Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann
Plot
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Aber
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Hans Richter
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Black and white rectangular images fade in and out of the screen. Their movement make them sometimes look like they're panning from side to side. Their movement also make the black and white individually change from foreground to ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Walter Ruttmann
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Against a dark background, several bright, curved or rounded shapes pulse towards the center of the screen, one at a time. They are followed by many other shapes, some irregular, some pointed, others rounded. The abstract shapes m...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Svend Gade, Heinz Schall
Writer
Erwin Gepard, William Shakespeare, Edward P. Vining
Cast
Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt
Plot
Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's version of the legend. The most important of...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Marcel L'Herbier
Writer
Marcel L'Herbier
Cast
Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot
Plot
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her son's biological father and one of the riches...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Henry King
Writer
Joseph Hergesheimer, Edmund Goulding, Henry King
Cast
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
Plot
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Walter Ruttmann
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
As early as 1909, Walter Ruttmann explored the artistic properties of the film. His theoretical and practical work led in 1919 to the first "absolute film", Opus I. Ruttmann placed "painting more time" halfway between painting and...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni
Writer
Carl Mayer
Cast
Henny Porten, Fritz Kortner, William Dieterle
Plot
A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. She, however, is in love with a wealthy, handsome young man. Desperate to win her love, he begins to interce...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Delluc
Writer
Louis Delluc
Cast
Ève Francis, Edmond Van Daële, Gaston Modot
Plot
Topinelli, who runs a bar in a harbor in Marseille with his wife Sarah, begin to quarrel in conflict when a sailor, who turns out to be a past lover of Sarah, dances with her on arrival to the bar.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Lupu Pick
Writer
Carl Mayer, Lupu Pick
Cast
Werner Krauss, Edith Posca, Hermine Straßmann-Witt
Plot
Set during the winter, the story tells the tale of a track checker and his family who live a poverty-stricken life next to a railway line. They receive a telegram announcing the arrival of the section inspector, who is to live wit...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Max Linder
Writer
Max Linder
Cast
Max Linder, Alta Allen, Betty K. Peterson
Plot
After breaking a mirror in his home, superstitious Max tries to avoid situations which could bring bad luck-- but in doing so, causes himself the worst luck imaginable.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Writer
Walt Whitman
Cast
na
Plot
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Norway • Language: na
Director
Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Writer
Knut Hamsun, Gunnar Sommerfeldt
Cast
Amund Rydland, Karen Poulsen, Ragna Wettergreen
Plot
After the Nobel prize winning Knut Hamsun-novel, with it's criticism of industrialization, urbanizing and loss of values. The farmer Isak makes a farm out of barren soil, together with Inger and their two sons. She kills the third.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Fred Niblo
Writer
Alexandre Dumas, Edward Knoblock, Lotta Woods
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks, Nigel De Brulier, George Siegmann
Plot
Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes D'Artagnan to join the King's Musketeers in his...
