Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Joe May
Writer
Joe May, Hans Székely, Rolf E. Vanloo
Cast
Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich
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 ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Netherlands • Language: Dutch
Director
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Writer
Mannus Franken, Joris Ivens
Cast
na
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein
Cast
Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev
Plot
100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Walt Disney
Writer
Carl W. Stalling
Cast
Walt Disney, 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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, History • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Writer
Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
Cast
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin
Plot
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Jean Epstein
Cast
Gibois, Jean-Marie Laot, Malgorn
Plot
On an island off the coast of Brittany four isolated men collect seaweed. Two young best friends have a quarrel and when one's thumb becomes infected his friend must risk his life on the ocean to bring him to the doctor.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Fridrikh Ermler
Writer
Fridrikh Ermler, Ekaterina Vinogradskaya
Cast
Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Yakov Gudkin
Plot
A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Victor A. Turin
Writer
Yefim Aron, Aleksandr Macheret, Viktor Shklovskiy
Cast
na
Plot
Resisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the arid plains of Turkestan to th...
The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother".
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Man Ray
Writer
Man Ray
Cast
Man Ray, Jacques-André Boiffard, Georges Auric
Plot
Two masked men playing dice in a bar leave, get in a car, and drive to the ruins of a castle on a hill. There. they find a modern chateau filled with contemporary furniture and abstract art. Time to roll the dice.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Writer
Lew Lipton, Ernest Pagano, Robert E. Hopkins
Cast
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Plot
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Action • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Leo McCarey
Writer
Leo McCarey, H.M. Walker
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Tom Kennedy
Plot
With the police hot on their trail, Stan and Ollie attempt to change clothes in their getaway car, only to find themselves struggling to balance atop the girders of an unfinished skyscraper. Will they return to ground level in one...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Phil Jutzi
Writer
Willy Döll, Jan Fethke, Otto Nagel
Cast
Alexandra Schmitt, Holmes Zimmermann, Ilse Trautschold
Plot
Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: UK • Language: English
Director
Ewald André Dupont
Writer
Arnold Bennett
Cast
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Plot
A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James Parrott
Writer
Leo McCarey, Hal Roach, H.M. Walker
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy
Plot
The boys and their wives are preparing for a drive to a Sunday picnic but infighting is ruining their plans and a sudden feud with a next-door neighbor completes the disaster.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Painlevé
Writer
na
Cast
na
Plot
A close-up look at sand urchins and rock urchins. At the seashore, a man digs up a sand urchin. We look closely. He sets it back in the sand, and it burrows out of sight. Its intestines take nutrients out of sand. Using magnificat...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Japan • Language: na
Director
Kenji Mizoguchi
Writer
Shuichi Hatamoto, Kan Kikuchi, Chiio Kimura
Cast
Shizue Natsukawa, Reiji Ichiki, Eiji Takagi
Plot
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Mikhail Kaufman
Writer
Mikhail Kaufman
Cast
na
Plot
In Spring is a masterpiece of Ukrainian cinema avant-garde, a non-fiction film made by Mikhail Kaufman, Dziga Vertov's brother and co-author, along the lines of the avant-gardist theory of «cine-eye». The film shows Kyiv in 1929, ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Allan Dwan
Writer
Lotta Woods, Douglas Fairbanks, Alexandre Dumas
Cast
Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte
Plot
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled when his son is born--an heir to the throne. But his Queen has actually delivered twin boys. Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Curtis Bernhardt
Writer
Max Brod, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard
Plot
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a maske...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Jean Grémillon
Writer
Paul Autier, Paul Cloquemin, Jacques Feyder
Cast
Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Plot
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany; the young man is ill.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: Poland • Language: None, Polish
Director
Henryk Szaro
Writer
Jerzy Braun, Stanislaw Przybyszewski, Andrzej Strug
Cast
Gregori Chmara, Agnes Kuck, Julian Krzewinski
Plot
Journalist Henryk Bielecki is not very talented but he desperately wants to become a famous writer. Nothing will stop him from making his dreams come true.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lewis R. Foster
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Plot
On shore leave from the Navy, seamen Stanley and Oliver want to treat two attractive single girls to a glass of soda in the park but only have enough change for three sodas.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: Japan • Language: na
Director
Yasujirô Ozu
Writer
Kôgo Noda
Cast
Atsushi Watanabe, Hisao Yoshitani, Eiko Takamatsu
Plot
A simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life, until they gallantly rescue a woman injured in a road accident.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James Parrott
Writer
Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Leo McCarey
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall
Plot
Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Short • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Walter Ruttmann
Writer
Alfons Paquet, Wolfgang Ruttmann
Cast
Ivan Koval-Samborsky, Renée Stobrawa, Grace Chiang
Plot
An impression of the state of the world in 1929, contrasting similarities and differences in religion, customs, art and entertainment from all over the world. The film is constructed like a symphony.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy
Plot
When Mrs. Hardy refuses to cook supper, Mr. Hardy decides to cook it for himself and Mr. Laurel, but things go wrong during a jealous mix-up with the next-door married couple.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
James Parrott
Writer
H.M. Walker, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Phil Bloom
Plot
Swept up in a police raid, Stan and Ollie are sentenced to jail and land in a jail labor camp. The governor visits, accompanied by two flappers, where the duo accidentally create rice pudding for a food fight.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Short • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Lewis R. Foster
Writer
H.M. Walker, Leo McCarey, James Parrott
Cast
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jean Harlow
Plot
Stanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into a...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Fantasy • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Germaine Dulac
Writer
na
Cast
Marie-Anne Malleville
Plot
Visual structure composed of variations on the arabesque: arcs of light, water spouts, spider webs, burgeoning trees, flowers and foliage, a woman's smile, arms stretching, an arm giving rhythm to a rocking chair.
Category: Movie • Genre: Western • Country: USA • Language: English, Spanish
Director
William Wyler
Writer
Peter B. Kyne, Tom Reed, C. Gardner Sullivan
Cast
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Plot
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Leo Mittler
Writer
Willy Döll, Jan Fethke
Cast
Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow
Plot
The quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences.
Category: Movie • Genre: Adventure, Drama • Country: France • Language: French
Director
Alberto Cavalcanti, Henry Wulschleger
Writer
Alberto Cavalcanti, Théophile Gautier
Cast
Pierre Blanchar, Lien Deyers, Charles Boyer
Plot
Capt. Fracasse, a down-on-his-luck nobleman, gives shelter at his estate one night to a troupe of traveling actors. He falls in love with Isabelle, an actress with the group. The next day, as they prepare to leave, he decides to j...
