The Road to Ruin (1928)
drama film, exploitation film, silent film
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A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929)
Crime, Drama
thumb|thumbtime=10|A Cottage on Dartmoor (1929) Joe works as a barber in a shop in a Devon town, alongside a manicurist called Sally. He is infatuated with her and asks her out on a date; however the evening turns out awkwardly and it is c…
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Convict 13 (1920)
Komödie
thumb|thumbtime=5|Convict 13 Buster plays golf one morning with a group of friends and after a disastrous start, drives his ball into a river but retrieves it after it is swallowed by a fish. Meanwhile a convict escapes from a nearby priso…
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Double Whoopee (1929)
Komödie
thumb|thumbtime=10|Double Whoopee (1929) A hotel reception awaits an important guest - a Germanic prince referred to as His Highness and his prime minister. These disembark from their car just as Laurel and Hardy arrive. However, the Von S…
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Glorious Betsy (1928)
Drama, biographical film, drama film, silent film
Elizabeth “Glorious Betsy” Patterson falls in love with Jerome, her French tutor. When her father, Colonel Patterson, informs her that the brother of Napoleon will be attending a ball in Baltimore, Jerome secretly writes to Betsy asking fo…
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The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Full film Fenella (Anna Pavlova) is a poor Italian girl who falls in love with the Duke's (Wadsworth Harris) son Alphonso, a Spanish nobleman.
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The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Crime
A secret vigilante society's nine members pass judgment on others. They meet to decide the fate of a wealthy businessman they have been keeping under surveillance known as “The Man Who Has Lived Too Long” and vote to dispatch him with a ho…
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The Chinese Parrot (1927)
crime film, mystery film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Sally Randall, daughter of a rich Hawaiian planter, marries Philmore, the man of her father's choice, thereby jilting her lover P.J. Madden. Tearing from her throat the priceless pearls that are her father'…
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The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
Western film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=0|The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926) Following a series of robberies of the K & A Railroad, detective Tom Gordon is hired to uncover the mystery. Disguised as a bandit, Tom boards the train of K & A President Cullen. Cull…
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court (1921)
comedy film, fantasy film, silent film
Madame Butterfly (1915)
drama film, silent film
The film takes place in Japan in 1904. Lieutenant Pinkerton (Marshall Neilan) marries Cho-Cho-San 'Butterfly' (Mary Pickford), a 15-year-old Japanese geisha. Cho-Cho-San is lucky with her new husband and takes the marriage very seriously.
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Shadows (1922)
Drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|left|200px|Lon Chaney as Chinese immigrant, Yen Sin. A physically abusive fisherman by the name of Daniel Gibbs leaves his wife Sympathy Gibbs to go on a fishing expedition with other villagers from their village of Urkey and the shi…
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Johnny Get Your Gun (1919)
silent film
The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
action film, adventure film, silent film
Tarzan and Jane are traveling to Paris to help his old friend Countess de Coude, who is being threatened by her brother, Nikolas Rokoff. Rokoff has Tarzan tossed overboard. He survives, comes ashore in North Africa, and goes to Paris to se…
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The American Venus (1926)
comedy film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, the daughter of a maker of beauty cream enters and wins a beauty contest in her hometown and then enters the national contest in an effort to save her father from falling into the power of a rival ma…
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Legong (1935)
Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Poutou, the daughter of Gousti Bagus, is in love with Nyong. She attends a barong dance depicting a mythical struggle between a demon and men but is only interested in Nyong, who is present in the crowd of spectators. Nyong is invited to t…
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Sky High (1922)
Western, Western film, action film, drama film, silent film
thumb|Sky High (1922) thumb|right|160px|Newspaper advertisement Grant Newbury, Deputy Inspector of Immigration at the US/Mexico border is asked by his boss to infiltrate a gang smuggling Chinese workers through the border at Calexico, in o…
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Say It with Songs (1929)
drama film, musical film, silent film
Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight, and the encounter results in Phillips' accident…
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Sally, Irene and Mary (1925)
comedy drama, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, three members of the chorus of a Broadway show, Sally, the worldly-wise chorine in search of a sugar daddy, Irene, the dreamer, sought after by one of the Broadway wolves and also by a fine youn…
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Hard Luck (1921)
Splatstick
Buster plays a down-on-his-luck young man who decides to commit suicide after losing his job and his girl. After several inept attempts to end his life—and bolstered by whiskey disguised as poison—he joins an expedition to capture an armad…
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The Garden of Eden (1928)
comedy film, drama film, silent film
Toni LeBrun, a Viennese ingénue, is determined not to be content in her current life, staying with her aunt and uncle and working in their pretzel bakery. The young girl earns a correspondence course degree as an opera singer and dreams of…
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The Blackbird (1926)
Crime, Drama
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|The Blackbird (1926) A title card introduces the setting as London's Limehouse district, "with its lust, greed and love, a sea of fog, a drama of human faces.” A cheap music hall is overseen by the tough Dan Tate, w…
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The Heart of the World (2000)
Fantasy
The plot of The Heart of the World concerns two brothers, Osip and Nikolai, who compete for the love of the same woman: Anna, a state scientist studying the Earth's core. Anna discovers that the heart of the world is in danger of a fatal h…
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The Son of Tarzan (1920)
action film, fantasy film, serial film, silent film
Tarzan and Jane have left Africa, married and settled in London. Their pre-teen son, Jack, dreams of jungle adventures like his father's, but is discouraged by his parents. He sneaks away to see a trained ape called Ajax (in reality, Akut,…
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