This melodrama about an actress in love with a playwright and the stage manager blackmailing her for her affections offers a unique glimpse into Chaney’s career before his classic performances in The Hunchback of Notre Dame and The Phantom of the Opera. Preserved and restored by the Academy Film Archive in 2004.
Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...
Fannie Brand, an industrious girl who supports her brother and sister by working in a theatrical cos...
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face ...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
When illegal card dealer and recovering heroin addict Frankie Machine gets out of prison, he decides...
Brimming with action while incisively examining the nature of truth, "Rashomon" is perhaps the fines...
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...
Apu, now a jobless ex-student dreaming vaguely of a future as a writer, is invited to join an old co...
Apu and his family have moved away from the country to live in the bustling holy city of Benares. As...
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...
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...