Complots

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows complots

poster Barrabas

Barrabas

Rudolph Strelitz, known as 'Barrabas', is the leader of a brutal underground gang causing chaos and destruction in the lives of civilized people. A lawyer, Claude Varèse, is strongly determined to bring S…

poster X's & O's

X's & O's

93mn - Comedy, Drama, Romance

Relationship issues arise between a researcher with a theory to explain away all his failed dating experiments, a player who wants out of the game, a deejay whose head spins with thoughts of God, a hoodra…

poster Crashing Broadway

Crashing Broadway

When cowboy performer Tad Wallace's western act flops on Broadway, he heads west with a traveling troupe only to discover their destination theater has been burned down by a local criminal. Joining forces…

poster His Trysting Places

His Trysting Places

On his way to a restaurant, Ambrose, a happily married man, obliges to mail a letter for a woman in the apartment lobby. Unbeknownst to him, the letter is about a rendezvous with her own lover at their "t…

poster Patterns

Patterns

Staples, a successful plant operator, is brought in from Ohio to take an executive position at Ramsey & Co. in New York. He forms a friendship with Briggs, the long-time vice president, but it soon become…

poster Addition and Subtraction

Addition and Subtraction

A magician performs tricks involving three women, who are sometimes merged together into one corpulent female.

poster The Bond

The Bond

A propaganda film created by Charlie Chaplin at his own expense for the Liberty Load Committee to help sell U.S. Liberty Bonds during World War I. The story is a series of sketches humorously illustrating…

Exposé

Nonemn - Drama, Thriller, Horror

A paranoid writer is unable to get started on his second novel. He hires a secretary and then his troubles really begin.

poster Glumov's Diary

Glumov's Diary

5mn - Fantasy, Comedy

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape ex…

poster The Whirl of Life

The Whirl of Life

The plot is a loose autobiographical interpretation of the life of Vernon and Irene Castle, interspersed among a typical melodrama of the period

poster I Cover Chinatown

I Cover Chinatown

64mn - Crime, Drama, Music

A tour guide in Chinatown and his girlfriend get mixed up with jewel thieves and murder.

poster Transformation by Hats

Transformation by Hats

Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.

poster Unusual Cooking

Unusual Cooking

3mn - Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

A chef comes into the kitchen and throws a lot of rags on the floor: he then casts a spell over them, and immediately they take the form of human beings, and dance a wild saraband around the place. After …

poster Love, Loot and Crash

Love, Loot and Crash

12mn - Comedy, Action

A flustered father seeks a cook for his kitchen, his daughter seeks to elope and a pair of crooks seek to get some loot. Add the Keystone Cops and stir vigorously.

poster Side Streets

Side Streets

Five interconnected stories unfold across New York City's boroughs during the hottest day of summer, as a Romanian butcher gambles away his future, a fashion designer fights for her dreams in Manhattan, a…

poster The Deal

The Deal

A washed-up Hollywood producer on the brink of suicide gets one last shot at redemption when his nephew brings him a script about Benjamin Disraeli, but desperation drives him to transform the historical …

poster Sentence of God

Sentence of God

Two ruthless gunmen with opposing motivations—a cold-blooded bounty hunter pursuing the reward and a vengeful outlaw seeking justice for his father's murder—reluctantly join forces to track down the notor…

poster The Klansman

The Klansman

112mn - Crime, Drama, Thriller

A small southern town has just been rocked by a tragedy: a young white woman has been raped by a black man. When young black man Garth witnesses the Ku Klux Klan's violent retaliation against his innocent…

poster A Chump at Oxford

A Chump at Oxford

Two bumbling street sweepers accidentally become heroes by catching a bank robber and are rewarded with scholarships to prestigious Oxford University, where student pranks and a mysterious case of amnesia…

poster Caught in a Cabaret

Caught in a Cabaret

Charlie is a clumsy waiter in a cheap cabaret, suffering the strict orders from his boss. He meets a pretty girl in the park and tries to impress her by pretending to be an ambassador. Unfortunately she h…

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