Koji grew up with a brother complex, constantly being compared to his successful older brother. The only place he could find solace was the bar called "Arles". One night Koji is provoked by Soma, a regular at Arles who smells similar to his brother. He is then sexually assaulted by Endo, one of Soma's henchmen. Koji somehow manages to escape. He finds Soma's home and swears to take his own type of revenge, making persistent silent phone calls. As the confident Soma becomes confused on the other end of the phone, Koji begins to get a type of enjoyment from the phone calls.
Boulevardier Sir Nicholas Thormonde (Lew Cody) has to choose between his mistress Suzette (Renée Adorée) and his virtuous secretary Alathea (Harriet Hammond) in wartime Paris.
A straight graduate student goes to the masturbation camp in the mountains held by the "gay masturbation charisma", where all sorts of masturbation techniques are tried out by participants. One day, the student is raped by a gay guy at the camp, and he starts to question his belief in masturbation.
A young woman becomes rich after striking oil on her property, summarily leaving her home, past, and fiancée for a more flavorful life in Hollywood.
A group of unruly bikers come across a stolen loot of jewelry after a robber squanders a heist. A wild shootout ensues.
After his beloved daughter leaves for the city to pay off his debt, an old farmer goes mad when her letters become less frequent and it is suspected she may be using her body to get the money.
Pola Negri plays a dual supporting role as a nun and a cabaret dancer in this film.
A german film released in 1917 starring Pola Negri.
German silent film starring Pola Negri.
Once a lot of grown-up girls organized a club for the discussion of current evils. The principal current evil they discussed was man. The object was to find some way to keep them home at nights. One dame thought every wife ought to provide her companion with an intellectual atmosphere so he wouldn't sneak out at night to the thirst parlor.
Twin brothers are serving in the French army during the Great War. Jacques, a private, leads his brother's company to attack when Honoré, a lieutenant, panics and flees. Jacques, dressed in Honoré's coat, wins a vital victory, but he is mistaken for Honoré and decorated for gallantry in his brother's name. Jacques assumes Honoré's identity and goes to Paris where he meets Honoré. Honoré, after a serious disagreement, plots to have Jacques murdered but is himself killed by mistake. Jacques finds happiness with Moira, Honoré's wife from a loveless war marriage of convenience. 'Honor First' was the first film Adorée and John Gilbert made together.
James Wadsworth sets his sights on the lovely society girl Anna Dalton and determines to marry her. To achieve that goal, he follows her everywhere she goes, including on a ship to South America. He comes up with a plan to make her love him--he throws her overboard, follows her over the side and swims with her to a deserted island. His somewhat unorthodox method works and he wins over Anna, but problems arise when Richard Towne, Anna's fiancé who has been searching for her, finds the island and discovers the two.
Takachi, a young porno star from a small town in Japan is found dead. His death provides the opportunity to show us his true emotions, and how his two best friends in Tokyo remember him. These two travel back to Takachi's town, Kochi, which Takachi himself had visited just prior to dying. In Kochi, all boys seem to be angels.
Hyoto is a Japanese karate champion. His own career, the dojo he ran, and his students were doing well, and he was at the peak of his abilities. Hyodo's only complaint was his relationship with his wife, which had become completely cold. One day, Hyoto drunkenly bursts into a store, falls in love with the beauty of the woman there. He takes her to a hotel, discovering that she is trans. Hyōto fled the scene in a panic, but after that day, his sexual preference, which had only been interested in women, began to crumble. His student Haruhiko notices this change in Hyōto and confesses that he actually loves his teacher. He would have scoffed at the previous Hyoto, but the current Hyoto was different. He accepted Haruhiko's love, and he actively stepped into a new world of sexual pleasure...
'The Yellow Pass' An early version of Der Gelbe Schein (The Yellow Ticket).
Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).
A lost film starring Pola Negri
A lost silent drama film directed by Raoul Walsh and starring Renée Adorée, Carlo Liten, Harrison Hunter, Beatrice Noyes, Florence Malone, and Jean Gauthier DeTrigny. It is based on the 1919 French novel Les Plus Fort by Georges Clemenceau.
Hayato, an office worker, lives with Tatsuya, a part-time worker. The two have a dream: to save up their money and one day run a gay bar. The day they had sex while talking about their dreams before going to work, Hayato felt depressed. His boss had suggested that he set up an arranged meeting. He couldn't tell Tatsuya. One day, Tatsuya's old lover Fujita bursts into his room. It turned out that he had become a transsexual...
Koichi, a university student, begins boxing to fight against his dormitory supervisor, who forces his fellow dormitory members to perform sadistic sexual acts every night. Then Hideki, a boxer who is seen as a promising future student, joins the dormitory. As they strengthen their bond in order to overthrow the dormitory leader, love begins to bloom between them, but...