After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through ene...
FR #707 | Movie | Animation, Adventure | Germany | English
Director
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Writer
Lotte Reiniger
Plot
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Plot
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
FR #5702 | Movie | Action, Drama | Russia, USA | Russian, Japanese
Director
Lev Kuleshov
Writer
Lev Kuleshov, Jack London, Viktor Shklovskiy
Cast
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
Plot
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then f...
FR #5996 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | English, German
Director
Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl
Writer
Arnold Fanck
Cast
Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen
Plot
Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.
FR #6232 | Movie | Horror, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Henrik Galeen
Writer
Hanns Heinz Ewers, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti
Plot
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any wo...
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. S...
Winifred Dunn, George Marion Jr., C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast
Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller
Plot
Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
A spiral design spins dizzily. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, featu...
FR #15457 | Movie | Documentary | Russia | English
Director
Dziga Vertov
Writer
Dziga Vertov
Plot
"Sixth Part of the World" was the size of Soviet Union of the time. Many peoples of many customs composed it. Ice and desert, forest and ocean. Bread, furs, machines. All and every is a part of great unity.
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.
FR #16955 | Movie | Documentary | France | English
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti
Cast
Blanche Bernis, Nina Chousvalowa, Philippe Heriat
Plot
The life of a great city (Paris) from dawn until dusk, including the beautiful and the ragged, the rich and the poor, with little or no comment (intertitles) from the director, Cavalcanti (whose first film this was).
FR #20189 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Norway, Sweden | English
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Jacob Breda Bull, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Einar Sissener, Tove Tellback, Stub Wiberg
Plot
Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit lives. Tore falls in love with her, but her father ...
A sincere working-class 13-year old in France is adopted by a well-meaning philanthropic millionairess from America -- who promises his doting mother that the boy will have the finest education -- but things are not so simple.
FR #20958 | Movie | Romance, Drama | USA | English
Director
King Vidor
Writer
Rafael Sabatini, Dorothy Farnum, Marian Ainslee
Cast
John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy
Plot
In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
FR #22945 | Movie | Adventure, Action | USA | English
Director
Herbert Brenon
Writer
Herbert Brenon, John Russell, Paul Schofield
Cast
Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton, Ralph Forbes, William Powell
Plot
Michael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the reb...
FR #24937 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Alfred E. Green
Writer
Mervyn Leroy, Frank Griffin, George Marion Jr.
Cast
Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis
Plot
Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.
