Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi • Country: Germany • Language: German, English
Director
Fritz Lang
Writer
Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast
Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich
Plot
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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: Drama, History • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Sergei Eisenstein
Writer
Nina Agadzhanova, Sergei Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Cast
Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov
Plot
In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
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: 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: Documentary • Country: France, USA • Language: English
Director
Robert J. Flaherty
Writer
Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast
Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Plot
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
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: 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: Action, Comedy • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Writer
Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Tim Whelan
Cast
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Plot
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
Category: Movie • Genre: Fantasy, Horror • Country: Germany • Language: German
Director
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Writer
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch
Plot
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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: 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: 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, 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: Comedy, Romance • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton
Writer
Jean C. Havez, Clyde Bruckman, Joseph A. Mitchell
Cast
Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
Plot
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Abel Gance
Writer
Abel Gance
Cast
Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier, Georges Térof
Plot
A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
F.W. Murnau
Writer
Molière, Carl Mayer
Cast
Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni
Plot
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
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: 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: Drama • Country: Russia • Language: na
Director
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Writer
Nathan Zarkhi
Cast
Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov
Plot
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
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: Crime, Drama • Country: Germany • Language: German, English
Director
Ewald André Dupont
Writer
Felix Hollaender, Ewald André Dupont
Cast
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Plot
Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations...
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.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Jean Epstein, Marie Epstein
Cast
Léon Mathot, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële
Plot
Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. M...
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: 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, 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: Comedy, Drama • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Abram Room
Writer
Viktor Shklovskiy, Abram Room
Cast
Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Plot
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: Sweden • Language: None, Swedish
Director
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer
Carl Theodor Dreyer, Kristofer Janson
Cast
Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth
Plot
A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
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: Drama, Mystery • Country: Switzerland, France • Language: None, French
Director
Jacques Feyder
Writer
Dimitri De Zoubaloff, Jacques Feyder, Françoise Rosay
Cast
Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez
Plot
A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, resents his father's new wife, not wantin...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short • Country: France • Language: na
Director
Man Ray
Writer
na
Cast
Kiki of Montparnasse
Plot
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: USA • Language: English
Director
D.W. Griffith
Writer
Lottie Blair Parker, William A. Brady, Joseph R. Grismer
Cast
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau
Plot
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
