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Adventure, Romance Film, action film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) Dr. Matthew Lloyd, an alcoholic doctor, is disgusted by white traders' exploitation of native pearl divers on a Polynesian island. The traders give the divers well below the value of the pearls …
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Action, Drama, Komödie, action film, comedy drama, romantic comedy, silent film
Vladimir Dubrovsky, a Lieutenant serving in the Imperial Guard of the Russian army, comes to the notice of the Czarina when he rescues Mascha, a beautiful young lady, and her aunt trapped in a runaway stagecoach. He is delighted when the C…
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Horror
The tactics of a vicious slumlord and greedy businessman named Mortimer Judd finally drive a distraught man named Eugene Craig, whom he has forced into bankruptcy, to commit suicide. He constantly refuses requests for charity and treats hi…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, silent film
thumb|Scene from the film The film opens in the Ozarks where a distraught Pollyanna (Mary Pickford) is comforting her father the Reverend John Whittier (Wharton James) as he dies. After his death, Pollyanna is sent to live on a New England…
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Drama
The following plot synopsis was published in conjunction with a 1915 showing of the film at Carnegie Hall:
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romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Show People (1928) Peggy Pepper wants to be an actress in motion pictures, so her father drives her across the country from their home in Georgia to Hollywood. After some initial disillusionment, Peggy meets Billy Boone …
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Crime, crime film, drama film, psychological thriller film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=6|The Penalty As described in a film magazine, Blizzard, the legless crime boss of the Barbary Coast underworld, is possessed of two ambitions. One is to get revenge upon Dr. Ferris, whose blunder during a childhood op…
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Historie, biographical film, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=10|The Divine Lady In the late 18th century, Lady Hamilton has had a somewhat turbulent relationship with the British people, especially the aristocracy. Born Emma Hart from a very humble background (she being the daughter …
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silent film
Komödie
The Pilgrim, an escaped convict, steals a minister's clothes to replace his prison uniform. At a train station, he encounters an eloping couple who want him to marry them. The woman's father shows up and takes her away.
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Adventure, Crime, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, crime film, drama film, silent film
Fleeing from the horror of her home life, Nancy, an orphan raised by a brutal foster father, kills the man in a moment of panic and self-defense. She is soon discovered by Jim, a young drifter and hobo, who stumbles upon the scene. Though …
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Romantic Comedy
thumb|262x262px|Hula, 1927 lantern slide Hula Calhoun is the daughter of a Hawaiian planter, Bill Calhoun. She follows the advice of her uncle Edwin, and follows a simple and natural life, far from social conventions of her family and is c…
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Drama
The film portrays its main character, Lydia Thorne, as a thrill-seeking, self-entitled, and wild woman who does not have a reputation of thinking before acting. She acts selfishly by dancing with other men in the presence of her husband an…
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Romantic Comedy, romance film, romantic comedy, silent film
thumb|left|Harold Lloyd as Harold Meadows thumb|thumbtime=2|Girl Shy (1924) Harold Meadows is a tailor's apprentice for his uncle in Little Bend, California. He is so shy around women that he can barely speak to them (to stop his stutterin…
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Komödie
Laurel and Hardy are destitute characters trying to elude forest rangers who are rounding up vagrants to work as firefighters. Using a stolen bicycle to escape the pursuing rangers, they hide out in an empty mansion while the owner is away…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
This drama features a romance between two different teenagers: a young atheist girl, Judith Craig, and the male head of a Christian youth organization, Bob Hathaway. The male head breaks into the school to interrupt the atheist club meetin…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
Andre and his fiancé Margaret go to the Moulin Rouge nightclub where they see the performance of the star performer Parysia. Margaret reveals to Andre that Parysia is her mother. After the show, they go backstage to meet Parysia.
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|left|250px|Theodora Fitzgerald (Swanson) looks into the eyes of Lord Hector Bracondale (Valentino) who returns her handkerchief in Beyond the Rocks Captain Fitzgerald, a retired guardsman on a modest pension, has to support three dau…
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Adventure
At the instigation of his half brother Lionel, Oliver Tressilian, a wealthy baronet, is shanghaied and blamed for the death of Peter Godolphin, brother of Oliver's fiancée, whom Lionel actually has slain. At sea Oliver is captured by Spani…
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American football film, Drama, comedy drama, drama film, silent film
Harvard University student Tom Brown is a handsome, athletic, and carefree young man who has a reputation as a Don Juan among the ladies. Although he is popular on campus, he finds himself at odds with Bob McAndrew, a studious, reserved bo…
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Melodrama, drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a 1925 film magazine, upon the suicide of his father who has embezzled funds, Stephen Dallas, reared in luxury, forsakes his sweetheart Helen and hides in a mill town. Lonely, he succumbs to the blandishments of…
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Komödie
thumb|left|thumbtime=8|The film Harold Van Pelham (Harold Lloyd) is a young, wealthy American businessman who obsesses constantly about his health, believing he is deathly sick while in reality he is perfectly fine. Determined to improve h…
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Drama, comedy drama, drama film, romantic comedy film, silent film
Young Crown Prince Karl Heinrich, heir to the kingdom of Karlsburg (a fictional sovereign state of the German Confederation), is brought to live with his stern uncle, King Karl VII. The king immediately dismisses the boy's nanny without te…
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Historical drama, drama film, silent film
To secure a peace treaty, Henry VIII arranges for his sister, Mary Tudor, to marry Louis XII. However, her heart belongs to Charles Brandon. The lovers attempt a daring escape, only to be captured.
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