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- DirectorBenjamin ChristensenStarsBenjamin ChristensenElisabeth ChristensenMaren PedersenFictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- DirectorFritz LangStarsRudolf Klein-RoggeAud Egede-NissenGertrude WelckerArch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
- DirectorMax LinderStarsMax LinderBull MontanaFrank CookeThis delightful burlesque of Alexandre Dumas' famous adventure narrative (and then-leading screen swashbuckler Douglas Fairbanks' hit films) represented one of writer/director/star Max Linder's attempts to conquer Hollywood on its own turf. He'd been an enormous star in early silent cinema, influencing the style of such subsequent silent comedy luminaries as Charles Chaplin and Buster Keaton. But his health suffered after he was gassed fighting for France in World War I. Despite the support of Chaplin himself (among others), his subsequent career in America never reached the popular heights he had at home. The commercial failure of this final U.S. effort seems particularly bewildering now, since THE THREE MUST-GET-THERES holds up so well. This spoof has the antic star as Dart-in-Again, a rapier-wielding dandy with a lovelorn horse (pining for the cow it left behind in the country) and a tendency to make an idiot of himself whilst attempting to conquer the forces of tyranny. Making scant effort to hide its incongruous modern Southern California backdrops, the movie is full of gags both slapstick and absurdist. Critics gratefully received it at the time. Audiences? Not so much. - Dennis Harvey
- DirectorIvane PerestianiStarsAmo Bek-NazaryanMikheil ChiaureliTamar SakvarelidzeLegend of Surami Fortress. Love revenge can be very painful.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerSam TaylorStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisJohn T. PrinceCountry doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, and the quack is sent packing.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas FairbanksWallace BeerySam De GrasseA nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsClara PontoppidanSvend MethlingPeter JerndorffA beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. The prince of Denmark comes seeking her hand and, aided by magic objects given to him by a mysterious spirit, seeks to win her love.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsHope HamptonE.K. LincolnLon ChaneyPoor Bessie MacGregor is struck by the automobile of wealthy Mrs. Templeton Orrin and is taken home to live with her. But Bessie leaves when Mrs. Orrin's brother, J. Warburton Ashe, trifles with her love. Thief Tony Pantelli befriends her in the tenement where she finds a room, tries to obtain money for her care from Ashe, and, failing, steals a goblet that Ashe has brought home from England, thinking it may be the Holy Grail. The goblet, which gives off a glow and is reputed to have healing powers, is recovered, stolen again, again recovered and stolen, and finally lost in a river. Meanwhile, Ashe exonerates Tony in night court, realizes he really loves Bessie, now cured, and is reunited with her.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsMax SchreckAlexander GranachGustav von WangenheimVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
- DirectorEmmett J. FlynnStarsJohn GilbertEstelle TaylorRobert McKimA film adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsLeatrice JoyThomas MeighanLois WilsonThrill-seeking society girl Lydia causes a motorcycle policeman's death and is prosecuted by her fiancé Daniel, who describes in lurid detail the downfall of Rome. While she's in prison, she reforms and Daniel becomes a wasted alcoholic.
- DirectorRobert J. FlahertyStarsAllakariallakAlice NevalingaCunayouIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- DirectorErich von StroheimStarsRudolph ChristiansMiss DuPontMaude GeorgeA con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsMarion DaviesLyn HardingWilliam NorrisMary Tudor, sister of England's Henry VIII, causes a stir by falling in love with a guardsman below her class.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonWallace BeeryMonte CollinsBy accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonVirginia FoxJoe KeatonAfter being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsWill WallingVirginia True BoardmanVirginia ValliIn a prologue, Johnnie, one of the village blacksmith's two sons, falls from a tree that the squire's son Anson Brigham dared him to climb, and is crippled. The squire is an enemy of the blacksmith, who married the woman the squire loved. The main story shows the children grown up. Bill, the other son, has become a doctor, and Alice, the daughter, is having an affair with the squire's son, who has just returned from college. Bill is injured in a train accident, and Alice, accused of stealing some money belonging to the church, tries to commit suicide. The blacksmith rescues Alice; the elder brother recovers and successfully operates on Johnnie's legs, and the film ends happily.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanTom McNamaraStarsPeggy CartwrightJackie CondonErnest MorrisonThe gang forms a fire department; they end up thwarting a bootlegger, but not before their pet animals get drunk on his moonshine.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisAnna TownsendA meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
- DirectorTony SargA look at the filmmaking process in the prehistoric era, inside the Stonehenge Film Company. It seems some things haven't changed much. The process begins with the writer dropping off his script, which the director immediately chops to bits (feeding many of them to his goat). After engaging a cast, he then proceeds to film, using a dinosaur as a camera crane. The censors then have their way with the film (more fodder for the goat). The author finally gets to see his work, but he hardly recognizes it and vents his wrath on the director.
- DirectorFrank LloydStarsJackie CooganJames A. MarcusAggie HerringAn orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
- DirectorRobert ThornbyStarsLon ChaneyAlan HaleDagmar GodowskyA miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonRenée AdoréeEdward F. ClineA sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonVirginia FoxJoe RobertsBuster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsLon ChaneyEdith RobertsNoah BeeryA convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenMack SwainAfter a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
- DirectorBuster KeatonMalcolm St. ClairStarsBuster KeatonVirginia FoxJoe RobertsBuster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsAlfred AbelFrida RichardAud Egede-NissenA shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
- DirectorRex IngramStarsLewis StoneAlice TerryRobert EdesonWhen the king is drugged and abducted by his ambitious brother, a lookalike relative must take his place to keep the evil sibling off the throne.
- DirectorRobert G. VignolaStarsMarion DaviesAileen ManningMartha MattoxPrudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Snobbish Henry Garrison flirts with Prudence, but actually disdains her for her lack of worldliness and savoir-faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
- DirectorSam WoodStarsGloria SwansonRudolph ValentinoEdythe ChapmanA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
- DirectorWladyslaw StarewiczThe frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.
- DirectorChester M. FranklinStarsAnna May WongKenneth HarlanBeatrice BentleyWhile visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.
- DirectorKing VidorStarsLaurette TaylorMahlon HamiltonRussell SimpsonA young Irish lass subsisting in a shanty is forced to spend three years in England training to be a proper lady in order to collect her inheritance.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsWerner KraussEugen KlöpferVladimir GajdarovWhen farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's unique daughter. But when he discovers that Count's second wife Helga will soon inherit a field that only he knows his underground is full with petroleum, he changes his allegiance... Greed and death.
- DirectorTeuvo PuroJussi SnellmanStarsHelmi LindelöfHemmo KallioMeri RoiniAnna-Liisa of Kortesuo is engaged to Johannes of Kivimaa, but she is burdened by a heavy past. On the day of the announcement, Anna-Liisa confesses her crime in the presence of the party guests.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineVirginia FoxA series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRichard BarthelmessFrank LoseeLeslie StoweA group of New York society folk on a yachting excursion is forced to put into a New England fishing village for repairs. Engaged couple Reggie and Patricia are taken with the quaint town and its quainter ways, but also with two locals, siblings Betty and John Alden. Patricia begins to fall for John while her fiancé takes a seemingly unworthy liking to Betty. The new infatuations lead to disharmony.
- DirectorTom FormanStarsLon ChaneyMarguerite De La MotteHarrison FordA dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsMadge BellamyMae GiraciJohn BowersIn 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.
- DirectorDimitri BuchowetzkiStarsEmil JanningsWerner KraussIca von LenkeffyBased on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
- DirectorDziga VertovA series of newsreel films from Dziga Vertov, Elizaveta Svilova, and Mikhail Kaufman which document Russian Life in the early 1920s.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsAdele Reuter-EichbergVladimir GajdarovPolina PiekowskajaBased on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsJohn BarrymoreRoland YoungCarol DempsterA young Sherlock Holmes seeks to bring down the criminal mastermind Moriarty as he solves a crime involving a blackmailed prince.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineMarion HarlanBuster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
- DirectorFred NibloDorothy ArznerStarsRudolph ValentinoRosa RosanovaLeo WhiteA toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsGeorg ReimersVictor VarconiLucy DoraineWhen the old multimillionaire Jackson Harber wants to marry the young model Mary, she hesitates, but her mother convinces her that this is her chance to lead a life in luxury and leisure. The engagement is celebrated with an extravagant party at his estate, which is a gigantic palace and park in oriental style. His son Eduard arrives from Cambridge, accompanied by a priest, who is his tutor. The priest is disgusted by the bacchanalian reveling and womanizing going on everywhere. Mary's adorer, the sculptor Harry Lighton, tries to convince her to break the engagement. When she refuses, he shoots himself and is seriously injured. Mary falls asleep and is transported in her dream to the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorrah. In the dream she sees herself as the wife of Lot, leaving her husband to play a central role in the excessive rites of the goddess Astarte. An angel arrives and leads Lot and his wife out of Sodom, just when the city starts to collapse. Lot's wife cannot resist looking back, and is because of her disobedience converted into a pillar of salt. The dream opens the eyes of Mary, and when she wakens, she leaves the party and hastens to Harry in the hospital.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsMary PickfordLloyd HughesGloria HopeWealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess' father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitimate child.
- DirectorRobert F. McGowanFred C. NewmeyerStarsAnna Mae BilsonJackie CondonMickey DanielsAn unethical merchant moves into town and steals customers from the widowed owner of an established store; the gang steps in to help.
- DirectorArthur von GerlachStarsAsta NielsenPaul WegenerPaul HartmannVanina loves rebel leader Octavio, who gets caught. He gets a pardon and marries Vanina. When he is captured again, Vanina helps him to escape prison. They are both caught, and after his execution she dies from grief.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsEmil JanningsHarry LiedtkePaul BiensfeldtThe Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsDorothy DaltonRudolph ValentinoCharles BrinleyA milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.
- DirectorHarley KnolesStarsGladys CooperIvor NovelloC. Aubrey SmithA Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
- DirectorPhil RosenStarsRudolph ValentinoWanda HawleyPat MooreA young man raised in the American South discovers he is an Indian prince whose throne was taken by usurpers.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsTzwetta TzatschewaAdele SandrockHarry FrankAll men are under lovely Maritza's spell.Tired of working for the old woman Yelina, who forces her to cajole customs officials to help the smugglers, she flees and finds work at Mrs. Avricolos' farm.
- DirectorBurton L. KingStarsHarry HoudiniArthur MaudeAlbert TavernierA man who has been frozen in the Arctic ice for 100 years returns to civilization to find his lost love.
- DirectorGilbert PrattStarsStan LaurelMae LaurelJulie LeonardRhubarb Vaseline lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years later, he is living in Madrid as a national hero, when he becomes involved with Filet de Sol, and his lover finds out, he must fight the deadliest in Spain, in the last bullfight of the season.
- DirectorGilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' AndersonStarsStan LaurelGlen CavenderVera ReynoldsStan Laurel plays a book salesman who has a series of encounters, mostly revolving around a young woman who might be evicted by her lecherous landlord. Along the way, Stan dresses up as a dog, gets chased down Sunset Blvd circa 1922, and keeps running into an annoying woman who gives this short film its title.
- DirectorElmer CliftonStarsMarguerite CourtotRaymond McKeeWilliam WalcottStory of the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.
- DirectorShichuan ZhangStarsZhegu ZhengZhengqiu ZhengYing YuCheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients. With some creative carpentering, Chang sets about augmenting the doctor's income.
- DirectorWalter RuttmannAnimated short subject advertising the Kantorowicz distillery, a Polish based family business specializing in liquids, spirits and fruit juices.
- DirectorManfred NoaStarsFritz GreinerCarl de VogtLia EibenschützOne of the main works of the Age of Enlightenment, a powerful plea in favour of tolerance, humanity and freedom of opinion. Set in the age of the crusades, it deals with the relations between the three monotheistic religions. Lessing includes the historical figure of Sultan Saladin, the Jewish merchant Nathan is a portrait of his friend, the renowned philosopher Moses Mendelssohn - when the play was published in 1779, this was considered breaching a taboo.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix lets a mouse out of a mousetrap. The mouse then offers to do Felix a favor--to help him sneak his friend out of the house so they can go swimming.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix the Cat becomes a soldier when the rats declare war on the cats.
- DirectorOtto MessmerBoys playing back alley baseball improbably hold their afternoon game at the Polo Grounds. Felix the Cat takes action when his favored team seems poised to lose.
- DirectorAleksandr SaninStarsIvan MoskvinVera PashennayaEvgeniya RaevskayaIn 19th century Russia, peasant Polikei is sent by the wealthy landlady to town. Things start to get complicated and even tragic, when he loses the lady's money he was sent for.
- DirectorWalt DisneyCinderella, the "ash girl," is kept in menial labor by her two wicked stepsisters. Meanwhile the handsome prince of the territory is out hunting bears. His father invites everyone in the country to a ball, and a fairy godmother appears to help Cinderella attend in style. The prince falls for her, but she runs away as her fairy godmother's deadline of midnight arrives. The prince finds her lost slipper and searches the territory for its rightful owner, hoping to live happily ever after when he finds her.
- DirectorOtto MessmerTrudging through the snow in his hometown, Felix sees a billboard advertising sunny Egypt, and says that he'd give four of his nine lives to be there rather than freezing in the snow. He then hears crying coming from his friend Abdul's carpet shop, and it turns out that Abdul's girlfriend has been kidnapped by an Egyptian sheik. Felix promises to rescue her, and hops on a magic carpet Abdul has lying around the shop, says the magic word and flies off to Egypt to keep his promise.
- DirectorNelo CosimiStarsNelo CosimiRafael De los LlanosArturo ForteAmancio, the son of a judge, a true master of a people, wants to impose criteria property owners and horse ranches. Prevents the eviction of the family ranch Eulalia, but with the intention of having her amorous favors.
- DirectorOtto MessmerFelix comes upon a caveman and his girlfriend. The girlfriend is crying, and when the caveman asks her what she wants, she points to Felix. The caveman chases Felix, who escapes by using the tails of some friendly monkeys to make his way down a steep cliff. Later he makes friends with a baby monkey, but winds up getting in a fight with a huge gorilla.
- DirectorLynn ReynoldsStarsTom MixJ. Farrell MacDonaldEva NovakA government agent infiltrates a gang of Chinese immigrant smugglers and pursues their ringleader throughout the heart of the Southwestern desert.
- DirectorWalt DisneyMother is making donuts: She throws up a circle of dough, and a cat shoots a hole in it. Later, he fishes them out of the oil with a fishing line; he eats one, and loses all 9 lives. Mother puts together a basket for Red to take to granny. Red uses her cart, which is pushed by her little dog; the cart gets a flat tire, and she inflates a donut to replace it. A wolf (a human lothario) drives by in a flivver, and dashes off to grandma's house, where he finds a note saying she's gone to the movies. He shrinks his car and stashes it in his pocket, then waits for Red, who stopped to watch a dancing flower. Red arrives, and they go into the house, where he attempts to have his way with her. The dog rushes off and gets help from an airplane pilot, who uses a skyhook to remove the house and, ultimately, lift the wolf in his car and drop him in the lake.
- StarsCharles ChaplinJackie CooganBuster KeatonA rare film from First National set a gala celebrity banquet and promoting the releases of several then upcoming films including The Pilgrim (1923), The Balloonatic (1923) and Day Dreams (1922).
- DirectorGilbert PrattStarsStan LaurelDrin MoroColin KennyStan plays a mischievous and clumsy worker in a lumber factory.
- DirectorWalt DisneyFour animal musicians consisting of a Horse, Cat, Dog, and Rooster set out on their own quest to try to find some fame by playing their own music. Unfortunately, everywhere they go, trouble occurs whether they are being chased by town folk, a swordfish, or being attacked by an army.
- DirectorOtto MessmerAfter unsuccessfully trying to steal food from a fish market, Felix is promised by a man that if he watches the man's child, he will be fed a great meal. Unfortunately, the baby swallows a balloon and floats out the window, and Felix has to find him and bring him back before the man gets home.
- DirectorEdward D. VenturiniStarsWill RogersLois MeredithBen Hendricks Jr.The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York City. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a headless horseman who is said to be searching for the head that he lost in battle. The schoolteacher has barely arrived when he starts to pursue beautiful young heiress Katrina Van Tassel, angering Abraham Van Brunt, who is courting her. Crane's harsh, small-minded approach to teaching also turns some of the villagers against him. Soon, many want to see him leave the village altogether.
- DirectorJosé A. FerreyraStarsLeonor AlvearAlvaro EscobarAugusto GocalbesThe romance of a girl who works as a salesperson in a business on Florida Street.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinJackie CooganEdwina MountbattenThere is no real plot in this little short, who was made only as a wedding present for Lord and Lady Mountbatten. The main plot line is that Lady Mountbatten has a valuable pearl necklace, which a very large number of crooks wants to steal. Charlie Chaplin, even though he is wearing his tramp costume, is called to hunt the crooks, which he does with a wooden hammer, which appears suddenly in his hand. Then the unconscious crooks are all lined up on the lawn, close to Jackie Coogan, who was, at the beginning of the film, hidden there under a blanket, for no apparent reason whatsoever!!