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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Movies Like Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927)

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is a 1927 documentary film from Walter Ruttmann with a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with Manhatta and À propos de Nice.

Manhatta poster

Manhatta

1921

Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks of skyscrapers extrude columns of smoke and steam. In plain view. Or framed, as through a balustrade. A crane promotes the city's upward progress, as an ironworker balances on a high beam. A locomotive in a railway yard prepares to depart, while an arriving ocean liner jostles with attentive tugboats. Fading sunlight is reflected in the waters of the harbor. The imagery is interspersed with quotations from Walt Whitman, who is left unnamed.

À propos de Nice poster

À propos de Nice

1930

What starts off as a conventional travelogue turns into a satirical portrait of the town of Nice on the French Côte d'Azur, especially its wealthy inhabitants.

Man with a Movie Camera poster

Man with a Movie Camera

1929

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra poster

The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra

1928

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number 9413 written on his forehead.

Rain poster

Rain

1929

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

Fata Morgana poster

Fata Morgana

1972

Shot under extreme conditions and inspired by Mayan creation theory, the film contemplates the illusion of reality and the possibility of capturing for the camera something which is not there. It is about the mirages of nature—and the nature of mirage.

Mirror of Holland poster

Mirror of Holland

1950

In this short film Bert Haanstra gives his vision - from the water – of a tranquil Holland. During filming he held the camera upside down and afterwards put the images ‘up right’ again in the film. By doing this, we see the ‘usual’ waterfront, but transformed by the rippling of the water. In this way Mirror of Holland became a modern looking experimental film. However this did not devalue the Dutch sentiment regarding waterfronts that are so trusted to so many.

Skyscraper Symphony poster

Skyscraper Symphony

1929

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid shots, which also begin to show more and more of the surrounding city, in addition to the skyscrapers themselves.

Necrology poster

Necrology

1970

The faces of a 5:00 PM crowd descending via the Pan Am building escalators in one continuous shot. In old-fashioned black and white, these faces stare into the empty space, in the 5:00 PM tiredness and mechanical impersonality, like faces from the grave.

Berlin, I Love You poster

Berlin, I Love You

2019

An anthology feature of 10 stories of romance set in the German capital.

The General poster

The General

1926

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Illusive Tracks poster

Illusive Tracks

2003

Christmas 1945. In a train from Stockholm to Berlin are a motley collection. It is the failure of the author Gunnar who wants to leave his old life and make a contribution in Berlin; physician Henry who plan to marry Marie and likewise Henry's current wife Karin, who he plans to kill during the journey, the middle-aged gay couple Pompe and Sixten, a soldier going to Uppsala but is on the wrong train: the cheerful and cynical old Margaret, and a dressed elf and a surly conductor. With the train are also a number of Baltic refugees accompanied by two nuns to be sent to Germany.

Re/cycle poster

Re/cycle

2019

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense that only 'found' elements were used, and that it defies interpretation based on ordinary cause-and-effect time sequence.

The Starfish poster

The Starfish

1928

The romantic relationship between a man and a woman.

Witch's Cradle poster

Witch's Cradle

1944

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.

The Seashell and the Clergyman poster

The Seashell and the Clergyman

1928

Obsessed with a general's wife, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

Anemic Cinema poster

Anemic Cinema

1926

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

The Very Eye of Night poster

The Very Eye of Night

1958

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Diagonal Symphony poster

Diagonal Symphony

1924

A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again with a new pattern, each cycle lasting one or two seconds. The complete figures are drawn in a vaguely Art Deco style and could be said to resemble any number of things, an ear, a harp, panpipes, a grand piano with trombones, and so on, only highly stylized. The tone is playful and hypnotic.

Berlin: Panoptikum poster

Berlin: Panoptikum

1896

A Berlin street scene.

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Berlin: Symphony of a Great City?

The top films similar to Berlin: Symphony of a Great City by MovieMagicScore are Manhatta (6.6), À propos de Nice (6.8), Man with a Movie Camera (7.8). Each shares documentary themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Berlin: Symphony of a Great City worth watching?

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City holds a MovieMagicScore of 7.5/10 from 124 viewer ratings, putting it among the better-reviewed titles in its genre.

What kind of movie is Berlin: Symphony of a Great City?

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927) is a documentary film directed by Walter Ruttmann, starring Paul von Hindenburg.

Where can I find more recommendations like Berlin: Symphony of a Great City?

Browse the full ranked list above, or explore more documentary recommendations on MovieMagicScore, where every list is ordered by genuine viewer ratings.

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Movies like Manhatta Movies like À propos de Nice Movies like Man with a Movie Camera Movies like The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra Movies like Rain Movies like Fata Morgana

About movies like Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

This ranked list pairs Berlin: Symphony of a Great City (1927), a documentary film from Walter Ruttmann, with similar titles by genre, theme and cast overlap (fans of Paul von Hindenburg take note). Unlike critic-driven sites, every position here is ordered by MovieMagicScore — a rating built only from real viewers, with no studio marketing or paid placement. Scores update as more people rate, so the list stays current.

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