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poster Money Mad

Money Mad

9mn - Crime, Drama

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple…

poster Ko-Ko's Kink

Ko-Ko's Kink

6mn - Animation, Comedy

An Inkwell Imp short.

poster Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

Corbett and Courtney Before the Kinetograph

1mn - Documentary

James J. Corbett and Peter Courtney meet in a boxing exhibition.

poster The Finder

The Finder

92mn - Crime, Thriller, Short

Ex-cop Les Kearney is hired to find the kidnapped daughter of a wealthy businessman.

poster Svengali

Svengali

81mn - Drama, Horror, Romance

A music maestro uses hypnotism on a young model he meets in Paris to make her both his muse and wife.

poster High Society

High Society

20mn - Comedy, Family

Mickey is a poor boy who lives with his Uncle Pat. While they're broke, they're also very happy. Since Pat hasn't legally adopted Mickey, Aunt Kate gains custody and takes him to her mansion.

Zohra

Saved from shipwreck, a little girl is taken into the protection of the North-African tribal chief and named "Zohra".

poster The Stupidstitious Cat

The Stupidstitious Cat

6mn - Animation

Buzzy the Crow is under attack from a cat. But when he finds out that the cat is very superstitious, he uses that against him in all sorts of clever ways.

poster Stealing a Nation

Stealing a Nation

56mn - Documentary

This tells a story literally 'hidden from history'. In the 1960s and 70s, British governments, conspiring with American officials, tricked into leaving, then expelled the entire population of the Chagos i…

Skinned

98mn - Thriller

An undercover cop hunting a serial killer who tattoos and skins his victims finds herself dangerously drawn to Nathan, unaware he's the very predator she's pursuing.

poster Maniac Chase

Maniac Chase

8mn - Comedy, Thriller

A “madman” escapes prison and the torments of his warders.

poster The Charmer

The Charmer

A magician charms a caterpillar and turns it into a butterfly woman.

poster The Masked Amazon

The Masked Amazon

56mn - Drama, Romance

Silent adventure film in which a horse riding woman has to save her husband from prison in a enemy country.

poster Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty and Minnie He-Haw

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A very plump Indian woman finds him and takes him to her tep…

poster Coney Island

Coney Island

Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Presence of Mind

Presence of Mind

88mn - Horror, Thriller, Drama

A governess, caring for two children at a remote estate, becomes convinced that the grounds are haunted and the children are under an evil influence.

poster Chained for Life

Chained for Life

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

poster Forbidden Fruit

Forbidden Fruit

87mn - Drama, Romance

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with…

poster Petticoat Camp

Petticoat Camp

Several married couples go on a camp-out together, but the women soon realize that the men expect them to do all the dirty work.

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