Classics to moderns

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows classics to moderns

poster A Modern Cinderella
A Modern Cinderella
17mn - Drama
This Cinderella is up to date. She and her sister Jane receive an invitation to a reception. Jane, selfish and arrogant, is carried away with her own vanity and anticipation of making a "hit" and being th…
poster What's the World Coming To?
What's the World Coming To?
21mn - Comedy
Short comedy which posits that in a hundred years men's styles will revert to Regency garb, and that there will be a complete gender role reversal, with husband Clyde Cook staying home alone while wife Ka…
poster A Tale of Two Cities
A Tale of Two Cities
30mn - Drama, History
A condensed silent film version of the Charles Dickens classic about the French Revolution and its subsequent Reign of Terror.
poster The Young Lady and the Hooligan
The Young Lady and the Hooligan
(3.2/5)
44mn - Drama, Romance
A young woman arrives in her school where she must teach for the first time. Her task consists in teaching a class of adults to read and write. All her students are male, ranging from boys to old men, and…
poster Music, Forward!
Music, Forward!
3mn - Fantasy, Comedy
“Music Forward!” is the order given by a lady in Colonial costume, and in march a group of five musicians, working industriously at their instruments. The directress stands them in a row, and taking the h…
poster Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
Keeping Up with the Joneses: Women's Styles
3mn - Comedy, Animation
A domestic comedy about the McGinis family--husband Aloysius, wife Clarice, daughter Julie, and housemaid Belladonna. Pa is appalled at the latest fashionable dresses worn by the women in his household.
poster The Consequences of Feminism
The Consequences of Feminism
7mn - Comedy
It's a society in which gender roles are switched. Will men stand to be unequal?
poster The King of Paris
The King of Paris
(3.1/5)
64mn - Drama
The lives of two young men-- A virtuous artist who's renounced a background of riches and a debonair swindler proclaimed by many the King of Paris-- intersect when the artist's mother becomes the target o…
poster Manhatta
Manhatta
11mn - Documentary
Morning reveals New York harbor, the wharves, the Brooklyn Bridge. A ferry boat docks, disgorging its huddled mass. People move briskly along Wall St. or stroll more languorously through a cemetery. Ranks…
poster By the Cross
By the Cross
49mn - Drama, History
A costume drama from Roman times. Three out of the original six reels survive.
poster Writing Backwards
Writing Backwards
(2.9/5)
1mn -
Félicien Trewey performs a trick by writing backwards the words "Ladies and gentlemen, my grateful thanks" on a board.
poster Goofy Goofy Gander
Goofy Goofy Gander
(3.1/5)
7mn - Animation
Little Audrey isn't interested in reciting Mother Goose rhymes with the other kids in class. She'd rather read her modern comic book. When she's caught not paying attention by the teacher, she is ordered …
poster Conrad in Quest of His Youth
Conrad in Quest of His Youth
75mn - Comedy, Drama
Conrad Warrener, a man of near middle-age, reflects nostalgically on the happy times of his youth and decides to recapture them. However, what he learns about the "second time around" is neither what he e…
poster The Flapper
The Flapper
88mn - Comedy
A Southern teen at a ritzy boarding school gets into mischief while acting the sophisticated grownup to impress a suave gentleman and match wits with a pair of jewel thieves.
poster A Modern Musketeer
A Modern Musketeer
(3.3/5)
68mn - Adventure, Comedy, Western
A young man grows restless living in a small Kansas town, dreaming of the adventures of the Three Musketeers. So in hopes of becoming a modern D'Artagnan, he mounts his steed (a Model T Ford) and sets out…
poster The Artist's Dilemma
The Artist's Dilemma
2mn - Fantasy, Comedy
The scene opens in an artist's studio, the artist asleep in his chair. A large old fashioned clock opens and a young lady comes out and awaking the artist, requests him to paint her picture. While the art…
poster Transformation by Hats
Transformation by Hats
1mn - Comedy
Félicien Trewey uses a basic prop to create comical hats and their accompanying caricatures.
poster Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
Tale the Autumn Leaves Told
2mn - Drama
A handful of short tales of love, framed by leaf masks.
poster The Seven Ages
The Seven Ages
(2.8/5)
5mn - Drama
A couple who have known each other all of their lives are shown together at different stages of life. First, as children, they play together affectionately. Soon afterwards, they are at school together, a…
poster American Look
American Look
(3.6/5)
28mn -
Chevrolet presents a short film about modern American design of the late 1950s.
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