The+Cabinet+of+Dr.+Caligari

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It's a night session at the cinema, and you want a movie along the lines of a thriller/mystery. You then see the poster for The Cabinet of Dr Caligari and you seem very interested. You sit down and start having your popcorn.

Everything goes dark...and the movie starts

The story opens with a man called Francis who is talking with an elder man, then a good-looking woman who start talking with them. Then Francis tells a story he and Jane shared. Then you see the flashback.

Then we see Francis and his friend Alan are competing for Jane's love. Then you see how they go to a German Carnival where they meet Dr Caligary and his somnanbulist patient called Cesare. He keeps him asleep in a coffin, Caligari then explains that Cesare can predict the future due to his trance. Alan then asks him how long he has to live and Cesare replies that until dawn. Which is then check out to be true. As Alan is murdered by a mysterious figure.

Later you see that Francis and Jane marry. But Dr Caligari tells Cesare to kill Jane, but due to her beauty, he takes her out of the village. Where Cesare dies of exhaustion. Meanwhile Francis goes a mental asylum where he finds that Caligari is the director. But he later finds that there was a patient called Caligari which was obsessed with a story about a monk that used hypnosis to use someone as his murderer. He then calls the police, which tells Caligari that Cesare is dead, he then shows he's crazy and is imprisoned into his own asylum.

After seeing this, you're satisfied. But then you find out that Francis, Jane and Cesare are inmates in the asylum and that Dr Caligari is their doctor. Which tells Francis he's now able to cure him.