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Cocaine
EnglandA decadent tale of drugs and the London underworld the cosseted daughter of a respectable businessman - in fact head of a cocaine racket - succumbs to the pleasures of drink and drugs. Vivid nightlife scenes recreate the interwar world of flappers and hedonists; the dapper club owner and seedy street dealers.
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Kean
England The 19th CenturyThe actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman. — The actor Edmund Kean, adored by his fans and critics, makes another brilliant performance. The young Anna Danby clings to his lips. But Kean has a liaison with a married woman.
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The Glorious Adventure
England The 17th CenturyAn Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
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William Ratcliff
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The Street of Adventure
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Flames of Passion
EnglandDorothy, a young girl, is seduced by her father's chauffeur. She gives birth to a child who is given to the chauffeur's wife. The chauffeur, on a drunken binge murders the child, unaware that the child is his own.
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The Hand of Fate
🇩🇰 Denmark The 17th CenturyThe God-fearing vicar Niels Quist lives with his beloved daughter Mette in the small Jutland town of Vejlby. The newly elected county bailiff and local magistrate, Erik Sørensen, is the lucky fellow who wins Mette’s heart, but their happiness is short-lived: One day, the vicar’s farmhand mysteriously disappears, and all signs suggest that the vicar is the killer. But is Erik Sørensen willing and able to sentence his own true love's father to death? (stumfilm.dk)
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
EnglandAn American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
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Ninety-Three
England The 18th CenturyIn Britain, during the revolution, the nephew of the Marquis de Lantenac, Gawain (P. Capellani) befriends Cimourdain (H. Krauss), a priest who follows the precepts of the Revolution. During the Terror, the Marquis went into exile in England while his nephew is a soldier in the Revolutionary Army ...
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
England The Middle AgesIn 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.
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Christie Johnstone
EnglandA bored Lord saves a fishergirl's lover from drowning
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The Four Just Men
EnglandIts plot concerns four vigilantes who seek revenge for the public against criminals.
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Disraeli
England The 1870sThe story of British prime minister Benjamin Disraeli and the purchase by England of the Suez Canal.
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How Kitchener Was Betrayed
England The 1910sA dead officer's German wife betrays 'Hampshire's' secret route.
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Jim the Penman
EnglandA bank clerk forges a check to help his girlfriend's father. He's found out, but instead of being arrested he becomes a member of a gang of forgers.
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Die Frau in Weiß
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Pilgrims of the Night
EnglandThe 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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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
EnglandThe world's greatest actor in a tremendous story of man at his best and worst! — A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.
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Anna Boleyn
England The 16th CenturyThe story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
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Suds
EnglandAmanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.
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The Lure of Crooning Water
EnglandA London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
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A Dark Lantern
EnglandAlthough loved by a respectable doctor, a society-girl is fascinated by a prince and follows him to Rome. When he reveals himself in his true colours, she has a nervous breakdown and her faithful doctor restores her to health - and to himself.
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The Gift Supreme
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The Call of the Road
England The 1820sIn 1820 a disowned gambler becomes a boxer and save his noble uncle from a highway man.
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Aunt Rachel
EnglandA jilted aunt refuses to let her niece marry a violinist's nephew.
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Beyond the Dreams of Avarice
EnglandA doctor inherits a fortune, his wife leaves him and he becomes a miser.
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Prinz und Bettelknabe
England The 16th CenturyAlexander Korda's early German adaptation of Mark Twain's historical fiction novel about two young boys who are born on the same day and identical in appearance but of very different origin: Edward the Prince of Wales son of Henry VIII and Tom Canty the son of an lowly pauper.
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The Case of Lady Camber
EnglandLord Camber comes under suspicion of murdering his wife, an ex-chorus girl.
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Maria Tudor
England The 16th CenturySilent Film Drama by Adolf Gärtner. Starring Ellen Richter
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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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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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