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poster Denial

Denial

A young woman tries to leave her troubled past behind. She meets her old flame by accident and they fall in love again, but this obsessive relationship threatens to consume them.

poster The Life of the Jews of Palestine

The Life of the Jews of Palestine

78mn - Documentary

The Life of the Jews in Palestine is a silent documentary film depicting Jews and Jewish communities in Ottoman Palestine.

poster The Retrievers

The Retrievers

Carefree electrician Tom Cathral is recruited by The Company, and is quickly offered a full-time promotion to join the Retrievers, an elite squad of crooked secret operatives. His refusal to kill botches …

poster The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress

The Prisoner of Karlsten's Fortress

61mn - Adventure

Count de Faber is working on a new type of explosive, but finds out that Professor Plussman has beat him to it. After an unsuccessful attempt to acquire the formula from Plussman, he breaks into the profe…

poster Racquet

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 Pinkus's Shoe Palace

Pinkus's Shoe Palace

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another jo…

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 Pastry Town Wedding

Pastry Town Wedding

7mn - Animation

A young couple meet in a land made of pastries. The two seem to fall in love at first sight, and arrange a "Pastry Town Wedding," conducted by small pastry-making people.

poster Penn of Pennsylvania

Penn of Pennsylvania

78mn - History, Drama

A young English aristocrat abandons privilege and defies his father to join the persecuted Quakers, ultimately founding Pennsylvania as a revolutionary colony based on religious tolerance and peaceful coe…

poster A Fight for Jenny

A Fight for Jenny

95mn - Drama, Short

When Kelsey remarries, her struggle to get custody of her daughter from her first marriage is complicated by her current husband being black.

poster Portrayal

Portrayal

90mn - Documentary

Roman Lapshin becomes obsessed with uncovering the truth behind thousands of his late grandfather's missing paintings, defying his family's wishes to confront the powerful man who may have exploited his g…

poster Pool Sharks

Pool Sharks

Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love. W.C. Field's debut film.

poster The Virgin of Stamboul

The Virgin of Stamboul

Achmet Bey, a Turkish chieftain, catches one of his many wives in adultery and murders her lover. Throwing aside the cuckolding wife, he abducts his harem an innocent girl. However, a brave American who l…

poster Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

Cries Unheard: The Donna Yaklich Story

91mn - Drama, Short

Donna Yaklich meets Dennis the policeman and thinks she might have found a good relationship. But Dennis is obsessed with weight-lifting and uses steroids, which make him aggressive and abusive. Getting o…

poster The Gibson Goddess

The Gibson Goddess

A pack of admirers won't leave a beautiful woman alone at a seaside resort, so she devises a plan. She appears in a leg-revealing swimsuit, but the stockings have been stuffed with cotton to make her limb…

poster Russian Holiday

Russian Holiday

89mn - Thriller, Crime, Drama

In this thriller, an American schoolteacher visits St. Petersburg, Russia and ends up entangled in a deadly plot to steal a valuable artifact.

poster The Palace and the Fortress

The Palace and the Fortress

100mn - Drama, History

An adaptation of Olga Frosh's novel about the life of Mihail Beideman.

poster Dismissed

Dismissed

87mn - Thriller, Horror

A straight-edged teacher finds trouble when an honors student is willing to do anything to get an A.

Evolver

90mn - Action, Horror, Sci-Fi

A teenage gaming prodigy wins a cutting-edge robotic opponent in a laser tag contest, but soon discovers his prize is actually a military prototype designed to kill. As the robot learns from each encounte…

poster Sexting

Sexting

8mn - Drama, Comedy

Fed up with her relationship with a married man, a young woman decides to meet his wife for coffee.

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