Genres
224 films in this collection
Collection no. #50976 minEdmund Goulding
76 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Three Broadway chorus performers approach romance with different expectations: financial security, ideal love and a tentative desire for experience.…
Collection no. #51270 minFrank Borzage
70 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
A young wife considering leaving her husband invites his estranged mother to visit with the man for whom she once abandoned the family. She hopes the…
Collection no. #55593 minRaoul Walsh
93 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Violence against her family gives a Russian village schoolteacher a lasting resentment of imperial power. Escaping an unwanted marriage, she…
Collection no. #56576 minCecil B. DeMille
76 min · Subtitles: English
An Aztec princess falls in love with a Spanish officer arriving among the forces threatening her father's rule. Her willingness to help him grants…
Collection no. #570127 minHarry Beaumont
127 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
Denied marriage to the woman he loves because he lacks money and rank, an army officer sets out to master the society that rejected him. Friendship…
Collection no. #58188 minJosef von Sternberg
88 min · No spoken dialogue. Intertitles: English.
An ageing Russian émigré accepts work as a Hollywood extra and is issued the uniform of a general. The costume returns him to memories of command…
Collection no. #60122 minZhang Shichuan
22 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A fruit seller falls for the daughter of the doctor across the street. Her father wants a son-in-law who can help his struggling practice, so the…
Collection no. #60561 minXie Yunqing
61 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
After losing his job, a Shanghai husband discovers that his wife has become involved with a wealthy student. Relatives and lawyers turn a strained…
Collection no. #60688 minBu Wancang
88 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Childhood friendship grows into love between a landowner’s son and the daughter of a herder. His mother refuses to accept a match across the class…
Collection no. #607114 minBu Wancang
114 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Two young officers enter a general’s service, where friendship and romance quickly become entangled. One man’s attraction to the general’s daughter…
Collection no. #60895 minSun Yu
95 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
After a warlord’s relative destroys his family, a young man escapes to a tropical settlement of Chinese workers. A dancer offers him the possibility…
Collection no. #60983 minCai Chusheng
83 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A writer and a schoolteacher find their marriage worn down by debt and frustration. He seeks escape in Shanghai nightlife and a new relationship,…
Collection no. #61080 minSun Yu
80 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A painter brings an independent village girl to Shanghai, where her behaviour clashes with his wealthy family’s expectations. Choosing each other…
Collection no. #61197 minSun Yu
97 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
Two young people leave the countryside hoping to build a life in Shanghai. Factory work and city streets expose them to exploitation rather than the…
Collection no. #619118 minMa-Xu Weibang
118 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A theatre troupe encounters a mysterious voice in an old building. Behind the apparent haunting is a singer whose career and appearance were…
Collection no. #62089 minYuan Muzhi
89 min · Subtitles embedded in the picture · English
A singer and a young musician find affection among the crowded rooms and precarious jobs of Shanghai. Their neighbours form an improvised community,…