With its stark movie poster, what is the title of this futuristic sci-fi drama, one of the most influential films of the silent era?

Made in Germany in the mid-1920s, Metropolis is one of the finest examples of German Expressionism, a cinematic style characterized by an angsty mood as well as highly stylized sets, dramatic camera angles, and high contrast lighting. Director Fritz Lang, a half-Jewish Austrian living in Berlin, was dismayed to learn that his film's many passionate admirers included Adolf Hitler and his propaganda minister Joseph Goebbels. When they offered him the position of head of German film studio UFA, by then merely an advertising tool for the Third Reich, Lang promptly left Germany (as well as his Nazi-sympathizing wife) for good.

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