The silent summit — when film grammar was invented shot by shot and cinema first believed it was an art.
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
The General
1926
A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
A Page of Madness
God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.
Faust
A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.
Anemic Cinema
Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.
The Adventures of Prince Achmed
When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
Flesh and the Devil
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.
The Black Pirate
Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.
Emak-Bakia
A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.
Ménilmontant
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
Battling Butler
A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.
Mother
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
Tartuffe
Juvenile fiction · Friendship
The blue castle
Mystery · Suspense
Fifty Candles
Business ethics · Personal Finance
The Richest Man in Babylon
20th century · Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Picasso
detective fiction · mystery
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
Fiction, Historical · Expatriation, fiction
The Sun Also Rises
Professor Challenger (Fictitious character) · Fiction
The land of mist
Classic Literature · American Detective and mystery stories
The Bat
Children's fiction · Princesses, fiction
The light princess
Fiction · Bureaucracy
Das Schloß
Philosophers · Philosophy
The Story of Philosophy
The treasure of the lake
Fiction, mystery & detective, general · Detective and mystery stories
The door with seven locks
European War, 1914-1918 · Fiction
Osudy dobrého vojáka Švejka za světové války
Charlie Chan (Fictitious character) · Police
The Chinese parrot
American fiction (fictional works by one author) · American fiction
My mortal enemy
Bank employees · Fiction
Topper
History · Social conditions
Religion and the Rise of Capitalism