When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.

A woman arrives home after the ball. Her servant helps her undress and bathe.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

Gabrielle (Helene Hallier), an ambitious but innocent would-be young chorine, trumps a music hall pu...

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and...

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the...

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geish...

A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standi...

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

There is hunger in Siberia during the Russian Civil War. One day while dim-witted peasant Sergei is ...

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired ...

A wealthy, callous moneylender finds a terrifying way to learn about money's limitations.

A young girl living in Salem attracts the attentions of The Puritan. After he's brushed off by the g...

Johanna loves poor farmer Joachim, yet marries the wealthy miller. One day, Joachim visits Johanna w...

In this realistic, unsentimental portrait of Germany’s dire economic situation, a middle-aged payrol...

Based on a real event that occurred between two deputies, in Chapultepec Park.

Edison short about a happy couple about to be married, but the guy's carelessness at their workplace...

A young woman is quite taken with a man she met; in fact, he is her “ideal”. However, after her new ...
An elderly bank clerk declines to donate money to a tuberculosis fund, but soon his daughter comes d...

Well-to-do Mr. and Mrs. Gilton live next door to a large family, the Biltons, that struggles to make...