During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner's stepdaughter.
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
A southerner in the American Civil War is about to be hanged from a bridge for sabotage when the noose suddenly breaks. After he plunges into the water below, he must find a way to free himself, evade enemy forces and flee to safety.
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
Beth, Calvin, and their son Conrad are living in the aftermath of the death of the other son. Conrad is overcome by grief and misplaced guilt to the extent of a suicide attempt. He is in therapy. Beth had always preferred his brother and is having difficulty being supportive to Conrad. Calvin is trapped between the two trying to hold the family together.
Harvey, the arrogant and spoiled son of an indulgent absentee-father, falls overboard from a transatlantic steamship and is rescued by a fishing vessel on the Grand Banks. Harvey fails to persuade them to take him ashore, nor convince the crew of his wealth. The captain offers him a low-paid job, until they return to port, as part of the crew that turns him into a mature, considerate young man.
A young idealistic doctor works at his father's clinic in a small and seedy district. During the war, he contracts syphilis from the blood of a patient when he cuts himself during an operation. Treating himself in secret and tormented by his conscience, he rejects his heartbroken fiancée without explanation.
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine's father's treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and becomes a popular idol. He falls in love with the blind Dea. The king dies, and his evil jester tries to destroy or corrupt Gwynplaine.
Oskaro apdovanojimu įvertinta legendinė komedija, kurią režisavo per savo gyvenimą net 9 „Oskarams“ nominuotas režisierius Stanley Crameris. Patyręs kino meistras su garsiais praėjusio šimtmečio aktoriais žiūrovus gerokai pavedžios už nosies. Neįtikėtinai juokingi nuotykiai prasideda, kai sukčius Groganas, atlikęs ilgą bausmę kalėjime, negailestingai spaudžia greičio pedalą ir patenka į autoavariją. Netrukus mirštantis vairuotojas atskleidžia lobio paslaptį, kurią jis saugojo 15 metų. Avarijos liudininkai nieko nelaukę pradeda ieškoti vietovės, kurią nurodė Groganas.
After being sent to a detention centre, a teenage skinhead clashes with the social workers who want to conform him to the status quo.
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
At their 25th high-school anniversary some bourgeois citizens remember their time in school as a happy one. In reality it was quite the contrary. The school was a madhouse in which the teachers, especially Blomme, tormented the students. As a result one of them became a murderer.
Ten-year-old Fiona is sent to live with her grandparents in a small fishing village in Donegal, Ireland. She soon learns the local legend that an ancestor of hers married a Selkie – a seal who can turn into a human. Years earlier, her baby brother was washed out to sea and never seen again, so when Fiona spies a naked little boy on the abandoned Isle of Roan Inish, she is compelled to investigate.
Filmo veiksmas vyksta tolimoje ateityje. Žemėje sunaikinta visa augmenija ir gyvūnija. Tik keletas jo pavyzdžių išsaugota didžiuliuose šiltnamius primenančiuose kupoluose, esančiuose kosminėje stotyje. Tarp keturių stoties mokslininkų įgulos yra botanikas ir ekologas Frimanas Lovelas, kuris rūpinasi miškų augmenija iki būsimo jos sugrįžimo į Žemę. Didžiausią savo gyvenimo dalį jis ir praleidžia šiame dirbtiniame miške augindamas įvairius augalus ir veisdamas įvairias gyvūnų rūšis. Kai iš Žemės atkeliauja įsakymas sunaikinti kupolus, Frimanas pradeda maištą. Kartu su trimis sumaniais robotais jis stengiasi žūtbūt išsaugoti žmonijai likusius gyvosios gamtos pavyzdžius. O tai nėra lengva...
A martial arts movie star must fake his death to find the people who are trying to kill him.
U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.
Arbuckle escapes the watch of his domineering wife and heads for Coney Island. Keaton arrives that same day with his attractive, and rather easy, girlfriend, who is immediately stolen from him by St. John.