Films and TV Shows from the 1920s

poster The Primitive Lover
The Primitive Lover
(3.2/5)
70mn - Comedy, Romance
A free-spirited girl is caught between her love for her husband and her attraction to a handsome adventurer.
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
(2.9/5)
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster The Vanishing American
The Vanishing American
(3.5/5)
110mn - Western
A tribe of Navajo live on a reservation overseen by an Indian-hating agent.
poster The Virginian
The Virginian
(3.1/5)
84mn - Western
Molly Wood arrives in a small western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend, St…
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 The Affairs of Anatol
The Affairs of Anatol
(3.3/5)
117mn - Drama, Comedy, Romance
Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats hi…
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 Diagonal Symphony
Diagonal Symphony
7mn - Animation
A tilted figure, consisting largely of right angles at the beginning, grows by accretion, with the addition of short straight lines and curves which sprout from the existing design. The figure vanishes an…
poster The Love Light
The Love Light
(3.2/5)
89mn - Drama
In a small Italian fishing village during World War I, a young woman's life is upended when she falls for a mysterious stranger who may be hiding a dangerous secret about his true identity.
poster The Tyranny of Hate
The Tyranny of Hate
(2.6/5)
93mn - Drama
It's the beginning of the 1800s. A feud between the people of Ödemo and Rävgården has been going on since the dawn of time and now it's worse than ever.
poster The Mill
The Mill
(3.2/5)
108mn - Drama
The wife of a dull-witted miller is in her deathbed and the miller must find a new woman to marry. He is expected to marry the sister of a local forester, a refined woman he wants to love. She is gentle a…
poster The Students at Tröstehult
The Students at Tröstehult
95mn - Comedy, Romance
Baron Brusenhielm at castle Tröstehult in Skåne dislikes how his young son Karl Oscar is playing “mother and father” with the tenant’s daughter Ann-Marie, as he anticipates the beginning of a future misal…
poster Cinderella
Cinderella
(3.5/5)
13mn - Animation, Fantasy, Romance
Lotte Reiniger's interpretation of Grimm's recorded version of Aschenputtel (Cinderella) from 1922.
poster Lizzies of the Field
Lizzies of the Field
(3.4/5)
16mn - Comedy, Action
There is no love lost between the Red Dog Garage and the Black Cat Garage, two auto repair shops on opposite sides of the street. A big cross-country auto race is announced, and it turns into a no-holds-b…