Silent Films Watch-List

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.

Childhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.

A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.

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.

A professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals.

A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.

A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.

The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.

An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her older sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.

A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.

In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times.

A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.

An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.

Four historical tales depict the ongoing human struggle against prejudice and inhumanity.

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point, excelling at football but angering fellow cadets with arrogance until he resigns, but returns to lead the team and reunite with Betty Channing.

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.

An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.