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Daybreak
🇦🇹 Austria The 1900sAn Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
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Chances
England The 1910sTwo brothers, Jack and Tom, are in love with the same woman, Molly. While the two brothers go off to war and Molly does her part in the effort, Tom believes that Rose is waiting for him, while in fact, she loves Jack and only turned to Tom on the rebound. Jack and Molly meet while he is on leave, and when he returns to battle, he doesn't know how to handle the situation with his brother.
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A Woman of Experience
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sIt is 1915 in Vienna and the Great War has caused many casualties. Elsa, a beautiful prostitute, wants to help the war effort, but is rejected as a nurse, but a government official thinks that she will make an excellent spy.
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Sally in Our Alley
England The 1910sA woman believes her boyfriend died in the First World War, but he is now looking for her
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1914
England 🇦🇹 Austria 🇧🇦 Bosnia and Herzegovina 🇩🇪 Germany 🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sThe film focuses on the leadership of the Great Powers of Europe in the days leading up to the outbreak of the First World War.
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The Captain from Köpenick
🇩🇪 Germany The 1900sBased on the true story of a cobbler who bought a second-hand captain's uniform, assumed command of a troop of guardsmen, declared the town of Köpenick under military law, arrested the mayor and confiscated the town treasury.
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Tarnished Lady
The 1930sNancy Courtney, a once wealthy socialite, has had to struggle to maintain a facade of prosperity ever since her father's death. Although she loves writer DeWitt Taylor, who is indifferent to amassing a fortune, her mother urges her to marry stockbroker Norman Cravath instead. Nancy acquiesces to her mother's wishes but, despite the fact her new husband does everything he can to please her, she is miserable in her marriage.
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The Theft of the Mona Lisa
🇫🇷 France The 1910sThis German crime drama was based on a true story. Willy Forst stars as a poverty-stricken Italian glazier who falls in love with French hotel maid Rosa Valletti. Struck by the girl's resemblance to Leonardo Da Vinci's Mona Lisa, Forst manages to steal the painting from the Louvre in hopes of impressing his sweetheart. But when the girl proves to be a fickle sort, the crestfallen hero confesses his crime and is carted off to jail. Unwilling to admit that he'd been led astray by a woman, Forst claims that he stole the Mona Lisa to restore it to his native Italy, and as a result is hailed as a national hero! Raub der Mona Lisa was distributed in the U.S. by RKO Radio, under the title The Theft of the Mona Lisa.
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Beyond Victory
The 1910sFour battle-weary American soldiers under fire reflect on the women they left behind.
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Die lustigen Weiber von Wien
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Tell England
England 🇹🇷 Turkey The 1910sIn England, two young friends, confronted with the outbreak of World War I, enlist together to serve in the same company on the battle-field.
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The Man Who Committed the Murder
The 1910sThe story is about Conrad Veidt as military attache in Turkey where he learns to know an English consul (Heinrich George) and his attractive wife who is treated badly. They begin an affair and soon the husband proves to be an obstacle that has to be disposed of.
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The Other Side
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sThe First World War. The young, English Lieutenant Raleigh is sent to the company of a disillusioned Captain Stanhope. Stanhope is secretly engaged to Raleigh's sister and is intent on protecting his image of an exemplary officer. An attack on the German lines, in which Raleigh also takes part, has turned into a bloody fiasco. Now Raleigh, too, knows the horrors of war, which have already taken their toll on Stanhope.
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Diggers
🇫🇷 France The 1910sAttending a reunion, two Australian ex-servicemen reminisce about their exploits in France during WW1. These include lying in a field hospital where they feigned deafness to extend their recuperation, stealing jars of rum from the Quartermaster and inventing an elaborate ruse to hide them and finally, the night before returning to the front relaxing in a French café where romance blossoms between the soldier and waitress as told through the song 'Mademoiselle from Armentieres'.
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East Lynne on the Western Front
🇫🇷 France The 1910sDuring the First World War a group of British soldiers serving on the Western Front stage a comic performance of the play East Lynne to entertain their comrades.
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Men of the Sky
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sIn the years before World War I, a love affair takes place between an American pilot named Jack Ames and a French spy named Madeleine Aubert. Madeleine leaves her American fiancé to join her father, another French spy, at an estate in Germany. Her father instructs her to accept the invitation of a Prussian officer, Eric von Coburg, to live at his estate for a month.
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Reserve hat Ruh
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Aschermittwoch
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The Rebel
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All Quiet on the Western Front
The 1910sThey left for war as boys never to return as men. — A young soldier faces profound disillusionment in the soul-destroying horror of World War I. Together with several other young German soldiers, he experiences the horrors of war, such evil of which he had not conceived of when signing up to fight. They eventually become sad, tormented, and confused of their purpose.
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The Blue Angel
The 1920sPrim professor Immanuel Rath finds some of his students ogling racy photos of cabaret performer Lola Lola and visits a local club, The Blue Angel, in an attempt to catch them there. Seeing Lola perform, the teacher is filled with lust, eventually resigning his position at the school to marry the young woman. However, his marriage to a coquette -- whose job is to entice men -- proves to be more difficult than Rath imagined.
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People on Sunday
🇩🇪 Germany The 1930s The 1920sA semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
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Hell's Angels
England The 1910sHoward Hughes' Thrilling Multi-Million Dollar Air Spectacle — In this aerial spectacle, brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge, each attending Oxford university, enlist with the Royal Flying Corps when World War I breaks out.
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Murder!
The 1930sWhen a woman is convicted of murder, one of the jurors selected to serve on the murder-trial jury believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
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Journey's End
🇫🇷 France The 1910sTHE GREATEST SCREEN DRAMA OF ALL TIME — In France, 1917, an alcoholic captain is afraid that his new replacement, his sweetheart's brother, will betray his downfall.
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Morocco
🇲🇦 Morocco The 1920sWho is this woman who scorns a hundred men...to give her love to a Devil-May-Care Soldier? — The Foreign Legion marches in to Mogador with booze and women in mind just as singer Amy Jolly arrives from Paris to work at Lo Tinto's cabaret. That night, insouciant legionnaire Tom Brown catches her inimitably seductive, tuxedo-clad act. Both bruised by their past lives, the two edge cautiously into a no-strings relationship while being pursued by others. But Tom must leave on a perilous mission: is it too late for them?
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Au bonheur des dames
The 1920sDenise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crunches all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
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Juno and the Paycock
🇮🇪 Ireland The 1920sDuring the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.
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Westfront 1918
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA group of German infantrymen of the First World War live out their lives in the trenches of France. They find brief entertainment and relief in a village behind the lines, but primarily terror fills their lives as the attacks on and from the French army ebb and flow. One of the men, Karl, goes home on leave only to discover the degradation forced on his family by wartime poverty. He returns to the lines in time to face an enormous attack by French tanks.
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Half Shot at Sunrise
🇫🇷 France The 1910sTwo soldiers go absent without leave in Paris during World War I.
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Just Imagine
Mars The 1980s The 1930s The 1880sA STORY OF LIFE AND LOVE IN 1980! — New York, 1980: airplanes have replaced cars, numbers have replaced names, pills have replaced food, government-arranged marriages have replaced love, and test tube babies have replaced ... well, you get the idea. Scientists revive a man struck by lightning in 1930; he is rechristened "Single O". He is befriended by J-21, who can't marry the girl of his dreams because he isn't "distinguished" enough -- until he is chosen for a 4-month expedition to Mars by a renegade scientist. The Mars J-21, his friend, and stowaway Single O visit is full of scantily clad women doing Busby Berkeley-style dance numbers and worshiping a fat middle-aged man.
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Doughboys
The 1910sElmer, rich society loafer, falls for Mary, but she'll have nothing to do with him until (mistakenly thinking that he's hiring a new chauffeur) he accidentally volunteers for the army. Luckily, Mary's signed up to entertain the troops. Unluckily, Elmer's sergeant likes Mary, too. And worst of all, they're all about to ship out for France.
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The Rogue Song
The 1910sA VOICE TO RING 'ROUND THE WORLD! THE PERSONALITY OF A HERO — In czarist Russia, a princess falls for a dashing bandit leader, but their romance proves a stormy one.
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Accused, Stand Up!
🇫🇷 France The 1930sParis, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
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Viennese Nights
🇦🇹 Austria The 1930s The 1890sIn 1890, Gus Sascher joins the Austrian Army and romances the impoverished girl Elsa Hofner. Elsa instead marries the wealthier officer Franz von Renner, in an attempt at social climbing.
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War Nurse
🇫🇷 France The 1910sThe World War as Seen Through the Eyes of our Girls Who Lived, Loved and Suffered on the Western Front! — Untrained, volunteer Nurses from America treat Allied soldiers behind and on the lines in France. They face the horrors of war, fight off the attentions of soldiers and face their own loneliness.
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Exile to Siberia
🇵🇱 Poland The 1900sThe story takes place in 1905 and shows us a glimpse of an earlier Russian occupied Poland. After the assignation of the Governor-General, the Russian authorities in Warsaw are bent on finding the conspirators. Ryszard (Adam Brodzisz) is a Polish patriot that is considered a terrorist to the Russians and a hero to the Poles. He manages to find time to fall in love with a woman named Rena before being caught. The Russians know he was part of the plot, but do not know exactly how much he was involved, so he is sentenced to exile in Siberia. But his sweetheart Rena doesn't stand still while he is sent away, so she follows him to Siberia.
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Africa Speaks!
Africa - General The 1920sThe sound camera makes the dark continent give up its most amazing and closely-guarded secrets. — Explorer Paul Hoefler leads a safari into central Africa and what was then called the Belgian Congo, in the regions inhabited by the Wassara and the famous Ubangi tribes.
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The Case of Sergeant Grischa
The 1910sThe Supreme Epic of Mankind — This film earned an Oscar nomination for Sound Recording. It is the only film nominated in this category that is among the lost. No negative or print material is known to have survived. Contemporary reviews were scathing, describing the film as a vastly overlong and boring talk-fest.
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Seven Days' Leave
The 1910sSeven Day's Leave was actually Gary Cooper's first all talking film, but Adolph Zukor at Paramount decided to hold up the release of it until after The Virginian was on the big screen. Seven Days Leave is a screen adaption of one of James M. Barrie's plays, The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
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The Virtuous Sin
🇷🇺 Russia The 1910sMarya gets friendly with General Platoff in order to save her husband Victor from being executed.
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Good News
The 1920sAt Last The Great Broadway Hit Comes To The Talking Screen — A college football star falls for his mousy French tutor.
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Young Eagles
🇫🇷 France The 1910sHere's Spectacle! Breath-Taking Action in the Clouds! And a Gripping Romance in Glamorous France! — Lieut. Robert Banks, an American aviator on leave in Paris, meets Mary Gordon, a young American who lives abroad, but their romance is cut short by his return to the front. In an air battle, Robert brings down and captures the Grey Eagle, Baden, and takes him to American Intelligence in Paris. Mary, ostensibly a spy for the Germans, drugs Robert, who awakens to find that his uniform has been stolen by Baden. Later, in an exciting air conflict, Baden is wounded but shoots down Robert's plane. The German rescues him, however, and takes him to an Allied hospital, assuring him of Mary's love; his faith in her is restored when he learns that she is actually a spy for U. S. Intelligence.
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Mamba
The 1910sFORBIDDEN LOVE...PASSIONATE HATE! — August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called "Mamba" by the locals, which is the name of a deadly snake. Despised by the locals and the European settlers alike for his greed and arrogance, Bolte forces the beautiful daughter of a destitute nobleman to marry him in exchange for saving her father from ruin. Upon her arrival in Africa, she falls in love with an officer in the local German garrison. When World War I breaks out, Bolte, unable to avoid being conscripted, foments a rebellion among the local natives.
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Anybody's War
The 1910sA dog catcher is rejected by the army, but sneaks in with his dog.
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The Flame of Love
🇷🇺 Russia The 1900sIn Russia, a Chinese dancer gives herself to a duke to save her brother's life.
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The W Plan
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sA tense WWI spy thriller in which Colonel Duncan Grant (British star Brian Aherne, in his first talking role), parachutes into Germany to gather intelligence on the enemy’s secret ‘W Plan’ and to assist Allied POWs in digging escape tunnels.
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