FR #128 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | Germany | English, German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich
Plot
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov
Plot
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
FR #5994 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian
Director
Boris Barnet
Writer
Vadim Shershenevich, Valentin Turkin
Cast
Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhaylov, Vladimir Fogel
Plot
Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame's lazy husband a room fo...
FR #6944 | Movie | Comedy, Drama | Russia | Russian, Czech
Director
Abram Room
Writer
Viktor Shklovskiy, Abram Room
Cast
Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Plot
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
FR #10709 | Movie | Romance, Drama | Germany | German, English
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Ilja Ehrenburg, Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Edith Jehanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
Plot
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lov...
FR #12445 | Movie | Romance, Drama | France | French, English
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Jean Epstein, Paul Morand
Cast
Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Plot
Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by ...
FR #14954 | Movie | Comedy, Romance | USA | English
Director
Sam Taylor
Writer
Kathleen Norris, Allen Mcneil, Tim Whelan
Cast
Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart
Plot
A department store's stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store's manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.
A scheming fight manager attempts to collect insurance on his puny fighter by causing an accident. Things don't go according to plan, and the situation escalates into a pie-throwing battle of epic proportions.
Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" which would have led to further discipline ...
Kuzma Yastrebitsky, Olga Narbekova, Yelena Maksimova
Plot
Orphan Anna lives with her aunt Aliona in the Russian district of Ryazan. One day, they meet Wassily and his son Ivan. In order to marry off his son, Wassily organizes a meeting with all the town's single frauleins and out destiny...
