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poster Crimes of Diogo Alves
Crimes of Diogo Alves
(3.0/5)
23mn - Crime, Drama
Diogo Alves is a Spanish fugitive that comes to the Portuguese capital terrorizing the inhabitants by his cut-throat methods against rich and poor people alike. He attacks the women launderers on the Lisb…
poster Grandma Despina
Grandma Despina
1mn - Documentary
This scene is a part of the very first film shot produced by the Manaki Brothers. Despina, the Janaki and Milton Manaki's grandmother, was recorded weaving in one high-angle shot. For no apparent reason, …
poster Kamarinskaja
Kamarinskaja
1mn - Documentary
Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.
poster The Dumb Girl of Portici
The Dumb Girl of Portici
(3.2/5)
115mn - Drama, History
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
poster El Dorado
El Dorado
(3.6/5)
98mn - Drama
In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both…
poster Spartacus
Spartacus
(2.8/5)
72mn -
The second adaptation of Raffaello Giovagnoli's novel comes at a time when Italy really started pumping out their epic films with the longer running times, expensive sets and lavish production values. Thi…
poster Anita Garibaldi
Anita Garibaldi
11mn - History
poster Nero and Agrippina
Nero and Agrippina
(2.8/5)
18mn - History
Short costume picture on the infamous Roman Emperor.
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 A Scarlet Angel
A Scarlet Angel
(3.4/5)
77mn - Crime, Romance, Drama
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. In the midst of a dance number goes suddenly all the lights out. In the confusion that arises one of the …
poster The Queen of Spades
The Queen of Spades
15mn - Horror, Drama
Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …
poster Die Serpentintänzerin
Die Serpentintänzerin
1mn - Documentary
A young woman dancer with large, flowing robes, swirls round herself quickly, making her light robe flow around her like a butterfly's wings.
poster Blue Eyes
Blue Eyes
(3.5/5)
111mn - Drama
A dying immigration officer haunted by guilt travels to Brazil to seek forgiveness from the daughter of a man he killed through prejudice and abuse of power, guided by a young prostitute on a desperate qu…
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster Mirages
Mirages
(3/5)
37mn - Drama, Romance
Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective o…
poster Carmen
Carmen
38mn - Drama
In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.
poster Malombra
Malombra
(3/5)
75mn - Mystery, Drama, Horror
Marina di Malombra (Borelli) lives in a castle prior to her wedding. She begins to read letters written by an ancestor called Cecilia. She finds out that Cecilia was driven to her death by her uncle. Mari…
poster Scarlet Days
Scarlet Days
(2.7/5)
77mn - Adventure, Romance, Western
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's s…
poster Scarred
Scarred
86mn - Horror
Four models arrive at an abandoned estate for a glamorous photo shoot, unaware that the scarred and vengeful Jonah Kandie still lurks on the property, seeking brutal revenge on anyone who dares enter his …
poster The Slave Market
The Slave Market
3mn - Adventure
In front of a round tent, a pasha is sitting on the grass; to the right of the tent's door, covered with a patterned blanket, is a flagpole - on top of which is an 8-pointed star [Saturn-Film's logo]. The…
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