Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Drama • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin, Harry Carr, Harry Crocker
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee
Plot
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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: 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: 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, Action • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès, Jules Verne, Adolphe d'Ennery
Cast
Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany, Jehanne d'Alcy
Plot
Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.
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: TV • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Italy • Language: None, Italian
Director
na
Writer
na
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, Osvaldo Cavandoli, Bruno Bozzetto
Plot
When artist draws a magic line, it takes on a life of its own, becoming a silhouette of a living hot-tempered person. This "Mr. Linea" wants more things drawn so he can enjoy himself, but the artist loves having fun on Mr. Linea's...
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary, Music • Country: USA • Language: None, Hopi
Director
Godfrey Reggio
Writer
Godfrey Reggio, Ron Fricke, Michael Hoenig
Cast
Edward Asner, Pat Benatar, Jerry Brown
Plot
A collection of expertly photographed phenomena with no conventional plot. The footage focuses on the relationship between nature, humanity, and technology.
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: TV • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Switzerland, UK • Language: English, None
Director
na
Writer
Erika Brueggemann, Otmar Gutmann
Cast
Carlo Bonomi, David Sant, Marcello Magni
Plot
Children's stop-motion series set in Antarctica and focusing around penguin families living and working in igloos. The main character, Pingu, belongs to one such family. He goes on various adventures with his little sister and his...
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, Romance • Country: Brazil • Language: None, Portuguese
Director
Mario Peixoto
Writer
Mario Peixoto
Cast
Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor
Plot
Three castaways - a man and two women - adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean find solace in recounting the tales of their lives to one another, reminiscing about the circumstances that led them to their desolate predicament.
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: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Feuillade
Writer
Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre
Cast
René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Plot
Inspector Juve is tasked to capture the infamous criminal genius Fantômas who, ruthless and particularly elusive, changes his appearance and holds Paris' high society in a crippling grasp.
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: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Feuillade
Writer
Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre
Cast
René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Plot
In Part Two of Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows Fantômas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.
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: Drama, History • Country: Sweden • Language: None, Swedish
Director
Mauritz Stiller
Writer
Selma Lagerlöf, Gustaf Molander, Mauritz Stiller
Cast
Erik Stocklassa, Bror Berger, Richard Lund
Plot
In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen i...
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: Drama • Country: India • Language: None, Malayalam
Director
J.C. Daniel
Writer
J.C. Daniel
Cast
J.C. Daniel, Rosy P.K., Johnson
Plot
Chandrakumar, son of a rich man in Travancore is kidnapped by the villain Bhoothanathan to Ceylon. The efforts of his parents to find him do not succeed and Chandrakumar is brought up as a laborer in an estate. The estate owner, w...
Category: Movie • Genre: Animation, Short • Country: Czech • Language: None, Czech
Director
Jan Svankmajer
Writer
Jan Svankmajer
Cast
na
Plot
A human body gradually reconstructs itself as its various component parts crowd themselves into a small room and eventually, after much experimentation, sort out which part goes where.
Category: Movie • Genre: Documentary • Country: Russia • Language: None, Sign
Director
Mikhail Kalatozov
Writer
Sergey Tretyakov, Mikhail Kalatozov
Cast
na
Plot
Story of distant mountainous region in Georgia that depicts folklore, lifestyle and daily routines of Svani people, focuses on the scarcity of salt in Svaneti region. Rich with documentary value, the movie also served for Soviet p...
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: Comedy, Romance • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Ernst Lubitsch
Writer
Hanns Kräly, Ernst Lubitsch
Cast
Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla
Plot
A teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.
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: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Feuillade
Writer
Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre
Cast
René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Plot
After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Feuillade
Writer
Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre
Cast
René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas
Plot
The press and the public opinion suggest that Inspector Juve may in fact be Fantômas. As Juve is jailed, the actual Fantômas schemes to keep him behind bars forever.
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: Comedy, Western • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Buster Keaton
Writer
Buster Keaton, Lex Neal, Raymond Cannon
Cast
Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Plot
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Category: Movie • Genre: Comedy, Western • Country: USA • Language: None, English
Director
Charles Chaplin
Writer
Charles Chaplin
Cast
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin
Plot
Disguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Adventure • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès, Jules Verne
Cast
Georges Méliès, Fernande Albany
Plot
Aboard the futuristic flying machine of his own invention, Professor Mabouloff and his team of intercultural explorers set off on yet another impossible expedition to North Pole's vast landscapes. What wonders await the bold adven...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Writer
Ilja Ehrenburg, Rudolf Leonhardt, Ladislaus Vajda
Cast
Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
Plot
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lov...
Category: Movie • Genre: Horror • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Writer
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen
Cast
Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen, Lyda Salmonova
Plot
Lost film about an antiques dealer who finds a golem that has been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a r...
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Louis Feuillade
Writer
Marcel Allain, Louis Feuillade, Pierre Souvestre
Cast
René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior
Plot
Having committed murder in Belgium, Fantômas is sentenced to life imprisonment. Juve conceives the idea that if Fantômas is set free, he can follow him back to France and capture him and the remaining members of his gang once and ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Comedy • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Millard Mercury
Writer
Millard Mercury
Cast
Ewing Tordella, Edith Trublanchet
Plot
A humongous and obese anthropomorphic swine dressed like a fine gentleman in a fancy dinner attire tries to make a pass at a solitary lady having a picnic.
Category: Movie • Genre: Crime, Drama • Country: USA • Language: English, None
Director
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Writer
Charles Furthman, Howard Hawks, Ben Hecht
Cast
George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Plot
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Category: Movie • Genre: Short, Horror • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Georges Méliès
Writer
Georges Méliès
Cast
Georges Méliès
Plot
A man dressed in red is ushered into an antechamber in a Castle and offered a seat. When he tried to sit down the chair moves to the other side of the room causing the man to fall on the floor. Standing up he strides to the chair ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Horror • Country: Russia • Language: None, Russian
Director
Yevgeny Bauer
Writer
Yevgeny Bauer, Ivan Turgenev
Cast
Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, Vera Karalli
Plot
Andrei lives a secluded life with his aunt, studying and thinking about his now-deceased mother. His friend Tsenin is concerned, and tries to get Andrei to accompany him to social events. After watching the actress Zoya Kadmina pe...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Romance • Country: France • Language: None, French
Director
Jean Epstein
Writer
Jean Epstein, Paul Morand
Cast
Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Plot
Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by ...
Category: Movie • Genre: Drama, Fantasy • Country: Germany • Language: None, German
Director
Arthur Robison
Writer
Albin Grau, Arthur Robison, Rudolf Schneider
Cast
Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav von Wangenheim
Plot
A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the h...
