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Der amerikanische Kurzfilm aus dem Jahr 1913 erzählt die Geschichte einer Mutter und ihres Babys, die von einem armen Wanderer in ihrem Haus bedroht werden. Während der Fremde um das Haus schleicht, ruft die Frau per Telefon ihren Ehemann zur Hilfe. Dieser macht sich mit einem gestohlenen Auto sofort auf den Weg, um die noch junge Familie zu retten. Der Eindringling nähert sich mit einem Messer langsam dem Zimmer im Obergeschoss, in dem sich seine Ehefrau und Tochter aufhalten. Der Ehemann wird jedoch bald von dem Besitzer des gestohlenen Wagens und der Polizei verfolgt und somit an der Rettungstat gehindert. Ein Wettlauf gegen die Zeit beginnt.
Prag, Böhmen, 1820. Balduin, ein mittelloser Student, verliebt sich in die Comtesse Margit, eine wohlhabende Adelige, die er vor dem Ertrinken rettet.
After Ingeborg Holm's husband becomes sick and dies, the family's small grocery store fails, Ingeborg becomes bankrupt, and she is forced to move to the workhouse. Her three children go to foster homes. Ingeborg simply must see them again.
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
Two business partners pursue the same woman. She accepts the marriage proposal of the irresponsible partner, much to her later regret. He squanders money on gambling, as his interest in her gradually wanes. One day after losing the company money in a card game, he decides to commit suicide. He telephones his wife from the office, as he puts a revolver near his head. The wife tries to keep him talking while the reliable business partner races to the office in an attempt to save his old friend. Will he make it in time?
Salley (Mae Marsh) und ihre kleine Schwester werden zu ihren drei Onkeln im Westen geschickt, was eine Kette von Ereignissen auslöst, die zu einem Indianerangriff auf die Stadt führt.
Vera is born into a family of considerable wealth, but she is rather bored and tired of this luxurious but all-too-safe and secluded life. One day Vera’s mother invites her to go with her to help the poor. She is so moved by helping the poor that she decides to devote her life to their cause. One of the people she helps, a man named Maxim, is enchanted by her beauty. He writes Vera a letter, asking her to come back to help with his worsening medical condition which is a complete lie. She goes by herself to his apartment, where he rapes her. While he is sleeping, Vera escapes his grasp, and then she bludgeons him to death. One year later she is introduced to Prince Dol’skii. He shows off his excellent marksmanship skills, and she is soon smitten with him. They get married and Vera decides that she must tell him the truth about what happened to her.
A Father Christmas ornament climbs down from a decorated tree, and goes to the forest. There he creates and decorates a Christmas tree for the forest creatures. He then invites all the insects, along with a friendly frog, to come and enjoy the gifts he has prepared, and to celebrate Christmas.
A young farm maid overhears two cow-hands talking in the barn, and she becomes convinced they’re about to rob her. She barricades herself in a room and calls the police. Her call wakes the chief, who rallies the country justice constabulary and they set off toward the farm, in steam-car and on foot. Meanwhile, the maiden’s parents rush to save her. Everything points toward a showdown in the barn, where no one, including the police force, will be cowed.
During the latter years of the reign of the tyrannical Roman emperor Nero, Marcus Vinicius, one of Nero's officers, falls in love with a young Christian hostage named Lygia. "Quo Vadis?" is a landmark in epic film-- Certainly Enrico Guazzoni’s grand-scale masterpiece laid the foundations for what colossal Italian spectacles would become. The film had tremendous influence on Giovanni Pastrone’s Cabiria (1914) and D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance (1916).
A man must marry by noon or lose his inheritance. It's 11:50 a.m. and he can't find his fiancée.
An ant works to prepare for winter while a drunken grasshopper plays his violin and dances away his time. When the snow arrives, the grasshopper pleads with the ant for shelter and is turned away to die.
A French silent saga which follows the exploits and crimes of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution. Released as a 5 part series Fantômas: In the Shadow of the Guillotine Fantômas: The Man In Black (or Juve versus Fantômas) Fantômas: The Dead Man Who Killed Fantômas: Fantômas Against Fantômas Fantômas: The False Magistrate.
A messenger boy is wrongfully accused of stealing bonds worth $20,000. Luckily, a film crew is shooting a moving picture on the same street. The boy's accuser has the police convinced, until...
A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
A married couple, suspecting one another of infidelity, decide to "live separately together.".
The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Grand Duchy of Wallenstein. Elsa Holbein is the young beautiful daughter of General Julius, the Chief of the General Staff. After a spy named Moise Sthar steals military documents, Julius is accused of betrayal. He kills himself while Elsa is forced to leave. Homeless, she begins wandering the streets until, on the Riviera, she starts her performing career under the pseudonym of Diana Cadouleur and becomes a successful actress and singer. One day, in a small church, she meets an elegant young man and she falls in love with him. But during a tour on the Lucarno Lake she runs into Sthar who, rejected by Elena, spreads rumors about Prince Massimiliano’s behavior.
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Der schwarzweiße Stummfilm basiert auf dem gleichnamigen Roman von Edward Bulwer-Lytton aus dem Jahr 1834. Die Handlung spielt in den letzten Tagen Pompejis vor dem Ausbruch des Vesuv im Jahr 79 n. Chr.
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it around town and using it to beg for money. Due to their rambunctiousness, Bout de Zan and the elephant (!) need saving from the authorities.
A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes his pursuers, and acquires a gun. He soon comes to a house where a young wife is home alone, and there is a tense confrontation.
Saturnino Farandola: Raised by monkeys, taken in by sailors, captain of a frigate. He sets off to chart unknown worlds with his loyal crew. Beneath the sea he encounters love in the person of Mysora the beautiful. On land he comes up against a mad wise man, a Machiavellian mandarin and bloodthirsty Apaches, but nothing will be able to stop his desire to explore.
When Mabel Normand romantically rejects a villain, he ties her to the railroad tracks, leaving her bashful suitor to appeal to famous racecar driver Barney Oldfield for help.
Based on Gogol's story. It is Christmas Eve, and the town witches’ son, a blacksmith, seeks an honest marriage to his love who wishes for a pair of shoes fit for the Tsarina. A mischievous devil is trapped into providing service to the smith.
When he goes to Paris an aristocrat steps into a cinema and is shocked by something he sees on screen.
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
Überwältigt von persönlichen und beruflichen Problemen beschließt der Biologe Friedrich von Kammacher, ins Ausland zu reisen, um die Freude am Leben wiederzufinden. Auf seiner abenteuerlichen Reise lernt er zwei sehr unterschiedliche Frauen kennen, von denen eine der Schlüssel zu seinem Schicksal sein wird.
The first feature-length Indian film is based on the legend of Raja Harishchandra, recounted in the Ramayana and Mahabharata. It revolves around the noble and righteous king, Harishchandra, who first sacrifices his kingdom, followed by his wife and eventually his children to honour his promise to the sage Vishwamitra. Though, in the end, pleased by his high morals, the Gods restore his former glory, and further bestow him with divine blessings.
An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.