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Historie, LGBTQ-related film, drama film, silent film, tragedy
thumb|thumbtime=10|The full film The film starts by giving context for the banquet that is about to unfold. The Tetrarch is said to have murdered his brother to obtain the throne and for access to his brother's (now his) wife and daughter.…
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drama film, romance film, silent film
St. Elmo Murray and Murray Hammond, his cousin and best friend, are both in love with a young woman named Agnes Hunt. Although Agnes loves Murray, she rejects him for being too poor.
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, independent film
The year is 1929 and sound films are arriving. Once a great star of the silent era, Jolly Grimm has wealth, a mansion, a manservant, Tex, and a beautiful and faithful mistress, Queenie, but no longer Hollywood's interest. He desperately tr…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=18|Our Dancing Daughters (1928; synchronized sound) "Dangerous Diana" Medford is outwardly flamboyant and popular but inwardly virtuous and idealistic, patronizing her parents by telling them not to stay out late. Her …
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Adventure, Drama, Thriller
thumb|thumbtime=15|Downhill (1927) At an expensive English boarding school for boys, Roddy Berwick is school captain and star rugby player. He and his best friend Tim Wakeley are approached by a shopgirl, Mabel, who invites them to her sho…
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crime film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Underworld (1927) Boisterous gangster kingpin 'Bull' Weed rehabilitates the down-and-out 'Rolls Royce' Wensel, a former lawyer who has fallen into alcoholism. The two become confidants, with Rolls Royce's intelligence aid…
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Classical Western, Western film, silent film
thumb|right|thumbtime=5|The Iron Horse (full film) In Springfield, Illinois, surveyor David Brandon daydreams about a transcontinental railroad. He is mocked by railroad owner Thomas Marsh. A young Abraham Lincoln visits the men, and Brand…
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Romance Film, Romantic Drama, adventure film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|The Son of the Sheik (1926) In his final film performance before his death in 1926, Rudolph Valentino tackles two roles, as a father and his son. Ahmed, the son of an Arab sheik and a kidnapped English gentlewoman, loves …
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drama film, film noir, silent film, spy film
Dr. Allan Fields is a nuclear physicist employed by the United States Atomic Energy Commission in Washington, D.C. He is also a spy, working for an unnamed foreign power.
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Adventure, comedy film, romantic comedy film, silent film
thumb|220px|left|Mary Astor and Louis Wolheim in Two Arabian Knights During the First World War, two American soldiers become trapped in no man's land. Expecting to die, W. Dangerfield Phelps III decides to fulfill his fondest desire: to b…
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Drama, crime film, romance film, silent film, trial film
thumb|thumbtime=13|left|The full film Bored and lonely living on her husband's rubber plantation down in Singapore, Leslie Crosbie, takes a lover, Geoffrey Hammond, but he eventually tires of her and takes a Chinese mistress, Li-Ti. When L…
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action film, comedy thriller, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=26|The Navigator (1924) Wealthy Rollo Treadway suddenly decides to propose to his neighbor across the street, Betsy O'Brien, and sends his servant to book passage for a honeymoon sea cruise to Honolulu. When Betsy rejects h…
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Splatstick
The film begins aboard a steamship crossing the Atlantic Ocean and initially showcases the misadventures of an unnamed immigrant, the Little Tramp (Chaplin), who finds himself in assorted mischief. The scene opens with Charlie bent double …
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Drama
thumb|thumbtime=2|upright|Body and Soul (1925) An escaped convict finds refuge in the predominantly African-American town of Tatesville, Georgia, by passing himself off as the Rt. Reverend Isaiah T. Jenkins.
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Drama
In the story, which opens in the early 1900s with August Schiller, a bank clerk in Milwaukee who is happy with both his job and his family. But when bank officials ask him to transport $1,000 in securities to Chicago, he meets a blond sedu…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
right|thumb|thumbtime=2|upright=1|Orphans of the Storm Just before the French Revolution, Henriette takes her close adopted sister Louise to Paris in the hope of finding a cure for her blindness. She promises Louise that she will not marry…
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Komödie, parody film, romantic comedy, silent film
Three plots in three different historical periods — prehistoric times, ancient Rome, and the Roaring Twenties — are intercut to prove the point that man's love for woman has not significantly changed throughout history. In all three plots,…
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Crime Comedy, comedy drama, crime film, silent film
The plot of the film is drawn from the 1926 play Chicago by Maurine Dallas Watkins which was in turn based on the true story of Beulah Annan, fictionalized as Roxie Hart (Phyllis Haver), and her spectacular murder of her boyfriend. The sil…
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Horror, Mysterie, horror film, psychological horror fiction, silent film
Pig opens with a scene of the black-garbed killer preparing to leave a small house. The individual places several items into a briefcase, appearing among them a deck of cards, a notebook, and a copy of the children's novel Mr. Pig and Sonn…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, silent film
200px|left|thumb|The titular character of the film, Mickey (publicity photograph) Mickey is an adult orphan who has been raised since girlhood in poverty near Feather River, California, by an unsuccessful miner, Joe Meadows, and his housek…
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Crime, crime film, drama film, silent film
Valentine Wilmot's Piccadilly Circus, a nightclub and restaurant in London, is a great success due to his star attraction: dancing partners Mabel and Vic. One night, a dissatisfied diner disrupts Mabel's solo with his loud complaints about…
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Komödie, Romance Film, Romantic Comedy, romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|The Farmer's Wife (1928) Tibby, the wife of Samuel Sweetland (Jameson Thomas) dies, and shortly afterwards his daughter marries and leaves home, leaving him on his own with his two servants. His wife had told him that he …
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Adventure, adventure film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=2|200px|right|The Last of the Mohicans complete film In 1757, in the midst of the French and Indian War, three French divisions and their Huron Indian allies are advancing on Fort William Henry, a British stronghold south o…
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Adventure, Historie, drama film, silent film, swashbuckler film
The film stars Fairbanks as d'Artagnan, Marguerite De La Motte as his beloved Constance (who is killed early in the film to protect the secret that the King has a twin brother), Nigel De Brulier as the scheming Cardinal Richelieu, and Ullr…
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