"1931"
A young couple, soon to wed, begin building their dreamhouse, but their interfering relatives cause no end of trouble. Comedy.
A semi-fictionalized account of the life of Mata Hari, an exotic dancer who was accused of spying for Germany during World War I.
While on safari in an unexplored area of Africa, Trader Horn and Peru find missionary Edith Trent killed by natives. They decide to carry on her quest for her lost…
Party Husband finds ex-Ziegfield Girl Dorothy playing the better half of a thoroughly “modern marriage” whose openness threatens to bring about its premature end. Fellow Ziegfield alum Mary Doran plays…
A social climber charms a debutante, seduces a factory worker and commits murder.
This is a non-narrative film, comprised of shots that “portray a certain young man in the terms of the things that he likes”, such as the flow of the tide…
Evergreen comedy about a typical parvenu, an ignorant transportation entrepreneur who has suddenly found himself very rich. Despite their humble origins, his wife strives to live a sophisticated lifestyle. When…
In London at the turn of the century, underworld kingpin Mack the Knife marries Polly Peachum without the knowledge of her father, the equally enterprising ‘king of the beggars’.
A virtuous and innocent young woman uneasily gives in to the lavish attentions of a “sugar daddy” but then finds true love with a newspaperman her own age. But when…
In World War I London, Myra is an American out-of-work chorus girl making ends meet by picking up men on Waterloo Bridge. During a Zeppelin air raid she meets Roy,…
Crickle is a tenacious small-town grocer who stubbornly resists the efforts of a monopolistic chain-store firm to purchase his establishment. The chain manager retaliates by cutting off Crickles’ supply of…
A love story set to a baroque score, HARLEQUIN is a delicate black-and-white ballet rendered through exquisitely detailed silhouettes.
A mobster’s daughter leads her boyfriend from the circus into bootlegging.
Arrival in the Bronx is shown with a view from an elevated train as it enters the city. Then follows a montage of sights from the Bronx. Many typical neighborhood…
An idealistic young man is torn between a sultry Chicago nightclub owner and a Scottish South Dakotan farmgirl.
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing…
John is a timid student who works at the University Book Store. He is studying to be a botanist and has a secret crush on the lovely Julia. One day,…
Two brothers’ trip to the big city to do a little gambling results in a fateful turn of events.
Skippy, the mischievous son of a wealthy doctor, meets Sooky in poverty-ridden Shantytown, and together they try to save Sooky’s pet from a cruel dogcatcher.
A sensitive girl is sent to an all-girls boarding school and develops a romantic attachment to one of her teachers.
Franz Biberkopf has served four years in prison. His return to normal life is not successful.
Set in a drugstore the boys take on to save a nice old lady from the clutches of the local charming crook.
A poetic industrial short that follows a radio from molten glass to finished set: glassblowers shape valves, conveyors and assembly lines build chassis, cabinets, and speakers, engineers test and prototype—ending…
Ivy Stevens is a cafe entertainer in love with a shifty salesman who deserts her. In attempting to commit suicide, she is saved by Carl, a Salvation Army officer. Encouraged…
A young opera singer finds her career stalled because of her cold and passionless performances, until she finds romance with a handsome admirer.
A young American girl visits Paris accompanied by her fiancee and her wealthy uncle. There she meets and is romanced by a worldly novelist; what she doesn’t know is that…
Early Japanese anime. A stop-motion papercraft animation set to a song sung by Kikoku Inoue
Classes clash when a poor riveter and wealthy society woman fall in love with each other, much to the shock of her friends and family.
George registers at the Jefferson Hotel; after the desk clerk gives him the runaround, he meets Gracie at the cigar counter.
Elsa Carlyle is impulsive and a gambler. Though loved by her husband Jeff, she’s spoiled and selfish, concerned with social standing. Meanwhile, Jeff wants to stop spending while he completes…
After young Robert Graham commits a murder while drunk and defending his girlfriend, he is prosecuted by ambitious Mark Brady and sentenced to 10 years. Six years later, Brady becomes…
An amorous lieutenant is forced to marry a socially awkward princess, though he tries to keep his violin-playing girlfriend on the side.
Lora Hart manages to land a job in a hospital as a trainee nurse. Upon completion of her training she goes to work as a night nurse for two small…
Down and out Stan and Ollie beg for food from a friendly old lady who provides them with sandwiches. While eating, they overhear the lady’s landlord tell her he’s going…
The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents’ notoriety.
A crippled puppeteer rescues an abused young boy and turns the boy into a great ballet dancer. Complications ensue when, as a young man, the dancer falls in love with…
At midnight on Walpurgis Night, an English clerk, Renfield, arrives at Count Dracula’s castle in the Carpathian Mountains. After signing papers to take over a ruined abbey near London, Dracula…
The Hardys wish to have a quiet evening in their apartment, but are interrupted when the Laurels pay a visit. Stan and Ollie go out for ice cream, and manage…
Dorothy, and her big city lawyer boyfriend, return to the Lazy ‘B’ ranch to read her late father’s will. For Dorothy to inherit everything, she must stay on the ranch…
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Amanda and Elyot are one another’s former spouse. Elyot is remarried to Sibyl and Amanda married Victor. Unexpectedly, both honeymooning couples arrive at a hotel on the same day and…
A district attorney commits the perfect murder when he kills his daughter’s womanizing fiancé and then tries framing the fiancé’s lover.
A lovely dame with dangerous lies employs the services of a private detective, who is quickly caught up in the mystery and intrigue of a statuette known as the Maltese…
An eclectic group of people are stalked by a masked killer in an old mansion.
A sailor falls in love with the admiral’s daughter but finds they can’t marry because of his lowly rank.
Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants’ camp, and clash over which is to be “father.” They are still bitterly feuding years later…
Adrift in the vast expanse of the ocean, a solitary boat carries three castaways—a man and two women. Stranded and devoid of any glimmer of rescue, they find solace in…
A man and woman, skeptical about romance, nonetheless fall in love and are wed, but their lack of confidence in the opposite sex haunts their marriage.
An Austrian soldier must choose between a wealthy fiancee and a new girl who takes his fancy.
A medical researcher is sent to a plague outbreak, where he has to decide priorities for the use of a vaccine.
A short musical comedic romance starring Bing Crosby as … Bing Crosby. This 2 reel short was directed by Mack Sennett.
Musical comedy antics in an art deco bakery (motto: “Glorifying the American Doughnut”) where Eddie Cantor, the overworked assistant to a phony psychic, is mistaken for an efficiency expert and…
Dr. Henry Jekyll believes that there are two distinct sides to men – a good and an evil side. He believes that by separating the two, man can become liberated….
Ollie is running for mayor when an old flame tries to blackmail him with a old photo.
A young woman jeopardizes the relationship with the man she loves when a no-account from her past shows up.
A West Point graduate jilts his girlfriend but runs into her later at an Army outpost.
A mysterious phantom who calls himself The Reckoner vows to expose the crooked bankers who embezzled their company’s funds.
Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won’t marry him without consulting famed psychic Tarneverro first. Enter inspector Charlie Chan of the…
Short silent documentary from 1931 about those working on the River Douro in Oporto.
To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of…