Films

Italia Almirante Manzini leads an Italian silent drama centred on Olimpia and the social pressures surrounding marriage.

An inexperienced American soldier endures trench life, imagines a spectacular mission, and turns military misery into stubborn physical comedy.

Conspiracy, false accusation, and criminal organisation unfold across Louis Feuillade’s long-form thriller serial.

At an Alpine hotel, a neglected wife attracts the attention of an officer while her husband underestimates both her loneliness and the danger around them.

A silent American comedy directed by Tod Browning, included in the Library of Congress’s lost-film list dated 4 February 2021.

An abused girl in London finds temporary refuge with a Chinese immigrant whose tenderness cannot protect either of them from the violence outside.

An orphan receives an anonymous education from a wealthy benefactor and grows into a writer without knowing the identity behind the support.

Friendship, romance, and pursuit unfold along the border in an early adaptation of Zane Grey’s Western novel.

A 1919 Billy West comedy from Charley Chase’s early directing work, identified in contemporary cinema listings.

A shy heir tries to avoid marriage by choosing a lifelike mechanical doll, unaware that the doll-maker’s daughter has taken its place.

A reclusive man on a remote island shelters a woman escaping exploitation, drawing violent intruders into the isolation he thought would protect him.

A respected doctor separates his moral impulses from his hidden desires, creating a second identity that becomes increasingly difficult to contain.

Huck escapes an abusive home and travels along the Mississippi, encountering fraud, danger, and the demands of friendship.

Newlyweds assemble a prefabricated house whose numbered parts have been quietly rearranged by a resentful rival.

A fairground prediction becomes a question of who controls the outcome.

During the French and Indian War, two sisters and their escorts cross contested territory while rival forces close around them.

A seemingly idle aristocrat secretly becomes the masked Zorro, defending ordinary people from corrupt officials in Spanish California.

Young Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and sails with a crew whose most charismatic member has plans of his own.

A teacher seeking funds for a Black school confronts intertwined histories of racism, violence, family, and self-determination.

Hamlet investigates a father’s death and a corrupt court in an adaptation built around a radical account of the prince’s identity.

A warm-hearted American boy is summoned to England as heir to an aristocratic title and gradually challenges his grandfather’s suspicion and pride.

A celebrated woman’s past and a younger man’s idealised love collide in a drama of desire, reputation, and social judgement.

Members of one international family are divided by the First World War as a carefree Argentine grandson is drawn into love, loss, and combat.

On New Year’s Eve, a ghostly carriage arrives to collect more than the dead.

Young d’Artagnan reaches Paris, quarrels with three musketeers, and joins them in a dangerous struggle involving the queen’s honour.

Walt Disney’s Laugh-O-gram studio gives Cinderella a compact animated retelling with a Jazz Age flavour.

A fraudulent aristocrat in Monte Carlo targets wealthy women while his accomplices maintain the appearance of status around him.

Woodcuts, staged visions, and social argument combine in an unsettling investigation of witchcraft and persecution.

A sailor falsely imprisoned for years escapes, acquires a fortune, and returns under a new identity to punish the people who betrayed him.

Arctic landscapes and everyday labour are shaped into an influential—and heavily staged—portrait of an Inuk family.

An orphan escapes a workhouse, reaches London, and is drawn into a household of child thieves while searching for safety and belonging.

A Chinese laundryman in a coastal town becomes entangled in the lives of neighbours divided by grief, prejudice, and religious hypocrisy.

Sherlock Holmes confronts Professor Moriarty as a blackmail case, a hidden identity, and an old romance draw him into a wider criminal design.

An old grief shapes a guardian’s response when the young woman he raised falls in love with a man connected to the past.

A student convinced of his exceptional right to act commits murder and discovers that an idea cannot contain the consequences.

Made in Siam in 1923 with Thai performers, Henry MacRae’s romance opens a question that still shapes its history: what makes a film the first of a nation’s cinema?

A perfect city comedy climbs one floor at a time toward an impossible clock.

A lawyer becomes an actor, masked swordsman, and revolutionary after an aristocrat kills his friend on the eve of the French Revolution.

Quasimodo’s devotion to Esmeralda unfolds amid persecution, desire, and enormous recreations of medieval Paris.

Biblical spectacle gives way to a modern morality tale about two brothers who choose opposite relationships to law and desire.

The same romantic rivalry unfolds in the Stone Age, ancient Rome, and the modern 1920s, with each era insisting that love has completely changed.

A long-running feud pulls two frontier families towards violence even as younger relationships suggest another route.

A music-hall performer’s affair with a respectable man changes when she discovers the domestic life hidden outside their romance.

Earthly jealousy and post-revolutionary hardship spill into an angular fantasy of Mars, revolution, and desire.

An Irish doctor is unjustly condemned, transported to the Caribbean, and driven from enslavement into piracy and rebellion.

Objects, bodies, city views, a cannon, a funeral procession, and cinematic tricks collide in a playful refusal of ordinary narrative logic.

A former miner’s marriage and friendships collapse after a lottery win turns ordinary insecurity into consuming possession.

A displaced family in post-war Germany tries to secure food, work, shelter, and a future amid inflation and scarcity.

Dziga Vertov and his collaborators assemble work, leisure, markets, bodies, and machines into an argument for a camera that sees social life differently from the human eye.

Peter Pan takes Wendy and her brothers from their London nursery to Neverland, where play, danger, and the refusal to grow older exist together.

Forty-five minutes of impossible silent-comedy joy.

An ageing hotel doorman loses his prestigious uniform and tries to hide the demotion from neighbours who measure him by it.

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 poet invents stories for three wax figures, moving from exotic adventure to historical nightmare and a final pursuit through distorted space.

The montage that taught cinema how to shout.

A Jewish prince is betrayed by a Roman friend, enslaved, and driven towards revenge as the life of Christ unfolds alongside his own.