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Forty-five minutes of impossible silent-comedy joy.
A man marked by a family reputation for violence becomes an outlaw while searching for a way to use his skill without being consumed by it.
Two wealthy young people accidentally find themselves alone aboard a drifting ocean liner and must learn the simplest tasks of survival.
An English gentleman framed by his half-brother is enslaved, becomes a corsair, and returns with the power to confront betrayal.
A swaggering thief falls in love with a princess and must turn appetite, magic, and daring towards a purpose beyond himself.
Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.
A Jewish prince is betrayed by a Roman friend, enslaved, and driven towards revenge as the life of Christ unfolds alongside his own.
An escaped convict poses as a preacher, exploiting a community’s trust; Paul Robeson also plays the preacher’s upright twin.
The son of Zorro is framed for murder in Spain and must use disguise, acrobatics, and family assistance to clear his name.
A young woman’s work and relationships draw her into the class display and personal risk surrounding New York fashion.
A solitary drifter tries ranch work, befriends a cow named Brown Eyes, and eventually guides an entire herd through Los Angeles.
The Bakhtiari people undertake a seasonal migration across rivers and mountains in search of grazing land.
A gunfighter helps a rancher resist coercion in a Western shaped by land, religious authority, and threatened family separation.
Explorers encounter the mysterious ruler known as She in a British-German adaptation of H. Rider Haggard’s imperial fantasy.
A working-class mother confronts the social distance between her own life and the future she wants for her daughter.
An idle young American enlists for the First World War, forms friendships in France, and discovers how quickly adventure becomes loss.
A Russian officer becomes the masked Black Eagle after rejecting an empress and discovering that a powerful noble has stolen his family’s estate.
A new college student copies a screen personality, mistakes ridicule for popularity, and pursues football glory with absolute sincerity.
An expedition travels to an isolated plateau where prehistoric creatures survive, then brings evidence back to a city unprepared for it.
Tom Mix enters a frontier conflict adapted from Zane Grey’s sequel to Riders of the Purple Sage.
Three former sideshow performers create a criminal household built on disguise, deception, and the increasingly unstable loyalty between them.
A Navajo man confronts dispossession, war service, and a romance constrained by the white institutions governing his community.
A borderland adventure joins pursuit, friendship, and romance in another screen adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel.
A fugitive called Nevada is rescued by rancher Ben Ide, then caught between loyalty to his rescuer and Ina Blaine’s love.
A man trying to prevent an abduction takes the intended victim to his own cabin — and she has no reason to trust him. Jack Holt and Georgia Hale lead this Zane Grey adaptation.
Daily life, fishing, craft, ritual, and family are staged and recorded in Samoa through Robert and Frances Flaherty’s romantic documentary method.
A small-town inventor’s failed demonstration leaves him humiliated, until an encounter with a visiting princess transforms his standing at home.
A nobleman infiltrates a pirate crew after his father’s death, using athletic feats and disguise to prepare revenge from within.
A decorated pilot returns to railway detective work and finds a missing payroll, a vanished man, and danger in the air.
The son of a desert leader falls for a dancer, believes she betrayed him, and turns wounded pride into dangerous retaliation.
Two rival Marines carry their feud and romantic competition into the First World War, where bravado meets mass violence.
A woman accused of murdering her lover turns the trial into publicity while her lawyer and husband struggle to control the performance.
A privileged schoolboy accepts blame for a friend, is expelled and disowned, then descends through increasingly unstable social roles.
Reginald Denny leads a silent comedy in which speed, competition, and social confusion push ordinary confidence towards escalating disorder.
During the Russian Revolution, an illiterate peasant helps a countess escape and turns devotion into a possessive fantasy that neither class upheaval nor gratitude can satisfy.
A former outlaw hired to protect a ranch owner’s daughter must survive rumours about his past and expose the cattle thieves using them against him.
A financial arrangement draws a performer into a plan to make a reluctant European prince appear romantically suitable.
A castaway attempts to survive on an island and impose order on an unfamiliar world in this British Defoe adaptation.
A sewer worker protects an abused young woman, and their attic home becomes a promise tested by war and separation.
A near-wordless love story of overwhelming beauty.
Relatives gather in a decaying mansion for a midnight will reading while an escaped patient and a hidden hand disturb the inheritance.
Episodes from the ministry, trial, crucifixion, and resurrection of Jesus are staged as a vast silent-era religious spectacle.
A landlady begins to suspect that her strange new lodger may be connected to a series of killings across London.
Bent Wade helps desert homesteaders buy a disputed land title, but the seller’s disappearing-ink receipt puts both their homes and Wade’s life in danger.
A fairground boxer rises towards a championship bout while jealousy turns his marriage and professional rivalry into the same contest.
A circus performer who hides his arms becomes dangerously obsessed with the young woman who feels safest in his apparently armless company.
A large-scale adaptation of Stowe’s novel follows families separated by slavery. Its 1927 silent premiere and later recorded-score release belong to different presentations.
A gang leader rescues a destitute lawyer, then discovers that loyalty becomes harder to command when both men love the same woman.
Two young pilots carry rivalry, friendship, and romantic misunderstanding into the aerial violence of the First World War.
A status-conscious mother tries to prevent her son’s marriage while a burglar, a supposedly haunted house, and several competing schemes disrupt her control.
A gambler finances his ward’s education by cheating at cards in Otto Brower’s silent Western for Paramount.
A wealthy young woman’s father pretends to lose his fortune, forcing her to test whether independence and romance survive without inherited ease.
A divorced woman tries to begin again abroad, but marriage draws her back into a society determined to turn her past into a permanent verdict.
Backstage life at the Moulin Rouge places performance, desire, and family loyalty under the pressure of Parisian nightlife.
A young woman of mixed heritage leaves a hostile household with the Indigenous man she loves, only to face displacement, poverty, and violence.
An awkward college son returns to his riverboat father just as rivalry, romance, and a cyclone overturn every expectation.
A peasant officer’s love for a princess collides with military hierarchy, imprisonment, and the Russian Revolution.
A street photographer buys a motion-picture camera and tries to become a newsreel cameraman while pursuing a woman who works at the studio.
One ambitious office worker discovers how difficult it is to remain an individual inside a modern city.
A coal stoker on one night of shore leave rescues a woman from the water, and their hurried marriage tests whether either can imagine a life beyond the docks.
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Read a film closely
Character companions, film comparisons and a closer look at particular scenes.
- Seven Samurai
Who are the seven samurai?
Names, actors and roles to keep the seven apart.
- The Wages of Fear
The original, Sorcerer, or the remake?
Three films compared before you choose.
- Breathless
What disappears in a jump cut?
A diagram of the time Godard leaves out.
- Wild Strawberries
What do the dreams mean?
Trace the clocks, mirror and final scene.
After watching · Spoilers - Persona
Why hear the same speech twice?
Follow who speaks and whose face fills the frame.
After watching · Spoilers - Bicycle Thieves
What happens at the end?
The final encounter, seen through father and son.
After watching · Spoilers