Considerat unul dintre cele mai bune filme ale lui Charlie Chaplin, Piciul a făcut de asemenea o stea din micuțul Jackie Coogan, care joacă pe un băiat îngrijit de Vagabond când a fost abandonat de mama sa, Edna. Ulterior, Edna are o schimbare de inimă și dorește fă fie reunită cu fiul ei. Când îl găsește și îl răpește de la Vagabond , ea face pentru ceea ce se dovedește a fi una dintre cele mai inimaginabile scene incluse vreodată într-o comedie.
Într-un oraș viitoresc strâns împărțit strâns între clasa muncitoare și planificatorii orașului, fiul gânditorului orașului se îndrăgostește de o profetă a clasei muncitoare care prezice venirea unui salvator pentru a le media diferențele.
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.
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
Crucișătorul Potemkin atinge un țel la care poate ajunge numai o operă de artă desăvârșită și care e inaccesibilă unei descrieri narative sau științifice. - Lion Feuchtwanger -1989
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen's legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious-- instead it's a witches' brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
Tampering with life and death, Henry Frankenstein pieces together salvaged body parts to bring a human monster to life; the mad scientist's dreams are shattered by his creation's violent rage as the monster awakens to a world in which he is unwelcome.
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
A few decades after the destruction of the Inca Empire, a Spanish expedition led by the infamous Aguirre leaves the mountains of Peru and goes down the Amazon River in search of the lost city of El Dorado. When great difficulties arise, Aguirre’s men start to wonder whether their quest will lead them to prosperity or certain death.
Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
Agentul imobiliar britanic Renfield călătorește în Transilvania pentru a se întâlni cu misteriosul Conte Dracula, care este interesat să închirieze un castel în Londra și este, fără să știe Renfield, un vampir. După ce Dracula îl înrobește pe Renfield și îl împinge la nebunie, cei doi navighează împreună spre Londra și, pe măsură ce Dracula începe să-i ucidă pe oameni din lume, cei doi devin subiectul de studiu al unui profesor supranaturalist, Abraham Van Helsing.
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
Comedy about the flawed Italian healthcare system of the time and a doctor's expeirence with it.
Un agent francez de informații devine implicat în politica Războiului Rece mai întâi descoperind evenimentele care au condus la criza rachetelor cubaneze din 1962 și apoi înapoi în Franța pentru a sparge un inel de spionat rus internațional.