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Drama, Romance Film, drama film, silent film
A group of holiday-makers arrives at Cortina d'Ampezzo, an Alpine village in the Dolomites. Among them are an American Doctor who does not pay much attention to his wife and an Austrian Lieutenant, who decides to seduce her. He manages to …
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Drama, Komödie
Frumpy wife Beth devotes herself to bettering her husband's mind and expanding his appreciation for the finer things in life, such as classical music. When he goes shopping at a lingerie store to buy some sexier clothes for her, he meets S…
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Bible Film, Drama, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Salome uses her wiles in pursuit of King Herod, whose power she desires. She has disposed of Herod's chief rival, and causes his wife to be killed through her own treachery. John the Baptist, who has secure…
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comedy film, silent film
Wally Saunders wants to marry chorus girl Violet Dayne, but his uncle, Stephen Lee thinks that all chorines are gold diggers and refuses to give his approval. Violet's friend Jerry La Mar is not a gold digger, but she agrees to go after Le…
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Melodrama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Nifty Miller, a veteran sideshow barker, is famed for his ability to draw crowds with his magnetic voice and pitch-perfect patter. Colonel Gowdy, owner of the carnival, calls him the best barker in the business. Nifty's colorful showmanshi…
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thumb|thumbtime=5|upright=1.5|The Italian The film tells the story of Pietro "Beppo" Donnetti. Donnetti is a poor, but happy, gondolier in Venice, Italy. Beppo falls in love with Annette Ancello, but her father, Trudo, wants her to marry a…
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drama film, silent film
Based upon a summary in a film publication, Angela (Pickford), an Italian girl, bids good-bye to her second brother, who is the youngest, as he goes off to join the troops. Then comes news that her older brother has been killed in the war.…
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Komödie
A drunkard is attending a hydropathic hotel, presumably to dry out, but brings along a big suitcase full of alcohol. He gets trapped in a spinning revolving door then traps the foot of a large man with a bandaged foot, suffering from gout.…
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Komödie, drama film, silent film
In 1923 Vienna, when Mizzi threatens to leave her husband, Prof. Josef Stock, for "cruelty" for being indifferent to an invitation from her friend Charlotte to introduce them to her husband, he smiles at the suggestion, which infuriates he…
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drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|The full film While stationed in Algiers, Commandant Denis Hogan receives a letter containing bad news and requests leave to return to his home country of Ireland, where he is a wanted man. In Ireland, Baron James O'Brien is tol…
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drama film, silent film
Based upon a review in a film publication, the plot contrasts the corrupt gay life of the city with the dignity and wholesome life of people in the country. When Mary Horton goes to the city seeking work but fails to find it, she is befrie…
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silent film, war film
Old Bill (Sydney Chaplin), a jovial Limey sergeant, serves in the Army during World War I, where he gets into various scrapes alongside his fellow soldier, Alf (Jack Ackroyd). While helping himself to a drink in the cellar of an inn, Bill …
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Splatstick
thumb|thumbtime=5|The Scarecrow Buster plays a farmhand who competes with his housemate (Roberts) to win the love of the farmer's daughter (Sybil Seely). Running from a dog that he believes is rabid, he races around brick walls, jumps thro…
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drama film, race film, silent film
Eve Mason is a "white-skinned" African American who inherits a large amount of land after the death of her grandfather Dick Mason, an old prospector. She leaves her hometown of Selma, Alabama for the Northwest to settle in a place called O…
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musical film, silent film
thumbtime=0:02|thumb|left|The film Flagg (Victor McLaglen) and Quirt (Edmund Lowe) find themselves transferred from Russia to Brooklyn to South America, in each place squaring off over a local beauty. The film remains one of the earliest s…
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Animation, Komödie, Romantic Drama, silent film
The silent film, except for narration throughout by Gordon-Levitt, follows the first date between Morgan M. Morgansen (Gordon-Levitt) and a young woman named Destiny (Hulme). Backed up by a sour-turned-sentimental waiter - or the "foodpeng…
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Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, silent film
Stan and Ollie, two musicians en route to a performance in Pottsville, Pennsylvania, find themselves travelling onboard a sleeper train. Stan inadvertently drops most of their musical paraphernalia at the station, much to Ollie's alarm, an…
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Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Timothy Osborn (Farrell) and Martin Wrenn (Williams) work as linemen for a utility in a rural area. Both flirt with Mary Tucker (Gaynor) who is the daughter of a widowed dairy farmer, As the film begins it is 1917, and America becomes invo…
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Splatstick
thumb|thumbtime=25|Liberty (1929) Stan and Ollie, fugitives from prison, find themselves pursued by a police officer armed with a shotgun. Their escape leads them to encounter two accomplices in a car, where they hurriedly swap their priso…
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Romance Film, romance film, silent film
In 1857, Joel Shore, the carefree youngest son of a seafaring family, has a flirtatious friendship with Priscilla Crowninshield, and he eventually falls in love with her. However, unbeknownst to him, Priscilla has been betrothed to Joel's …
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Komödie
Chaplin plays a laborer on a house construction site. When he gets paid, his wife wants all the money, but he manages to keep enough of it to go out drinking. He returns home just in time to pretend he has just woken up to go to work.
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Komödie, biographical film, drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Catherine (Negri), the Czarina of a small European country, decides to give audience in person to the French Ambassador (Malatesta) when she learns he is a favorite with the Parisian ladies. In …
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Drama
left|thumb|thumbtime=17|Mr. Wu (1927) In the prologue, Chaney plays Grandfather Wu, entrusting his grandson's education to a trusted English associate, stating "The West is coming to the East. He [my heir] must be prepared for both." Chane…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|The Single Standard (1929) Debutante Arden Stuart, believes a single standard of conduct should apply to both sexes, one that strives for a combination of freedom, equality, and honesty — in regards to love. Her first at…
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