Else Riedel (Lissy Arna), locked out by her authoritarian father, seeks refuge with her boyfriend Hans. Complications threaten when Hans's roommate Max falls in love with her, but the situation is resolved: the three remain friends, and decide to form a music hall act. They want to ascend, but how? A way out beckons when a theatrical agent named Nevin enters Else’s life. He is played by Hubert von Meyerinck as a slick and oily villain, who oozes refinement; his experience behind bars is waved away with a silk scarf. He is cunning to the point of perfidiousness, but is not completely unsympathetic. He also embodies a new type - the scrounger.

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...

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 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 ...

After wandering the world for fifteen years, Hiram Perkins returns home to find his wife running a s...

Life takes a sour turn for a corrupt politician when he crosses the wrong people.

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

A gripping tale of two young people from contrasting worlds who are thrust together by a twist of fa...

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...

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 ...

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

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

The Recorder, the keeper of Epameinondas's mind, documents his moments on on little notes. Encourage...