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Faust is a 1926 silent film that tells the tragic story of a man named Faust who makes a deal with the devil in exchange for unlimited knowledge and worldly pleasures. As Faust indulges in his newfound powers, he falls in love with a young woman named Gretchen and becomes entangled in a series of supernatural encounters. Ultimately, Faust must face the consequences of his pact, leading to tragedy and the battle between good and evil.

In this modern retelling of Goethe's Faust, a man named Heinrich Faust, dissatisfied with his life and thirsting for knowledge, makes a pact with the devil. As Faust indulges in pleasures and gains great knowledge, he slowly loses his humanity and descends into darkness.

Mephisto is a drama film set in 1930s Nazi Germany. It follows a theater director who makes a pact with the devil, Mephistopheles, in order to achieve success and fame. As he rises in the Nazi Party and gains influence, he must confront the price of his ambition and the ethical compromises he has made.

Johann Faust comes back to life. After centuries spent in darkness he unleashes a night of terror in Prague, with vampires, zombies and mutants. This time, Faust has a new obsession - to get even with his past life and his family. There is also the devil Mephistopheles, who controls everything like a puppeteer from afar. The film based on Goethe's iconic work and unpublished, short stories by F. Kotleta and K. Sněgoňová presenting bloody coctail of horror and fantasy.

The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with simply offering a fancifully illustrated late episode without the earlier narrative context (however, spoken narration provides some of the latter in this restored print). Tempted by Mephistopheles with all kinds of dancing and ethereal babes, Faust is at first excited and then terrified by the sight of various demons and monsters. The painted-set designers really went hog wild on this one, depicting the (sometimes sexy) torments of subterranean Hell with in bold terms (even when ballerinas prance in the foreground). (Dennis Harvey, Fandor)

A musician beds down a prostitute he knows is diseased in order to gain inspiration, an act he later believes to have been a tacit pact with Satan

Marguerite is seated in front of the fireplace, Faust standing by her side. Mephistopheles enters and offers his sword to Faust, commanding him to behead the fair Marguerite. Faust refuses, whereupon Mephistopheles draws the sword across the throat of the lady and she suddenly disappears and Faust is seated in her place.