Cinema HoundSniffing out great movies.Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 4.
Drama, drama film, silent film
A man adopts the name and title of Count Wladislaw Sergius Karamzin to seduce rich women and extort money from them. He sets up shop in Monte Carlo, and we learn that his partners in crime (and possible lovers) are his cousins: "Princess" …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|Anna May Wong on the set of The Toll of the Sea In 1919, a young Chinese woman, Lotus Flower, sees an unconscious man floating in the water at the seashore, and quickly gets help for him. The man is Allen Carver, an American. Soon th…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Action, Pirate Film
thumb|thumbtime=7|The Black Pirate|left Pirates capture, badly maul, and loot a ship. After relieving the ship and crew of valuables, the pirates fire the ship, blowing up the gunpowder on board, sinking her. While the pirates celebrate, t…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
comedy horror, horror film, mystery film, silent film
In a decaying mansion overlooking the Hudson River, millionaire Cyrus West approaches death. His greedy family descends upon him like "cats around a canary", causing him to become insane. West orders that his last will and testament remain…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Family Comedy, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|Seven Chances (1925) Jimmie Shannon is the junior partner in the brokerage firm of Meekin and Shannon, which is on the brink of financial ruin. A lawyer (whom they dodged, mistakenly believing he was trying to add to…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Drama, Military Film
thumb|thumbtime=14|Beau Geste (1926) Major de Beaujolais leads a French Foreign Legion battalion across the Sahara desert to relieve Fort Zinderneuf, reportedly besieged by Arabs. When he arrives, he receives no response from the Legionnai…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama
Throughout the first two parts, almost everything is seen through the eye of the camera (designated in the script as E), although there are occasional moments when O's perception is seen. In the third part, much more of O's perception of t…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
drama film, romance film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=18|Flesh and the Devil (1926) Two childhood friends, Leo and Ulrich, grow up to be soldiers in Germany. Leo becomes infatuated with Felicitas, the wife of a powerful count (a marriage about which Felicitas neglects to …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Komödie, comedy film, silent film
left|thumb|250x250px|Kid Auto Races at Venice (1914) was Chaplin's second released film. Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, the movie portrays Chaplin as a spectator at a "pushcar" race in Venice, Los Angeles. The film…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama
A smoking, drinking, jazz listening, young prostitute named Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson) arrives at Pago Pago (American Samoa), on her way to a job with a shipping line on another island. At the same time, 'moralists' arrive, including …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, Western, drama film, romance film, silent film
An impoverished young woman named Letty Mason travels west by train from Virginia to live at her cousin Beverly's isolated ranch in Sweetwater, Texas. On the way, she is bothered by the constantly blowing wind. Fellow passenger and cattle …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Sci-Fi, adventure film, science fiction film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=1|upright=1.2|20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916) A strange "sea monster" has been rampaging the seas. The United States sends the naval vessel Abraham Lincoln to investigate. During their search, the vessel runs into …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, drama film, silent film
Edith Hardy is a spoiled society woman who continues to buy expensive clothes even when her husband, Richard, tells her all his money is sunk into a stock speculation and he can't pay her bills until the stock goes up. She even delays payi…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Drama
The film centers on the relationship between Lady Mary Loam, a British aristocrat, and her butler, Crichton. Crichton fancies a romance with Mary, but she disdains him because of his lower social class. When the two and some others are shi…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
comedy drama, silent film
Photographed with a hand-cranked camera and scored with music of the roaring twenties, this silent film strings together the lives of the most famous and infamous stars of the 1920s, including Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Clara Bow, …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Event Documentary, documentary film, silent film
Historie, biographical film, drama film, epic film, historical drama, silent film
In Imperial Russia, Tsar Paul I rules through fear, paranoia, and erratic cruelty. A tyrant haunted by dread, Paul lives in constant suspicion of everyone around him, believing that he, like some of his ancestors, is doomed to be assassina…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Aged emissary Hitu arrives by Western sailing ship to the island of Bora Bora, a small island in the South Pacific, on an important mission. He bears a message from the chief of Fanuma to the chief of Bora Bora: a maiden sacred to their go…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, action film, adventure film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=2|Tarzan of the Apes (1918) thumb|right|Advertisement (1918) John and Alice Clayton, Lord and Lady Greystoke, are passengers on the Fuwalda, a ship bound for Africa. When the vessel is taken over by mutineers the sailor Bin…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Fantasy
Alice follows a large white rabbit down a rabbit hole. She finds a tiny door but cannot fit through it. When she finds a bottle labeled "Drink me" she does so and shrinks, but not enough to pass through the door.
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Splatstick
thumb|Full short of One Week|leftthumb|Buster Keaton One Week title cardThe story involves a newlywed couple who receive a kit house as a wedding gift. The instructions describe how to construct the house by assembling materials in numbere…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
mime, romance film, romantic comedy film, short film, silent film
Sherwin, a shy ginger-haired boy, arrives at school awaiting the arrival of his secret crush, Jonathan. Sherwin hides in a tree and watches as Jonathan walks by reading a book and playing with an apple. Suddenly, Sherwin's heart begins to …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Adventure, medieval film, silent film, swashbuckler film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|The full film The opening has the dashing Earl of Huntingdon besting his bitter enemy, Sir Guy of Gisbourne, in a joust. Huntingdon then joins King Richard the Lion-Hearted, who is going off to fight in the Crusades …
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution
Drama, Komödie, drama film
Before the opening titles, in the present day, an audience of men and women are watching a 1930s black-and-white stag film. After it ends, a man complains that there was no "cum shot". In Hollywood in the early 1930s, shortly after the sta…
CC-BY-SA-4.0 · Plot source & revision · Attribution