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The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
England 🇲🇨 MonacoMen adored her-women envied her. through London's gilded society she swept, leaving a trail of broken hearts- and stolen jewels. — There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both very interested in the mysterious Fay. Invited to the house of Mrs. Webley, Fay is again the center of attention for Arthur and Elton with her leaning towards stuffy old Elton. When Arthur sees Charles, Fay's Butler, lurking in the gardens, he remembers that Charles was a thief caught in Monte Carlo and he figures that Fay may be more interested in the pearls of Mrs. Webley, which she is. After Fay takes the pearls, but before she can toss them out the window, she is caught by Arthur who is very disappointed in how things are turning out.
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Synthetic Sin
VirginiaIf you had to be bad...could you make good? — A young woman impulsively marries a young playwright who whisks her away to New York promises her a role in his next production. Unfortunately the production is a disaster and her husband proclaims her unfit for the role. Rather then return home in defeat, she stays in New York and accidentally gets involved with some vicious gangsters.
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The Girl in the Show
KansasIn this drama, a traveling troupe of actors find themselves in danger of becoming unemployed when their manager up and leaves. Two of the actors decide to marry and settle down. The lead actor helps set up the rest of the troupe with some performances. He then destroys the new marriage. Later the woman and the head actor fall in love. He then gives her the lead role in his newest show.
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The Cock-Eyed World
New YorkTwo Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl.
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Syncopation
New YorkBenny and Flo are a husband and wife dance team, Sloane and Darrel, traveling around the country as part of a revue. The revue gets picked up and taken to New York City, to be on Broadway. However, it quickly folds, and the two are forced to look for other employment. They eventually find work in a nightclub, becoming famous.But while performing at the nightclub, Flo becomes entranced by a young, sophisticated millionaire playboy, Winston.
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Splinters
EnglandSplinters tells of the origins of the 1915 musical comedy revue of the same name, founded by British soldiers fighting on the Western Front in France.
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South Sea Rose
South Pacific - GeneralA French girl raised in the south seas is brought to prim and proper New England by her New England born and bred sea captain husband. She wears short skirts and shocks the puritanical New Englanders in her new home with her wild candid ways...
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Melodie des Herzens
🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900sA young maid from the country looses her job as maid in k.u.k. Budapest, when she stays out too long with her beau, a soldier, who's saving money to buy a horse to open a transport company. After being unemployed for quite a while and her rent is long overdue, the landlady offers her a better job in a nightclub. Meanwhile the soldiers family has decided that her son should marry the daughter of a rich farmer. The soldier finds out about his girl friends profession, and accepts after struggling with himself the match his parents have made. At the day of his engagement his girl friend comes to his hometown with enough money to buy a horse, which leads to a conflict between her, the fiancee, her family, himself and his parents.
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Week-End Wives
🇫🇷 FranceA lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
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Speedy
New YorkYou've Waited a Year for This But WOW! What a Hit! — Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee Stadium, where he stays to see the game. When the railroad tries to run the last horse-drawn trolley (operated by his girl's grandfather) out of business, Speedy organizes the neighborhood old-timers to thwart their scheme.
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The Circus
CaliforniaThe Circus is Here! — Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
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Show People
CaliforniaPeggy Pepper arrives in Hollywood, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things do not go entirely according to plan.
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The Cameraman
New YorkYou'll laugh yourself completely out of focus! — A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
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The Farmer's Wife
EnglandSuccessful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.
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The Italian Straw Hat
The 1890sOn the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule
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Lonesome
New YorkWith all the glamor and glitter of Coney Island that millions everywhere are always eager to see — Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
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A Girl in Every Port
🇫🇷 FranceYou'll Like This One!---It's a rollicking, jolly, happy picture---a laugh all the way. — Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
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The Garden of Eden
🇲🇨 Monaco 🇭🇺 HungaryIf you think you're blasé---if you believe nothing on earth can make you perk up and stare---this is the film to see! It's a fascinating folderol of fun! — Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in love with the handsome Richard, but as they prepare to marry, she comes to believe he is only after the wealth accompanying her new noble status. But truth, like true love, will not be kept secret long.
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A Blonde for a Night
🇫🇷 FranceAfter an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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Riley the Cop
🇫🇷 France 🇩🇪 GermanyIn this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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A Lady of Chance
New York New Jersey AlabamaA con woman working the Atlantic City hotels targets a visiting businessman from Alabama.
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A Knight in London
EnglandA prince makes a socialite think she spent the night in his room.
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Hold 'Em Yale
ConnecticutA young man from Argentina goes to Yale where he plays football and falls in love with a professor's beautiful daughter.
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Cocktails
EnglandThe guardian of an heiress tries to destroy the reputation of her lover by planting drugs on him.
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Paradise
England 🇫🇷 FranceThe daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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Heart Trouble
The 1910sNo known surviving copy is known to exist. This well received film revolved around Harry Van Housen's rejection from service in WWI and subsequent heroism in foiling a ring of spies.
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Adam's Apple
🇫🇷 FranceAn American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
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Heut' spielt der Strauss
🇦🇹 Austria The 19th Century -
Robert und Bertram
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The Gallant Hussar
🇦🇹 Austria 🇭🇺 Hungary The 1900s -
Lady Juan
🇪🇸 Spain The 17th CenturyA Spanish nobleman raises his only daughter as a boy, similarly to Greta Garbo in Queen Christina (1933). In adulthood, Juana's upbringing causes complications in her love life. Possibly an early example of genderqueer representation.
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The Cat and the Canary
New YorkRich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
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It
New YorkA salesgirl with plenty of 'it' pursues a handsome playboy. — A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."
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Two Arabian Knights
The 1910sDuring World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.
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Chicago
IllinoisBased on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out being convicted. Remade once as a movie, and as a Broadway musical.
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The Red Mill
🇳🇱 NetherlandsA servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.
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Der Bettler vom Kölner Dom
🇩🇪 GermanyAn international gang of thieves and swindlers decide to move their criminal operation to the Teutonic city of Cologne, but Tom Wilkens, one of the best agents of the international police, is not far behind and leads an investigation to unmask the criminals.
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The Private Life of Helen of Troy
🇹🇷 Turkey Ancient HistorySetting the standard for his later light-hearted biopics The Private Life of Henry VIII and Rembrandt, producer-director Alexander Korda steadfastly refuses to take any of The Private Life of Helen of Troy seriously. Maria Corda, wife of the director, plays the title character as a fetchingly underdressed coquette, oblivious to all the political turmoil she's causing when she allows the handsome Paris (Ricardo Cortez) to kidnap her. Meanwhile, poor King Menelaus (Lewis Stone), Helen's husband, stands by in stoic silence, just as he's done on previous occasions when his wife succumbed to the charms of various sexy suitors (one of whom is played by future cowboy star "Wild Bill" Elliot). Finally galvanized into action, Menelaus reclaims his bride, who seems none the worse for wear for her experiences.
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The Big Jump
🇮🇹 ItalyA young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.
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The First Auto
The 1900s The 1890sSee this picture---it's funny enough to make a horse laugh. — The transition from horses to automobiles at the turn of the century causes problems between a father and son.
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Quality Street
The 1810sA fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
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Ein Mädel aus dem Volke
The 18th Century -
Das tanzende Wien
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sA cabaret singer in Germany is in love with a young American boy, and must convince his disapproving father that she is worthy of his son.
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