The Darktown Revue
With a series of long takes and frontal camera set-ups, Michaeux provides a record of several cabaret acts, using intertitles to separate the individual numbers. This quietly outrageous film begins…
Hot Biskits
Virtually unseen for more than eighty years, Spencer Williams’s first film is a one-reel comedy short in which a rivalry between two men is played out in a high-stakes game…
Drácula
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula’s castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula…
Comradeship
The picture tells of a mine disaster where German miners rescue French miners from an undergound fire and explosion. The story takes place in the Lorraine/Saar region, along the border…
Sundown Trail
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy ‘B’ ranch to read her late father’s will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch…
Limite
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in…
Dumb Patrol
During the Great War, Bosko and a fearsome beast are in a dogfight. Bosko loses, but that’s only the first battle.
Safe in Hell
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of…
The Secret Six
Bootlegger/cafe owner, Johnny Franks recruits crude working man Scorpio to join his gang, masterminded by crooked criminal defense lawyer Newton. Scorpio eventually takes over Frank’s operation, beats a rival gang,…
The Easiest Way
Growing up in a poor working-class family, Laura decides not to marry the boy-next-door and instead accepts wealthy, older Will Brockton’s invitation to move in with him. After falling in…
Ten Cents a Dance
A taxi dancer with a jealous husband finds herself falling for a wealthy client.
The Drums of Jeopardy
A mad doctor is determined to take revenge on the family he believes is responsible for his daughter’s death.
Guilty Hands
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.
Tonight or Never
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
Consolation Marriage
A sportswriter jilted by his globe-trotting girlfriend marries a woman jilted by her boyfriend.
Daybreak
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
Stolen Heaven
A hooker gets followed home by a man she thinks is drunk, but it turns out he’s been wounded in a robbery of a radio factory where he used to…
Daughter of the Dragon
At her Chinese father’s bidding, a woman goes to murder an enemy and meets a Scotland Yard detective.
La Chienne
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing…
Arizona
A West Point graduate (John Wayne) jilts his girlfriend (Laura La Plante) but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
The Skin Game
An old traditional family and a modern family battle over land in a small English village.
Dragnet Night
A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ…
I’ll Be Alone After Midnight
A woman’s marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man…
My Cousin From Warsaw
Meine Kusine aus Warschau (My Cousin From Warsaw) was based on a stage play by Louis Verneuil. It’s a romantic farce, with the heroine posing as her own cousin to…
The Terror of Batignolles
An expressionist comedy greatly influenced by German Expressionism set in a bohemian enclave of northern Paris, which Clouzot made shortly before he served as assistant director to Anatole Litvak and…
The Unknown Singer
A singer who is believed dead returns with a decidedly different appearance. He has been in Russia and has lost his memory. But his wife still loves him.
The Spirit of Notre Dame
Story of two friends who play football, one of whom is a self-centered quarterback who thinks he’s the only man on the team.
Working on the Douro River
Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.