Turn-of-the-century love story centered around a young doctor and the emergence of modern science.
A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.
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 classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
An Alternative reality, non canon to the original franchise
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.
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan.
Stephen Poliakoff's parody of the spy-thriller genre. A Russian diplomat becomes convinced that he is at the centre of a Foreign Office plot.
Children's Souls Accuse You is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Curtis Bernhardt and starring Albert Steinrück, Nathalie Lissenko and Walter Rilla. It was made with an anti-abortion theme.
Ofoma suffers relentless and brutal abuse from his stepfather, Ehis. Ofoma’s mother, Endurance, endures her son’s suffering in silence, unable to confront her husband. Despite the abuse, Ofoma has an unwavering love for baseball. This passion leads to trouble when Ehis wrongly accuses him of stealing money to watch baseball games.
An Englishman, is travelling to Australia on a ship. He is falsely accused of murdering the ship's captain and arrested.
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.
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.
Shipped off to a Romanian orphanage to finish his sentence, a British criminal finds romance but also discovers corruption inside the facility.
Aspects of a London day, including prostitutes on street corners, a striptease show and the 2i's Coffee Bar.
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.