"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.

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

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...

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...

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

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

After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall int...
A nervous and unsettling young boy takes a mysterious old suitcase across London... to a twisted and...

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

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

During a game of hide and seek, a new bride hides in a chest and remains undiscovered until a strang...

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. I...

Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win th...

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

Danny O'Rourke is the son of a police officer who was killed in the line of duty. Eager to join the ...

Life on the breadline in the 1930s was hard enough, but times were desperate when you fell beneath i...