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poster Spanish Fiesta

Spanish Fiesta

A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man.

poster Girona, the Spanish Venice

Girona, the Spanish Venice

3mn - Documentary

One of Chomón's documentary films: A short tour of the city of Girona, the "Venice of Spain". Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.

poster El Dorado

El Dorado

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 The Fairy of Solbakken

The Fairy of Solbakken

111mn - Drama, Romance

Synnöve lives with her parents at the farm Solbakken on a sunny hill. Thorbjörn, who lives at Granliden in the shadow of a big mountain, often looks wistfully up to Solbakken. As teenagers they meet and f…

poster Kamarinskaja

Kamarinskaja

1mn - Documentary

Three dancers do a Russian folkloric step dance, facing the camera, in traditional clothes, fur hats and leather boots.

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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 Daydreams

Daydreams

Sergei’s beloved wife Yelena has passed away, and the bereaved husband is inconsolable. He remains obsessed with pictures of Yelena and with a braid of her hair that he has saved. One day, while walking i…

Mirages

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 The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

115mn - Romance, Comedy

As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in lo…

poster A Life for a Life

A Life for a Life

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

poster The Little House in Kolomna

The Little House in Kolomna

Based on the story by Pushkin. Pretty young Parasha is living with her widowed mother. Parasha diligently takes care of many household tasks, but she also enjoys flirting with the guards's officers who pa…

poster The Byzantine Cat

The Byzantine Cat

Sent to Cyprus to find her next story, young journalist Jane Spencer is intrigued by the discovery of a cat's monastery where the cats are blessed with miraculous gifts.

poster A Pair of Tights

A Pair of Tights

Two girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get …

poster The Dumb Girl of Portici

The Dumb Girl of Portici

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 Father Sergius

Father Sergius

112mn - History, Drama

The story of Prince Stepán Kasátsky discovering his fiancée was the mistress of the Czar, so he then becomes a monk.

poster The Monastery of Sendomir

The Monastery of Sendomir

Two riders on their way to Warsaw stop at a monastery for the night and ask an old monk there to tell them the story of its founding.

poster The Captive

The Captive

50mn - War, Drama, Romance

Set during the Balkan Wars, The Captive tells the story of Sonia, a young woman living in Montenegro and left to care for her younger brother Milos and the family farm when older brother Marko goes off to…

poster Hearts in Exile

Hearts in Exile

59mn - Drama, History, Romance

In Czarist Russia, attractive Anna Ivanovna has consecrated her life to work among Russia's persecuted poor. She dispenses food, medicine, and funds to the needy, from a busy charity headquarters. Two men…

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 Bride

The Bride

90mn - Mystery, Horror, Thriller

When a young bride travels to her fiancé's rural ancestral home in Russia, she discovers an eerie family tradition involving ghost photography and possession. As she uncovers disturbing secrets about her …

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