Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster The Woman from Nowhere
The Woman from Nowhere
(3.3/5)
61mn - Drama
A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of th…
poster Springtime
Springtime
6mn - Animation, Family, Comedy
Flowers, insects, and a crow family all dance to a jaunty tune celebrating spring. After a brief storm, grasshoppers, frogs, and spiders cavort to the Dance of the Hours.
poster Danse macabre
Danse macabre
8mn - Drama, Horror, Music
The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack, a mix of animation and acted scenes tells the story of Youth and Love meeting one night. They dance, em…
poster Frolics at the Circus
Frolics at the Circus
6mn - Animation
Felix Frolics at the Circus is an American animated short film featuring Felix the Cat and released on September 26, 1920.
poster Woos Whoopee
Woos Whoopee
7mn - Animation, Comedy
One of Otto Messmer's most unusual Felix cartoons. It portrays Felix as an inebriated feline being chased by all kinds of demons only to be welcomed by the greatest demon of all, the angry wife.
poster Wiggle Your Ears
Wiggle Your Ears
(3.6/5)
20mn - Comedy
This is a really strange, but thought provoking film. Here, beloved Mary literally lets Harry Spear kick her behind, spend her money on him, and forces her to push his kiddie car, all so that she could ge…
poster Tiger Rose
Tiger Rose
(3.1/5)
61mn - Drama
Originally a Broadway play by Willard Macks, Lenore Ulric played the lead on Broadway and reprises her role for this film. At the Wutchi Wum trading post In the peaceful Loon River Valley, deep in the Can…
poster Love 'Em and Weep
Love 'Em and Weep
23mn - Comedy
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He enlists a friend to keep her away from his home and wife.
poster Detained
Detained
18mn - Comedy
When a convict forcibly changes places with our hero Stan, he's taken to the pokey in the prisoner's place. Run-ins with pies, pickaxes, and the electric chair follow. Will the warden find Stan innocent o…
poster Little Old New York
Little Old New York
(3.2/5)
107mn - Comedy, Romance
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
poster Kismet
Kismet
(3.3/5)
85mn -
Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.
poster Hot Water
Hot Water
(3.6/5)
59mn - Comedy
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; A wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow. Finally, a sequence in whi…
poster Haunted Spooks
Haunted Spooks
(3.3/5)
25mn - Comedy
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inher…
poster Her Bridal Night-Mare
Her Bridal Night-Mare
35mn - Comedy
Mary, a bride-to-be, has a troublesome wedding day.
poster Gas and Air
Gas and Air
11mn - Comedy
Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders of…
poster Captain January
Captain January
(3.5/5)
64mn - Drama
During a tempestuous storm, a lighthouse keeper finds an infant girl who washes ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and wants her …
poster A Tale of Two Worlds
A Tale of Two Worlds
(2.9/5)
70mn - Drama
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
poster Brothers Under the Chin
Brothers Under the Chin
24mn - Comedy
Twin "babies" left at an orphanage bear the same birthmark under the chin. One of them is adopted and then the scene shifts to "twenty years later." The other as captain of a sailing vessel needs an extra…
poster Manhandled
Manhandled
(3.4/5)
63mn - Romance, Comedy, Drama
A comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
poster Collars and Cuffs
Collars and Cuffs
11mn - Comedy
Collars and Cuffs is a 1923 silent comedy film starring Stan Laurel.