Most expensive movie poster

An original poster for Metropolis (Germany, 1927), a science-fiction film by Fritz Lang (Austria) was sold by the Reel Poster Gallery in London, UK to a US collector for $690,000 (£393,300) on 15 November 2005. The art-deco poster was designed by graphic artist, Heinz Schulz-Neudamm (Germany) and is one of four copies known to exist, the others are at New York's Museum of Modern Art (USA), Berlin's Film Museum (Germany) and in a private collection.

The Metropolis poster changed hands again in 2012 at a bankruptcy sale in which it was sold as a lot of nine posters for a total cost of $1.2 million (£750,000), making the individual sale price impossible to ascertain.