1929 silent movie, directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst, and based on Wedekind's play, Lulu, Pandora's Box was the film that brought Louise Brooks to international notice. Yes, Jack the Ripper appears as a character, and Brooks plays a seductress/prostitute who destroys men with her beauty but this a complex, tragic film that never dips into the strange campiness and melodramatic weirdness of other silent films of the era. Brooks' performance is magical.