The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it is late in the day, and with the banks closed he stores the money in his father's household safe. The slatternly housekeeper, aware of the money, enlists a criminal acquaintance to crack the safe. She attempts to get into the adjacent room where the sisters tremble in fear, but finds that the door is locked. The drunken housekeeper menaces them by brandishing a gun through a hole in the wall.

A clairvoyant warns divorcée Adrienne Van Couver to beware of Robert Warren, whom she has spurned. T...

Two brothers compete for the love of a woman while the impending war threatens to separate them from...

"Between life and death" - Dr Brinck and his assistant Inger Holm spend days and nights in his labor...

John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he w...

Bill, an idle, unemployed aspiring writer, walks the crowded streets of London following randomly ch...

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to...

The teenage daughter of a Brooklyn beauty-parlor owner blossoms under the influence of her recently-...

A Japanese merchant attempts to drive one of his rivals mad by impersonating a man he had once murde...

Valentin Vaala's (and Teuvo Tulio's) first film. Only fragments survive.

Margot, the motherless daughter of a New England fisherman, dreams of a better life. After rescuing ...

A woman in her 20s question time, perfection, and solace as she wanders the mundane city of Manila.

Tricked into marriage with a villain, the woman, believing him dead, marries another, only to have t...

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks a...

Ex-safecracker Gal Dove has served his time behind bars and is blissfully retired to a Spanish villa...

The Empire of Izmer is a divided land: elite magicians called “mages” rule while lowly commoners are...
An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
Set in a small English village in 1967, liberated Marion is exploring the new social freedoms enjoye...

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage. Just as she's to be sacrifice...

Unemployed Antonio is elated when he finally finds work hanging posters around war-torn Rome. Howeve...

Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.