# F. W. Murnau's best films

From Berlin Expressionism to the South Seas: Murnau's best films according to Moviepilot, Collider and Flickchart, from Nosferatu to Tabu.

- 13 votes · 12 items
- Dec 23, 2024 · Philipp Hahn
- https://even.best/en/l/3273/f-w-murnau-s-best-films

## Top 12

1. **Nosferatu (1922)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Max Schreck as Count Orlok, loosely based on Bram Stoker's Dracula.
2. **Faust (1926)** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — Emil Jannings as Mephistopheles.
3. **Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — His first Hollywood film; Oscars for Janet Gaynor and the cinematography.
4. **The Last Laugh (1924)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Emil Jannings as a demoted hotel doorman, almost without intertitles.
5. **Tabu (1931)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Shot in the South Seas with Robert Flaherty; his last film.
6. **Tartuffe (1925)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Molière as a film within a film, with Emil Jannings.
7. **City Girl (1930)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A farmer's son and a Chicago waitress.
8. **Phantom (1922)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From Gerhart Hauptmann.
9. **The Grand Duke's Finances (1924)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — A comedy set in an imaginary Mediterranean duchy.
10. **Journey into the Night (1921)** (0 · ▲1 ▼1) — His earliest film to survive complete.
11. **The Haunted Castle (1921)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A crime drama at a country house.
12. **The Burning Soil (1922)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An inheritance fight over oil-rich land.

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