The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother"

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwin...

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince hi...

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

Caught off-guard by Indian mutineers, a British soldier saves his last bullet for his daughter, lest...

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan...

One of the two earliest horror films ever made. This film is presumed lost. In this black comedy sce...

The life of Moses as told through the Book of Exodus, the imagination of a dying boy, and the ballad...
Le mogli e le arance is characterized by a wonderful sereneness. It is the kind of quietude which ma...

Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his re...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The Genera...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...