Topic: Silent Film

Direction Abel Gance

Cast Albert Dieudonné · Gina Manès · Edmond Van Daële · Antonin Artaud

Synopsis A biopic of Napoleon which spans approximately 16 years. It covers Napoleon's childhood, his first strategic victory (a schoolyard snowball fight), his rise through the ranks after the Revolution and his marriage to Josephine, and culminates in the Italian campaign...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Max Schreck · Alexander Granach · Gustav von Wangenheim · Greta Schröeder

Synopsis In Nosferatu (1922), a young real estate agent, Hutter, is sent to Transylvania to finalize a property deal with the enigmatic Count Orlok. Upon arrival, he discovers the Count is a sinister, vampiric figure. Orlok becomes obsessed with Hutter's wife,...

Direction Guy Sherwin

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Tatsuo Saito · Mitsuko Yoshikawa · Hideo Sugawara · Takeshi Sakamoto

Synopsis In the 30s, a low middle-class family composed of the father (Tatsuo Saito), the mother (Mitsuko Yoshikawa) and two little sons (Hideo Sugawara and Tomio Aoki) has just moved to a suburb of Tokyo. The two brothers have some sort...

Direction Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Marceline Day · Harry Gribbon · Harold Goodwin

Synopsis Luke Shannon (Buster Keaton), is a bumbling photographer who, in order to win the favor of a beautiful woman, takes a job as a newsreel cameraman. Hilarity ensues as he stumbles through a parade, a Chinese Tong war, a yacht...

Direction King Vidor

Cast John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Hobart Bosworth · Claire McDowell

Synopsis The film follows, three men Bull, Slim and Jim (Gilbert). Jim is a rich man's son who has never had a days work in his life. When WWI one breaks out and all his friends become enlisted and preasure from...

Direction Victor Sjöström

Cast Victor Sjöström · Hilda Borgström · Tore Svennberg · Astrid Holm

Synopsis It's New Year's Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, the one...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Alfred Abel · Aud Egede Nissen · Bernhard Goetzke

Synopsis Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

Direction D.W. Griffith

Cast Lillian Gish · Mae Marsh · Robert Harron · Constance Talmadge

Synopsis 'Intolerance' tells four tales, all widely separated in time, yet each loosely connected to the others by the title's theme: 'The Babylonian Story', 'The Christ Story', 'The Huguenot Story', and 'The Modern Story'.

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Lil Dagover · Walter Janssen · Bernhard Goetzke · Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Synopsis As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells...

Direction Sergei M. Eisenstein · Grigori Aleksandrov

Cast Vassilli Nikandrov · Boris Livanov · Eduard Tissé · Nikolai Podvoisky

Synopsis October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927) is a silent historical drama directed by Sergei Eisenstein, chronicling the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in Russia. The film vividly portrays the upheaval in Petrograd, from the overthrow of the Provisional Government to...

Direction Buster Keaton · John G. Blystone

Cast Buster Keaton · Joe Roberts · Ralph Bushman · Craig Ward

Synopsis In this silent movie, a man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

Direction Buster Keaton · Charles Reisner

Cast Buster Keaton · Tom McGuire · Ernest Torrence · Tom Lewis

Synopsis It is the story of a college-educated young man who comes home to help his father work on his Mississippi River steamboat and immediately demonstrates just what a landlubber he is. What's worse, the woman he falls for is the...

Direction Fritz Lang

Cast Margarete Schön · Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Georg John · Theodor Loos

Synopsis After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of...

Direction F.W. Murnau

Cast Matahi · Anne Chevalier · Bill Bambridge · Hitu

Synopsis In one island of Bora Bora lagoon, a young fisherman, Matahi, is in love with Reri. But she is chosen to be the holy maid and therefore becomes "tabu". They ran away from that tradition. Will they be happier and...

Direction Jacques Meny

Cast Madeleine Malthête-Méliès · Philippe Duval

Direction Donald Crisp · Buster Keaton

Cast Buster Keaton · Kathryn McGuire · Frederick Vroom · Noble Johnson

Synopsis This is the tale of a wealthy couple who find themselves cast adrift in an empty cruise liner. By themselves and away from their posh lifestyle, they have to cope with unending perils.

Direction Frank Borzage

Cast Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Gladys Brockwell · David Butler

Synopsis Chico (Charles Farrell) is a street cleaner who works in Paris. Diane (Janet Gaynor) is an unlucky woman who is abused by her elder sister. One day, Chico saves her from the beating of her sister and takes her to...

Direction Josef von Sternberg

Cast Emil Jannings · Evelyn Brent · William Powell · Jack Raymond

Synopsis A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial Russia. An old adversary, now a successful director hires the general to re-enact the revolution which deposed him.

Direction Thierry Fremaux

Cast Thierry Fremaux · Auguste Lumière · Louis Lumière · Martin Scorsese

Synopsis A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.