Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...

A gang of crooks evade the police by moving their operations to a small town. There the gang's leade...

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...

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...

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

Following the tragic death of her teenage son, Manuela travels from Madrid to Barcelona in an attemp...

Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophistica...

Two young men serving at the front. One comes from a good family, the other's family is poor. But th...

Ninon, a veteran stage artist, resides in her villa in Provence, surrounded by admirers as veteran o...

A gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.

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

Getting ready to go their own ways in life, an uncertain boy and his anxious girlfriend have to deci...

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...
This film begins with the invocation of 'almighty god' at a river where several people are gathered....