Peer Gynt - 1. Teil: Peer Gynts Jugend

Based on Henrik Ibsen's play.

1919-04-06 | de

Faust

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

1926-10-13 | de

The Barricade

Debutante Hope Merrill returns home one day to find her financier father Amos Merrill on the verge of committing suicide. Rather than reveal the truth -- that he has misappropriated funds from his own company -- Merrill claims that he has been ruined by young John Cook, Hope's sweetheart.

1917-03-05 | en

The Dancing Girl

Drusilla Ives, a young Quaker girl living on an isolated island, leaves to become the servant of the spendthrift Duke of Guisenberry in London, who is the Lord of her village. She finds that she is attracted to the bustling city's night life, and when the duke discovers that she is a fine dancer, he helps her turn professional. In short order she becomes known as Diana Valrose, the city's favorite dancer. Unfortunately, her strict father and her Quaker fiancee, John Christison, back on the island find out about her newfound fame and career and strongly disapprove--her father places a curse on her and her boyfriend marries her sister Faith. Complications ensue.

1915-01-11 | en

Mistress of a Foreigner

Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minutes have survived. The fragment has been published on DVD coupled with The Downfall of Osen (1935) by Digital MEME in 2007.

1930-07-01 | ja

L'étoile du génie

1914-06-05 | xx

The Keys to Happiness

Directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov, this two-part epic was the most expensive Russian film at the time and smashed box office records. It is now considered lost, with only a 4 minute clip surviving.

1913-01-02 | ru

Shin Yotsuya Kaidan

1914-03-15 | ja

Yotsuya Kaidan

1915-01-01 | ja

Yotsuya Kaidan (Jitsoroku Oiwa)

1918-08-31 | ja

Petersburg Slums

Five-episode adaptation of the eponymous Russian novel, directed by Pyotr Chardynin et al.

1915-01-02 | ru

The Little Girl's Wrong

In order to conquer Margaretella with expensive presents, a young man called Tore steals his mother's jewels but Margaretella seems to prefer Carluccio who challenges Tore to a duel and wounds him. Forgiven by his mother just before she dies, Tore takes revenge by killing Margaretella, but even in prison he can't stop thinking to his victim.

1922-12-01 | it

In Search of Mother

His mother abandoned him as a child, so he had no choice but to live outside society. Even so, he grows up determined to reunite with her. Worried that she might be living in misery, he saves his money to help, only to find that she has married into wealth and social position and has no intention of seeing her outcast Yakuza son...

1931-03-13 | ja

The Making of O'Malley

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

1925-06-28 | en

The Beautiful Leukanida

Two insects fight over the hand of a beautiful lady.

1912-04-25 | ru

The Golden Wedding

A grandfather recalls how he and his wife met and fell in love during the Second Italian War of Independence.

1911-10-27 | it

The Witch of Gric

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.

1920-03-31 | hr

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

1923-09-06 | en

The Mountain Bandit

1927-02-17 | es

Her Sacrifice

A woman with a sordid past is redeemed by love in this silent melodrama from low-budget Sanford Productions.

1926-09-26 | en