Against the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.
A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of...
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using ...
Laurie Devon is a New York playwright who, having had one success, refuses to work on another play.
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women...
Athletic star William Russell puts on his boxing gloves for this waterfront drama.
In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they t...
After an abrupt and violent encounter with a French warship inflicts severe damage upon his ship, a ...
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...
In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol...
This is a romantic biographical film about Franz Liszt. In a distinguished saloon of Paris, the unkn...
Pierre Felix, a couturier, makes a $25,000 bet with Ralph Courtland that he can take a girl from the...
Flighty Helen Halverson decides that she wants to marry Big Jim McKenzie, the boss of the logging ca...
Henry and Marion have a lover's quarrel and part in anger. They do not reconcile, and ten years pass...
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 ...
When an arranged marriage brings Ada and her spirited daughter to the wilderness of nineteenth-centu...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
A celebration of love and creative inspiration takes place in the infamous, gaudy and glamorous Pari...
When doctors fail to cure the young and beautiful Claire Raven, who for inexplicable reasons seems t...