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poster Eve's Love Letters
Eve's Love Letters
20mn - Comedy
Agnes Ayres was apparently a star of feature film who is top billed in this one-off Hal Roach short. She does well as the woman at the centre of the story, but it's pretty plain that it's actually the com…
poster The Eternal Mother
The Eternal Mother
17mn -
John and Mary divorce their spouses to marry each other. Mary dies after giving birth and the baby is taken in by John's first wife, Martha. She refuses all contact with John until many years later when h…
poster Behind Office Doors
Behind Office Doors
(3.1/5)
82mn - Drama, Romance
Mary Linden is the secretary who is the unheralded power behind successful executive James Duneen. He takes her for granted until rival Wales tries to take her away from him.
poster Street Angel
Street Angel
(3.7/5)
97mn - Drama, Romance
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
poster Little Angel
Little Angel
(3.4/5)
49mn -
Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “p…
poster Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
Daughter of Dr. Jekyll
(2.7/5)
71mn - Fantasy, Horror
A young woman discovers she is the daughter of the infamous Dr. Jekyll, and begins to believe that she may also have a split personality, one of whom is a ruthless killer.
poster The Portrait of Lady Anne
The Portrait of Lady Anne
15mn - Fantasy
The ghost of a selfish, inconsiderate woman must make up for her past transgressions by making sure that her descendant marries the man who is right for her.
poster A Strange Meeting
A Strange Meeting
12mn - Drama, Crime
Mary Rollins is torn between selfish depravity and righteous living. After she's coerced into helping with the burglary of her minister's apartment, she comes face to face with her misdeeds.
poster Harakiri
Harakiri
(2.8/5)
87mn - Drama
The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises to c…
poster Yesterday's Children
Yesterday's Children
(3.5/5)
90mn - Drama
A mother haunted by vivid dreams of another life travels to Ireland to uncover the truth about her past incarnation as an Irishwoman who died in the 1930s, leading to an emotional reunion with the childre…
poster Baby Doll
Baby Doll
(3.7/5)
114mn - Drama
Archie Lee Meighan is a failing cotton gin owner who is married to Baby Doll, a 19-year old childlike beauty whose father arranged the marriage for financial reasons. As Archie awaits the arrival of Baby …
poster Within Our Gates
Within Our Gates
79mn - Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.
poster Balked at the Altar
Balked at the Altar
12mn - Comedy
A woman who is filled with romantic ideas is making no secret of her eagerness to find a husband. Her father decides to help her by pressuring and threatening an eligible bachelor, who reluctantly allows …
poster Take Care of My Little Girl
Take Care of My Little Girl
(3.3/5)
93mn - Drama
A young woman enters college and learns some hard truths about sorority life, including snobbery and the cruelty of hazing.
poster Tarzan of the Apes
Tarzan of the Apes
60mn - Action, Adventure
A female ape takes to mothering the orphaned boy (Tarzan) and raises him over the course of many years until a rescue mission is finally launched and the search party combs the jungle for the long-time mi…
poster AWOL
AWOL
(2.8/5)
82mn - Drama
A young woman in the Army must make tough decisions when her love for an older woman causes her to question just where she is going. Adapted from Deb Shoval's 2011 short film of the same name.
poster The Reign of Terror
The Reign of Terror
(2.8/5)
102mn - History, Drama
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…
poster Mark's Secret to Eternal Life
Mark's Secret to Eternal Life
(2.6/5)
76mn - Drama, Sci-Fi
An 18-year-old awakens in a parallel world where nobody recognizes him, and must absorb the life force of the dead to prevent everyone he loves from dying horrific deaths.
poster A Child of the Ghetto
A Child of the Ghetto
16mn - Drama
After her mother's death, Ruth struggles to support herself as a seamstress. While Ruth delivers shirts to the factory owner, the owner's son steals some money and Ruth is accused of the crime. She flees …
poster The Shattering
The Shattering
76mn - Thriller
When a desperate boyfriend leads his cancer-stricken girlfriend and friends to meet a mysterious healer in the woods, they discover too late that they've been set up as bait for deadly creatures and param…
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