silent film

A man in civil clothes, and three men in army uniforms are inspecting seven women to be recruited. They are taking and inscribing in a ledger ...

A middle-aged man bare chest and wearing trousers, clears a shallow trench in the sand while a young woman draped in a long, flimsy veil looks ...

A dastardly woman carries out a con scheme in which she hypnotizes an unsuspecting gentleman, takes off her clothes, and steals his wallet. ...

Two sets of images are superimposed. From the side, we see a two-masted ship. Across the deck walks a skeleton. It sits down, its legs akimbo. ...

Three friends are playing cards in a beer garden. One of them orders drinks. The waitress comes back with a bottle of wine and three glasses on a ...

Director Joseph Cornell evokes the nostalgia of childhood by filming a children’s party. Release: Children’s Party 1938 tt1434420 ...

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to ...

In his adaptation of the grisly French folk tale, the pioneer director, Georges Méliès, divides the story of Cendrillon (1899)’s writer, ...

Assisted by her maid, a woman undresses. Lying half naked on her bed, she reads and tosses around. Release: Aufregende Lektüre 1910 tt3633068 ...

A story told with few words. We see a solitary man and a solitary woman, each alone with their thoughts. She is in the country, staring out a ...

Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dance routines. She uses her dance steps and her long, flowing skirts to create a variety ...

Roscoe’s wife, tired of his endless drunkenness, reads of an operation that cures alcoholism and has him admitted to No Hope Sanitarium to ...

A young woman finds herself at the mercy of her mischievous friends after she leans out a window to retrieve a dropped ball. Release: [Eine ...

A woman in ballet slippers wearing a large white hat and a long white dress – with ruffles, puffy sleeves and petticoats – dances ...

John Schuyler, happily married Wall Street lawyer, is appointed as special diplomatic representative to England. By an unhappy accident, his wife ...

“Riggs’s film poem conveys delight with his adopted hometown through a documentarian’s eye for significant detail, a lyrical ...

City Lights is the first silent film that Charlie Chaplin directed after he established himself with sound accompanied films. The film is about a ...

Buster manages the store while Roscoe delivers the mail, taking time out for hide-and-seek with Molly. The constable, also interested in Molly, ...

In Imperial Russia, Anna Karenina falls in love with the dashing military officer Count Vronsky and abandons her husband and child to become his ...

This satirical parody of William S. Hart’s melodramatic films finds Buster in the frozen north, “last stop on the subway.” He ...