The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
Safety Last!
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.
The Ten Commandments
An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
The Smiling Madame Beudet
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Our Hospitality
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.
The Pilgrim
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
Three Ages
In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain.
The Love Nest
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
La Roue
Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon, which lands Buster in the wilderness, later proves useful as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.
The Balloonatic
The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Cœur fidèle
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Return to Reason
Biography & Autobiography · Nonfiction
Saint Francis of Assisi
Juvenile fiction · Child authors
Emily of New Moon
Fiction · Frontier and pioneer life
A Lost Lady
Western stories · Large type books
Donnegan
Small town life · Fiction, family life, general
Riceyman Steps
Mystery · Detectives
Whose Body?
Fiction · Hercule Poirot (Fictitious character)
Murder on the Links
Fiction · Mystery
The Angel of Terror
Fiction, historical, general · England, fiction
Midwinter
Social life and customs · Fiction
La Prisonnière
Atoms · Relativity (Physics)
The ABC of atoms
English fiction
Jeremy and Hamlet
Fiction · Reincarnation
Wisdom's Daughter
Translations into English · German poetry
Duineser Elegien
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Reminiscences of a stock operator
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Antic Hay
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Cane
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Men Like Gods