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Komödie
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|Full short Keaton plays a drifter who cons his way into working at an amusement park shooting gallery. Believing Keaton is an expert marksman, both the murderous gang the Blinking Buzzards and the man they want to ki…
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drama film, silent film
A romance between King George III of Great Britain and a Quaker girl, Catherine, who becomes his morganatic wife, forms the early part of the story. Catherine is really half native, being the daughter of a French adventurer and an indigeno…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film, swashbuckler film
The film is set in the reign of King Louis XIII. When Comte Châtellerault fails to win the hand in marriage of Roxalanne de Lavedan, despite hinting at leniency for her rebellious family if she accepts, he responds to the notorious womaniz…
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drama film, silent film
thumb|Surviving portion of the film In the Irish coastal village of Ballymore in 1899, Ellen McHugh (Belle Bennett) becomes a widow when her husband is killed in a violent storm at sea. Alone but fiercely determined to give her young son B…
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action film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Mad McCara, a sea captain, on the promise of marriage lures the widow Delaney aboard his ship. A collision in the harbor gives him the chance to tell her that her son Jerry was drowned, though h…
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drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, on a moonlit night many years prior to the story, John Carteret and the beautiful Moonyeen were to be married. The guests were assembled, and the garden in which the wedding would take place presented a sce…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|The Wrath of the Gods (1914) Baron Yamaki is a fisherman who lives along with his daughter Toya San on an island. The island is inhabited by Buddhists and Yamaki had been cursed by Buddha for an affront by one of his ancestors who, i…
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Crime
Silent Madden, a criminal leader in San Francisco, and his gangster daughter Molly have forsaken a life of crime after receiving counsel from Chang Lo, a Confucianist philosopher living in Chinatown. A despicable gangster named Black Mike …
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Drama, LGBTQ-related film, silent film
Sodom is a place of sin. An angel appears there, and he is welcomed by Lot. The people of Sodom want to have sex with him.
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documentary film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|The Silent Enemy (1930) The Chief of the tribe, Chetoga trusts his best hunter Baluk to ensure the tribe does not suffer from starvation in the coming winter. They agree, and Baluk inquires about the Chief's daughter, wh…
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Biographical picture
200px|thumb|right|Seeta Devi and Himanshu Rai A tale from India about the origin of the Buddha, Prem Sanyas depicts the story of Prince Siddhartha Gautama (portrayed by director Himansu Rai), the man who became the Buddha, as he journeys f…
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Western
thumb|left|William S. Hart as Blaze Tracy in Hell's Hinges Hell's Hinges tells the story of a weak-willed minister, Rev. Bob Henley, who comes to a wild and debauched frontier town with his sister, Faith.
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silent film
The film's prologue transports the moviegoers to the grottoes of Hell. Life's Creator has gathered the underworld spirits to help him create a mortal. They work non-stop and complete their creation.
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Komödie, Silly Movie, comedy drama, silent film
Nicholas Van Alstyne is the richest man in New York, but he is very disappointed in the behavior of his son, Bertie, who stays out all night gambling and partying, and who seems to show no talent or interest in work. In fact, Bertie is fei…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
Katyusha, a country girl, is seduced and abandoned by Prince Dimitry. Dimitry finds himself, years later, on a jury trying the same Katyusha for a crime he now realizes his actions drove her to. He follows her to imprisonment in Siberia, i…
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Romantic Comedy, drama film, melodrama, romance film, silent film
In Seville, the King of Spain is shocked by the depths of depravity and sin his people have sunk to. He decides to visit the town when a carnaval is organized in order to redeem it. One of its inhabitants is Rosita, a beloved street singer…
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crime film, silent film
A barber named Sweeney Todd slits the throats of his unsuspecting customers, robs them and then dumps their bodies down into his cellar through a trapdoor. He and his partner in crime, Mrs. Lovett, cut up the bodies and use the pieces to m…
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adventure film, silent film
Lord Greystoke (Tarzan) returns to Africa, with Lady Jane and friend Albert Werper, in order to return to Opar. He needs the treasure of Opar in order to secure his estates in England. Werper, however, is actually interested in the gold it…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
In Czarist Russia, Ivan Markov (John Barrymore), a patriotic peasant youth, rises through the ranks after earning the admiration of a celebrated military leader, the General (George Fawcett), who commissions him a lieutenant. Ivan falls ho…
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drama film, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Vera, a princess engaged to a Russian nobleman, falls in love with Feodor, a young boatman. A revolution breaks out and the threatened princess is saved by the boatman, and brought to an inn as his w…
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Melodrama, romance film, silent film
Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, silent film
thumb|Full Movie Stan and Ollie are two inmates sharing a prison cell. Together, they devise a plan to escape by digging a tunnel. However, their escape attempt takes an unexpected turn when they accidentally emerge through the floor of th…
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romantic comedy, silent film
Winthrop Peabody Jr. and his friends prepare to frolic into the night before he must begin work the following day at his father's department store. Before departing, Winthrop Peabody Sr.
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Splatstick
thumb|thumbtime=5|Neighbors (public domain, full short)|left "The Boy" and "the Girl" are young lovers who live in tenements, the rear of which face each other, with backyards separated by a wooden fence. Their families constantly feud ove…
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