Whirlpool of Fate
Jean Renoir’s directional debut and first silent film stars his wife, Catherine Hessling, as a young girl who manages to turn her tragic family life into one of joy and…
The Mystic
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.
Maciste in Hell
The devil takes Maciste down to hell in an attempt to corrupt and ruin his morality.
Paths to Paradise
Two thieves discover a professional and personal relationship when individual heist plans are thrown together by circumstance.
Manasse
Lelia Cohanovici, a young Jewish woman from the capital falls in love with Matei Frunză, who is a Christian, but her parents, Nissim and Esther, want her to marry their…
Master of the House
A bully browbeats his wife and children until he meets his match in the woman who raised him.
Clash of the Wolves
A fire in the mountains drives a wolf pack into the nearby desert where they terrorize the local residents. The leader of the wolf pack is Lobo, actually a halfbreed…
Body and Soul
A minister is malevolent and sinister behind his righteous facade. He consorts with, and later extorts from, the owner of a gambling house, and betrays an honest girl, eventually driving…
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of…
The Wizard of Oz
A farm girl learns she is a princess and is swept away by a tornado to the land of Oz.
Faces of Children
A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother’s death and his father’s remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his…
Zander the Great
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with…
Motherhood: Life’s Greatest Miracle
In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.
Kentucky Pride
It is the story of a Beaumont race horse, and it told through from the point of view of the horse via intertitles.
The Olympic Games Held at Chamonix in 1924
A documentary covering the Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924.
The Phantom of the Opera
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair,…
Chess Fever
With an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his…
Battleship Potemkin
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the…
Little Annie Rooney
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.
Tartuffe
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.
The Big Parade
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working…
Go West
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…
Wild Horse Mesa
Desperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
Strike
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Somewhere In Wrong
Stan plays a kind hearted tramp whose love goes un-requited in this sweet short film from 1925.
Variety
The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.
The Lost World
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
The Gold Rush
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He soon gets mixed up with some burly characters, falls in love with the beautiful Georgia, and tries to win her…
Seven Chances
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday — which is today — he’ll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
Stage Struck
Daydreaming waitress Jennie Hagen fantasizes about becoming a famous actress, while in reality she and her cook boyfriend, Orme Wilson, hope to one day own their own diner. Although Orme…
The Eagle
Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest,…
The Freshman
Harold Lamb is so excited about going to college that he has been working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning a special way of introducing himself that…
Too Many Kisses
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in…
Lights of Old Broadway
Adapted from the play The Merry Wives of Gotham, twin sisters are separated at birth – one of them becomes a society girl in New York, the other lives in…