Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Adventure • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton
Writer
Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman, Al Boasberg
Cast
Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Adventure • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Writer
Lotte Reiniger
Cast
na
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Writer
Dimitri Kirsanoff
Cast
Nadia Sibirskaïa, Yolande Beaulieu, Guy Belmont
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin
Writer
Maxim Gorky, Nathan Zarkhi
Cast
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Drama • Country: Russia, USA • Language: None, Russian
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Man Ray
Writer
Man Ray
Cast
Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Marcel Duchamp
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German, English
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: Germany • Language: 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...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Dziga Vertov
Writer
Dziga Vertov
Cast
na
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Hans Richter
Writer
Hans Richter
Cast
Stella F. Simon
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti
Writer
na
Cast
Blanche Bernis, Nina Chousvalowa, Philippe Hériat
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).
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Norway, Sweden • Language: na
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Nikolay Gogol, Yuri Tynyanov
Cast
Andrei Kostrichkin, Antonina Eremeeva, Andrei Kapler
Plot
One of the most acknowledged film interpretations of classic short story "The Overcoat" (1842) by Nikolai Gogol, describing a fate of a "small person".
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William Beaudine, Tom McNamara
Writer
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Jacques Feyder
Writer
Frédéric Boutet, Jacques Feyder
Cast
Jean Forest, Rolla Norman, Françoise Rosay
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: None, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
René Clair
Writer
René Clair
Cast
Dolly Davis, Jean Börlin, Albert Préjean
Plot
In a daydream, a shy bank clerk is led by a fairy into a subterranean world where people transform into animals and waxworks come to life. Lucie, his office crush, follows him but a bad fairy is intent on keeping them apart.
