Category: Movie • Genre: Biography, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Joseph Delteil, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Plot
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Writer
Clyde Bruckman, Lew Lipton, Joseph Farnham
Cast
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Edgar Allan Poe, Luis Buñuel, Jean Epstein
Cast
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy
Plot
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Romance, Thriller • Country: Germany • Language: None, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: India • Language: na
Director
Franz Osten
Writer
William A. Burton, Niranjan Pal
Cast
Himanshu Rai, Charu Roy, Seeta Devi Jr.
Plot
A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima (Enakshi) is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz (Rai). She is abducted and sold as a slave to Prince Khurram, later Emperor Shah Jehan (Ro...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Marcel L'Herbier
Writer
Marcel L'Herbier, Arthur Bernède, Émile Zola
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Pierre Alcover
Plot
The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity stunt involving the aviator Jacques Hamelin ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Writer
Hans Christian Andersen, Jean Renoir
Cast
Catherine Hessling, Eric Barclay, Jean Storm
Plot
An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm, she sees things in the flame.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Romance • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Man Ray
Writer
Robert Desnos
Cast
Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Plot
Two people stand on a road, out of focus. Seen distorted through a glass, they retire upstairs to a bedroom where she undresses. He says, "Adieu." Images: the beautiful girl, a starfish in a jar, city scenes, newspapers, tugboats....
Category: Movie • Genre: Action, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Ted Wilde
Writer
John Grey, Lex Neal, Howard Emmett Rogers
Cast
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff
Plot
Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: France, Germany • Language: None, French
Director
René Clair
Writer
René Clair, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel
Cast
Alice Tissot, Alexej Bondireff, Marise Maia
Plot
On his way through the woods to his marriage, Fadinard's horse eats the hat of a married lady spending here a few moments with her lover. Fadinard has to find the very same rare hat to avoid her dishonor. This will greatly disturb...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Pál Fejös
Writer
Mann Page, Edward T. Lowe Jr., Tom Reed
Cast
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Plot
Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: None, Japanese
Director
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Writer
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Cast
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bandô, Yukiko Ogawa
Plot
After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother wh...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Family • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Writer
na
Cast
Walt Disney
Plot
Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip involving some necking, though Minnie objects to the necking.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Dziga Vertov
Writer
Dziga Vertov
Cast
na
Plot
This documentary film is showing the hard labor of countrymen in industrial production to strengthen the U.S.S.R. economy and turning their country into a world power.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Henrik Galeen
Writer
Hanns Heinz Ewers, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich
Plot
A scientist with an interest in genetics impregnates a sex worker with the seed of a hanged murderer. The sex worker gives birth to a child who has no concept of love, whom the scientist adopts.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Crime • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
William A. Wellman
Writer
Benjamin Glazer, Jim Tully
Cast
Wallace Beery, Richard Arlen, Louise Brooks
Plot
After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the poli...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Documentary • Country: Germany • Language: na
Director
Hans Richter
Writer
Hans Richter
Cast
na
Plot
Inflation explores the subject of money through photographs and with with stop motion animation techniques, adding faces of people impoverished and enriched by the unpredictability of finance.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Fred Niblo
Writer
Ludwig Wolff, Bess Meredyth, Marian Ainslee
Cast
Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Plot
An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
William Dieterle
Writer
Franz Höllering, Herbert Juttke, Georg C. Klaren
Cast
William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson
Plot
A young man is convicted of manslaughter and sentenced to a term in prison. There he forms a close relationship with his cellmate and upon his release his wife is concerned as to how prison has changed the man she married.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Drama • Country: USA • Language: na
Director
Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Writer
Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Cast
Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey
Plot
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey
Writer
H.M. Walker, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn
Plot
The boys are contracted to build a house in a day but they have many mishaps and run into trouble with the nearby hospital staff, due to their excessive noise.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Grémillon
Writer
Alexandre Arnoux
Cast
Charles Dullin, Marcelle Charles Dullin, Geymond Vital
Plot
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the e...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Painlevé
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
Titles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that turns in all directions. Antennae enable daphnia to move: in a close up magnified ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: France • Language: French
Director
René Clair
Writer
René Clair, Eugène Labiche, Marc Michel
Cast
Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory
Plot
Garadoux has beaten his wife. His lawyer Fremissin is young and very shy, and therefore, not very efficient... Two years after, Garadoux is trying to seduce Cecile, but she prefers Fremissin...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Joe May
Writer
Leonhard Frank, Joe May, Fritz Wendhausen
Cast
Lars Hanson, Dita Parlo, Gustav Fröhlich
Plot
Following World War I, after a long imprisonment, two German prisoner-of-war soldiers escape from a Siberian lead-mine. Karl manages to reach Germany before Richard, and is sheltered by Anna, wife of Richard. While Richard is stil...
Aleksandre Imedashvili, Kokhta Karalashvili, Kira Andronikashvili
Plot
In 19th century, the Russian government tries to resettle a Chechen village to Turkey, but the villagers are not keen on being evicted from their homeland.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer
Wladyslaw Starewicz
Cast
Nina Star, Bogdan Zoubowitch
Plot
It's the story of Yolande, a little girl (about 12) who wanted to become a princess. Bombastus, her old father, has created a marvelous and big clock crowded with little characters (animated puppets). On each hour ring, one of the...
