Terrorized by Guido, her drunken and brutal father, Marie receives assurance from her dying mother that the Madonna will always protect her. The father reels in just after the mother has expired, too drunk to realize the woman is dead, and finding the whiskey bottle empty, abuses the child. Marie appeals to the image of the Madonna and Guido, in a frenzy of rage, smashes it on the floor. Horrified at the sacrilege, Marie screams.

Miha invites his fiancée Minka to the dance, but he's tempted by another big desire of his - climbin...

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...

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

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 gangster falls for a blind violinist, only for his mobster rivals to kidnap her.
Giano and Luc are traveling through the woods when a storm breaks, forcing them to take shelter in L...

Scientist Galileo Galilei was engaged in his studies, but a servant of his attempts to seduce his da...

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

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

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 ...

The tale of an individualist proletarian in a time marked by the rise of mass political movements. I...