FR #221 | Movie | History, Drama | Russia | English, Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Plot
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
FR #3222 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany, France | German, French
Director
Ewald Andre Dupont
Writer
Felix Hollaender, Ewald Andre Dupont
Cast
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Plot
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations...
FR #3692 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Germany, India | German, Tamil
Director
F.W. Murnau
Writer
Moliere, Carl Mayer
Cast
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, Andre Mattoni
Plot
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
FR #4689 | Movie | Comedy, Western | USA | English
Director
Buster Keaton
Writer
Buster Keaton, Lex Neal, Raymond Cannon
Cast
Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Plot
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
FR #8207 | Movie | Crime, Drama | France, Switzerland | French, Czech
Director
Jacques Feyder
Writer
Dimitri De Zoubaloff, Jacques Feyder, Francoise Rosay
Cast
Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez
Plot
A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wantin...
FR #12947 | Movie | Action, Adventure | USA | English
Director
Clarence Brown
Writer
Alexander Pushkin, George Marion Jr., Hanns Kraly
Cast
Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Banky, Louise Dresser
Plot
A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter.
FR #15653 | Movie | Biography, Drama | India | English
Director
Franz Osten, Himanshu Rai
Writer
Edwin Arnold, Niranjan Pal
Cast
Seeta Devi, Himanshu Rai, Sarada Ukil
Plot
This adaptation of Arnold's 1861 Orientalist epic opens with documentary shots of tourists in Bombay watching street performers. Then a white-bearded old man sitting under the bodhi tree tells the tourists the story of Gautama (Ra...
FR #17698 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Jean Renoir
Writer
Pierre Lestringuez
Cast
Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne
Plot
After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the peasants coerce her to flee the peasants' riot. ...
FR #18694 | Movie | Adventure, Action | Japan | English
Director
Buntaro Futagawa
Writer
Rokuhei Susukita
Cast
Tsumasaburo Bando, Misao Seki, Utako Tamaki
Plot
The story of a decent samurai who is widely considered a scum and a criminal. His bad luck and numerous misunderstandings drag him down the social ladder straight to the gutter.
FR #20197 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Marcel L'Herbier
Writer
Marcel L'Herbier, Luigi Pirandello
Cast
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Marcelle Pradot, Lois Moran
Plot
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well as his job as assistant librarian in his h...
FR #23948 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
Henry King
Writer
Frances Marion, Olive Higgins Prouty
Cast
Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce
Plot
Small-town girl Stella marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter Laurel, the Dallases separate and Stephen returns to New York. As ...
FR #24185 | Movie | Family, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Julien Duvivier
Writer
Jules Renard, Julien Duvivier, Jacques Feyder
Cast
Henry Krauss, Charlotte Barbier-Krauss, Andre Heuze
Plot
Nothing can atone for young "Carrot top"s mother's hatred, nor for his father's indifference. But when his father learns that his son is thinking about committing suicide, he steps in and takes him under his wing.
