He played with shadow and light in much the same way as directors of German expressionist films of the time.

Her art evoked German expressionist films and her women were dressed in the high fashion of the day.

It is an example of German Expressionist film and has a surreal, dreamlike quality.

The earliest noirs, made in the early and mid-1940's, took their cue from German Expressionist film.

The mimetic style of film acting was used to great effect in German Expressionist film.

Many architects designed theatres for performances on the stage and film sets for expressionist films.

Laughton drew on the harsh, angular look of German expressionist films of the 1920s.

Also, unlike Expressionist films, Kammerspielfilme seldom used intertitles to narrate the story.

Murnau was invited by William Fox to make an Expressionist film in Hollywood.

Here, she moves backward from the distortions of an Expressionist film, fragmentary in its text and isolated movements, to what could be called a new neo-romanticism.