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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 The Faded Lilies
The Faded Lilies
8mn - Drama
A disfigured violinist mistakes a token of appreciation for a love bouquet. When he realizes his mistake, he loses his mind.
poster Vadim
Vadim
15mn - Drama
The landowner Palitsyn (Chardynin) long and successfully sues the neighbor. The lawsuit led to the ruin. He died, leaving orphans children — humpback a young boy Vadim (Speransky) and three-year Olga. In …
poster After Death
After Death
(3.4/5)
46mn - Drama
Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she ha…
poster The Broken Butterfly
The Broken Butterfly
(3.2/5)
58mn - Drama, Romance
A woman in Canada abused by her aunt falls in love with a foreign composer looking for inspiration, who comes to find it in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.
poster Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
Beginning of the Serpentine Dance
4mn - Fantasy
In a living room, four contemporary couples from the time the film was shot dance a waltz under the direction of a violinist (Linder). They begin a minuet and their costumes change in a sudden. A man ente…
poster Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
(3.1/5)
120mn - Drama, History
During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian named Lygia, attempting to enslave her. Lygia's pro…
poster A Mormon Maid
A Mormon Maid
(2.9/5)
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 Dickson Experimental Sound Film
Dickson Experimental Sound Film
1mn - Music
William K.L. Dickson plays the violin while two men dance. This is the oldest surviving sound film where sound is recorded on the phonograph.
poster The Ragtime Band
The Ragtime Band
10mn - Comedy
Professor Smelts the band leader gets into a romantic rivalry with one of his musicians over the affections of a pretty girl.
poster Deerslayer
Deerslayer
0mn - Adventure
Chingachgook, son of the chief of the Delaware Indian tribe and faithful friend of Hawkeye the Deerslayer is raised by his tribe after being orphaned.
poster My Old Kentucky Home
My Old Kentucky Home
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
This 1926 Fleischer Song Car-Tune encouraged movie going audiences to follow the bouncing ball, or racist caricature, and join in on a minstrel classic. In this way, the short joined sentimentality, a sen…
poster Mazeppa
Mazeppa
(2.8/5)
15mn - Drama, History
Mazepa, the Ukrainian governor is in love with his goddaughter Maria. He quickly wins her heart. But her old father treats the wooer harshly… Maria runs away. The furious father won’t submit. This intrigu…
poster Wintergartenprogramm
Wintergartenprogramm
(2.9/5)
7mn -
On 1 November 1895, the brothers Max and Emil Skladanowsky presented their pioneer film work and legendary Bioscop program in Berlin′s Wintergarten Theater. With live musical accompaniment, the compilatio…
poster Banda batki Knysha
Banda batki Knysha
66mn - Crime
Silent film set in 1919 during the Russian Civil War. The Red Army liberated a small town, but a unit of White Russians is still operating in the suburbs. A group of Red Army officers are posing as a gang…
poster Il biglietto da mille
Il biglietto da mille
16mn -
A film from the SocietĂ  Anonima Ambrosio company.
poster The Roaring Road
The Roaring Road
(2.9/5)
58mn - Drama, Comedy
"Toodles" Waldron, racing enthusiast and the best salesman for J. D. Ward's automobile company, quarrels with his boss; Ward will not let him enter the Santa Monica Grand Prize Road Race, or marry his dau…
poster The Kreutzer Sonata
The Kreutzer Sonata
(2.9/5)
42mn - Drama
The Kreutzer Sonata is based on a novella by Leo Tolstoy, named after Beethoven's Kreutzer Sonata. The work is an argument for the ideal of sexual abstinence and an in-depth first-person description of je…
poster Quo Vadis?
Quo Vadis?
(3.0/5)
137mn - Drama, History
"The Roman Banquet, the golden glories, the unrivaled luxuries, the wine, the dance, the song, the beautiful women, the sumptuous splendors that taxed a barbaric world for a night of feasting and revel-- …
poster Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride
Nervy Nat Kisses the Bride
2mn - Comedy
A tramp gets involved in mischief on a train.
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