
01 Oct 1954

A Star Is Born
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

The last word in thrills and comedy! What a show!
A grease monkey discovers a defect in an auto engine being turned out by his employer. But since our hero discovers this only after losing an important race, his boss chalks up the loss to Fairbanks' supposed cowardice.

Vernon Keith

Ethel Hume
George Marshall
Fergus Hume

Goof Goober

Benton

Derne

Undetermined Secondary Role (uncredited)

01 Oct 1954

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.

04 Sep 1916

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

23 Mar 1926

No overview found

28 May 1919

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).

12 Apr 1929

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is a combination of a drama about a reporter, and documentary footage about newspaper production. Only 25 minutes of footage has survived.

15 Feb 1923

After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing the wrath of Maria's father, has swiftly abandoned the girl and left for the mining town of Sankt Anton, where he expects to hide easily amongst the large population of colliers. Maria must care for herself, and ends up in Sankt Anton, where she attempts to rebuild her life. There, she gets to know Thomas, and soon the young people are engaged. When Georg and Maria meet again, drama ensues. The film originally ran 97 minutes.

25 Oct 1918

Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's bombs. Anny leaves for the front to care for the wounded. Third part of Maurits Binger's epic silent trilogy. Most of the film is considered lost – a single fragment remains.

13 Feb 1936

No overview found

08 Jul 1927

Hou Yao wrote, directed and starred in A Poet from the Sea (1927). It was shot in Stanley, Hong Kong. The surviving copy was only 23-minute long, but Hou Yao's romantic side was obvious through the scenic location and beautiful set-up. The love story between Poet (Hou Yao) and his lover (Lee Dan-dan) was pure and lyrical, a gem from China Sun Motion Picture Company (Shanghai) in the 1920s.

02 Jan 1918

A young heiress of an American gun factory is threatened by a masked man after her father was murdered. This criminal might be a member of her family or a German agent, who wants to get information about the factory's products, perhaps his mystery has a combined solution - we will probably never know...

28 Jul 1917

Famous Russian screen actors play themselves in this drama about the lives of actors. Thirteen minutes of the film survive.

01 May 1916

Mere years could not kill the overwhelming love which lay dormant in Lorenz's heart, though Florence was now the wife of another.

01 Jan 1919

Brišem i sudim is a Croatian film. Only one minute of the film is saved.
01 Jan 1925
A family suffers greatly during the First World War.

02 Feb 1923

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

02 Jan 1919

A beautiful young woman is a daring master thief. She meets the young millionaire Thomas Babbington Norton, while fleeing from the scene of her latest theft.

28 Jun 1925

A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys.

04 Dec 1924

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

19 Jan 1929

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is considered lost, and only four minutes of footage are known to remain.

06 Feb 1927

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.