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Fine Clothes
EnglandThe owner of a London clothing store is driven out of business, but later makes a triumphant return.
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The Wolf Man
EnglandGerald Stanley (John Gilbert) is an English gentleman who is engaged to Beatrice Joyce (Alma Frances). But Stanley's personality changes whenever he drinks, and his brother (who also loves Beatrice) uses this to his advantage.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
England The 18th CenturyThe Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Peter Pan
EnglandPeter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook.
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Beau Brummel
England The 1810s The 18th Century...the Most Beautiful Romance in all History — George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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The Enchanted Cottage
EnglandThe Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds in solitude, he meets a young woman named Laura (May McAvoy). They fall in love and agree to marry, but unexpected and magical events occur inside The Enchanted Cottage where they have agreed to spend their wedding night.
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Kean
England The 19th CenturyBy 1820, Edmund Kean is the most admired Shakespearan actor. But if his art is peerless, his free lifestyle is ill thought of, particularly by the high society. Kean has fallen passionately in love with Countess Elena de Koefeld, the wife of the ambassador of Denmark. Elena loves him too but hesitates to give up her rank in society and follow Kean. On the other hand, Anna, a rich heiress who refuses to marry Lord Mewill, the husband chosen by her parents, confesses her love for Kean and decides to become an actress like him... The aristocrats, outraged by Edmund's profligate ways, decide to boycott his performances and his career is broken. Kean does not recover from such a blow and, on a stormy night, dies in Elena's arms.
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Her Night of Romance
EnglandAn impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money.
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The Passionate Adventure
EnglandA rich man leaves his wife, poses as a coster, and saves a factory girl from a crook.
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The Unwanted
EnglandA colonel's bastard son pretends his cowardly brother died a hero.
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Not For Sale
EnglandAn Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
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Eugene Aram
England The 18th CenturyA blackmailed ex-thief is executed for a murder he didn't commit.
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The Flying Fifty-Five
EnglandA Lord poses as a stableboy and rides a girl's horse when a crooked knight injures her jockey.
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His Grace Gives Notice
EnglandA butler inherits a dukedom but stays in service to save a Lord's daughter from eloping with a married man.
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Lily of the Alley
EnglandBill and Lily are newly married. Bert works as a tea salesman and is of a naturally cheery disposition. Over time however, worries about the security of his job and income prey on his mind and he frets over not being able to provide for Lily. With his worries heightened by the fear that he is about to go blind, he falls into a deep depression .....
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The Alley of Golden Hearts
EnglandA lonely squire throws a New Year's party for villagers and discloses that he is a poor girl's uncle.
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The Clean Heart
EnglandThe Clean Heart (1924)
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A Lady of Quality
EnglandClorinda Wildairs breaks off an affair with the unscrupulous Sir John Ozen to become engaged to a rich nobleman, Mertoun, the Duke of Osmonde. Clorinda accidentally kills Sir John when he, infuriated by her forthcoming marriage, threatens to blackmail her. She buries the body in the cellar and admits her act to the forgiving Osmonde before marrying him.
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Tons of Money
EnglandThe Farce that convulsed London 2,000 times, a farce that will brighten YOUR evening. — Tons of Money is a 1924 British silent comedy film directed by Frank Hall Crane and starring Leslie Henson, Flora le Breton and Mary Brough. Aubrey Allington is pursued by creditors and on learning of a family inheritance is persuaded by his wife to fake his own death and return as his own long-lost relative, George Maitland, the rightful claimant. Things get complicated when the real Maitland turns up with another Maitland impersonator, the brother of Aubrey’s butler, Sprules. It is an adaptation of the 1922 play Tons of Money by Will Evans and Arthur Valentine. Both were co-produced with Tom Walls. It was remade as a sound film Tons of Money in 1930
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The Loves of Mary, Queen of Scots
Scotland England The 16th CenturyThe Dauphin's widow weds a lord and is executed for plotting against the queen.
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Claude Duval
England The 17th CenturyA Frenchman turns highwayman after a duchess's cousin frames him for killing a title blackmailer.
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The Christian
EnglandGlory Quayle and John Storm, sweethearts since childhood on the Isle of Man, go to London, Glory to become a nurse and John to enter a monastery. Instead, Glory becomes a theater star, and John renounces his vows because he cannot forget his love for her. Lord Robert Ure, who has already betrayed Glory's friend, Polly Love, incites the London populace against John....
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Woman to Woman
EnglandDavid 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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A Couple of Down and Outs
England The 1910sAn ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
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Bonnie Prince Charlie
Scotland The 18th CenturyIn the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
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Young Lochinvar
ScotlandIn Scotland, a young man, Lochinvar insists on marrying Ellen, the woman he loves in spite of the fact that she is betrothed to another.
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A Glass of Water
England The 18th CenturyA Glass of Water (German: Ein Glas Wasser) is a 1923 German silent historical film directed by Ludwig Berger and starring Mady Christians, Lucie Höflich and Hans Brausewetter. It premiered at the UFA-Palast am Zoo on 1 February 1923. It was based on a play of the same title by Eugène Scribe, set in England during the reign of Queen Anne. The film was very well received both commercially and critically on its release. It is considered one of the milestones of Weimar cinema
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The Fighting Blade
England The 17th CenturyIn the war-like times of Oliver Cromwell, in and around 'olde Oxford towne', Dutchman Karl Van Kerstenbrook, Dutch soldier-of-fortune and sword-for-hire, stands ready to defend his lady-love, the fair Thomsine Musgrove, and prove his nettle, and that his blade is made of the finest metal.
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What Price Loving Cup?
EnglandA horse owner saves a girl jockey from being kidnapped by a knight.
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The Light That Failed
EnglandAbout Dick Heldar, an aspiring artist. Although he is devoted to his childhood sweetheart, Maisie Wells, his ambition drives him to faraway places. He meets Torpenhow, a war correspondent, at Port Said, and accompanies him into battle.
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Beyond the Rocks
EnglandA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
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Sherlock Holmes
EnglandSherlock Holmes is a master at solving the most impenetrable mysteries, but he has his work cut out for him on his latest case. Prince Alexis is accused of a theft that he insists he didn’t commit. The evidence is stacked against him, but Holmes’ trusted friend, Dr. Watson, vouches for the prince. As the famed detective investigates, he’s brought face to face with his most devious adversary yet — Professor Moriarty.
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When Knighthood Was in Flower
England The 16th CenturyMary Tudor falls in love with a new arrival to court, Charles Brandon. She convinces her brother King Henry VIII to make him his Captain of the Guard. Meanwhile, Henry is determined to marry her off to the aging King Louis XII of France as part of a peace agreement.
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The Masquerader
EnglandJohn Loder looks exactly like his cousin, John Chilcote, who is a member of Parliament. Because of his dissolute ways, Chilcote collapses, and Loder is called in to take his place so that the family honor can remain unsullied. Loder's masquerade is so successful that no one suspects him of being an impostor, not even Chilcote's estranged wife, Eve. Loder distinguishes himself with his actions, both in public and private, while the real Chilcote sinks further into the gutter until he finally dies. Loder decides to remain as John Chilcote, and marries Eve, who, up until Loder reveals his true identity, has believed she was falling in love with her husband all over again.
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Boy Woodburn
EnglandA horse trainer's daughter agrees to wed a broke banker if her foal wins a race.
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Belonging
EnglandIn Paris a Count's enforced wife takes the blame when her ex-lover is killed by the diplomat she loves.
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A Bill of Divorcement
EnglandMeg Fairfield secures a divorce from her husband Hilary, and is about to marry Gray Meredith when Hilary returns cured. Sydney, daughter of Hilary and Meg, is engaged to Kit Pumphrey, son of the parish rector who refuses to permit his son to marry Sydney when he learns her mother is divorced....
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The Crimson Circle
EnglandPolice battle against a gang of blackmailers known as The Crimson Circle.
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A Debt of Honour
EnglandIn India an engineer blackmails a girl over her gambling brother.
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Dick Turpin's Ride to York
England The 18th CenturyA highwayman rides to York to stop a lady marrying a usurper.
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The Wheels of Chance
EnglandA clerk on a bicycle tour saves a girl from eloping with a bully.
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Die Königin von Whitechapel
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