FR #4487 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany | German
Director
F.W. Murnau
Writer
Rudolf Stratz, Carl Mayer
Cast
Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert
Plot
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather u...
A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
FR #9705 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, Austria | German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Hanns Kraly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann
Plot
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
FR #13200 | Movie | Animation, Short | Germany | English
Director
Hans Richter
Plot
Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and white individually change from foreground to ...
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
Plot
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.
FR #15448 | Movie | Animation, Short | Germany | English
Director
Walter Ruttmann
Plot
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes m...
FR #17699 | Movie | Documentary, Short | USA | English
Director
Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Writer
Walt Whitman
Plot
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable.
Erwin Gepard, William Shakespeare, Edward P. Vining
Cast
Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt
Plot
Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's version of the legend. The most important of...
FR #18454 | Movie | Drama | France | French, English
Director
Marcel L'Herbier
Writer
Marcel L'Herbier
Cast
Ve Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot
Plot
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her son's biological father and one of the riches...
FR #20203 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Fred Niblo
Writer
Alexandre Dumas, Edward Knoblock, Lotta Woods
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks, Nigel De Brulier, George Siegmann
Plot
Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his...
