Paul Wegener, Albert Steinruck, Ernst Duetsch. Based on the Jewish folk legend that influenced the American film Frankenstein, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior out of clay to protect his... more
Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Phol. This space adventure is a brilliant sci-fi follow-up to Fritz Lang's Metropolis. Using cutting-edge astrophysics for 1929, this film about a band of explorers... more
One hundred-forty seminal silent shorts produced by Thomas Edison's self-named movie studio between 1891-1918, restored and with new musical scores, are featured in this four-disc collection. Trace... more
Mark Rylance, Kerry Fox, Timothy Spall. A desperately lonely barman and a woman meet for sex every Wednesday. Things spiral out of control when he follows her home one night and discovers she is... more
A haunting exploration of love, loss and grief, director François Ozon's acclaimed drama features Charlotte Rampling as English-born teacher Marie Drillon, whose French husband vanishes while... more
Priscilla Dean, Lon Chaney, Wheeler Oakman. When her father is framed for murder, a tough-as-nails jewel thief partners with a safecracker to plot their own double-cross against the man who set him... more
Paul Roberson, Spencer Williams, Laurence Criner, Herb Jeffries. Witness the birth of African-American cinema with a dozen feature-length movies spanning the silent era into the 1940s, as well as... more
Simone Signoret, Samy Ben Youb. Academy Award® Winner for Best Foreign Film, Madame Rosa follows the life of a French Jewish woman who survived the Holocaust and now resides in Paris. She ruffles... more
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Armin Muller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe. A soldier-turned-officer in turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia finds his long and respected career threatened by scandal. In Hungarian... more
Buster Keaton, Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Eddie Cline. From heralded classics to little-known gems, this collection of Keaton's laugh-out-loud funny work in short comedies covers a career that changed... more
Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton. This epic underwater adventure based on the novel by Jules Verne features landmark special effects, including a terrifying battle with a giant octopus.... more
Twins Dóra and Lili were orphaned match girls on the streets of 1880s Budapest when they were separated by fate. On New Year's Eve 1900, courtesan/grifter Dóra (Dorota Segda) and political radical... more
Jeanne Moreau, Gerard Philipe. Set in chic 1950s Paris with a classic jazz score by Thelonious Monk, this tale of love, sex and betrayal is tres French. A scandalous married couple help one another... more
Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen. An engineer and his best friend fight over the love and companionship of a beautiful dancer. Silent with musical score. Directed by Arnold Fanck.... more
Bette Davis, Leslie Howard. A well-known doctor's affair with an ill-mannered waitress gets him into trouble. Davis made her first big splash in Hollywood in this terrific production of the W.... more
Director Walerian Borowczyk's final feature is an erotic thriller centering on fashion buyer Hugo (Mathieu Carrière), who becomes enamored with a beautiful prostitute (Marina Pierro) he meets in the... more
Widowed Lyons watchmaker Michel Descombes (Philippe Noiret) had made a respected and quiet life for himself and his teenage son Bernard (Sylvain Rougerie). It would stunningly unwind when Bernard was... more
Dorothy Dandridge, Curt Jurgens, Jean Servais. This bold and daring drama is set in 1815 aboard an illegal slave ship, whose brutal captain sparks a revolt among his prisoners led by Tamango. The... more
Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton. One of Buster's best! Keaton stars as Willy McKay, who falls in love with a woman when he returns to his southern home to claim the family fortune. But... more
In 18th-century France, scandalous family circumstances forced young Suzanne Simonin (Anna Karina) into unhappily entering the life of a nun. Her misery with the spartan existence didn't go unnoticed... more
The final film of Henri-Georges Clouzot's (Diabolique, The Wages of Fear) brilliant career, La Prisonnière (1968) is a sensuously colorful film of voyeuristic sexual obsession. It maps a love... more
In the first era of wild cinema invention, women filmmakers contributed invaluable innovation to the world of movies. From Alice Guy-Blaché's formal contributions to Mabel Normand's mastery over... more
Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry. Meet the terrifying masked phantom who lurks inside the Paris Opera House in this first film version of the timeless legend. Silent. 2 DVDs or 2 Blu-ray Discs.... more