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Monster Film, Mysterie, Splatter Film, fantasy film, horror film, monster film, psychological horror fiction
Rose Da Silva and her husband Christopher are disturbed by their adopted daughter Sharon's constant sleepwalking and nightmares about Silent Hill, a town in West Virginia that was abandoned in the 1970s due to a massive coal seam fire. Des…
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Historie, Political Drama, Social Drama, drama film, historical film, silent film
Part 1: Civil War of United States left|thumb|The film's portrayal of the Siege of Petersburg, led by Ben Cameron Phil, the elder son of the Stonemans (a Northern family), falls in love with Margaret Cameron (the daughter of a Southern fam…
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Biographical picture, Drama, Komödie, adventure film, drama film, mystery film, steampunk film
In 1931 Paris, 12-year-old Hugo Cabret lives with his widowed father, a clockmaker who works at a museum. Hugo's father finds a broken automaton – a mechanical man created to draw with a pen. He and Hugo try to repair it, documenting their…
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Drama, Film Noir, Romance Film, Satire, drama film, film noir, flashback film
At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, police officers and photographers discover the body of Joe Gillis floating face down in the swimming pool. In a flashback, Joe relates the events leading to his death. Six months earlier, Joe, a down-on-hi…
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Dance Film, Komödie, Musical, comedy film, musical film, romantic comedy film
In 1927, silent film stars Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont attend the premiere of their latest film, The Royal Rascal, produced by Hollywood studio Monumental Pictures. On the red carpet, Don tells the story of his rise to stardom, claiming t…
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Horror, Modern-Day Fantasy, horror film, psychological horror fiction
Sharon Da Silva and her adoptive father Christopher have spent the past few years moving from town to town and assuming different identities, including the names Heather and Harry Mason. Heather believes that they are on the run from the p…
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Horror, dark fantasy, experimental film, fantasy film, horror film, silent film
The film opens on a dilapidated shack, inside which a robed and masked figure disembowels himself with a straight razor. He dies after cutting open his abdomen and removing his internal organs. A woman in white emerges from his remains.
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comedy drama, comedy film, drama film, romance film, romantic comedy film, silent film
In 1927, silent film star George Valentin is posing for pictures outside the premiere of his latest hit film when a young woman, Peppy Miller, accidentally bumps into him. Valentin reacts with humor and shows off with Peppy for the cameras…
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Drama, Monumental Film, art film, drama film, silent film
D. W. Griffith's monumental film “Intolerance” interweaves four episodes set in different eras of contemporary history.
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Buddy Film, Drama, Romantic Drama, War Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=25|Wings (1927) thumb| In 1918, Jack Powell and David Armstrong are rivals in the same small American town, both vying for the attentions of pretty Sylvia Lewis. Jack fails to realize that "the girl next door", Mary Pr…
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Horror, Melodrama, drama film, horror film, monster film, silent film
The following synopsis is based on the general release version of 1925, which has additional scenes and sequences in different order than the existing reissue print. In the 1890s, at the Paris Opera House, Comte Philippe de Chagny and his …
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Drama, Romance Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film, silent film, tragicomedy
thumb|right|The Tramp working on the giant machine in the film's most famous scene thumb|269x269px| During the Great Depression, The Tramp works on an assembly line, where he suffers greatly due to the stress and pace of the repetitive wor…
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Romantic Comedy, Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, romantic comedy film, tragicomedy
The unveiling of a new monument to "Peace and Prosperity" reveals the Little Tramp asleep in the lap of one of the sculpted figures. He escapes the assembly's fury and roams the city. The Tramp encounters a flower girl on a street corner.
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Horror, Melodrama, drama film, horror film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=12|The Man Who Laughs In late 17th-century England, court jester Barkilphedro informs King James II of the capture of Lord Clancharlie, an exiled nobleman, who has returned for his young son, Gwynplaine. The King tells…
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Komödie, romantic comedy film, silent film, war film
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|Full film: The General (1926) After arriving in Marietta, Georgia, Western & Atlantic Railroad train engineer Johnnie Gray visits Annabelle Lee, one of the two loves of his life, the other being his locomotive, The G…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, silent film, social comedy film
With much anguish, an unwed mother abandons her child, placing him in an expensive automobile with a handwritten note: "Please love and care for this orphan child". Two thieves steal the car and leave the baby in an alley, where he is foun…
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Drama, Horror, drama film, horror film, mystery film, silent film
Roger Balfour is found dead in his London home one night. Burke, a representative of Scotland Yard, after questioning everyone present, declares the death a suicide despite objection from Balfour's neighbour and close friend, Sir James Ham…
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Crime, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|George O'Brien and Margaret Livingston in a publicity still for the film. A vacationing woman from the city lingers in a lakeside town for weeks. After dark, she goes to a farmhouse where the Man and the Wife live with their chi…
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Monumental Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|167px|Ramon Novarro as Ben-Hur At the Joppa Gate in Jerusalem, Mary and Joseph pass through on their way from Nazareth to Bethlehem. They stop at the inn at the entrance to the city, but there is no available room. Mary is pregn…
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Parodie, comedy film, parody film, satirical film, silent film
Mel Funn, a once-great Hollywood film director, is now recovering from a drinking problem and down on his luck. He and his sidekicks, Marty Eggs and Dom Bell, want to make the first silent movie in 40 years and Funn pitches the idea to the…
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Komödie, comedy film, romantic comedy, silent film, social comedy film
The following is the plot of the 1942 re-release: During the Klondike Gold Rush, in Alaska, gold prospector Big Jim finds an enormous gold deposit on his parcel of land when a blizzard strikes. The Lone Prospector gets lost in the same bli…
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Arranged Documentary, Cultural Film, documentary film, drama film, silent film
thumb|left|Nyla, wife of Nanook thumb|left|Nanook (Allakariallak), 1920 The film follows the lives of an Inuk, Nanook, and his family as they travel, search for food, and trade in the Ungava Peninsula of northern Quebec, Canada. Nanook, hi…
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Classical Western
thumb|thumbtime=20|Digital copy of print preserved at the Library of Congress; runtime 00:13:27. Two bandits break into a railroad telegraph office, where they force the operator at gunpoint to stop a train and order its engineer to fill t…
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Bible Film, drama film, silent film, sword-and-sandal film
thumb|left|thumbtime=4|The Ten Commandments The film has two parts: the Prologue, the epic tale of Moses; and the Story, in a modern setting and involving living by the Ten Commandments. The prologue The opening statement explains that mod…
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