Genres
725 films in this collection
Collection no. #812108 minFridrikh Ermler
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
After her family's cow dies, Katya leaves the countryside to earn money in Leningrad. Selling apples offers a precarious living, and her relationship…
Collection no. #81387 minOlga Preobrazhenskaya
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
In a Russian village on the eve of the First World War, two young women face sharply different forms of family authority. Anna enters an approved…
Collection no. #81465 minAbram Room
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
After White forces seize a southern port, a young revolutionary's attempt to obtain ammunition drives him toward a lighthouse held by partisans. His…
Collection no. #81697 minRobert Wiene
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
A concert pianist survives a railway accident but learns that his replacement hands once belonged to an executed murderer. Unable to recover his…
Collection no. #82171 minTeinosuke Kinugasa
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
A former sailor works as a custodian in the psychiatric hospital where his wife is a patient. Her inability to recognize him and their daughter's…
Collection no. #82664 minYevgeni Bauer
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Nastya takes a maid's place in an upper-class household and attracts the attention of the family's son. Discovering that his fiancée has another…
Collection no. #82873 minYevgeni Chervyakov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Two men who once shared friendship and revolutionary commitment face one another across a new political divide. War and its aftermath have made…
Collection no. #83369 minGrigori Kozintsev
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A gambler acquires a ring bearing three initials and uses it to invent an identity suited to the people he meets. During the Decembrist rebellion, an…
Collection no. #83561 minYevgeni Bauer
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
An experienced swindler teaches a younger man to treat society as a collection of people to manipulate. Adopting aristocratic identities gives the…
Collection no. #83667 minVladimir Gardin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A countess's frightening encounter with a bear becomes the explanation offered for her son's disturbing behavior. As he grows, the young aristocrat's…
Collection no. #83965 minF. W. Murnau
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
A young actor suspects that his grandfather's housekeeper is manipulating the old man to obtain his inheritance. Disguising himself as a traveling…
Collection no. #84115 minPyotr Chardynin
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Germann watches other men gamble but fears risking his own money until he hears that an elderly countess knows a winning secret. His courtship of…
Collection no. #84279 minErnst Lubitsch
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: German. · No subtitle track in this language
A soldier's attraction to Carmen draws him away from his fiancée, his military career and the life he had expected to lead. Joining the smugglers…
Collection no. #84595 minFranz Osten
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: not identified. · No subtitle track in this language
Prince Siddhartha grows up protected by privilege and separated from ordinary suffering. Encounters beyond that sheltered existence change his…
Collection no. #85475 minAleksandr Ivanovsky
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A young officer's private hopes are overtaken by the power of the imperial state when he is imprisoned without trial. Years pass inside the Peter and…
Collection no. #85944 minNino Oxilia
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Italian. · No subtitle track in this language
An aging countess accepts renewed youth from Mephistopheles on the condition that she never fall in love. Two brothers become her admirers, and…
Collection no. #86067 minYakov Protazanov
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A governor who considers himself liberal tries to end a workers' strike in 1905. When persuasion fails, he authorizes gunfire that kills people in…
Collection no. #86469 minFyodor Otsep
No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: Russian. · No subtitle track in this language
A soldier returns to a village where his family cannot survive on the poor land available to them. His wife takes work as a wet nurse in a wealthy…