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poster Sin Takes a Holiday
Sin Takes a Holiday
(3.1/5)
81mn - Romance, Comedy
Dowdy Sylvia accepts her boss' marriage proposal, even though he only asked her to avoid marriage to another woman. As a wealthy wife, Sylvia changes from ugly duckling to uninhibited swan and even contem…
poster Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
67mn - Drama, Romance
Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a r…
poster Ashes
Ashes
(3.0/5)
39mn - Drama, Fantasy
Dame Eleonora Duse plays a poor woman who, incapable of raising and feed him, leaves her illegitimate son with foster parents. Before she leaves her boy, the woman gives to the child an amulet in order to…
poster Judith of Bethulia
Judith of Bethulia
(3.1/5)
61mn - Drama, History
Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant Holofernes, a widow named Judith forms a plan to stop the w…
poster Beatrice Fairfax
Beatrice Fairfax
(4.0/5)
300mn - Action, Adventure
Beatrice Fairfax, the original advice-to-the-lovelorn reporter and her friend and not-so-secret admirer Jimmy Barton investigate calls for help and escape exotic perils and dangers. Episodes include excit…
poster Tess of the Storm Country
Tess of the Storm Country
(3/5)
80mn - Drama
A young girl, squatting on a wealthy man's land fights for her fellow squatters' right to stay.
poster Silks and Saddles
Silks and Saddles
(2.8/5)
86mn - Drama
Bobbie Morton is a gutsy heroine in the grand Australian tradition. She's a champion horsewoman who can hold her own amongst the men of the racecourse. As part of her adventures she must come to the botto…
poster A Simple Matter of Justice
A Simple Matter of Justice
58mn -
A powerful and moving piece documenting the lesbian, gay and bisexual movement in the early 1990s, A Simple Matter of Justice expresses all the emotions of the joyful protest that was the 1993 March on Wa…
poster The Screaming Skull
The Screaming Skull
68mn - Thriller, Horror
Newlyweds Eric and Jenni Whitlock retire to his desolate mansion, where Eric's first wife Marianne died from a mysterious freak accident. Jenni, who has a history of mental illness, begins to see strange …
poster Hot Spell
Hot Spell
(3.5/5)
86mn - Drama
Alma Duval, a middle-aged housewife, tries to hide how much she suffers from her husband's amorous excursions while trying to help her children solve their problems and doing her best to keep her family t…
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 Silent Witnesses
Silent Witnesses
(2.9/5)
65mn - Drama
In order to allow another servant to go home to be with her children, Nastya agrees to serve in her place, as a maid in the household in which Nastya's grandfather is a porter. Soon afterwards, the woman …
poster The Vain Parlor Maid
The Vain Parlor Maid
(2.7/5)
4mn - Comedy
A housemaid is cleaning a studio. When she sees a sculpture of a nude woman in life-size, lying on a couch, she starts to compare this idealized body with her own. She takes off her clothes one by one, th…
poster Miss Lulu Bett
Miss Lulu Bett
(3.4/5)
71mn - Comedy, Drama
Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Th…
poster Tess of the Storm Country
Tess of the Storm Country
(3.5/5)
118mn - Romance, Drama
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and on…
poster Forgotten Sweeties
Forgotten Sweeties
(3.6/5)
20mn - Comedy
Thurston's former sweetheart has married a big brute, and they move in down the hall from him.
poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!
4mn - Comedy
Poor Eugénie! She's humpbacked and everyone wants to straighten her out, but when success finally comes, she's too tall not to cause disasters. To solve the problem, the help of a sword swallower is urgen…
poster The Price She Paid
The Price She Paid
61mn - Drama, Romance
Mildred Gower (Alma Rubens), in order to sane her extravagant mother, Mrs. Elton Gower (Eugenie Besserer), from bankruptcy, shame and scandal, the young society girl is forced to accept the proposal Lemue…
poster The Little House in Kolomna
The Little House in Kolomna
(3.1/5)
31mn - Comedy
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 Hearts in Exile
Hearts in Exile
(2.8/5)
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…
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