卡里加里博士的小屋德国小镇,面目狰狞的卡里加里博士(沃纳·克劳斯 Werner Krauss饰)终于获准表演催眠术。大学生弗朗西斯(弗里德里希·费赫尔 Friedrich Feher饰)和艾伦(汉斯·海因里希 Hans Heinrich von Twardowski饰)也来观看。疯狂的卡里加里博士向众人展示他是如何催眠和控制他的搭档凯撒(康拉德·韦特 Conrad Veidt饰),并向众人宣布:凯撒可以回答大家提出的所有问题。好奇的艾伦问道:我能活多久?病态的凯撒回答:活到明天凌晨。弗朗西斯并不相信,可艾伦却是满脸惊恐。随之,艾伦真的被杀害了。弗朗西斯把消息告诉了好朋友珍妮(丽尔·达戈沃 Lil Dagover饰)和她的医生父亲。他们展开了多方追捕,可惊人的秘密却丝丝入扣,到底谁才是真正的凶手? 本片是世界电影史上被谈论得最多的影片之一,是德国表现主义电影的里程碑之作。影片以其怪诞的表现主义风格,成为以后西方恐怖片为之效仿的鼻祖。1958年本片在比利时布鲁塞尔由26个国家117位电影史家评选为“世界电影12佳作”的第12名。
化身博士《化身博士》是羅伯特·路易斯·史蒂文森所寫的一部小説,在維多利亞時代,傑克爾雖然已有賢惠的未婚妻,但是被放蕩的風塵女子勾起了他變成海德的慾望,他研究發明瞭一種藥,用藥後便化身成為海德先生,博士把自己所有的惡念全部賦豫了海德。基克爾博士行醫多年,多行善事,名聲極好,海德則無惡不作,殺人害命。基克爾博士無法擺脱海德,最後選擇了自殺。
阿尔劳娜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 named Alraune (Brigitte Helm), who is incapable of feeling any real emotions -- least of all guilt or regret. Upon attaining adulthood, Alraune sets about to seduce and destroy every male who crosses her path. Ultimately, Professor Brinken is hoist on his own petard when he falls hopelessly in love with Alraune himself. Alraune was remade in 1930, with Brigitte Helm repeating her role, and again in 1951, with Hildegarde Knef as the "heroine" and Erich von Stroheim as her misguided mentor.
未知者马戏团团长的女儿由于长的美丽,经常受到男人的骚扰,她痛恨男人的双臂,痛恨男人用他们的脏手碰她,渐渐地形成了心理障碍。她只爱马戏团里的无臂人,可惜无臂人是个故意藏起双臂的逃犯,这个假无臂人也爱她,但是要想永远的得到她,必须真的削去双臂……但是,真的削了双臂,她却变了心……
萨乐美Based on Oscar Wilde's play, the films tells the story of how Salomé agrees to dance for King Herod in return for the head of John the Baptist.
Isabelle aux DombesPialat's first film was the short Isabelle aux Dombes, shot in 1951 when the director was 26 years old. The film is an entirely silent montage of documentary footage, ragged experimental techniques — mainly some negative-image inserts — and symbolic psychodrama that's surprisingly not too different from the work that Stan Brakhage would begin making just a year or two later. Images of death proliferate throughout the film, and what started as a loose documentary soon becomes an eerie psuedo-horror piece that's obsessed with death and decay.
Danse macabreThe Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, embrace, and kiss. As the night wears on, exuberant Death, a skeletal figure with a violin, pursues the couple. They try to elude him. Eventually, Love swoons. Youth is powerless to protect her. Is she doomed?
懸念Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
The Telltale HeartAn insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one night. The next day, two officers knock on the insane man's door, investigating a shriek heard in the night. The insane man invites them in, answers their questions, and submits to an examination of his eyes by one of the officers, who proclaims him innocent. The insane man invites them to stay and relax awhile, then regales them with his theories of crime. His heart begins to beat louder. Angles on the set are skewed to suggest the man's internal disarray.