1920s movies

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

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

Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a sophisticated woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous baron who once betrayed him.

After falling in love with a courtesan, Rikiya is blinded by ash during a fight in a brothel. Believing the blindness permanent and his opponent dead, Rikiya goes back home to his sister. Okiku, desperate to protect her brother who thinks himself a murderer, wants to sacrifice herself for him and become a prostitute to pay for Rikiya's treatment.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.

Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

A drunken gardener is challenged to a poker match by agents of the Devil; replete with location shots in Hades of the Devil giving orders to his agents on Earth.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

A study on water, the reflections and motions of the liquid that accentuates its ethereality and metallic beauty.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Nina Petrovna, the mistress of a wealthy Cossack, falls in love with a young cadet. Their happiness is short-lived.

The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.

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

A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

A series of mishaps leads to a young man being chased by a big city's entire police force.

The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.

A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.