Hues of Blue
A lonely artist leaves his paintings on the front doors of people's homes in an attempt to connect with them. However, one person won't accept his gift.
A young countess, Nera Keglević, is fighting against believing in witches by using witchcraft. But the problem is that local judge Krajačić is accusing Nera to be witch for revenge.
A lonely artist leaves his paintings on the front doors of people's homes in an attempt to connect with them. However, one person won't accept his gift.
A young woman inherits her grandmother's rural estate but soon meets an unsettling neighbor with malevolent intentions.
A young man is warned by his boyfriend that he is leaving. Melancholia becomes part of his life until his friends take him to parties, amid these adventures, he can finally rediscover happiness.
The film tells the story of a wandering barrel organ player's daily, tragic life in the back streets of the Finnish cities.
In the near future, an isolated man is tortured by his beloved memories.
Silent romantic drama...
Silent film comedy drama..
Silent film drama..
Charles Stoddard is a poor artist living with his wife and two children in Greenwich Village. Destitute after his wife dies, he is forced to sell one of his children to a childless rich woman. He soon comes his senses however, and tries to back out of the deal.
Susan takes the place of model and shows the clothes so well that she is asked to impersonate a Countess at a reception given by a customer.
Dramatization of Genesis: titles with Biblical language combined with stock shots.
Instead of going to work, a man gets drunk, harasses women and torments his wife. The gimmick of this short comedic drama is that all characters are filmed from the waist down.
A New York City street artist witnesses a crime and resolves to redeem his earlier inaction. A silent film in pantomime, this early work by director Charles Lane brings a unique deftness and grace to its social realist narrative. He would later revisit this theme in his next film Sidewalk Stories (1989).
The Deadlier Sex features Blanche Sweet playing the daughter of a railroad magnate (Winter Hall) who has to take charge when her father unexpectedly dies. She uses her outdoor survival skills to kidnap a business rival to save the company from a stock market struggle. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.
Sessue Hayakawa was making the transition from Asian villain to sympathetic hero in this picture. The plot is a combination of racial stereotypes that were common in the U.S. during the silent era and real-life situations experienced by Asians living Stateside. Hayakawa plays Suki Iota, a student who, while born and bred in America, wants a wife with traditional Japanese values. She appears in the form of Rei (Tsuru Aoki, Hayakawa's real-life wife), a singer who becomes known as the Japanese Nightingale.
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
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In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three years later, he was again invited to don the clothes of the famous tramp on the sets of Boulogne.
In the heart of the American west, a miner toils day after day at his rocker box while his young daughter keeps his camp. His daughter persuades him to return to civilization, where they may enjoy the fruits of their labor. Both are happy in the anticipation of what seems a bright future. While she's away, a desert wanderer appears at the camp, and at the sight of the old man weighing his gold is seized with cupidity. He himself had toiled long in the wilds, but with no success, so he demands that the old man divide his gains with him. This, of course, the miner decries, and the wanderer uses force to obtain the old man's gold. The wanderer collapses in the desert, only to be rescued by a certain young woman: the miner's daughter.
The incidents of this story are some of those preceding and leading up to the Civil War in 1861 and the Declaration of Emancipation. The central figure in the drama is Uncle Tom, a slave initially in the possession of the Shelbys of Kentucky. A 1927 re-release of this film cut the original runtime in half, and in its extant, fragmentary state, it runs 14 minutes.