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Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 2.
Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, adventure film, fantasy film, monster film, science fiction film
thumb|250px|right|Montana Inscribed Photo to Doyle From a lost expedition to a plateau in the borders of Peru, Brazil and Colombia, Paula White brings the journal of her father, explorer Maple White, to the eccentric Professor Challenger i…
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Family Saga, Historie, drama film, silent film
In 1908, John McTeague works in a gold mine in Placer County, California. A traveling dentist calling himself Dr. "Painless" Potter visits the town, and McTeague's mother begs Potter to take her son on as an apprentice.
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Drama, drama film, horror film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=5|The Hunchback of Notre Dame thumb|left|Quasimodo being offered water by Esmeralda. The story is set in Paris in 1482. Quasimodo is a deaf, half-blind, hunchbacked bell-ringer of the famous Cathedral of Notre Dame in …
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Drama, Historie, Monumental Film, War Film, drama film, musical film, silent film
thumb|The reconstructed film After the Great Flood, Noah and his family are seen outside the Ark praising Jehovah, followed by depictions of the building of the Tower of Babel, the worshipping of the golden calf, and then the eve of World …
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Horror, Sci-Fi
Described as "a liberal adaptation of Mrs. Shelley's famous story", the film shows young Frankenstein (his first name in the book, Victor, is never mentioned) discovering the "mystery of life" after two years at university. He gives life t…
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Drama, Sci-Fi, drama film, science fiction film, silent film
The two lead characters appear as the robotic forms of Daft Punk and are credited as "Hero Robot No. 1" and "Hero Robot No. 2".
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documentary film, experimental film, independent film, non-narrative film, one-shot film, protest, satirical film, silent film
A non-narrative film, Paint Drying consists of 607 minutes (10 hours and 7 minutes) of a static view of white paint drying on a brick wall. The entire film is a single continuous shot, and there is no audio. It receives its title from the …
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Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
left|225px|thumb|Rudolph Valentino as Sheik Ahmed and Agnes Ayres as Lady Diana. In the North Africa town of Biskra, headstrong Lady Diana Mayo (Agnes Ayres) refuses a marriage proposal because she believes it would be the end of her indep…
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Komödie
thumb|left|thumbtime=2|Sherlock, Jr. Buster Keaton stars as Projectionist, who moonlights as an amateur detective. When the cinema is empty, he reads the book How to be a Detective.
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Bible Film, biographical film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=75|left|The King of Kings (1950s re-release trailer) Mary Magdalene is portrayed as a wild courtesan, entertaining many men around her. Upon learning that Judas is with a carpenter she rides out on her chariot drawn by zebr…
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Splatstick, romantic comedy film, silent film
left|220px|thumb|thumbtime=27|Safety Last! (1923) In 1922, Harold Lloyd is behind bars. His mother and his girlfriend, Mildred, are consoling him as a somber official and priest show up.
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Splatstick, comedy film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=1|The Circus (1928) by Charlie Chaplin |left|230x230px At a circus midway, the penniless and hungry Tramp is mistaken for a pickpocket and chased by both the police and the real crook (the latter having stashed a stolen wal…
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Drama, War Film, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|230px|left|The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (edited version) Madariaga "The Centaur" (Pomeroy Cannon), a harsh but popular Argentine landowner, has a German son-in-law, Karl von Hartrott, whom he dislikes and a French one, Marcelo…
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Fake Documentary, mockumentary
Forgotten Silver purports to tell the story of "forgotten" New Zealand filmmaker Colin McKenzie, and the rediscovery of his lost films, which presenter Peter Jackson claims to have found in an old shed. McKenzie is presented as the first a…
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Komödie, action comedy film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=4|Steamboat Bill, Jr. full film William "Steamboat Bill" Canfield is the owner and captain of a paddle steamer, the Stonewall Jackson, that has seen better days. The King, a new steamer owned by the rich J.J.
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Family Drama, Splatstick, romantic comedy film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=1|Our Hospitality The Canfield and McKay families have been feuding for so long, no one remembers why the feud started in the first place. One stormy night in 1810, family patriarch John McKay and his rival James Canfield k…
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, romantic comedy, silent film
Spunky shopgirl Betty Lou Spence has a crush on her handsome employer, Cyrus Waltham Jr., the new manager of and heir to the "world's largest store". However, they belong to different social classes and he is already romantically linked to…
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drama film, fantasy film, silent film
thumb|right|150px|Soviet Russian film poster of The Thief of Bagdad, by Ahmed steals as he pleases in the city of Bagdad. Wandering into a mosque, he tells a holy man he disdains his philosophy: "What I want, I take." That night, he sneaks…
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Western
thumb|The Kelly gang inspects a reward notice for their capture. thumb|Dan Kelly cutting telegraph wires thumb|The police descend on Glenrowan as Father Gibney protests the burning of the hotel. thumb|Actor portraying Ned Kelly in an authe…
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Swashbuckler, adventure film, silent film, swashbuckler film
thumb|A colorized lobby card showing a scene from the film, 1920 The Mark of Zorro tells the story of Don Diego Vega, the outwardly foppish son of wealthy ranchero Don Alejandro Vega in the old Spanish California of the early 19th century.…
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Melodrama, Romance Film, drama film, melodrama, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|Broken Blossoms Cheng Huan leaves his native China because he "dreams to spread the gentle message of Buddha to the Anglo-Saxon lands." His idealism fades as he is faced with the brutal reality of London's gritty inner-city. How…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film, war film
thumb|left|start=44|thumbtime=47|7th Heaven full film In the early 1910s, Chico works in the sewers of Paris. He expresses his desire to be a street sweeper, to work above ground, and light candles at a nearby church. After a meeting with …
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silent film
A boy is packing his things for college as his mother looks on, imagining his future away from home. She imagines herself running after the boy's car as he leaves for college. In her imagination, the boy becomes an ace student and a champi…
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Crime, Drama, Komödie, crime drama film, crime film, drama film, melodrama, silent film
Jill, a young dancer, arrives in London with a letter of introduction to Mr. Hamilton, proprietor of the Pleasure Garden Theatre. The letter and all her money are stolen from her handbag as she waits to see him.
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