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poster La Moglie di Claudio

La Moglie di Claudio

70mn - Drama, History

Claudio is married to Cesarina, a frivolous and unfaithful woman. After the death of their only son their marriage is cold. While his wife lives her free life, Claudio is dedicated to the development of s…

Nerves

The film tries to capture the "nervous epidemic" caused by war and misery which "drives people mad". This unique portrait of the life in 1919 Germany, filmed on location in Munich, describes the cases of …

poster Meyer from Berlin

Meyer from Berlin

Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he con…

poster Bluebeard

Bluebeard

80mn - Fantasy, Drama, Thriller

Anne reads her younger sister, Marie-Catherine, the story of Bluebeard. In 17th-century France, another set of sisters — also named Anne and Marie-Catherine — are left impoverished by their father's death…

poster A Child of the Ghetto

A Child of the Ghetto

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 Story of a Cloistered Nun

Story of a Cloistered Nun

Refusing an arranged marriage, young aristocrat Carmela is sent to a convent. Her arrival intensifies the power struggle between the debauched nun Elizabeth and the stern Mother Superior, as both are smit…

poster The Mills in Joy and Sorrow

The Mills in Joy and Sorrow

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

Mirages

37mn - Drama, Romance

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective o…

poster The Naked Witch

The Naked Witch

A student researching the German settlements of Central Texas unearths the grave of a reputed witch. The witch (who happens to be both beautiful and naked) rises from her grave and embarks on a campaign o…

poster Benítez quiere ser torero

Benítez quiere ser torero

Benitez pretends to be a toreador and his friends decide to pull a prank on him.

poster Beauty's Worth

Beauty's Worth

Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir fa…

poster The Slave

The Slave

A Greek woman marries a struggling sculptor. When he can't support her and their baby, she offers to sell herself as a slave to allow them to buy food.

poster Thomas Graal's Best Child

Thomas Graal's Best Child

95mn - Comedy, Romance

Frau Bessie, once a madcap, aristocratic and modern Swedish fraulein, has become now a whimsical and conservative Swedish burgess after her marriage to Herr Thomas Graal. The destabilization of the marria…

poster The Royal Tigress

The Royal Tigress

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "T…

poster I Don't Want to Be a Man

I Don't Want to Be a Man

44mn - Comedy, Romance

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. Wh…

poster Os Lobos

Os Lobos

Cabreira Hill. A village dominated by patriarchal tradition: the woman takes care of the household or picks up wood; the man takes care of the cattle or chops down trees to produce coal. After doing time …

poster Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder

Professor Georg Brandes paa Universitetets Katheder

A short documentary of Professor Georg Brandes.

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 The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

15mn - Horror, Drama

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …

poster After Death

After Death

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…

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