Drama

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to ...

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire ...

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Five teen girls deal with the supernatural fallout stemming from an innocent game of “Light as a Feather, Stiff as a Board.” When the girls start ...

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis ...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. ...

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi ...

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the ...

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May’s Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic ...

Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted ...

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is ...

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from ...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming ...

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively ...

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.