In "Menschen Untereinander" ("The Folk Upstairs"), director Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the social microcosm of an apartment building. The gossip-mad Frau Mierig (Lydia Potechina) from the rear building gives the newly-arrived Frau Kaminski (Käthe Haack), the janitor's wife, a lively initiation into the tenants and their peculiarities.
In English known informally as "The Half of a Boy" and "Stepmother". Based on the novel by Kálmán Mi...
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out...
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs hi...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
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 lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
A man on the brink of death, has a conversation with a stranger. The pair philosophize about the mea...
A mysterious man with a cup full of money stands in a dark alley. After a woman throws money into th...
Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.
Mater Mortis is a short narrative film that asks what the limits of family bonds are under the weigh...
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to...
When Eddie, the son of a police officer, gets involved with a criminal gang, his sister tries to ste...
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...