Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Minoru Takada, Kinuyo Tanaka, Utako Suzuki
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed.
Director: Paul Czinner
Stars: Elisabeth Bergner, Albert Bassermann, Albert Steinrück
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
Director: Man Ray
Stars: Georges Auric, Jacques-André Boiffard, Le Comte de Beaumont
Genre: Documentary, Short
Country: France
Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice. A castle is perched on a hilltop. Below it, a posh, modern villa. Meanwhile, far from Paris, two men with masked faces play dice in a bar. They decide to drive to Paris. Country roads, hills, fences. The posh “chateau” appears again: meticulous garden, fancy interior, odd sculptures. And at home? “No one, NO ONE.” For the next two days, masked figures play dice, frolic by the pool, perform exercises with a ball. Two new figures arrive. Masked. They search and find the dice. They dance. Mannequin hands hold a pair of dice.
Director: Kenji Mizoguchi
Stars: Shizue Natsukawa, Takako Irie, Isamu Kosugi
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi’s typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of the title song, “Tokyo March.”
Director: Robert Z. Leonard
Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
Director: Jean Grémillon
Stars: Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany;the young man is ill.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
Director: William Nigh
Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water.
Director: George Schnéevoigt
Stars: Mona Mårtenson, Tryggve Larssen, Harald Schwenzen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Lawrence Gray
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Casey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final act, Casey again comes out and this time the president sees her act and fires both her and Babe on the spot. Benny is able to book Casey, Babe and Dean into Vaudeville and their act is popular. But before they have their shot at stardom, Dean and Babe leave Casey and the act.
Director: William Wyler
Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
When three men rob a bank, a guard is killed and the three bandits escape into the desert where they lose their horses in a storm. Finding a woman who gives birth, they are made godfathers only to learn that the baby’s father was the man they killed in the holdup. When the woman dies they head back, but they have little water and it is 40 miles.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr.
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
Director: Wesley Ruggles
Stars: Betty Compson, John Harron, Jack Oakie
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Conrad Nagel, Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia’s wealth is in jeopardy because her trust fund will expire if she is not married by a certain date. To satisfy that condition, Cynthia arranges to marry Hagon Derk, who is condemned to die for a crime he didn’t commit. She pays him so he can provide for his little sister. But at the last minute, Derk is freed when the true criminal is discovered. Expecting to be a rich widow, Cynthia finds herself married to a man she doesn’t know and doesn’t want to.
Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim’s former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
Director: Gustav Machatý
Stars: Karel Schleichert, Ita Rina, Olaf Fjord
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life.
Director: Luther Reed
Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler
Genre: Adventure, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
Director: Anthony Asquith
Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK | Sweden
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
Director: John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland
Stars: Hal Skelly, Nancy Carroll, Dorothy Revier
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
A vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren’t having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts and in order to save money on the road, they get married.
Director: William A. Seiter
Stars: Colleen Moore, Neil Hamilton, Bodil Rosing
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.
Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors.
Director: Fridrikh Ermler
Stars: Emil Gal, Sergey Gerasimov, Yakov Gudkin
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son – an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France.
Director: Arnold Fanck, G.W. Pabst
Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Germany
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Director: Edmund Goulding
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
The trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband.
Director: Joe May
Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Joe May’s sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Jacques Feyder
Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Soviet Union
A soldier returns to Kiev after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: UK
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder.
Director: Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Stars: Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Isle Of Man
A fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl.
Director: Yasujirô Ozu
Stars: Ichirô Yûki, Tatsuo Saitô, Junko Matsui
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Two friends try and court the same woman.
Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls’ reform school.
Director: Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
An unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn’t realize is that he is being used to make the actress’ old flame jealous.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood
Genre: Crime, Film Noir, Thriller
Country: UK
After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.