Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face ...
A man dreams he is the 'demon barber' who cuts sailors' throats for jewels and uses the corpses for ...
William H. Thompson plays a likeable old lighthouse keeper who must contend with his less likeable f...
"Half-breed" trapper Jacques LaRouge is infatuated with Memory Baird (Fritzi Brunette), the daughter...
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...
A perverted town mayor who murders a young girl and, overcome by guilt, commits suicide. Based on t...
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
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First installment of the Tense Moments with Great Authors series. Presumed lost.
Joe Ryan, a veteran train engineer, is demoted to a flagman position after a disastrous crash-- one ...
Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and...
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...
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 classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
Danish adaptation of Trilby. Presumed lost, though a single still apparently depicting the novel's c...
So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero,...