Topsy and Eva (1927)
drama film, silent film
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Between Showers (1914)
Komödie
Two young men, Masher and Rival Masher, fight over the chance to help a young woman cross a muddy street. The Rival Masher first sees the woman trying to cross and offers her an umbrella he stole from a policeman. He asks her to wait for h…
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Triple Trouble (1918)
Komödie
thumb|thumbtime=5|Triple Trouble (1918) Charlie takes a job as a janitor in the home of Colonel Nutt, a munitions manufacturer. As the butler introduces Charlie to the ill-tempered cook, Colonel Nutt demonstrates his new wireless explosive…
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Evangeline (1929)
drama film, silent film
The Battle of Gettysburg (1913)
War Film, drama film, silent film, war film
His Prehistoric Past (1914)
Komödie
The tramp sits on a park bench. He decides to have a nap and lies down and starts to dream. Back in the Stone Age, King Low-Brow, King of Wakiki Beach, sits surrounded by his six favorite wives as they watch a man dancing to entertain them.
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That's My Wife (1929)
Komödie, LGBTQ-related film, buddy film, comedy film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|That's My Wife (1929) Mrs. Hardy is visibly discontented, carrying a suitcase as she confronts her husband and Stan, who sits passively on the sofa. Faced with Mrs.
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The Passionate Adventure (1924)
Drama
The marriage between Adrian and Drusilla St. Clair (Brook and Joyce) has become unsatisfactory and loveless since Adrian's return from World War I, with the couple treating each other with cold distance. Seeking escape from his unfulfilled…
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The Red Dance (1928)
romance film, silent film
thumb|The full film In the years leading up to the Russian Revolution, Tasia (Dolores del Río), a young peasant schoolteacher, lives in a rural village oppressed by the cruelty of the Cossacks. Her mother is killed during one of their raid…
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Romola (1924)
Drama
As described in a review in a film magazine, a boat approaching Italy is set upon by pirates and Baldassaro, a noted scholar, gives his adopted son Tito a ring that will be a passport with all men of learning. Tito escapes but Baldassaro i…
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The Salvation Hunters (1925)
drama film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=2|The Salvation Hunters thumb|L-R "The Girl" (Georgia Hale) and "The Boy" (George K. Arthur): "...down-and-out drifters" thumb|left|Director von Sternberg: Hale's "sullen charm" - Georgia Hale as "The Girl" thumb|left|…
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The Circle (1925)
drama film, silent film
In the 1890s, young Lady Catherine decides to leave her husband, Lord Clive Cheney, and her son Arnold in favor of her lover, "Hughie" Porteous. Thirty years later, young Elizabeth Cheney is facing the same choice between her husband, the …
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While the City Sleeps (1928)
Crime, Drama
The story begins with a focus on the Plain Clothes Men, an elite division of the New York police force. These detectives blend into the city in plain clothes, allowing them to infiltrate the underworld and make arrests with surgical precis…
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Sally of the Sawdust (1925)
Komödie, silent film
Because she married a circus performer, Judge Foster casts out his only daughter. Just before her death a few years later, she leaves her little girl Sally in the care of her friend McGargle, a good-natured crook, juggler and fakir. Sally …
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For the Term of His Natural Life (1927)
silent film
After an argument, Lady Elinor Devine reveals to her husband, Sir Richard, that he is not actually the father of their son, also named Richard, but that he was fathered by her cousin, Lord Bellasis. Sir Richard throws his son out and storm…
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Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Komödie, melodrama, silent film
thumb|Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926) Harry is a ne'er-do-well who falls in love with Betty, a girl on a billboard. Harry participates in a cross country foot race hoping to win prize money in hopes of marrying her. Harry wins the race when a t…
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The Night Before Christmas (1905)
Fantasy
Scenes are introduced using lines of the poem. Santa Claus, played by Harry Eytinge, is shown feeding real reindeer and finishes his work in the workshop. Meanwhile, the children of a city household hang their stockings and go to bed, but …
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Three Women (1924)
Drama, drama film, silent film
Sleazy bon vivant Edmund Lamont continues to live the high life despite being up to his eyebrows in debt. He begins wooing wealthy socialite Mabel Wilton, conning her into giving him $100,000 to "invest" for her. Meanwhile, her daughter Je…
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The Count (1916)
Komödie
The tailor's handyman burns a count's trousers while ironing them and is fired. His superior discovers a note explaining the count can't attend a party, and dresses up like one to take his place. Chaplin also goes to the residence hosting …
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A Busy Day (1914)
Komödie, Silly Movie, Splatstick
A wife becomes jealous of her husband's interest in another woman during a military parade. On her way to attack the couple, the wife interrupts the set of a film, knocking over a film director and a police officer. Finally, the husband pu…
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The Wizard (1927)
horror film, silent film
As this is a lost film, the plot is adapted from a summary from Harrison's Reports. Dr. Paul Coriolos who has grafted the face of a friend onto the face of an ape to make it appear like a human being.
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Serene Velocity (1970)
silent film
The Thundering Herd (1925)
Western, Western film, silent film
Thousands of buffalo, collected in one huge herd through the assistance of the United States government, are The Thundering Herd that will play such a thrilling part in this new story of the old West written by Zane Grey. With Jack Holt, L…
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The Poor Boob (1919)
silent film
As described in a film magazine, Simpson Hightower, known as Simp, leaves his hometown as a failure. He has been cheated out of the local canning factory, which had been in the family for two generations, by Stephen Douglas. Douglas also w…
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