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Komödie, comedy film, silent film
Sixteen-year-old Genevieve 'Ginger' King is living in a very wealthy family in the boring town of Orange Springs, Florida with her younger siblings, where her unchaperoned decision to drink a soda with a young male is considered scandalous…
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Drama
thumb|left|200px|Oliver (Jackie Coogan) held captive by Fagin (Lon Chaney) and his criminal gang thumb|thumbtime=4|Oliver Twist (1922) During the 1830s, in a country workhouse somewhere in England, a very young woman outcast of unknown his…
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Drama
thumb|thumbtime=0|Where Are My Children? (1916) Richard Walton, a district attorney, is presented with an obscenity case: A medical practitioner, Dr. Homer, has been arrested for distributing 'indecent' birth control literature.
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Romantic Comedy, comedy film, silent film
Millionaire J. Harold Manners finds himself in the poor part of town. When he accidentally sets fire to a charity pushcart dispensing free coffee owned by do-gooder Brother Paul, he pulls out his checkbook to cover the damage.
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Romance Film
thumb|left| Clara Bow (Kitty Flanders) and Gary Cooper (Edward D. 'Ted' Larrabee) thumb|thumbtime=7|Children of Divorce (1927) As children, Jean Waddington and Kitty Flanders meet in a boarding school, both dropped off by their divorced pa…
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Drama, Komödie, comedy drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=15|upright=1.5|College In Southern California, Ronald graduates high school as its "most brilliant scholar." At his graduation, Ronald speaks on "the Curse of the Athlete," arguing that books are more important than athleti…
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Western, Western film, silent film
left|thumb|thumbtime=3|Full movie A discovery of gold in the Dakotas on Sioux lands in 1877 provokes a gold land rush. Numerous people come to Custer for their chance to claim land and possibly gold when the proclamation to explore the lan…
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Drama, drama film, romance film, silent film
Marion Donnell, a stenographer in Chicago (Gloria Swanson) elopes with wealthy Jack Merrick (Robert Ames). Their marriage is opposed by his father (William Holden) who considers Marion a fortune-hunter and demands that Jack have the marria…
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Drama
The day before Christmas, miserly Ebenezer Scrooge refuses to contribute to the Charity Relief Committee, and then rudely rejects his nephew Fred when he visits Scrooge in his office. When Scrooge returns home, he sees the ghost of his for…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
thumb|220px|left|Lobby card thumb|thumbtime=25|The Kiss (full film) The story begins inside the Museum of Fine Arts of Lyon, France. Two lovers – Irene Guarry (Greta Garbo) and André Dubail (Conrad Nagel) – feign interest in artwork as the…
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Anne Shirley, whose time as an orphan has been a lively one due to her natural mischievousness, is sent by mistake to the home of Marilla Cuthbert and her brother Matthew. The brother and sister had sought …
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Monumental Film, biographical film, drama film, silent film
thumb|left|thumbtime=15|Joan the Woman (1916) A British officer in World War I has a dream of the life of Joan of Arc. The officer pulls a sword out of the wall of the trench he is in, the sword used to belong to Joan of Arc. Removing the …
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documentary film, silent film
The film runs 50 minutes and features various couples—heterosexuals and gay—kissing for 3 and a half minutes each. The film features Barbara Rubin, Gerard Malanga, Johnny Dodd, Ed Sanders, Mark Lancaster, Baby Jane Holzer, and Robert India…
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Romance Film, War Film, drama film, melodrama, propaganda film, silent film, war film
Two families live next to one another in a French village on the eve of World War I. The Boy in one of the families falls for the only daughter in the other family. As they make preparations for marriage, World War I breaks out, and, altho…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|West of Zanzibar (1928) Anna cannot bring herself to tell her professional magician husband, The Great Phroso, that she is leaving him. Her lover, an ivory trader named Crane, informs Phroso that he is taking Anna away w…
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Horror, Musical, horror film, silent film, vampire film
In 1897, a visitor from the East, Count Dracula, arrives in London and is inadvertently invited into the home of Lucy Westenra. She is bitten by Dracula, and taken by his curse. Lucy's behavior becomes more erratic leading her to bite her …
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Drama
thumb|left|Lillian Gish and John Gilbert in La Bohème thumb|La Bohème advertisement in Motion Picture News, 1926 Several struggling bohemians try to survive in the Latin Quarter of Paris in the winter of 1830, hoping to one day become famo…
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Komödie
The "Little Tramp" heads to a resort for warm weather and golf. At the golf course, the Tramp's theft of balls in play causes one golfer to mistakenly attack another. Meanwhile, a neglected wife leaves her wealthy husband until he gives up…
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Gesellschaftskomödie, Komödie, comedy drama, romance film, silent film
In London, Lady Margaret Windermere fends off Lord Darlington's flirtations while her husband receives a letter from Mrs. Erlynne, a notorious woman who claims to be Lady Windermere's mother. Believing her mother is dead, Lady Windermere r…
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Drama, drama film, silent film
Eva Mayer works in a five-and-dime store for five dollars a week. That meager salary must solely support her family of two parents and three sisters because her father prefers to lie in bed reading, smoking his pipe, and drinking pails of …
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Tragic Comedy Film, comedy drama, silent film
thumb|thumbtime=20|Our Modern Maidens (1929) Heiress Billie Brown is engaged to marry her longtime sweetheart, budding diplomat Gil Jordan. When Billie goes to see senior diplomat Glenn Abbott about ensuring that Gil get a favorable assign…
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Romance Film, drama film, romance film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Donna Brull is opposed to her son Rafael marrying the peasant Leonora, a poor young Spanish woman. She leaves the small town and goes to Paris where she becomes a famous opera singer. Later, she visi…
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Komödie
Ralph Prescott is a New York divorce lawyer tired of his clientele. Woodbury, who runs a ladies hosiery business across the hall, suggests that they get away from the city and camp in Mantrap, Canada. Bachelor Joe Easter runs a dry-goods s…
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Drama
Young law student Armand (Rudolph Valentino) is smitten when he sees Marguerite (Alla Nazimova), a courtesan, at the opera. Marguerite is constantly surrounded by suitors, whom she entertains at her lavish apartment. Later, Armand pursues …
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