A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
It is the year 1915, and five Finnish men ski to Sweden via the Gulf of Bothnia to get military training in Germany. Among the men are Martti and Kalpa from the 27th Army Ranger Battalion. In the reserve, the troops spend their free time in a café called the Golden Anchor, owned by Sonja Strand. Sonja's captain serves in the Russian army, and Sonja has a relationship with Baron von Lichtenstein, who exploits Sonja who spies on Russia using Jew Isaac as her messenger.
The Woman Who Invented Love
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
In this sound-era silent film, a tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower seller.
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.
Directed by Alexandre Volkoff, 1924
A hairdresser wins the lottery and decides to spoil herself by spending Easter at a mountain resort where she meets new people.
Varden, a poor peasant decides to find a rich fiancée but in vain. Following Galaktion, his rich neighbor’s advice, he attempts a horse theft but fails and nearly escapes death. Thanks to Jujuna, his other neighbor, he finds job at the village’s blacksmith.
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same woman on the same day at the same Underground station. But the lady chooses Bill, and Bert isn't the type to take rejection lightly...
A Spanish soldier seduces and falls in love with the young wife of a smuggler.
In this sophisticated romantic comedy, healing waters are the cover for an extramarital affair that “cures” the infertility problems of a childless couple.
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.
A sci-fi/espionage film in which world powers vie for control of a death ray during World War I as an undercover countess infiltrates enemy ranks to prevent them from getting their hands on the weapon.
Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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 experimental silent film about love and two people who never fall out of love.
Upon receiving an inheritance from her late uncle, a woman starts a fortune-telling business designed to make her dreams come true.
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.