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Arme Violetta
🇫🇷 FranceA modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.
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Die Frau im Himmel
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The Husband Hunter
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Milestones
England The 1880s The 1860s1860 ushers in the era of iron ships, Richard Sibley, a builder of wooden ships, stubbornly resists the change, which leads him to forbid the marriage of his daughter Rose to John Rhead, a proponent of the new method. This injustice outrages John's sister Gertrude so much that she breaks off her engagement to Sibley's son Sam. Meanwhile, John and Rose elope.
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Little Dorrit
England The 19th CenturyA jailed debtor refuses to marry an heiress until she loses her fortune and he gains another. A roughly 20-minute condensation of the original British production survives.
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Hearts Are Trumps
EnglandHearts are trumps when Lady Winifred secretly marries gamekeeper Michael Wain.
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Intrigue
🇮🇹 ItalyIntrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.
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The Black Tulip Festival
🇳🇱 Netherlands The 17th CenturyBased on the novel The Black Tulip by Alexandre Dumas.
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Der weisse Pfau
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Bleak House
England'The story of Lady Dedlock's secret and the tragic consequences of its exposure.' (British Film Institute)
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Broken Blossoms
EnglandThe love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
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Sir Arne's Treasure
🇸🇪 Sweden The 16th CenturyThree Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
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Madame DuBarry
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA Mighty Epoch of the Screen — The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Male and Female
EnglandGloria Swanson plays a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
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Blind Husbands
🇦🇹 Austria 🇮🇹 ItalyAn Austrian military officer and roue' attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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The Lost Battalion
🇫🇷 France The 1910sAnd he told them to go to hell — World War I, October 1918. The more than 500 men of the 77th Infantry Division of the United States Army, who have been recruited in New York City and trained in Yaphank, are sent to France, to help break down the German defenses located in the Argonne forest…
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Meyer from Berlin
🇩🇪 GermanySally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he considers Tyrolean attire. However, he mistakenly travels to the Bavarian Alps rather than Austria. Meyer becomes infatuated with Kitty, a young, attractive woman at the hotel where he is staying. His pursuit of her angers many of her other suitors who are also staying at the hotel. In order to impress Kitty, Meyer agrees rather reluctantly to climb Mount Watzmann. While they are approaching the summit, both Meyer's wife and Kitty's fiancee unexepectedly arrive from Berlin.
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The Plague in Florence
🇮🇹 Italy The 14th CenturySuddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.
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Le petit café
🇫🇷 FranceMax is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager.
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Lord and Lady Algy
EnglandLord and Lady Algy separate amicably after he breaks his promise not to gamble again on the horses. When the wife of soap magnate Brabazon Tudway, is courted by Algy's philandering elder brother, Algy tries to help his brother escape Tudway's wrath by hiding Mrs. Tudway in his apartments. Tudway discovers her there ....
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The Romance of Lady Hamilton
England 🇮🇹 Italy The 1800sAn aged ambassador's wife loves an admiral but is rejected by society after his death.
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The Toilers
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Die rollende Kugel
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Her Heritage
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Die Rose von Stambul
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The Misleading Widow
EnglandTHERE WAS A MAN UNDER THE WIDOW'S BED, BUT IT WAS ALL RIGHT—HE WAS HER HUSBAND. — The Misleading Widow is a 1919 silent film comedy starring Billie Burke as Betty Taradine. It was based on the 1917 stage play Billeted by F. Tennyson Jesse and H.M. Harwood. The film was produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed through Paramount Pictures. It appears to be a lost film.
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Shoulder Arms
🇫🇷 France The 1910sUnprecedented in film annals! — An American doughboy, stationed in France during the Great War, goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines and becomes a hero.
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The Outlaw and His Wife
🇮🇸 Iceland The 18th CenturyA stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm. Halla and the stranger fall in love, but when he is revealed as Eyvind, an escaped thief forced into crime by his family's starvation, they flee and become two of the many outlaws of Iceland's mountains.
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The Squaw Man
EnglandFramed for embezzlement, an English nobleman flees to America, eventually finding romance in Wyoming with a young Native-American. This is the 1918 remake of the lost 1913 original, the first feature length Hollywood film
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The Life Story of David Lloyd George
Wales EnglandA biopic of Britain's Great War Prime Minister.
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Fabiola
🇮🇹 Italy The 4th CenturyIn "Fabiola" (1918) Herr Guarzzoni moved from the earliest days of Christianity when the new faith was struggling to just survive to a later period in the Roman Empire when the religion was a major force and attempting to win over Rome.
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The Yellow Ticket
🇷🇺 Russia"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a Jewish girl forced to hide her identity in order to attend medical school in St. Petersburg, the movie is a melodrama of multiple oppression. Lea, as played by Negri, is at a disadvantage as a woman, an orphan and a Jew -- and yet has immense persistence and an insatiable ambition of becoming a doctor. The film includes more than one plot twist (the final one further complicating the issue of Lea's identity), but it's first and foremost a testimony to a spirit impossible to suppress.
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Carmen
🇪🇸 Spain The 19th CenturyThe tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.
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The Diary of Dr. Hart
🇵🇱 Poland The 1910sDr. Robert Hart visits his friend Ursula von Hohenau in Saxony in July 1914. There he hears about the Austrian ultimatum to Serbia. He immediately returns to his home town where, just before mobilisation, he meets the Polish count Bransky and his daughter Jadwiga, the French Vicomte Latour and the Russian counsellor of embassy count Bronislaw Krascinsky. Bronislaw is madly in love with Jadwiga and jealous of Dr. Hart. After the outbreak of the war Dr. Hart works close to the Polish frontlines. Bronislaw leads the Russian troops in this area. When Bronislaw is wounded during a battle with the Germans Dr. Hart finds him and takes care of his wounds.
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The Kaiser, the Beast of Berlin
🇧🇪 Belgium 🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sA propagandistic view of the First World War, showing the political greed of the German Kaiser Wilhelm, the resistance of some of his own soldiers, and fanciful prediction of the nature of the war's end.
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Patriotism
Scotland The 1910sDuring World War I, Robin Cameron transforms her home on the Scottish seacoast into a hospital for convalescing soldiers. Sidney Carson, who owns the adjoining estate, and Dr. Hyde both love Robin, but she gives her heart to John Hamilton, an American soldier whose ship was sunk off the coast.
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Maid o' the Storm
Scotland EnglandScottish fisherman Andy MacTavish rescues a baby whom he discovers washed up on the shore during a storm, and names her Ariel. As a girl, Ariel often dances on the beach and dreams of a man who will appear to her out of the mist. Her dream comes true when she witnesses an airplane crash in which the pilot, Franklin Shirley, is injured.
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The Great Love
England The 1910sJim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of the American forces that are subsequently to leave for the battlefields of Europe. He begins active training at a camp outside London. While enjoying a few hours of leave, he meets Susie Broadplains , a young woman from Australia. She is flattered by his attentions and their friendship soon blossoms into love. However German plotters plan to destroy an arsenal at night and Sir Roger is inveigled into driving an automobile along a London road with its lights turned skyward to guide the Zeppelins. Jim, wounded and home on furlough, detects Sir Roger on the lonely road, follows and traps him in his cottage. Sir Roger turns his pistol on himself rather than be taken alive. Susie finds the "great love" in service for the cause of democracy and her country, with a greater love in sight.
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Addio giovinezza!
🇮🇹 ItalyTwo young men move to the city in order to study. One of them gets entangled in a love triangle.
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Woman
🇮🇹 Italy The 1860s The 12th Century The 1st CenturyA series of stories reflecting the changing position of women in the world, including the familiar tales of Adam and Eve, Messalina and Claudius, Abelard and Heloise, Cyrene and the Fisherman, as well as that of a young girl and an officer in the American Civil War.
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Der König amüsiert sich Rigoletto
🇫🇷 France The 16th Century - load more
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