The Right to Be Happy

The Family Secret

The daughter of a wealthy man secretly marries a man below her station— one whom her father violently disapproves of. The father, in an excess of pare

1924

The Rediscovered Paradise

Adam and Eve are cast out of Eden. They discover that flowers can bring both joy and solace.

1925

Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle

A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle tempts the various possessors to take a drink. A p

1925

Metropolis

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savi

1927

People on Sunday

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berli

1930

Timothy's Quest

Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart. A

1922

Married by Satan

A fortune teller helps a woman gain the affections her beloved, with deathly consequences.

1917

India Speaks

A documentary of explorer Richard Halliburton's travels on the Indian sub-continent, featuring a mix of real and staged footage.

1933

Skyscrapers

A new skyscraper is being built in New York City, and numerous workmen are busy at hazardous jobs high above the ground. When one of the workers, Dago

1906

The Soldier's Courtship

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

1896

Greed

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

1924

Pälsen

Doctor Henck is having bad day, and borrows a fur from a friend. It gives him new confidence, and his day immediately gets better. Hjalmar Söderberg's

1966

Elusive Isabel

Based on the spy novel of the same name by Jacques Futrelle.

1916

The Broken Gate

Aurora Lane (Bessie Barriscale) lives in a small town loaded with small-minded residents. She had an illegitimate child and with the earnings from her

1920

Muerte al amanecer

At night, a young thief boldly breaks into an empty office, but his petty theft goes unexpectedly wrong.

1962

Battleship Potemkin

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The fi

1925

Nanook of the North

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains

1922

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Mont

1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'

1928

The Assassination of the Duke de Guise

This one is modelled on the painting by Paul Delaroche and is an extension of the stage act known as “tableau vivant”.

1897