A sweet-natured young Irish woman is courted by a romantic poet and a local country gentleman. Which man will she choose?
Enid of Cashell / Aileen Barrett
Sir John Mansfield
Sir Fergus Cassidy
Bulmer Meade
John Barrett
Bridget
Sybil
Sir Robert Fennell
Peasant Woman
Meade's Butler
Peasant Woman (uncredited)
Boy Throwing Roses (uncredited)
02 Oct 1916
Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces the wife of his best friend and breaks up her marriage. No one is happy but it takes a near fatal accident to set things right.
13 May 1938
College town life gets turned upside down after a button-down botany professor secretly weds a sizzling night-club singer.
03 Oct 1920
Lilla Gravert falls into the clutches of a master blackmailer, Eric Helsingor.
24 Aug 1914
Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the celebrated detective Bob Macauley.
06 Feb 1928
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp. After business hours, Jerry secretly takes boxing lessons, enabling him to knock the stuffings out of his burly rival Spike Mullins (Johnnie Walker). Jerry's newfound pugilistic skills wins him the affections of store clerk Hilda Jensen (Shirley Mason), who's just car-razy about "cave men." Filmed in a fast three weeks, So This is Love? was completed before Frank Capra's Matinee Idol but released afterward. Leading lady Shirley Mason was the sister of Viola Dana, who starred in Capra's initial Columbia effort, That Certain Thing.
01 Jan 1987
In 1915, Elizabeth has fallen in love with Horace Robedaux, a young man her father condemns as a "wild boy." No matter how strict and protective, her parents cannot deter their daughter's growing independence.
15 May 1958
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.
06 Jul 1929
On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the three are rehabilitated and everything turns out happily."
24 Nov 2005
Anna is a young costume designer, focused on her job and wary of getting caught in romantic relationships. She has just found a new apartment, and is tempted to let her latest boyfriend, Frank, move in with her. Instead, she finds a tenant: The flamboyant, fun-loving Camilla, who shares Anna’s views on love and commitment. For both of them, it’s all about fun.
03 Nov 1971
In a pre-revolutionary Russia, a poor Jewish milkman struggles with the challenges of a changing world as his daughters fall in love and antisemitism grows.
10 Feb 2009
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In Crossing Over, writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
17 Jun 2005
Holly is tired of moving every time her mom Jean breaks up with yet another second-rate guy. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man, an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem.
17 Jan 1927
The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.
19 Jun 1921
A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.
25 May 1916
The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.
03 Aug 1919
A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.
10 Jul 1917
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01 Jan 1993
Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly political work, for many viewers it raises sensitive issues about race, homoeroticism and violence. It depicts two naked men – one of whom is the artist – tussling and teasing one another in an encounter which shifts between tenderness and aggression. The film is silent but a series of stares, glances and winks between the protagonists creates an optical language of flirtation and threat.
13 May 1915
A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.
01 Sep 1921
An old knight weds his dead friend's daughter but she gives herself to an Italian Don to bear an heir.