The Perils of Pauline is a motion picture serial shown in weekly installments featuring the actress Pearl White playing the title character. Pauline has often been cited as a famous example of a damsel-in-distress, although viewers will find her character more resourceful and less helpless than the classic 'damsel' stereotype. Nine episodes (from a condensed 1916 re-release) survive to this day.

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...

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

Pre-code melodrama about high society marriage and fidelity.

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...

Fast-talking, quick-thinking Detroit street cop Axel Foley has bent more than a few rules and regs i...

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

Adventurous filmmaker Carl Denham sets out to produce a motion picture unlike anything the world has...

In 1933 New York, an overly ambitious movie producer coerces his cast and hired ship crew to travel ...

A peasant girl goes to great lengths to protect her child in 19th century Vienna. The film is consid...

A bumbling tramp desires to build a home with a young woman, yet is thwarted time and time again by ...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

Part of the artificial-creature series encompassing Der Golem (1914 and 1920), Alraune (1918, 1928, ...

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a j...

The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer spac...

Hanns Heinz Ewers' grim science-fiction novel Alraune has already been filmed twice when this versio...

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling g...

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's to...