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Komödie
In the film’s opening scene, Chaplin's character, the "Swindler", dressed smartly and wearing a top hat, attempts to convince a passerby to give him money. Reluctantly he gives a dollar coin. The man then goes to a florist to buy a smaller…
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Drama, drama film
thumb|left|Katharine Hepburn and David Manners in A Bill of Divorcement Middle-aged Englishwoman Margaret "Meg" Fairfield's family includes her 15-year-old daughter Sydney, Sydney's fiancé Kit Humphreys, fiancé Gray Meredith and ex-husband…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
A sculptor searches for the perfect model to inspire his work. He finally finds his ideal subject: a beautiful but poverty-stricken young woman. When she wanders off, he visits all the famous statues in Manhattan hoping to find her again.
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Drama, Romantic Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|The surviving silent version of City Girl|left Lem Tustine is sent to Chicago by his father to sell the family farm's wheat crop. He meets Kate, a waitress who is sick of the endless bustle of the city, and has dreams of …
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Melodrama, drama film, melodrama, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|The Manxman (1929) The film tells the story of two close childhood friends, a handsome but poor fisherman, Pete Quilliam (Carl Brisson), and a well-educated middle-class lawyer, Philip Christian (Malcolm Keen); Both the y…
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Komödie
Jimmy is trying to obtain the affections of Mary Jane. Mary Jane, however, is not interested in Jimmy, but rather is interested in rich kid Pat. The gang tries to help Sunshine Sammy get some clothes.
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Documentation, LGBTQ-related film, silent film
Adventure, action film, adventure film, melodrama, silent film, swashbuckler film
thumb|thumbtime=1|The Three Musketeers (1921) In the royal court of France, Cardinal Richelieu vies for influence over King Louis XIII. The greatest obstacle to his dominance is Anne of Austria, the Queen of France. Anne is loved by the Du…
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Drama, drama film, melodrama, romance film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=12|Laugh, Clown, Laugh (full film) Tito, a traveling circus clown, finds an abandoned child. He adopts her and raises her as his daughter, naming her Simonetta after his brother Simon. One day the now-teenaged Simonett…
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Fantasy, silent film
King Krewl (Raymond Russell) is a cruel dictator in the Emerald City in the Land of Oz. He wishes to marry off his niece, Princess Gloria (Vivian Reed), to an old courtier named Googly-goo (Arthur Smollett), but she is in love with Pon, a …
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Drama
Juan Gallardo (Valentino), a village boy born into poverty, grows up to become one of the greatest matadors in Spain. He marries a friend from his childhood, the beautiful and virtuous Carmen (Lee), but after he achieves fame and fortune h…
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Komödie, action film, comedy film, silent film
Everybody in New York City "is in such a hurry that they take Saturday's bath on Friday so they can do Monday's washing on Sunday." But in one slower-paced, "old-fashioned corner of the city," Pop Dillon owns and operates the city's last h…
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Drama
As described in a film magazine review, the old tale is told of how the archangel Lucifer defied the authority of God and was dismissed from heaven until by a redemption of souls he again earns his right in the high places. Struggling writ…
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Biographical picture, Crime, biographical film, crime film, drama film, romance film, silent film
Cited as one of the first full-length gangster films, Regeneration tells the story of a poor orphan who rises to control the mob until he meets a woman for whom he wants to change. The film is a "candid adaptation" of the autobiography of …
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Crime, LGBTQ-related film, Melodrama, crime film, drama film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=5|The Unholy Three (1925) Three performers leave a sideshow after Tweedledee, a midget performer, assaults a young heckler and sparks a melee. The three join together in an "unholy" plan to become wealthy. Professor Ec…
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musical film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=8:43|The full movie The eighteen-year-old Magnolia meets, falls in love with, and elopes with riverboat gambler Gaylord Ravenal. After her father Captain Andy dies, Magnolia, Ravenal, and their daughter Kim leave the b…
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Cultural Film, Documentation, documentary film, silent film
drama film, romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=5|Easy Virtue (1928) In 1926, Larita Filton testifies at her divorce. In a flashback, her husband, a drunken brute named Aubrey Filton, is getting drunk in an artist's studio, as Mrs. Filton's portrait is being painted.
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Horror comedy
The action in Haunted Spooks centres around Harold's romantic problems. It is set in the South ("[go] down the Mississippi and turn to the right"). The opening sequence has an uncle reading a telegram regarding a will.
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silent film
Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film, spy film
In Vienna, Captain Karl von Raden (Conrad Nagel) purchases a returned ticket to a sold-out opera and finds himself sharing a loge with a lovely woman (Greta Garbo). Though she repulses his first advance, she does spend an idyllic day with …
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Dark Comedy, Romance Film, black comedy film, romance film, silent film
As described in film magazine reviews, Prince Danilo meets Sally the dancer and, when he proposes marriage, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco and Queen Milena object because she is a commoner. Sally marries Baron Sadoja, an old wealt…
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Drama
Mr. Grimes and his wife operate a dismal "baby farm" near an alligator-infested swamp. Molly, an adolescent inmate and the oldest of their charges, attempts to provide the other poorly clothed, starving kids with loving maternal care.
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drama film, silent film