Tarzan and the Golden Lion (1927)
Adventure, action film, silent film
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Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.
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Agent Orange (2004)
drama film, silent film
While waiting in a subway station, a young man catches a glimpse of a beautiful woman, dressed entirely in orange. Before he can reach her, her subway car speeds off. The young man repeatedly visits the station, each time failing to make c…
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You're Darn Tootin' (1928)
Splatstick
Stan and Oliver, members of a municipal band, find themselves perpetually at odds with their conductor's direction, leading to their dismissal from both the band and their lodgings. In an attempt to earn a living, they resort to street per…
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Stage Struck (1925)
Komödie
As described in a film magazine review, Jennie Hagan, a waitress in a river town restaurant is in love with Orme Wilson, the hot cake artist, who is fond of actresses. She struggles hard to win him, even studying acting, and dreaming about…
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Mr. Flip (1909)
Splatstick
The film begins with Mr. Flip, played by Ben Turpin, in a general store, in which he flirts with the woman behind the counter, for which he is carried out of the building on a hand truck. He travels to a manicurist where he eventually gets…
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The Rough Riders (1927)
silent film, war film
A Study in Scarlet (1914)
drama film, silent film
Merry-Go-Round (1923)
Drama, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Count Franz Maxmilian (Kerry), a happy-go-lucky, irresponsible count, is attached to the Austrian court of Emperor Francis Joseph (Vaverka) and by the Emperor's mandate is affianced to Gisella (Wallace), th…
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Redskin (1929)
silent film
After years of attending preparatory school and college in the Eastern United States, Wing Foot (Richard Dix), who after graduating finds out that he is an outcast in an overwhelmingly white society because of his race, returns to his Nava…
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The Typhoon (1914)
drama film, silent film
According to a film magazine, "Tokoramo has been sent to Paris by his country to secure the plans of the French military forces. His work is interfered with by the visits to his office of Helene, a chorus girl with whom he has fallen in lo…
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Wild Orchids (1929)
Romance Film, drama film, melodrama, silent film
thumb|220px|left|Greta Garbo in Wild Orchids thumb|thumbtime=23|Wild Orchids (1929) John Sterling takes his young wife Lillie to Java where he plans to invest in tea plantations. Beyond the difference in years between the two, he is neglec…
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The Man from Beyond (1922)
Drama, mystery film, silent film
thumb|The Man from Beyond (1922) As described in a film magazine, scientist Dr. Gregory Sinclair (Connelly) and his fellow explorers find a man, Howard Hillary (Houdini), frozen in solid arctic ice and chop him out and then thaw him. When …
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The Show (1927)
Drama
Cock Robin is a sideshow barker in Budapest. He also participates in one of the acts; his former girlfriend Salome dances before Herod in exchange for the head of "Jokanaan". As Jokanaan, Robin has his head seemingly chopped off and presen…
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The Big Gamble (1931)
drama film, silent film
When Alan Beckwith hits rock bottom, he approaches a local Mob boss named North to help him get his affairs in order before he kills himself. If North will stake him for what he owes, he will name him as the beneficiary of a life insurance…
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The Masked Bride (1925)
romance film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Gaby is an Apache dancer at a cabaret in the Montmartre section of Paris whose dancing partner Antoine and friends are thieves. She meets Grover, an American millionaire who is a reformer and ma…
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True Heart Susie (1919)
drama film, silent film
True Heart Susie lives with her aunt and is deeply in love with William Jenkins. In secret, she sells the family's cow and other farm goods to finance William's college education. Unaware of her support, William completes his theological s…
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Words and Music (1929)
musical film, romantic comedy, silent film
Two young college students, Phil and Pete, compete for the love of a pretty girl named Mary, and also to win the $1500 prize in a song-writing contest to write the best show tune for the annual college revue. The two men each ask Mary to s…
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Redemption (1930)
drama film, silent film
Living in Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya Protasoff (John Gilbert) is a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer who continues to squander his family inheritance drinking and gambling. He meets and falls in love with Lisa (Eleanor Boardman), th…
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Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)
Romance Film, drama film, silent film
After World War I, displaced families flood Berlin, including a Polish professor and his relatives. Food is scarce. The family finds housing but can barely afford to eat, sometimes surviving on one potato per person and horse turnips.
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Two Tars (1928)
Komödie, buddy film, comedy film, silent film
During a shore leave, two sailors opt to rent an automobile, with Laurel assuming the role of driver. However, his lack of proficiency behind the wheel leads to a near collision with a pedestrian at a street corner. Subsequently, Hardy tak…
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West Point (1927)
American football film, Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|West Point (1927) Arrogant and wise-cracking Brice Wayne enrolls at the United States Military Academy at West Point and adjusts to life as a plebe. He tries out for the plebe football team, where he excels and shows up …
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Annie Laurie (1927)
romance film, silent film
The Dark Angel (1925)
drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|left|Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky During the First World War, Captain Alan Trent, while on leave in England with his fiancée Kitty Vane, is suddenly recalled to the front before being able to get a marriage license. Alan and Kitty s…
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A Message to Garcia (1936)
drama film, silent film, war film
At the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1898, the Maine Incident in which an American warship blew up in Havana Harbor, allegedly following sabotage by Spain, triggers the outbreak of the Spanish–American War. President McKinley, wishing to make cont…
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