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poster A Mormon Maid

A Mormon Maid

68mn - History, Drama

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah. They join the…

poster All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

All-American Girl: The Mary Kay Letourneau Story

90mn - Short, Crime, Drama

A teacher is arrested and jailed for raping her 13-year-old student, and twice gives birth to his child.

poster Sodom and Gomorrah

Sodom and Gomorrah

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 Flirty Four-Flushers

Flirty Four-Flushers

With her winnings from an essay contest, a waitress gets dolled up and goes to a swanky resort to snag a millionaire husband.

poster A Jazzed Honeymoon

A Jazzed Honeymoon

9mn - Romance, Comedy

This time, Harold's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker.

poster Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh

Way Back When Women Had Their Weigh

6mn - Animation

A comic look at prehistoric life.

Ramona

17mn - Drama, Romance, Western

Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to fi…

poster Should a Girl Marry?

Should a Girl Marry?

61mn - Romance, Crime

A young woman and her doctor husband are victims of a blackmail scheme when it is discovered that she was born in prison.

Racquet

Centred around a former tennis champ who swings with the girls and volleying straight sets with the rich and famous while set on owning his own tennis court.

poster The Extra Girl

The Extra Girl

69mn - Comedy, Romance, Crime

Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, t…

poster Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

Eugénie, Stand Up Straight!

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 Saturday Night

Saturday Night

103mn - Romance, Comedy

Though betrothed to fellow socialite Richard, Iris weds her chauffeur Tom leaving Richard to marry the family laundress' daughter Shamrock. Class differences lead to divorces and remarriages.

poster Mae West

Mae West

95mn - Drama, Short

Biography of the curvaceous and sharp-witted actress who scandalized Broadway and Hollywood in the 1920s-30s with her frank approach to sex.

poster Sage Brush Tom

Sage Brush Tom

15mn - Comedy, Western

Tom is attracted by an actress. When she and her company arrive at his ranch, he tries to attract her attention.

poster The Greater Call

The Greater Call

Women’s weepies were a nickelodeon staple in the early years of movies. In these one-reel dramas, women trapped in no-win situations confronted heart-wrenching decisions: Should a young woman wed her penn…

Secrets

An old woman's memories are rekindled as she rereads her diary. She recalls her youth in England when she married a suitor over the objections of her parents and moved with him to the Wyoming frontier. Th…

poster Washerwomen on the River

Washerwomen on the River

1mn - Documentary

Women wash clothes in a washhouse on the edge of a river.

poster Karin, Daughter of Ingmar

Karin, Daughter of Ingmar

Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of In…

poster The River

The River

31mn - Documentary

This short Depression-era documentary describes the importance of the Mississippi River to the United States and laments the environmental destruction committed in the name of progress, particularly farmi…

poster Come Simi

Come Simi

82mn - Comedy, Drama

A neurotic pregnant woman on the verge of giving birth, attempts to reunite her estranged family which includes an impossible mother riddled deeply with Alzheimer's, an aging porn star sister and an inten…

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