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Wilhelm Tell
🇨🇭 Switzerland The 14th CenturyWilliam Tell (German: Wilhelm Tell) is a 1923 German silent adventure film directed by Rudolf Dworsky and Rudolf Walther-Fein and starring Hans Marr, Conrad Veidt and Erich Kaiser-Titz. The film portrays the story of the legendary Swiss national hero William Tell.
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Zaza
🇫🇷 France The 1890sZaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
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Ashes of Vengeance
🇫🇷 France The 16th CenturyThis historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Violettes impériales
🇫🇷 France The 1850sThis historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Here, Raquel Meller plays a Spanish flower girl who saves the life of the French empress Eugenie de Montijo (played by Suzanne Blanchetti), by taking her place in her carriage. When the carriage is overthrown by the anarchist's bomb, the girl survives because of the masses of violets in the imperial carriage, the empress' favorite flowers.
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Kœnigsmark
🇩🇪 Germany The 1910sTo fulfill her Father's wish, Grand Duchess Aurora (Huguette Duflos) is forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph (Henry Houry). He prepares to leave for the Congo but is murdered by his own brother (Georges Vaultier). Aurora goes to Paris with her father and, there, is told on the phone of her husband's death. After returning to the Kingdom, she meets a tutor (Jaque Catelain) who falls in love with her..
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Die Flamme
🇫🇷 France The 19th CenturyIn 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
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Woman to Woman
🇫🇷 FranceDavid Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
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Young Medardus
🇦🇹 Austria The 1800sPatriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.
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Die Fledermaus
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The Countess of Paris
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Tragedy of Love
🇫🇷 France1923 German silent film directed by Joe May and starring Mia May, Emil Jannings, and Marlene Dietrich. A 16mm acetate positive print held by the George Eastman Museum.
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Alt Heidelberg
🇩🇪 Germany The 19th CenturyPrince Karl Heinz enjoys his carefree life as a student in Heidelberg. He falls in love with the beautiful Käthe and everything is fine and dandy till his father is reported very ill.
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The King of Paris
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Carl Michael Ziehrers Märchen aus Alt-Wien
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Trilby
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Slave of Desire
🇫🇷 FrancePoet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
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Nosferatu
🇩🇪 Germany The 1830sA symphony of horror. — Vampire Count Orlok is interested in a new residence and in his real estate agent’s young wife. F. W. Murnau’s unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
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Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
🇩🇪 GermanyDr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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Foolish Wives
🇲🇨 Monaco“Count” Karamzin, a Don Juan, lives off the money he scams from rich ladies who are attracted by his charms and his title. Having set up shop in Monte Carlo, he and his partners in crime pick their next target: the wife of an American diplomat.
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Beyond the Rocks
🇫🇷 FranceA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
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Crainquebille
🇫🇷 FranceJérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protests, Crainquebille is arrested, supposedly for swearing at the policeman.
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The Three Must-Get-Theres
🇫🇷 FranceIn this movie, Max Linder parodies the famous novel "The Three Musketeers".
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The Bohemian Girl
🇦🇹 Austria The 18th CenturyA Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
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La revanche belge
🇧🇪 BelgiumWar drama about a woman hero, in love with a military engineer and coveted by his odious collaborationist krauts . She does not give in to the blackmail of a German who is lying to her about her fiancé's alleged death. The only remnant of the Belgian production of the Frenchman Bergerat.
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The Green Temptation
🇫🇷 France The 1910sGenelle and Gaspard operate an itinerant Parisian theatre in which the greatest profits are realized by picking the pockets of the audience and robbing their homes while they are watching the show. When the First World War breaks out, Genelle volunteers as a Red Cross nurse and renounces her criminal ways. She travels to America, but re-encounters Gaspard, who is determined to use her new contacts in the upper class to continue their larcenous partnership.
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Lola Montez, die Tänzerin des Königs
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Die fünf Frankfurter
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Shattered Dreams
🇫🇷 FranceMarie Moselle, an amateur Parisian sculptress, quarrels with her fiancé, Théophile, a society type of the ennui school, regarding her artistic ambitions, and he is horrified when she selects Louis, a huge apache, as a model.
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Carl Michael Ziehrer, der letzte Walzerkönig
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Secrets of Paris
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Der Graf von Charolais
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Queen of the Moulin Rouge
🇫🇷 FranceQueen of the Moulin Rouge is a 1922 American silent drama film directed by Ray C. Smallwood and starring Martha Mansfield, Joseph Striker and Jane Thomas.
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Esmeralda
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Die Geierwally
🇩🇪 Germany"The Bear Joseph", so named because of a fight with a bear, is rescued by Wally, a farmer's daughter, from a dangerous situation in a vulture's nest. He then calls her "Geierwally". They fall in love. Wally's father disapproves of this romance. He has other plans for Wally.
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The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
🇫🇷 France The 1910sSet in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man's two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
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Orphans of the Storm
🇫🇷 FranceA dramatic epic — France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.
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The Three Musketeers
🇫🇷 FranceThe young Gascon D'Artagnan arrives in Paris, his heart set on joining the king's Musketeers. He is taken under the wings of three of the most respected and feared Musketeers, Porthos, Aramis, and Athos. Together they fight to save France and the honor of a lady from the machinations of the powerful Cardinal Richelieu.
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Through The Back Door
🇧🇪 BelgiumA young Belgian girl, raised by her longtime nanny, flees Europe at the advent of World War I and travels to America to find her real mother.
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Camille
🇫🇷 FranceTheir love idyll among the spring blossoms — Camille is a courtesan in Paris. She falls deeply in love with a young man of promise, Armand Duval. When Armand's father begs her not to ruin his hope of a career and position by marrying Armand, she acquiesces and leaves her lover. However, when poverty and terminal illness overwhelm her, Camille discovers that Armand has not lost his love for her.
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Shattered
🇩🇪 GermanyScherben is about the everyday lives of a railway trackman, his wife and daughter in a remote, isolated house in a winter landscape, Mayer and Pick introduce increasingly stronger disturbances into their daily routines.
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The Two Girls
🇫🇷 FranceTwo small girls whose father is in prison are collected by their grandfather after losing their mother in a shipwreck.
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The Old Wives' Tale
🇫🇷 FranceA woman leaves her husband to run a Paris boarding house, and reunites with her sister after the war.
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The Three Musketeers
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyA 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
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Seefahrt ist Not!
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Pilgrims of the Night
🇫🇷 FranceThe son of a British earl, Philip Champion is exiled to Paris after having served a prison term to shield his wife and there forms an alliance with his brother-in-law, Marcel, who conducts a fashionable gambling establishment as the head of a band of criminals. Marcel is arrested and sent to prison, and Champion escapes. Ambrose, a hunchbacked street musician, escapes with Christine, Champion's daughter, and frames Champion for robbery.
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Kohlhiesel's Daughters
🇩🇪 GermanySomewhere in Southern Bavaria Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel wants his elder daughter Liesel to marry first. The problem is, nobody wants to marry her, because she's too brutal. Seppel suggests, that he should marry Liesel first, get rid of her and then he can marry Gretel...
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The Night of Queen Isabeau
🇫🇷 France The 14th Century The 15th CenturyThe film depicts the marriage between the mad Charles VI of France and his wife Queen Isabeau.
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