Metropolis (1927)

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Genres & Description

Drama Sci-Fi

8.3 / 10

Sometime in the future, the city of Metropolis is home to a Utopian society where its wealthy residents live a carefree life. One of those is Freder Fredersen. One day, he spots a beautiful woman with a group of children, she and the children quickly disappear. Trying to follow her, he is horrified to find an underground world of workers who apparently run the machinery that keeps the Utopian world above ground functioning. One of the few people above ground who knows about the world below is Freder's father, John Fredersen, who is the founder and master of Metropolis. Freder learns that the woman is called Maria, who espouses the need to join the "hands" - the workers - to the "head" - those in power above - by a mediator who will act as the "heart". Freder wants to help the plight of the workers in their struggle for a better life. But when John learns of what Maria is advocating and that Freder has joined their cause, with the assistance of an old colleague. an inventor called ...

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StanfordCult

The city reminds me of Homeworld. - @Saturday, September 29, 2018 4:04 PM

Frederik B Holm

XD - @Friday, September 14, 2018 7:39 PM

Rizki Maulana

2018?? - @Sunday, September 2, 2018 2:30 AM

laughinjack talking smack

How did they make the city. Is it a painted illusion on glass or something or is it an actual set they built - @Friday, July 27, 2018 7:02 PM

Lord of Dogs

I hope Metropolis remains forever untouched. If a remake is made, it'll be most likely fucked up. - @Wednesday, April 25, 2018 2:30 AM

David Y

0:50 before Einstein there's already someone that looks like Einstein. - @Friday, April 20, 2018 11:00 PM

Jebus Slaves

A film made for the elite. A reminder to them, that the common man will always remain under the boot of the few, and a reminder to the peasants that they will always be looking up, forever turning the cogs of society. - @Tuesday, April 17, 2018 10:26 AM

Fun Times

1927 us: in 100 years we will have flying cars them: ohh hold ur horses - @Sunday, January 14, 2018 6:28 PM

Gonzalo Rioja

GUT FILME!!! - @Friday, November 17, 2017 12:02 AM

Fun Times

This makes today's cgi movies look like a joke. - @Saturday, October 28, 2017 10:57 PM

Fun Times

Less cgi *a freakin good rating* More cgi *looks really bad* - @Saturday, July 29, 2017 5:41 AM

NINJA/SNIPER PRODUCTIONS

The only difference between this remastered version and the original is the music, there's the shit quality and then there's the remastered score...from the sound of the shit quality score, it sounds okay and dark and mysterious, the remaster is just copying and not adding to the tension. But I still like the score, the movie in my opinion is bad but I still think the soundtrack was okay and I only wanted to find the original shit quality soundtrack to hear the difference and now I know...it's still not bad. - @Monday, May 15, 2017 5:00 AM

goldenbomber 2

don't foget Japanese edition☺ - @Thursday, July 7, 2016 4:39 PM

goldenbomber 2

Masterpiece! - @Thursday, July 7, 2016 4:38 PM

Laurent GRIFFON

Superbe bande annonce ! J'adore complètement ! Tiens, je crois que je vais me repasser le film. - @Sunday, March 13, 2016 2:29 PM

歧阜草泥信長

看到1927年的大都會，聯想到剛剛看完遠流的書《聖境新世界》第三章，特別有感覺。 - @Sunday, September 20, 2015 8:12 PM

Enzo Maccarone

Han pasado 88 años y lamentablemente el deseo de Fritz Lang todavía no se cumplió. El estaba seguro de que la humanidad para esta época habría encontrado en su corazón un equilibrio entre el capitalismo y la democracia. Hasta el día de hoy, hay mas de 1300 millones de pobres que sobreviven fuera del sistema capitalista como pueden y otro 4400 millones de personas que dentro del capitalismo trabajan duro, para que unos pocos 1300 millones sean millonarios. El mundo es todavía una gran Metrópolis. - @Monday, July 6, 2015 8:29 AM

Death2Fanboys

The Best and Greatest Sci-Fi movie of all time. Fuck Star Wars! - @Tuesday, January 14, 2014 9:38 PM

DeepEye1994

Magnificent. - @Sunday, December 8, 2013 1:45 AM

11Switchblade

we were shown this in first period in school today and my teacher said, i have to warn you this movie is WEIRD! and i totally agree. half the time me and my friend were laughing our asses off at the weird things they do in this movie and i was creeped out by the extremely strange demonic type things from this damn film... i am not sure if this was the actual film or not but i think it was. idk. this movie is weird. - @Wednesday, September 4, 2013 4:24 AM

Eme Zorrilla

The best movies don't need CGI - @Monday, August 26, 2013 9:54 PM

DraKonfilms

Ironically a Death Metal band use scenes from this movie. - @Thursday, August 1, 2013 6:22 AM

Tod Hillman

Great film. It had my attention and wonder all the way through! - @Friday, July 26, 2013 5:14 AM

bluesamg

I wanna see this so bad!!!!!!!! - @Monday, July 22, 2013 4:14 AM

timiniho

Good for being made in 1927, if it would have been released now I wouldn't even consider watching it. - @Monday, July 8, 2013 2:05 PM

See it or Flick it.

I was fortunate enough to attend a screening of this when I visited my brother when he was living in NYC. It was pretty incredible to say the least. - @Monday, June 10, 2013 5:58 PM

Justin Rossi

Wanking is fun - @Monday, May 27, 2013 9:06 PM

Gonna kill God. Whacha gonna do about it, eh. Bitch?

I love to wank too! - @Monday, May 27, 2013 6:56 PM

-PaulYang2-

radio gaga was here.. - @Saturday, May 25, 2013 6:27 AM

inferno1061

Radio gaga brought me here. - @Saturday, May 11, 2013 9:48 PM

Sean Greene

I meant if your not patient with them you are more likely not going to enjoy them that is what I was trying to say. - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:15 AM

Sean Greene

they sit down and watch a very long or slower moving film just to say and another thing I've learned with experience as when watching these older films is to get a good amount of sleep and don't focus or think about what time it is when it comes to long or slow moving films as this will make you not enjoy the film at all! Would you guys agree with me? - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:13 AM

Sean Greene

Now tell me do you think someone of younger generation would want to watch that film? It depends? Some say I would like ton watch it others might say meh I can't stand films like that and even I have a hard time watching films like The Good, The Bad, And The Ugly but if I watch my previous films that are longer then it I might get the hang of it but still if your not patient the more likely your going to not like the film and just to say most younger gen people need to take a chill pill before - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 6:03 AM

Sean Greene

on TV but it will only relate to my own interest besides the movies these days and when I have told someone that foreign films are better he said back a foreign film will never compete against a Hollywood film. Yeah maybe for money but not when it comes to pure quality and great acting at it's best! Except for the older Hollywood films and speaking of that. I'll be renting Ace In The Hole: (1951) Country (United States) (111 min) Also I have Lawrence Of Arabia that's 227 min. Just to say. - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:59 AM

Sean Greene

But yes those films are nowhere near the length of Metropolis just to say but let me say one more thing. As I've been watching older Hollywood and Especially foreign films and when in rare cases if I go back downstairs when the family is watching TV I've noticed that the acting has greatly decreased throughout the years and the more I watch these films the less I want to go back and watch whats on these days as almost everything they show now is trash. Though there's a few shows I might watch - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:53 AM

Sean Greene

on the wall! Whoever they are have no patients at all when it comes to watching a film. You know what I feel bad for them and own a few Silents from Josef Von Sternberg and find Underworld, The Last Command, and even The Docks of New York to be very quick pace and as well I just Pre-order Safety Last! On Criterion. - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:48 AM

Sean Greene

I'm 25 and will be 26 later this June and I own The Human Condition that one is at 574 min. Tell me now if I can watch this film? Sheesh people need to be patient but I can understand from others as I have had fallen asleep before through slower films before. But at least I try to be patient through these older films and have noticed when younger gen people like me who try to watch the newest film these days some have complained and say. Man! That film was as bad as watching paint drying - @Tuesday, April 30, 2013 5:44 AM

Christian Schmude

and it is awesome... XD I animation nerd. its more young teens than kids and it is also at heart a woody Allen movie but I do see the similarities - oh shoot I am a nerd! - @Thursday, April 11, 2013 3:25 PM

Josue rodriguez

There is a kids version of this movie called Ants. - @Tuesday, March 19, 2013 4:50 PM

Butcher

Special effects sucks.the acting sucks...wtf? how can i get a good rating? - @Tuesday, March 19, 2013 10:46 AM

Natalie Belton

Again, if you really think that, than why is the movie about Freder and Maria, two people who try to work together to end corruption associated with classism and act as links for social understanding? (Maybe your just dense or trolling or both.) - @Saturday, March 2, 2013 9:04 AM

See it or Flick it.

I told someone I work with about this film. This is a person who considers The Hangover to be an old film. She looked at me like I was crazy for enjoying a silent film. I just posted this trailer to her Facebook wall. We shall see how she repsonds....if she even watches it. - @Sunday, February 24, 2013 6:19 PM

Mista Smoka

no the elite and the peaple can't live together,we had to eliminate them physically for the peace of the world Killuminati - @Friday, February 22, 2013 3:40 AM

geokaplan59

Thank you, Natalie. You are a bright and perceptive 20 year old. I would add only that "Metropolis" also is about dehumanization through technology and through affluence, ideas that resonates today. "The heart must be the mediator between the hands and the head." I discovered this movie through Forry Ackerman's Famous Monsters of Filmland magazine in the '60s, and am astonished at how well most of it holds up. A fie upon those "unilluminati'd" dolts who don't get it! - @Wednesday, February 20, 2013 11:10 PM

mybluebelly

No wonder people jumped out of their seats when they listened to Orson Welles a decade later. - @Monday, February 18, 2013 10:42 PM

nightmuffin937

Thumbs Up if Daft Punk Brought You here. - @Monday, February 11, 2013 3:06 AM

ArtypNk

A movie from 1927 got 65k favourable votes on the internet. I mean, all adults who were alive when it came out are now dead, and their kids went out of their way to not only watch it, but also rate it on the internet. It's just, wow... - @Wednesday, February 6, 2013 5:10 PM

Natalie Belton

No it's not. A lot of people tend to throw around that word (and some don't even really know what it means). This movie has nothing to due with Illuminati. It is about the issues of classism and exploitation. The protagonists of the film try to find a way in which both the elite and the workers can live together peacefully. Have you even seen this movie? Or are you just trying to look smart? - @Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:24 PM

Natalie Belton

Nope! I'm only 20! - @Tuesday, January 29, 2013 2:07 PM

DeepEye1994

I'm glad for having satisfied you ^_^ To make things even better, let me say that I discovered this movie when I was 12 and I finally saw it the first time when I was 14. It's truly a classic and I bought it, but these days there's need of a certain sensibility to enjoy properly an old SciFi movie. - @Sunday, January 27, 2013 4:41 PM