A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
FR #2454 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Writer
Jean C. Havez, Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell
Cast
Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
Plot
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
FR #3189 | Movie | Drama | France | English, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance
Cast
Gabriel De Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Terof
Plot
A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
FR #4686 | Movie | Comedy, Western | USA | English
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin
Plot
Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
FR #5446 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France, USA | French, English
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Jean Epstein, Marie Epstein
Cast
Leon Mathot, Gina Manes, Edmond Van Daele
Plot
Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. M...
Victor Hugo, Perley Poore Sheehan, Edward T. Lowe Jr.
Cast
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry
Plot
In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
FR #10707 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | USA | English
Director
Cecil B. Demille
Writer
Jeanie Macpherson
Cast
Theodore Roberts, Charles De Rochefort, Estelle Taylor
Plot
After hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, and the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy.
FR #12961 | Movie | Fantasy, Drama | Germany | German, Czech
Director
Arthur Robison
Writer
Albin Grau, Arthur Robison, Rudolf Schneider
Cast
Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav Von Wangenheim
Plot
A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the h...
FR #19963 | Movie | Animation, Short | France | English
Director
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Cast
Nina Star
Plot
A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the nightingale and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not made ...
Presents two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, w...
FR #23177 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Writer
Ivan Mozzhukhin
Cast
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Nicolas Koline
Plot
A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments hi...
