The Traitress

This partially-extant silent film focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the early twentieth century. Wang Guisheng (played by Wang Yuanlong) is an orphan who grew up at his uncle's, working as a farmhand. Since childhood, he has been close with his female cousin, Li Ah Zhen (played by Li Minghui), and they expect to marry. But when her mother dies of illness and overwork, Ah Zhen's father re-marries, and the evil stepmother connives to marry Ah Zhen off to the stepmother's nephew. Then a government representative comes to the village recruiting peasants to establish a new settlement on the borderlands, she persuades the despondent Guisheng to sign up. Guisheng leaves his love behind, only to find hardship on the frontier. Ah Zhen, who has fallen ill, is set upon by her groom on her wedding night...BUT the next morning his stabbed corpse is found in the bridal chamber and a body in a bridal gown is found down a well. WHAT HAS HAPPENED?!?!?!?!!

As the only survivor of a battle, a cavalryman heroically defends his flag.

Britain's first drama (i.e. non documentary) film.

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

The central figure is an old miser, a Harpagon of sorts, who, like Frosine, stashes his ill-gotten money in a secret cellar. While the miser is at the bank, exchanging stolen notes for gold coin, a couple of thugs witness the transaction and see their opportunity-- It seems avarice grips the hearts of all those who'd possess the bag.

Dramatization of the real-life shooting of Stanford White by Harry K. Thaw.

After a harsh argument between her and her father, a young girl with artistic talent leaves home for a new life.

A mother confronts Death as to why he has to take her young boy. And he shows her the future to explain why he need to be eliminated.

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.

The Moon Beauty

Considered to be the first full-length Argentinian fictional film, based on the novel by the same written by José Mármol which is the first Argentinian fictional novel.

Marianna advertises for work as a reader and is employed by the reclusive millionaire Dymov. Appreciative of her sensitive, artistic nature, and of her youthful innocence and purity, Dymov is protective of Marianna and shields her from the attentions of his philandering playboy son. Marianna confesses to her fiancé Sergei that, at times, she feels deeply conflicted, drawn by the seductive lure of wealth and luxury. When her protector Dymov dies, his son begins to pursue her. Can Marianna resist her attraction to the opulent lifestyle that Dymov's son offers?

After the death of her love, Theodorah, Robin courageously descends to the underworld to try to free her. Will she be able to defeat The Tricksters and rescue her love? Taking inspiration from classic 1920s/30s Hollywood silent films, Robin’s Grave is a tale as old as time—a queer twist on the classic Orpheus and Eurydice, where a woman must travel to the Underworld to rescue her deceased love.

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

A doctor, specialist in pediatrics, has no time for his wife Marthe. She seeks solace in the arms of his brother. Unable to keep up the charade, Marthe attempts to shoot herself, but it is her lover who is mortally wounded.

At a military demonstration Red Imps: Misha, Duniasha and Tom Jackson bring a captured enemy, dangerous Makhno.

In 1927 Olive Borden starred in Fox drama The Monkey Talks directed by Raoul Walsh. She played a circus performer who meets a man pretending to be a talking monkey.

Carlos, a young man from a good family, falls prey to the drugs offered by drug dealer El Bruite. In despair, his fiancée Laura tries to help him fight his addiction. At the same time, bandits are robbing and kidnapping the region's wealthy.

The picture tells the story of Maria, a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Maria can spend her time doing terrific things like going shopping. During one of these consumer afternoons, Maria meets by chance an old friend, Lidia, who will introduce her to exclusive idle class social circles. Soon Maria's beauty attracts the interest of Lebedev, a rich old libertine. From that point on Maria suffers continual sexual harassment which she resists for a time. In the end, however, she falls into his bourgeois claws.

A film of a dreary, empty campus and all that comes with it.