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Misdeal
🇫🇷 FranceMaldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
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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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Salamander
🇩🇪 GermanyA Socialist Realist distortion of Dr. Paul Kammerer's experiments in the inheritance of acquired character(istic)s -- the (not entirely anti-Darwinian) conjecture that certain changes the environment produces in an individual may spontaneously appear in the next generation. As recounted in Arthur Koestler's The Case of the Midwife Toad (1971), Kammerer (1880-1926) claimed that darkened footpads he had artificially induced in a toad had been passed on to its offspring. When it was discovered that his critical specimen had been injected with ink (though why and by whom is still unknown), his credibility was destroyed and he apparently suicided. Richard Goldschmidt's synopsis of the film in "Research and Politics," Nature (1949), mocks it as Soviet propaganda in support of the inheritance of acquired characters: The importance attached to the subject is revealed by the facts that none other than the then all-powerful [People's] Commissar for [Public] Education, the highly ...
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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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Parisiennes
🇫🇷 FranceA house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
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Two Lovers
🇳🇱 Netherlands 🇧🇪 Belgium The 16th CenturyEvery Emotion Thrillingly Yours in This Their Final Picture Together! — Set during the 16th-century Spanish occupation of Flanders, the story concentrates on the fiercely patriotic Mark Van Ryke (Colman). Donning the guise of "Leatherface," a swashbuckling masked avenger, Van Ryke performs his derring-do on behalf of the Prince of Orange (Nigel de Brulier). Naturally, Van Ruke considers beautiful Spanish aristocrat Donna Leonora de Vargas (Vilma Banky) to be a bitter enemy, and the feeling is mutual. To no one's surprise, however, Van Ryke and Donna Leonara eventually fall in love (hence the title). The pulse-pounding climax finds Van Ryke riding hell-for-leather through a rainstorm to warn the Flemish troops about the Spaniards' plans to burn the city of Ghent to the ground. Two Lovers was based on Madame Orczy's novel Leatherface, and adapted for the screen by Alice Duer Miller.
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The Yellow Lily
🇦🇹 Austria The 1890sArchduke Alexander (Clive Brook) is better known for his sexual conquests than his diplomatic triumphs. After a lifetime of loving 'em and leaving 'em, the Archduke finally meets a girl he can't leave, Hungarian lass Judith Peredy (Billie Dove). She resists his advances but can't hide the fact that she's in love with him. The Yellow Lily was the second of four cinematic collaborations between star Billie Dove and director Alexander Korda.
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The Masks of the Devil
🇦🇹 AustriaHe Dared All For Love! — Baron Reiner, a charming though unscrupulous Viennese aristocrat, becomes infatuated with Virginia, an innocent schoolgirl who is engaged to his best friend, Manfred. In order to seduce the girl, Reiner finances an oceanographic expedition for Manfred that takes him away for months (TCM).
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Dawn
🇧🇪 Belgium The 1910sA nurse helps 210 men escape to England before the Germans catch and execute her.
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The Blue Danube
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sMarguerite, the beauty of an Austrian village, loves the poverty-stricken Baron Erich von Statzen, although her mother is opposed to the affair, having been made suspicious by the hunchback Ludwig, who is smitten by Marguerite's charms and insanely jealous of Statzen. Statzen's uncle would have him marry Helena Boursch, the local brewer's daughter, to save his dwindling estate. Ordered to the front when war is declared, Statzen is forced to leave without saying goodby to Marguerite.
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Dream of Love
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
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The Woman Disputed
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sAn adventuress in love with an Austrian agrees to become the mistress of a Russian officer in exchange for the release of Austrian hostages.
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The Secret Courier
🇫🇷 France The 1820sA silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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Three Sinners
🇦🇹 Austria 🇩🇪 GermanyA woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a hostess in a gambling den.
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The Amateur Adventure
🇫🇷 Francea silent movie by Robert Wiene
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The Woman on the Rack
🇫🇷 Francea silent movie by Robert Wiene
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The Fight for the Matterhorn
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1860sStruggle for the Matterhorn (German: Der Kampf ums Matterhorn) is a 1928 German-Swiss silent drama film co-directed by Mario Bonnard and Nunzio Malasomma and starring Luis Trenker, Marcella Albani, and Alexandra Schmitt. The film is part of the popular cycle of mountain films of the 1920s and 1930s. Art direction was by Heinrich Richter. Based on a novel by Carl Haensel, the film depicts the battle between British and Italian climbers to be the first to climb the Matterhorn. Trenker later remade the film as The Challenge in 1938.
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Dry Martini
🇫🇷 FranceIt's Naughty But It's Nice — Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
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Paradise
🇫🇷 FranceThe daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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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
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Robert und Bertram
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
🇩🇪 Germany"An artistic masterpiece and also a joy to watch." — A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Downhill
🇫🇷 FranceA College Hero round whom is woven a picture of Love and Treachery. — Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Roddy decides to go to Paris where he spends what little money he has and starts working as a dancer. He soon becomes a victim of alcoholism. Roddy manages to move to England's colonies but some sailors send him back to his rich family hoping for a reward.
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7th Heaven
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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The Beloved Rogue
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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When a Man Loves
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyTo love her meant-disaster...he fought the world and wrecked his life! — A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
🇫🇷 FranceIn the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
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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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Hotel Imperial
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sDuring World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge in a small hotel, where he is hidden by the establishment's chambermaid. The two fall in love, but a Russian general makes the hotel his headquarters and sets his sights on the maid. In addition, the Austrian must find out the identity of a spy who is feeding the Russians military information that could lead to the destruction of the Austrian army.
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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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A Dog of the Regiment
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sBased on Rin Tin Tin's own life — A Rin Tin Tin adventure
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Marquitta
🇫🇷 FranceThe tumultuous relationship between a street singer and a prince.
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Die Villa im Tiergarten
🇩🇪 GermanySilent film social drama
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Blighty
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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The Enemy
🇦🇹 AustriaA vivid drama of Austria and one side of the war known only to the women. — Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left behind to experience the suffering which befell civilians during the war. Her luck worsens when her father is dismissed from his professorship for teaching that war is evil. Her father argues violently with Carl's father, and degradation and despair descend on Pauli and her family as they await Carl's return from the front.
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Der falsche Prinz
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sa silent movie by Heinz Paul
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Die Geliebte
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sa silent movie by Robert Wiene
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The Stolen Bride
🇦🇹 Austria The 1910sThe daughter of a count and the son of a shoemaker, both Hungarian, fall in love in America. As they're about to marry, the young woman is called back to Europe. When her betrothed goes after her, difficulties ensue.
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Dr. Bessels Verwandlung
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Mädchenhandel - Eine internationale Gefahr
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