Nights of Terror

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

Runtime

1h 48m

Director

Louis Malle

Cast

Maurice Ronet, Léna Skerla, Yvonne Clech

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this version was assembled in 1928. In another of his "mad doctor" roles, Paul Wegener plays Professor Brinken, sociopathic scientist who combines the genes of an executed murderer with those of a prostitute. The result is a beautiful young woman n...

Runtime

2h 11m

Director

Henrik Galeen

Cast

Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

Runtime

2h 56m

Director

George Cukor

Cast

Judy Garland, James Mason, Jack Carson

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Charles Laughton

Cast

Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent cinema. Gösta Ekman plays the alchemist who, his faith shaken in a time of plague, is offered the gift of healing and eternal youth… in exchange for his soul.

Runtime

1h 46m

Director

F. W. Murnau

Cast

Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn