"Metropolis" - 1927

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Metropolis is a 1927 German science-fiction silent film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Thea von Harbou in collaboration with Lang from von Harbou's 1925 novel of the same name. Metropolis is regarded as a pioneering science-fiction film, being among the first feature-length ones of that genre.