Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Buster Keaton
Writer
Jean C. Havez, Joseph A. Mitchell, Clyde Bruckman
Cast
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Fritz Lang, Thea von Harbou
Cast
Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea von Harbou
Cast
Margarete Schön, 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
René Clair
Writer
Francis Picabia, René Clair
Cast
Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Writer
Fernand Léger
Cast
Kiki of Montparnasse, Fernand Léger, 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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Comedy • Country: Russia, UK • Language: None, Russian
Director
Yakov Protazanov
Writer
Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep, Aleksei Tolstoy
Cast
Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli
Plot
Engineer Mstislav Sergeyevich Los travels to Mars where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group of Elders with the support of Queen Aelita who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.
Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat
Plot
Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Dziga Vertov
Writer
Dziga Vertov
Cast
na
Plot
This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all t...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Viking Eggeling
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes and the process begins again...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Fantasy • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Lev Kuleshov
Writer
Nikolay Aseev, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Cast
Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova
Plot
Experience the chronicle adventures of Mr. West and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible and evil Bolsheviks.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: Germany • Language: German, Swedish
Director
F.W. Murnau
Writer
Frank Heller, Fritz Wendhausen, Thea von Harbou
Cast
Harry Liedtke, Mady Christians, Robert Scholtz
Plot
The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess o...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Herbert G. Ponting
Writer
na
Cast
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers
Plot
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance, Max Linder
Cast
Max Linder, Jean Toulout, Gina Palerme
Plot
Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of wi...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
John Ford
Writer
Charles Kenyon, John Russell, Charles Darnton
Cast
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull
Plot
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Austria • Language: na
Director
H.K. Breslauer
Writer
Hugo Bettauer, Ida Jenbach, H.K. Breslauer
Cast
Eugen Neufeld, Hans Moser, Anny Miletty
Plot
In the Republic of Utopia, because of the bad economic crisis ailing the nation, the Jews are made the scapegoats for the economic and social ills affecting the population; therefore, the government decides to expel them.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Walter Ruttmann
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Third instalment in a series of short, abstract animations, featuring bright shapes moving against a dark background. The shapes move across the screen in harmony with the music.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Writer
Sam Taylor, John Grey, Tim Whelan
Cast
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Josephine Crowell
Plot
Episodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey, a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow, and a sequence in which Hubby accidentally chloroforms his mo...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Herbert Brenon
Writer
J.M. Barrie, Willis Goldbeck
Cast
Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, George Ali
Plot
Peter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Romance • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
Writer
Aleksei Fajko, Fyodor Otsep
Cast
Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Anna Dmokhovskaya
Plot
As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells ci...
