Fritz Lang: Metropolis, (1927)

Metropolis is a 1927 German expressionist film in the science-fiction genre directed by Fritz Lang.

Produced in Germany during a stable period of the Weimar Republic, Metropolis is set in a futuristic urban dystopia and makes use of this context to explore the social crisis between workers and owners in capitalism. The most expensive silent film ever made, it cost approximately 5 million Reichsmark.