The portrait of a lady

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows the portrait of a lady

poster Pierrot the Prodigal

Pierrot the Prodigal

A example of female fantasy is L'Histoire d'un Pierrot (1913), based on a musical pantomime by Mario Costa with Francesca Bertini in the role of Pierrot and Leda Gys as Louisette. The young and naive Pier…

poster The Servant Girl's Legacy

The Servant Girl's Legacy

A serving girl receives a telegram that she has come into an inheritance. The family she works for suddenly starts to treat her well, and several young men come to court her. Then she receives another tel…

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 Burlesque Suicide, No. 2

The Burlesque Suicide, No. 2

1mn - Thriller, Comedy

A dissipated man sits at a table with a decanter of whiskey and a glass beside him. A revolver is on the opposite side of the table. He pours a glass of whiskey and, with a despairing look, starts to drin…

poster The Little Girl and Her Cat

The Little Girl and Her Cat

1mn - Documentary

A little girl sits at a table, holding a container of what appears to be some sort of food. Suddenly there's a flash of movement: a tortoiseshell cat, with long hair and a very furry tail, has leapt onto …

poster The Faded Lilies

The Faded Lilies

A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.

poster Eyes of Youth

Eyes of Youth

A young woman, confronted by four options for proceeding in her life, is granted the ability to see what results would come from her choice of of the options. After she sees her future along three of the …

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…

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 Lady of Burlesque

Lady of Burlesque

91mn - Comedy, Music, Mystery

After one member of their group is murdered, the performers at a burlesque house must work together to find out who the killer is before they strike again.

poster The Woman in the Suitcase

The Woman in the Suitcase

Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.

poster The Sculptor's Nightmare

The Sculptor's Nightmare

9mn - Comedy, Animation

At a political club, the members debate whose bust will replace that of Theodore Roosevelt. Unable to agree, each goes to a sculptor's studio and bribes him to sculpt a bust of the individual favorite. In…

poster The Gay Shoe Clerk

The Gay Shoe Clerk

1mn - Comedy, Romance

A woman being fitted for shoes exposes her ankle to the shoe clerk, who is intrigued. He kisses her, but her chaperone hits him with her umbrella.

poster The Defect

The Defect

LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the d…

poster The Heart and the Money

The Heart and the Money

18mn - Romance, Drama

The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.

A Woman

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the ben…

poster The Clockmaker's Dream

The Clockmaker's Dream

A weary clock-maker dozes off in a chair. While he is asleep, three women suddenly appear in the midst of his shop. They proceed to show the sleeping clock-maker some new kinds of clocks that they know ho…

poster A Moonlight Serenade

A Moonlight Serenade

3mn - Fantasy, Romance, Comedy

Pierrot goes to the house of his love to serenade her, but her father kicks him out. Soon the moon and its goddess Diana come towards the man and offers him something better.

Jenny

A romance story about Jenny and the men that love her.

poster East Lynne

East Lynne

An adaptation of the 1861 novel by English author Ellen Wood: The story of long-suffering Lady Isabel Carlisle cast in a modern setting.

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