One out of three silent adaptations of the novella "Les quatre diables" written by Danish author Herman Bang. The most famous one, although unfortunately lost, is without any doubt F.W. Murnau's "4 Devils". This German version, by Danish director A.W. Sandberg, was done eight years prior to Murnau's American one, and was a big success at the time.

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

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...

Two angels glide through the streets of Berlin, observing the bustling population, providing invisib...

When Gelsomina, a naïve young woman, is purchased from her impoverished mother by brutish circus str...

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...

In 1924, Oskar Matzerath is born in the Free City of Danzig. At age three, he falls down a flight of...

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

On his way out of a wedding, a young boy named Peachskin finds a jewel by chance. Bringing it back t...

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

A circus performer falls in love with the son of a plantation owner in antebellum New Orleans. When ...

A Jewish tannery worker, Nahum Beychik, invents a machine that makes hard work easier in leather tan...

Henri Le Rocque's arrival in an island village causes much anger when he insists upon advanced renta...

A forger's arrest shocks his pregnant wife, causing their daughter to suffer strange trances.

The story takes place in Monte Carlo, where the impoverished Julian proposes marriage to the wealthy...

Crusading Judge Evans wants to expose the unscrupulous Judge Mordant even though he is engaged to Mo...

When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serv...