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
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
Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan. This "100% All Talking" musical from the dawn of talking pictures follows the rise of a young working girl who dreams of starring in the Ziegfeld Follies. This... more
Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman. This colossal adaptation of the classic tale of a deal with the devil presents the struggling Dr. Faustus and the fiend Mephisto in the operatic glory that befits them. Is... more
Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, FriedrichFeher. This landmark German Expressionist film tells a nightmarish tale about a magician who hypnotizes victims to carry out his evil schemes. Directed by Robert... more
Louise Brooks, Joseph Rovensky. An unplanned pregnancy sends a young woman's life into a tailspin. She begins an arduous struggle to rise above social disapproval and vows to promote respect for all... 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
Olaf Fönss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt. An Indian maharajah plots revenge against his beautiful wife and the British officer who stole her love. One of the greatest epics ever filmed, this lavish... more
Handsome wastrel Edmund Lamont (Lew Cody) had his eyes on the Wilton family wealth as a means to stave off the angry creditors. Will he seduce matronly mother Mabel (Pauline Frederick), or gullible... more
Erich Von Stroheim gives a mesmerizing performance in the title role of this early talkie musical melodrama, portraying an unbalanced ventriloquist who's incapable of any meaningful expression unless... 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
Director Tod Browning, actress Priscilla Dean and actor Matt Moore united for this duo of early era crime movies that illustrated the psyche of people working together outside the law. Silent with... 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
Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel. The criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse stands as the archetype for all following cinema supervillains. In this crime epic, Mabuse lies, cheats, gambles,... more
For his second feature, Jean Renoir mounted an ambitious and lavish adaptation of the Émile Zola novel, with Catherine Hessling in the title role as the common-born and calculating actress who charms... more
Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, George K. Arthur, Frank Currier. Davies plays separated twins in this class-conscious drama, where one twin becomes a high-society gal of NYC and the other a poor busking... more
Innovative avant garde silent film by Dziga Vertov that uses the camera lens as the audience's "eye," embarking on a bizarre chronicle of a typical day in the Soviet Union and filled with trick... more
Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Leo White, Lila Lee. Spain's most celebrated matador meets his match in the alluring and aristocratic Donna Sol. Newly remastered, this classic silent film helped... more
Unseen for decades, this gorgeously restored version of James M. Barrie's play tells of the boy who never grew up and his adventures with Wendy, her brothers, and a fairy named Tinkerbell in Never... more
Buster Keaton. Keaton is a riot fighting the Yankees, saving his train and winning the love of a pretty girl in one of the greatest silent movies eve made in 1926, The General. The Three Ages (1923)... more
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch. An agent comes after a bank president who's really the head of an international espionage ring in this exciting spy thriller from Fritz Lang. Silent.... more
Legendary Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer presents this landmark silent film exploration of homosexuality. As aging artist Claude pursues his protégé Michael, the pair works on creating a... more
Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch ("Ninotchka") turns his perceptive cinematic eye towards the military for this wildly satirical comedy from Germany. A lieutenant en route to his new outpost is... more
Left alone and poor after her father dies and her uncle spends all of her money on liquor, a young girl (Catherine Hessling) is taken in by a kindly Bohemian family, and begins to win the heart of... more