FR #1423 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | Germany | German
Director
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Writer
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Deutsch
Plot
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Lottie Blair Parker, William A. Brady, Joseph R. Grismer
Cast
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation "Die Spinnen" to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia, but the man, who should be the owner of that diamond, doesn't know of its existence....
FR #6702 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Sweden | Swedish, Danish
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kristofer Janson
Cast
Hildur Carlberg, Einar Rod, Greta Almroth
Plot
A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
FR #10994 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Germany | German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Hanns Kraly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Jakob Tiedtke
Plot
In Southern Bavaria, Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel insists his elder daughter Liesel marry first. Liesel is shunned as too brutal. Seppel suggests marrying Liesel first, ridding her, then wedding Gretel.
FR #14206 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | Sweden | Swedish, English
Director
Mauritz Stiller
Writer
Ferenc Herczeg, Gustaf Molander, Arthur Norden
Cast
Anders De Wahl, Tora Teje, Karin Molander
Plot
EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best ...
FR #16946 | Movie | Biography, Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Norbert Falk, Hanns Kraly
Cast
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann
Plot
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
A young slacker from the East Coast is shipped off to a ranch in the Wild West by his father where the boy becomes smitten with a local girl and encounters the villainous Tiger Lip Tompkins.
FR #17452 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Karl Heinz Martin
Writer
Herbert Juttke, Georg Kaiser, Karl Heinz Martin
Cast
Ernst Deutsch, Erna Morena, Roma Bahn
Plot
A Cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60, 000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport...
Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.
FR #18701 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Friedrich Freksa, Hanns Kraly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener
Plot
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
FR #19458 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
Writer
James Fenimore Cooper, Robert Dillon
Cast
Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
Plot
In the midst of the French and Indian War, the eldest daughter of a British officer develops an attraction towards an Indian ally who is the last living warrior of his tribe, the Mohicans.
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which h...
While at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother's permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.
Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple fall...
Mia May has surrendered herself to a disciple of free love, and, having given birth to a child, marries the twin brother and Doppelgänger of her chosen lover.
