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.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minu...

1952 reconstruction of Gelabert’s Café Brawl (1897). This remake is the only surviving version, recr...

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

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...

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

Baseball pitching phenom Dean Fosh has a dream - he wants to play the game like no one's ever played...

In times of World War I, a group of boisterous young ladies occurs to them that they could help the ...

Denise lives with her grandparents on a farm and secretly meets Robert. When she tells her grandpare...

Two young adults project their ideals (and, in turn, their problems) onto each other

Henry is hired to authenticate and purchase a long lost and very valuable recipe book. Soon Henry an...

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

Like Max Ophüls, Capellani set many films in the theatre – backstage, on stage, in the public eye; H...
Arvid falls in love with cabaret singer Lussie and, much to his mother's dismay, marries this advent...