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poster Love Lessons
Love Lessons
(3.0/5)
97mn - Drama, Short
An older couple are about to retire, when they find out that they're about to be parents all over again.
poster East Is East
East Is East
(3.1/5)
80mn - Drama, Romance
Victoria Vickers, a little East End Cockney girl, is left a vast fortune by an uncle in America. She is finally discovered hop-picking in Kent by her solicitor, who has given up the search and gone off on…
poster Exposé
Exposé
(2.7/5)
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 Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
(3.3/5)
74mn - Drama
Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of thi…
poster Alice Gets in Dutch
Alice Gets in Dutch
10mn - Animation
Alice misbehaves in school and is forced to sit in the corner. She falls asleep and dreams, but schoolwork intrudes even into her dreams. Alice dreams of dancing dogs and donkeys until her fun is interrup…
poster East Lynne
East Lynne
(3.0/5)
74mn - Drama
An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.
poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
(3.2/5)
44mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…
poster French Cops Learning English
French Cops Learning English
7mn - Comedy
The seven-minute film takes place inside a classroom where some cops are learning English.
poster Seeing the World
Seeing the World
20mn - Comedy
In this Our Gang film, James Finlayson plays the gang's schoolteacher who takes the kids to Europe after winning a local contest. He takes them on a tour of Naples, Pompeii, Rome, the Vatican, Venice, Lon…
poster The Little Match Seller
The Little Match Seller
3mn - Drama
A short melodrama based on Hans Christian Andersen's harrowing tale. A poor little girl tries to sell matchsticks in the freezing December cold. She lights matches for some light and warmth. There are vis…
poster Children Who Labor
Children Who Labor
13mn - Drama
The father of a working class family is having trouble finding a job, because the local textile mill is hiring only inexpensive child labor. Reluctantly, he allows his oldest daughter to work in the mill.…
poster Among Those Present
Among Those Present
35mn - Comedy
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
poster Heckle
Heckle
(3/5)
98mn - Drama, Comedy
A supermarket cashier with dreams beyond checkout lines discovers her calling when a washed-up comedian challenges her to face her fears on stage, launching a journey of self-discovery where bombing on st…
poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
2mn - Drama
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
poster Oliver Twist
Oliver Twist
14mn - Drama
Adaptation of the Charles Dickens novel.
poster The Making of an American
The Making of an American
14mn -
Docudrama encouraging immigrants to master English and become successful, assimilated Americans.
poster Making an American Citizen
Making an American Citizen
(2.7/5)
11mn - Drama
A recent immigrant learns several hard lessons about how husbands in America are expected to behave.
poster The Return of the Salem Witch
The Return of the Salem Witch
82mn - Horror
Six students and two teachers stranded at their boarding school during the holidays discover a mysterious book and perform a ritual to summon the ghost of Bridget Bishop, Salem's infamous witch. But when …
poster Cheers for Miss Bishop
Cheers for Miss Bishop
(3.3/5)
95mn - Comedy, Drama
Ella Bishop is an inhibited girl whose frustrations grow as she approaches womanhood. As a women, her ambitions to teach cause her to lose her only opportunity for true love. Ella's life becomes one of mi…
poster Shadows
Shadows
(3.1/5)
68mn - Drama
Yen Sin, a humble Chinese, is washed ashore after a storm and finds himself an outsider in the deeply Christian fishing community of Urkey. Yen Sin elects to stay, despite his status as a despised 'heathe…
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