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The Gospel According to St Matthew (1964) Director: Pier Paolo Pasolini The Gospel According to St. Matthew is a 1964 epic biblical drama film in the Italian neorealist style, written and directed by Pier Paolo Pasolini. It is a cinematic rendition of the story of Jesus according to the Gospel…

The Old Dark House (1932) Director: James Whale Driving through a brutal thunderstorm in Wales, three travelers take refuge in an eerie house owned by the Femm family. Reluctantly admitted by Horace Femm (Ernest Thesiger), the three sit down to a strange dinner. Horace is neurotic; mute butler Morgan (Boris…

The Golem: How He Came Into the World (1920) (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam) Directors: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener alt: In 16th century Prague, Rabbi Loew (Albert Steinruck) interprets an alignment of stars as a sign that disaster is about to befall the city's Jews.

Faust (1926) (Original title: Faust: Eine deutsche Volkssage) Director: F. W. Murnau alt: The demon Mephisto wagers dominion over Earth with an archangel. He beguiles an old alchemist into selling his soul to him, leading a despairing Faust into a downward spiral. #horror #classic #cinema #kinostr #kino #films #filmstr #movies…

Vampyr (1932) Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer channeled his genius for creating mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, unsettling imagery into the horror genre. The result—a chilling film about a student of the occult who encounters supernatural haunts and local evildoers in a village outside…

The Driller Killer (1979) Director: Abel Ferrara An artist slowly goes insane while struggling to pay his bills, work on his paintings, and care for his two female roommates, which leads him taking to the streets of New York after dark and randomly killing derelicts with a power drill. #horror…

The Last Man On Earth (1964) Directors: Ubaldo Ragona, Sidney Salkow When a disease turns humans into vampiric zombies, Dr Robert Morgan becomes the only person to be uninfected and must fight to survive in the apocalyptic world. Based on the 1954 novel I Am Legend by Richard Matheson. #horror…

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) Director: Robert Wiene The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 German silent horror film directed by Robert Wiene and written by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. Considered the quintessential work of German Expressionist cinema, it tells the…

Night of the Living Dead (1968) Director: George A. Romero A ragtag group of Pennsylvanians barricade themselves in an old farmhouse to remain safe from a horde of flesh-eating ghouls that are ravaging the Northeast of the United States. #horror #cult #classic #31daysofhorror #spooktober #halloween #kinostr #kino #movies #films…

Scarlet Street (1945) Director: Fritz Lang A man in mid-life crisis befriends a young woman, though her fiancé persuades her to con him out of the fortune they mistakenly assume he possesses. #filmnoir #noir #classic #cinema #crime #thriller #drama #kino #kinostr #sundayfilms #films #filmstr #movies #40s…

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) Directors: Eleanor Coppola, Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper In the late 1970s, as renegade filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola struggles to complete an epic allegory of the Vietnam War, "Apocalypse Now," his wife, Eleanor, films his daily travails with a camera

13 Lakes (2004) Director: James Benning 13 Lakes is a 2004 American independent non-narrative experimental film by independent filmmaker James Benning. Consisting of 13 ten-minute-long static shots of different lakes in the United States, 13 Lakes is an instance of slow cinema, placing emphasis on introspection and…

Filming 'The Trial' (1981) Director: Orson Welles (Unedited) - Rare Orson Welles Documentary A rare Q&A session with Orson Welles, which Welles had originally intended to be part of a film essay on the making of The Trial (1962) similar to 'Filming Othello', but never

The Trial - 'Le procès' (1962) Director: Orson Welles The Trial (French: Le Procès) is a 1962 drama film written and directed by Orson Welles, based on the 1925 posthumously published novel of the same name by Franz Kafka. Welles stated immediately after completing the film: "The Trial

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (short, 1928) Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number. #short

A Trip To The Moon (1902) Director: Georges Méliès Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon. Once on the lunar surface, the bold explorers face the many perils hidden in the caves of…

Free Fall (short, 1964) Director: Arthur Lipsett Duration: 10mins An experimental film from Arthur Lipsett, Free Fall is an assortment of film trimmings assembled to make a wry comment on humankind in today’s world. It evokes a surrealist dream of our fall from grace into banality. (NFB.ca) #short…

Engram (short, 1987) Director: Toshio Matsumoto Duration: 12mins Engram is a three-part piece revolving around a few good old ideas such as photos inside of photos movies inside of movies photos inside of movies movies inside of photos and (even) a film director inside a TV set. Composer: Takashi…

Ministry Of Fear (1944) Director: Fritz Lang Suffused with dread and paranoia, this Fritz Lang adaptation of a novel by Graham Greene is a plunge into the eerie shadows of a world turned upside down by war. En route to London after being released from a mental institution, Stephen Neale…

Orpheus (Orphée) (1950) Director: Jean Cocteau Jean Cocteau’s update of the Orpheus myth depicts a famous poet (Jean Marais), scorned by the Left Bank youth, and his love for both his wife, Eurydice (Marie Déa), and a mysterious princess (Maria Casarès). Seeking inspiration, the poet follows the princess from…