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poster Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
Ali Baba and the Seven Saracens
94mn - Action, Adventure, Romance
A bold rebel leader returns to his home city for a final showdown with a tyrannical king, only to find himself unexpectedly drawn to the ruler's captivating niece. As political intrigue and battle loom, h…
poster The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(3.6/5)
113mn - Romance, Drama
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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 The Enchanted Well
The Enchanted Well
3mn - Fantasy
A witch curses a town's well.
poster Story of a Cloistered Nun
Story of a Cloistered Nun
(2.8/5)
97mn - Drama
Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smit…
poster Once Upon a Time
Once Upon a Time
(3.2/5)
75mn - Drama, Fantasy, Romance
The Princess of Illyria has spurned every suitor, when a gypsy loitering around the castle catches her eye. In actuality, he is the Prince of Denmark, there with his friend Kasper Røghat. The prince capti…
poster Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(4.1/5)
148mn - Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.
poster Teacher's Pest
Teacher's Pest
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This Noveltoon (Paramount production number P9-5) finds young-and-little Junior Owl on his way to school, and trying hard to live up to the reputation of his elders for being wise. But, despite his best e…
poster The Adventures of Tarzan
The Adventures of Tarzan
(2.8/5)
133mn - Adventure, Action
Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked simultaneously by two lion…
poster Goode Knight
Goode Knight
(2.8/5)
8mn - Animation
The classic story of Robin Hood, with Brownie Bear as the prince of thieves.
poster Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
9mn - Adventure
An early hand-tinted adaptation of Ali Baba.
poster Faust in the Underworld
Faust in the Underworld
7mn - Fantasy
The German legend of a scholar's unholy pact with the Devil would have been very familiar to most moviegoers (at least European ones), so Georges Méliès' early cinematic treatment likely got away with sim…
poster The Child of Paris
The Child of Paris
(3.6/5)
124mn - Drama
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of hi…
poster The Astronomer's Dream
The Astronomer's Dream
3mn - Fantasy
An astronomer has a terrifying dream.
poster Jack and the Beanstalk
Jack and the Beanstalk
10mn - Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of the famous fairy tale story of Jack and his magic beanstalk. Borrowing on cinematographic methods reminiscent of 'Georges …
poster A Tale of Two Worlds
A Tale of Two Worlds
(2.9/5)
70mn - Drama
A white child is adopted and raised by a Chinese citizen and brought to San Francisco, where no one surmises that she is actually not Chinese.
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 Cowboy and the Lady
The Cowboy and the Lady
(3.3/5)
91mn - Comedy, Romance
A sheltered socialite masquerades as a maid and falls for an honest cowboy who doesn't know her true identity, creating a romantic dilemma when her privileged world threatens their love.
poster The Toll of the Sea
The Toll of the Sea
(3.3/5)
54mn - Family, Drama, Fantasy
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.
poster Cinderella
Cinderella
15mn - Romance, Fantasy
Elaborately produced version of the well known George O. Nichols fairy tale interrupted by just a few summarizing intertitles, with Florence LaBadie and Harry Benham.
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