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.

When her grandson is kidnapped during the Tour de France, Madame Souza and her beloved pooch Bruno t...
Tōjin Okichi is a 1930 film by Kenji Mizoguchi based on the novel by Gisaburo Juichiya. Only 4 minu...

1952 reconstruction of Gelabert’s Café Brawl (1897). This remake is the only surviving version, recr...

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-c...

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...

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires ...

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los ...

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl...

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

Two thieves, who travel in elegant circles, try to outsmart each other and, in the process, end up f...

In times of World War I, a group of boisterous young ladies occurs to them that they could help the ...

Denise lives with her grandparents on a farm and secretly meets Robert. When she tells her grandpare...

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a chan...

The story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, a...

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessaril...

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Arvid falls in love with cabaret singer Lussie and, much to his mother's dismay, marries this advent...