolis (1984 Version)Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926) Aro Favourite
Dir. Fritz Lang
Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…
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…
Tramp, Tramp, TrampTramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
Battleship PotemkinBattleship Potemkin (1925) Recommended
Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov
This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Eagle, TheEagle, The (1925)
Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Gold Rush, TheGold Rush, The (1925) Recommended
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain
Immortal comedy with Charlie Chaplin at his clownish best. The Little Tramp is a lone gold prospector who through a series of adventures, strikes it…
Kriemhilde's RevengeKriemhilde's Revenge (Die Nibelungen Pt. 2) (1925)
Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Second part of Lang's Die Nibelungen saga (Part One – SIEGFRIED) has the aggrieved Kriemhilde joining forces with Attila the Hun against her…
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…
Late Mathias Pascal, TheLate Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)
Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon
French silent film based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…

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