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poster The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
(3.7/5)
116mn - Drama, Thriller
Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorne…
poster Annabelle Butterfly Dance
Annabelle Butterfly Dance
(3.0/5)
1mn - Documentary
Annabelle (Whitford) Moore performs one of her popular dances. For this performance, her costume has a pair of wings attached to her back, to suggest a butterfly. As she dances, she uses her long, flowing…
poster Daring Daughters
Daring Daughters
(2.9/5)
59mn - Drama
Terry Cummings, a savvy and cynical city girl working at a hotel cigar counter, tries to protect her naive younger sister Betty from the predatory men and temptations of big-city life. When Betty arrives …
poster All Dolled Up
All Dolled Up
(3.0/5)
50mn - Comedy, Drama
The department store clerk Mary prevents a robbery at the store where she works, involving a necklace belonging to a rich unmarried woman named Eva Bandy. Later, she manages via a misunderstanding to prev…
poster Daddy-Long-Legs
Daddy-Long-Legs
(3.3/5)
85mn - Drama, Comedy
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, tho…
poster Eve's Love Letters
Eve's Love Letters
20mn - Comedy
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the com…
poster Back Pay
Back Pay
(3.3/5)
90mn - Drama
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 Never the Dames Shall Meet
Never the Dames Shall Meet
20mn - Comedy
Chase makes tries to escape from a compromising situation with a dame he took to be his wife's sister.
poster A Daughter of Dixie
A Daughter of Dixie
11mn -
Nell Collings loved Newton Barry, who was a Northern boy. When war broke out Barry bade his sweetheart good-bye and went away to don the Union blue. Nell's brother fought for the South. The fortunes of wa…
poster The Heart of a Hero
The Heart of a Hero
(3.0/5)
68mn - Drama, War
This is a visualization of the life of patriot Nathan Hale which is based on a play by Clyde Fitch. Robert Warwick plays Nathan (and does a fine job) and Gail Kane the girl whom he loves (Alice Adams).
poster Two Memories
Two Memories
6mn - Drama
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass without contact. Marion becomes a society girl and spends her time at parties with her friends. Henry h…
poster Glen or Glenda
Glen or Glenda
65mn - Drama
A psychiatrist tells two stories: one of a trans woman, the other of a pseudohermaphrodite.
poster That Hamilton Woman
That Hamilton Woman
(3.6/5)
125mn - Drama, History, Romance
The story of courtesan and dance-hall girl Emma Hamilton, including her relationships with Sir William Hamilton and Admiral Horatio Nelson and her rise and fall, set during the Napoleonic Wars.
poster The Symbol of the Unconquered
The Symbol of the Unconquered
59mn - Drama
Eve Mason, a white-passing black woman, moves to a remote cottage she inherited from her late father. She makes the acquaintance of her neighbor, a dashing black settler named Hugh Van Allen, and quickly …
poster Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm
(3.2/5)
78mn - Drama, Comedy
Behind in the mortgage on Sunnybrook Farm and barely managing to feed seven hungry mouths, mother sends young Rebecca off to Riverboro to be raised by her wealthy Aunt Miranda. The little girl is treated …
poster The Hansom Cabman
The Hansom Cabman
(3.4/5)
20mn - Comedy
Harry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and …
poster Sodom and Gomorrah
Sodom and Gomorrah
(3.0/5)
98mn - Drama
Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his ment…
poster Goodbye Charlie
Goodbye Charlie
(3.2/5)
116mn - Comedy, Sci-Fi, Romance
When a cavorting Hollywood writer is killed by the angry husband of a woman he was having an affair with, he comes back as a spirit in the form of a beautiful woman and moves in with his/her best friend a…
poster Song of Surrender
Song of Surrender
(3.3/5)
93mn - Romance, Drama, Music
In 1906 in Connecticut, Elisha Hunt, the 55-year-old curator of a small government museum, marries Abigail, the 19-year-old daughter of a local farmer. In addition to the differences in their ages in this…
poster Ring Up the Curtain
Ring Up the Curtain
12mn - Comedy
Stage hand Harold falls in love with the leading lady of a visiting theatrical troupe.
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