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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 scientist creates a woman through an experiment shaped by a mandrake legend, then attempts to control the life he treats as proof of his theory.
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.
A master criminal, a government agent, and a conflicted operative move through a modern network of surveillance and deception.
An awkward college son returns to his riverboat father just as rivalry, romance, and a cyclone overturn every expectation.
A Mongolian trapper is exploited by occupying forces and transformed into a political symbol they believe they can control.
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.
A widowed farmer makes a list of suitable women to marry, overlooking the person who understands both him and his household best.
A former Russian general, now an impoverished Hollywood extra, is cast by a director who recognises him from the revolution that destroyed his old life.
A poor girl selling matches on a winter street escapes hunger and cold through visions that grow increasingly elaborate.
A performer whose face was surgically fixed into a grin is pulled between love, spectacle, and aristocratic power.
A face, a trial, and nowhere for the truth to hide.
An impoverished Viennese prince falls for a working-class woman while family debt and social expectation prepare marriages for both of them.
A young woman arrives on an isolated Texas plain where relentless wind turns social danger into psychological siege.
A silent adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel directed by Herman C. Raymaker, listed as lost in the Library of Congress’s February 2021 inventory. Later versions appeared in 1933 and 1947.
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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