FR #123 | Movie | Sci-Fi, Drama | Germany | German, English
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.
FR #213 | 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 #424 | Movie | Religion | France | French, Latin
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Andre Berley, Michel Simon
Plot
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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 #701 | Movie | Documentary | France, USA | Japanese, English
Director
Robert J. Flaherty
Writer
Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast
Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Plot
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
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.
FR #930 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Fritz Lang, Thea Von Harbou
Cast
Paul Richter, Margarete Schon, Theodor Loos
Plot
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, sets off on a treacherous journey to the Kingdom of Burgundy to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Princess Kriemhild.
FR #1187 | Movie | Fantasy, Horror | Germany | German
Director
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Writer
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Deutsch
Plot
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Vernon Dent
Plot
Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
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 #1479 | Movie | Romance, Thriller | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch
Plot
The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service.
Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
FR #1935 | Movie | Adventure, Drama | Germany | German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea Von Harbou
Cast
Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Plot
Princess Kriemhild vows to avenge her husband's murder but must overcome her brothers who swore allegiance to Hagen. She marries Etzel, King of the Huns, and persuades his army to attack Hagen, but she loses more than she bargaine...
FR #1970 | Movie | Short | France | French, English
Director
Rene Clair
Writer
Francis Picabia, Rene Clair
Cast
Jean Borlin, Inge Friss, Francis Picabia
Plot
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
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.
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.
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 #2712 | Movie | Animation, Short | USA | English
Director
Walt Disney
Writer
Carl W. Stalling
Plot
The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.
FR #2993 | 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 #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 #3707 | 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 #4486 | 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...
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 #4688 | 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.
Kiki Of Montparnasse, Fernand Leger, Dudley Murphy
Plot
A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows ...
FR #4704 | Movie | Crime, Drama | Germany, USA | German, English
Director
Joe May
Writer
Joe May, Hans Szekely, Rolf E. Vanloo
Cast
Albert Steinruck, Else Heller, Gustav Frohlich
Plot
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a ...
Lottie Blair Parker, William A. Brady, Joseph R. Grismer
Cast
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Kate Bruce
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
FR #4707 | Movie | Documentary, Short | Netherlands | Dutch
Director
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Writer
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Plot
Regen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
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.
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.
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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...
FR #5488 | 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...
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.
