The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

Conrad Veidt as Cesare, the sleepwalker Dr. Caligari keeps in a coffin-like cabinet, staring out wide-eyed in Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. The ringed eyes, white face and black sweater made Cesare the face of German Expressionism, and the crooked, painted sets by Hermann Warm, Walter Reimann and Walter Röhrig did the rest. A century of pale, hollow-eyed screen outsiders, Tim Burton's among them, start with this frame.