Martin Hollmann, a young gardener meets his significantly older wife's daughter from her first marriage. Liesbeth Kröger is from his generation and they both get along well straight away. Shortly after his wife's death, Martin brings Liesbeth into his house as a housekeeper, and they both fall in love. The couple live together and soon decide to get married when Liesbeth becomes pregnant by Martin. But now the tragedy begins, because when registering at the registry office, Martin and Liesbeth, in the form of a strict bailiff, are officially declared that they have committed incest in accordance with Section 173 of the Criminal Code.
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recentl...
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing s...
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northe...
With no clue how he came to be imprisoned, drugged and tortured for 15 years, a desperate man seeks ...
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after ...
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind...
Henry, a struggling Greenwhich Villiage artist, accidentally finds an invitation to Louise Gordon's ...
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal a...
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy m...
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn ...
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...
Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout...
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. Wit...
Anna Moore, a poor orphaned country girl, and her little brother, Tommy, live with hypocritical Squi...
The lonely Jeruza lives in a simple isolated house by the seaside with the siblings Cassandra and Ul...
Robin Hood is a 1912 film made by Eclair Studios when it and many other early film studios in Americ...
Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to aba...
Gennaro, the son of Lucretia Borgia, lives unaware of the identity of his mother, who has married th...