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Romance Film, Swashbuckler
Don Diego de la Vega (Zorro)'s son, Cesar, is in Spain finishing his education. While Cesar is showing off to friends his remarkable prowess with the whip, he accidentally clips off the feather shako on the hat of Don Sebastian of the Pala…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
David Kinemon, youngest son of West Virginia tenant farmers, longs to be treated like a man by his family and neighbors, especially Esther Hatburn, the pretty girl who lives with her grandfather on a nearby farm. However, he is continually…
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comedy drama, comedy horror, mystery film, satanic film, silent film
Jim Kirkham, a wealthy young man devoted to exploration and the collecting of exotic curiosities, is taken to task by his uncle for his extravagance. Obsessed with mysterious artifacts and unorthodox scientific experiments, Jim has turned …
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Fantasy, Horror
The film begins with the raising of a stage curtain. Dr. Jekyll vows his undying love for Alice, a vicar's daughter, in her spacious garden.
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Drama, drama film, melodrama, romance film, silent film
During a blizzard, Russian count Alexis Vronsky, aide-de-camp of the Grand Duke, meets a veiled woman on the way to St. Petersburg, Russia. When they are forced to stop at an inn overnight, Vronsky attempts to seduce her but she rejects hi…
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Komödie, romance film, silent film
Spike travels the world as the mate of a schooner. He has a little address book full of sweethearts, but everywhere he goes, he finds that someone has been there before him, leaving behind with each girl a heart-shaped charm with an anchor…
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Splatstick, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|Harold and Mary thumb|thumbtime=9|The Kid Brother (1927) The Hickorys are a respected family in Hickoryville. Sheriff Jim and his big, strong sons Leo and Olin have little respect for the youngest son, Harold, who does not have …
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Drama, drama film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=4|Four Sons (1928) In a quiet Bavarian village before the Great War, Mother Bernle, a warm, dignified widow, tends a modest home and devotes herself to her four beloved sons. The eldest, Joseph “Dutch” Bernle, dreams o…
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silent film
A bitter bachelor and founder of a club, The Night Club, a free organization of unrepentant bachelors, Bob White finally decided to get married. But the wedding goes awry, because the bride leaves him alone at the foot of the altar. The ba…
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Adventure, Drama, Historie, Romance Film, adventure film, biographical film, drama film, historical film, melodrama, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=0|upright=1.5|alt=Black and white silent film showing Biblical epic scenes|Judith of Bethulia The film is based on the deuterocanonical Book of Judith. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrians, a wid…
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Komödie, comedy film, silent film
thumb|Grandma's Boy (1922) The grandma's boy is a timid coward who cannot muster the courage to woo his girl and is afraid of his rival. His loving grandma gives him a magic charm from the Civil War that had been used by his grandfather, w…
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Romance Film, War Film
Karl Von Austreim lives in America with his German father and American mother. He admires and woos a young woman, Angela Moore. As she is celebrating her birthday on the Fourth of July of 1914, she receives flowers from the French Count Ju…
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Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=4|The Plastic Age (1925) Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. During a hazing initiation by his fraternity brothers, he meets Cynthia Day, a popular girl who loves to party and have a good tim…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
Little Lord Fauntleroy, a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, first appeared as a serial in St. Nicholas Magazine in 1885 and was published as a book in 1886. It became a major literary success, shaping both children's fiction and late-Victo…
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Komödie
Buster joins a queue for free bread, but does not note that he is standing behind two unmoving mannequins. By the time he spots his mistake, there is no more bread left. Next, Buster peers into a police station where captured murderer "Dea…
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Komödie
Keaton plays a teller at a successful bank. Unbeknownst to him, the manager of the bank and his gang are planning on pulling off a robbery and hiding in an old house that they have rigged up with booby traps and effects to make it appear t…
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Monumental Film, Romance Film, War Film
The story shifts between the viewpoints of Loyalists in Upstate New York and Patriots in Massachusetts and Virginia. Later in the film, in New York, a little-remembered sub-plot takes place. Captain Walter Butler, a ruthless Loyalist offic…
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Komödie
left|thumb|The short film. Piedmont Mumblethunder eagerly anticipates the arrival of his Scottish nephew, Philip, at a pier. Unfamiliar with Philip's appearance but armed with the knowledge that he becomes overwhelmed in the presence of wo…
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Fantasy, Horror, fantasy film, horror film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=2|Full film In the Latin Quarter of Paris, sculptor Margaret Dauncey is injured when the top of the huge statue of a faun she is working on breaks off and falls on her; her friend, painter Susie Boyd, gets help to lift…
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fantasy film, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, having submitted to a medical treatment which restores her youth and beauty using a rejuvenating glandular treatment and X-ray surgery, Madame Zatianny, formerly Mary Ogden of New York City, leaves A…
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silent film, war film
thumb|left|The film. As children, Harry promises to marry Ethne, both the offspring of English Army officers, but she consents only if he will dress as a soldier. When Harry is still a child, his father tells him stories about the Crimean …
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LGBTQ-related film, drama film, silent film
thumb|Borderline (1930) The film revolves around an interracial love triangle and its effects on the local townsfolk. The story is based in a guesthouse occupied by a pair of liberal, hedonistic young people sympathetic to the emerging bla…
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Komödie
In the film, Lillian Travers, a wealthy Northern woman about to be married, visits her aunt in Florida. While there, she stops in a curiosity shop and buys a small casket which contains a note and a vial of seeds. At her aunt's house she r…
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Komödie, comedy film, silent film