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 lonely and elderly widower struggles to come to terms with the loss of his wife and the circumstan...

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...

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

Four robbers are stranded in a village credit union after immediately botching a would-be series of ...

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

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 ...

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...

Bear (10 minutes, 35 seconds) was Steve McQueen's first major film. Although not an overtly politica...

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle B...

Bahasha is the story of Kitasa, an elected public official who betrays his family, friends and commu...

An extravagant, exotic and moving look at Rembrandt's romantic and professional life, and the contro...