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A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.
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.
Abel Gance follows Napoleon from embattled schoolboy to military commander in a torrent of movement, montage, and monumental ambition.
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.
Casanova moves through romance, disguise, danger, and courtly spectacle across an expansive eighteenth-century adventure.
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.
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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