Three stories with three central female characters linking the stories together. The first one concerns an orphan girl who grows attached to the postmaster she is caring for after he teaches her to read and write. The second one is a supernatural tale about a woman obsessed with the jewels her husband buys for her. The final one follows a young man who falls for an unconventional girl from his new village instead of his arranged bride, the daughter of a respectable family.

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fig...

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Arch...

Drunk and disillusioned Roman, Marcellus Gallio, wins Jesus' robe in a dice game after the crucifixi...

A truly major work, I Don’t Know observes the relationship between a lesbian and a transgender perso...

A romance between two young lovers is complicated by their prohibitive parents. Preserved by the Ac...

In a dilapidated rural mansion, the last generation of the degenerate, inbred Merrye family lives wi...

After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measure...
An animated comedy short from the 1920s. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.

Two detectives clash over the hunt for a burlesque dancer’s killer in Los Angeles’ Japanese district...

An aging, decadent landlord’s passion for music becomes the undoing of his legacy as he sacrifices h...

From the moment she glimpses her idol at the stage door, Eve Harrington is determined to take the re...

As the railroad builders advance unstoppably through the Arizona desert on their way to the sea, Jil...

In 1672 Cuban revolutionaries launch an uprising against the Spanish who are occupying the country. ...

Mary Henry ends up the sole survivor of a fatal car accident through mysterious circumstances. Tryin...

Londoner Harry Fabian is a second-rate con man looking for an angle. After years of putting up with ...

Short film about nurse service in wartime. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2013.

Brother and sister Enrique and Rosa flee persecution at home in Guatemala and journey north, through...

Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from ...

Joe Gideon is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors and choreographers in mus...

Proposed by the President of the United States to fill the post of Secretary of State, Robert Leffin...