The Street of Forgotten Men

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 young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Yakov Protazanov

Cast

Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tseretelli

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

Runtime

1h 19m

Director

John S. Robertson, Shaw Lovett

Cast

John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno team up with the Belleville Sisters—an aged song-and-dance team from the days of Fred Astaire—to rescue him.

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Sylvain Chomet

Cast

Suzy Falk, Betty Bonifassi, Lina Boudreau

In the UK suburbs, an underground tournament is set to challenge twelve fighters from different backgrounds to compete for the price of £500,000. They have been handpicked for a no-holds barred competition that will push each fighter to their limit. Each fighter has their own reason for competing, and each will give everything they've ...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Mark Strange, Nathan Lewis, Joey Ansah

Leung is the bodyguard of a Chinese Triad boss, Wong, to whom his loyalty is unrivaled. Living in Hong Kong, Wong requests that his bodyguard travel to the UK to protect a young British woman, whose true identity is known only by Wong himself. Even Wong's son, Yuen, is kept in the dark, which leads to a betrayal that threatens to destr...

Runtime

1h 35m

Director

Chee Keong Cheung

Cast

Vincent Sze Cho-Lam, Richard Ng Yiu-Hon, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa