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poster Boyar Orsha

Boyar Orsha

9mn - History, Drama

Based on Lermontov's poem of the same name, Boyar Orsha (Peter Chardynin) leaves the service of Ivan the Terrible.

poster The Pest

The Pest

Stan is Jimmy Smith, a salesman who is trying hard to pitch his Napoleon book to an uninterested customer as they stand in front of some iron gates. When an elderly gentleman approaches the two men he us…

poster The Yellow Ticket

The Yellow Ticket

"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to att…

poster Wintergartenprogramm

Wintergartenprogramm

On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilatio…

poster Gas and Air

Gas and Air

Stan is Phillip McCann, a gas station attendant who arrives at his job by chauffeur and donning a fur coat over his work clothes. After being dropped off, he puts his sign on the doorframe and wanders of…

poster Pastry Town Wedding

Pastry Town Wedding

7mn - Animation

A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small pastry-making people.

poster Danse Tyrolienne

Danse Tyrolienne

1mn - Documentary

A Tyrolean dancing couple, accompanied by a musician, perform a traditional folk dance in a park in Cologne.

poster After Death

After Death

Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she ha…

poster The Gallants of the Park

The Gallants of the Park

The heir of a rich family puts up a notice, where he says he is looking for a wife. As a result, he will soon find himself fleeing from a dozen women.

poster The Man with Wax Faces

The Man with Wax Faces

11mn - Horror, Thriller

A man does not know what fear is. His good friend dares him to spend one night in a scary place. A house of wax will get the job done.

poster Conrad in Quest of His Youth

Conrad in Quest of His Youth

75mn - Comedy, Drama

Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he e…

poster The Grasshopper and the Ant

The Grasshopper and the Ant

5mn - Animation, Fantasy

An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper pleads with the ant for shelter and is turned away to die.

poster Dog Heaven

Dog Heaven

Poor Pete the Pup. He wants to hang himself because his master, Joe, has given up playing with him and going fishing for the love of a girl. A dog friend of Pete's stops him in the nick of time, and in fl…

poster The Last Tango

The Last Tango

10mn - Drama, Romance

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.

poster The Waif and the Wizard

The Waif and the Wizard

2mn - Drama, Fantasy

The Waif and the Wizard features the same young man who appeared in Undressing Extraordinary (and who might be early filmmaker Walter Booth). It's another early example of a two-shot film along the lines …

poster Komisches Reck

Komisches Reck

1mn - Comedy, Documentary

Part of the Wintergartenprogramm.

poster Jerky Turkey

Jerky Turkey

7mn - Comedy, Animation

A dopey Pilgrim goes hunting a turkey who speaks in a Jimmy Durante impersonation and runs the local black market. War and rationing gags abound (Pilgrims line up behind a sign reading "Ye Cigarettes Toda…

poster Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

91mn - Drama, Short

Donna Yaklich meets Dennis the policeman and thinks she might have found a good relationship. But Dennis is obsessed with weight-lifting and uses steroids, which make him aggressive and abusive. Getting o…

poster Back Pay

Back Pay

This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man, Jerry, who is devoted to her,…

poster Penn of Pennsylvania

Penn of Pennsylvania

78mn - History, Drama

A young English aristocrat abandons privilege and defies his father to join the persecuted Quakers, ultimately founding Pennsylvania as a revolutionary colony based on religious tolerance and peaceful coe…

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