"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.
In the mid-1980s, the U.S. is poised on the brink of nuclear war. This shadow looms over the residen...
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women...
Mo Geum-san is a barber living in the rural area, who once aspired to be an actor. He starts to have...
Oscar Krug is looked upon with suspicion by his neighbors because of his German name. When the US is...
Charles Abbott is implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother to the woman he loves.
Mina Rogers (Mary MacLaren) is unfairly cast out into the cruel, cruel world by her crotchety old un...
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...
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, ...
In Old Vienna in the days prior to The Great War, a beautiful woman, Hannerl, has her choice of two ...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she ...
Operette-like oriental fantasy about a forbidden love between en english boy and a chinese girl.
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall int...
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...