"La Commune" ( The Commune ) (1914) is a good example of Herr Guerra's peculiarities. It was produced by "Cinéma Du Peuple" ( People's Cinema ), a film cooperative supported by workers, and depicts the beginnings of the Commune of Paris, that working class uprising that briefly ruled and caused a mess during two months in the city of Paris in the year of 1871.

A short dance performance about the mythical goddess of the hunt

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhu...

A doctor, very much in love with his beautiful wife, comes to suspect that her visiting childhood fr...

A BFI collection of 7 short films from the USA, England and Italy scored for Piano, Guitar and Strin...

This short, otherwise unremarkable feature is of some interest because of the way that it unabashedl...

The film is based on the words of a song performed by Iza Kremer in Odessa.

Paula is a circus performer married to the alcoholic clown-acrobat Lorio. Lorio's heavy drinking lea...

Carnevalesca with the beautiful Lydia Borelli is divided into four parts: white carnival - innocent ...

A wealthy society playboy falls in love with the daughter of a poor fisherman. After Valentino shot ...

The daughter of a Chinese mandarin is sentenced to death for her secret marriage to an American. The...

The playmates of Krishna are insulted by a female villager who splashes water on them. They take rev...

Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attrac...

An insecure wife fears her husband may be straying back to an old flame.

Influenced by California Pictorialist photography of the preceding decades, it was in its own day re...

The Black Death is ravaging Spain. As Camille Saint-Saëns's "Danse Macabre" plays on the soundtrack,...

From the director of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. ...

A Manhattan playboy falls for a mysterious European woman, whom he notices is an exact double for a ...

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and...

Anna-Liisa carries a secret. Three years ago she killed the baby she had with Mikko, the old hired h...

Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis that un-o...