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| x Le Voyage dans la Lune |
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A Trip to the Moon (French: Le Voyage dans la lune) is a 1902 French black and white silent science fiction film. It is based loosely on two popular novels of the time: From the Earth to the Moon by Jules Verne and The First Men in the Moon by H. G....
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| x The Great Train Robbery |
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The Great Train Robbery is a 1903 western film by Edwin S. Porter. Twelve minutes long, it is considered a milestone in film making, expanding on Porter's previous work Life of an American Fireman. The film used a number of innovative techniques...
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| x The Birth of a Nation |
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The Birth of a Nation (premiered with the title The Clansman) is a 1915 silent film directed by D. W. Griffith. Set during and after the American Civil War, the film was based on Thomas Dixon's The Clansman, a novel and play. The Birth of a Nation...
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| x Les Vampires |
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Les Vampires (1915) is a 10-part silent film serial. It was written and directed by Louis Feuillade and stars Musidora as "Irma Vep" a femme fatale whose name is a suspicious anagram of "vampire." The serial is set in Paris, France and follows the...
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| x Intolerance |
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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Through the Ages, a silent film directed by D. W. Griffith in 1916, is considered one of the great masterpieces of the Silent Era. It has also been called "the only film fugue". Professor Theodore Huff, one of the...
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| x The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (German: Das Cabinet des Dr. Caligari) is a 1920 silent film directed by Robert Wiene from a screenplay by Hans Janowitz and Carl Mayer. It is one of the most influential of German Expressionist films.
The deranged Dr....
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| x Broken Blossoms |
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Broken Blossoms is a 1919 silent film film directed by D. W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess and Donald Crisp. The film paints an intimate portrait of Cheng Huan (Barthelmess), a kind hearted Chinese man, and his love for a...
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| x Way Down East |
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Way Down East (1920), a silent film directed by D.W. Griffith and starring Lillian Gish, is the best known of four film adaptations of the melodramatic 19th century play Way Down East, written by Lottie Blair Parker. There were two earlier silent...
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| x Within Our Gates |
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Within Our Gates is a 1920 silent race film that dramatically depicts the racial situation in America during the violent years of Jim Crow, the Ku Klux Klan, the Great Migration, and the emergence of the "New Negro". The story focuses on an African...
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| x Körkarlen |
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The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen) is a 1921 Swedish romantic horror film, generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year's Day, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjöström,...
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| x Orphans Of The Storm |
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Orphans of the Storm (1921) is a film by D.W. Griffith set in late 18th century France, before and during the French Revolution.
This was the last Griffith film to feature Lillian and Dorothy Gish, and is often considered Griffith's last major...
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| x Souriante Madame Beudet, La |
La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) is a short French silent film made in 1922, directed by famed surrealist director Germaine Dulac. It is considered by many to be one of the first truly "feminist" films. It tells the story of an...
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| x Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler |
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Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (ger. Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler) is the first film in the Mabuse series, about the character Doctor Mabuse from the novels of Norbert Jacques, by Fritz Lang from 1922. The film is silent and mostly shot in 16 frames per second....
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| x Nanook of the North |
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Nanook of the North: A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic (1922) is a silent documentary film by Robert J. Flaherty. In the tradition of what would later be called salvage ethnography, Flaherty captured the struggles of the Inuk Nanook and...
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| x Nosferatu |
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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (translated as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror; also known as Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror or simply Nosferatu) is a German Expressionist vampire horror film, directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Max Schreck as...
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| x Häxan |
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Häxan (English title: The Witches or Witchcraft Through The Ages) is a 1922 Swedish/Danish silent film written and directed by Benjamin Christensen. Based partly on Christensen's study of the Malleus Maleficarum, a 15th century German guide for...
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| x Foolish Wives |
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Foolish Wives (1922) is an American drama silent film written and directed by Erich von Stroheim. Although not credited on the screen, the motion picture was produced by Irving Thalberg, who would go on to become one of the sharpest studio heads of...
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| x Our Hospitality |
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Our Hospitality is a silent comedy directed, produced, written by and starring Buster Keaton. Released in 1923 by Metro Pictures Corporation, the movie uses slapstick and situational comedy to tell the story of Willie McKay, a city slicker who gets...
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| x La Roue |
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La Roue (English: The Wheel) is a French silent film, directed by Abel Gance, who later directed Napoléon and J'accuse!. It was released in 1923. Originally running over nine hours, its recent editions have been cut to about four hours. The film...
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| x The Thief of Bagdad |
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The Thief of Bagdad is a 1924 swashbuckler adventure film directed by Raoul Walsh starring Douglas Fairbanks, which tells the story of a thief who falls in love with the daughter of the Caliph. In 1996, the film was selected for preservation in the...
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| x Strike |
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Strike (Russian: Стачка, translit. Stachka) is a 1925 silent film made in the Soviet Union by Sergei Eisenstein. It was Eisenstein's first full-length feature film, and he would go on to make The Battleship Potemkin later that year. It was acted by...
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| x Greed |
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Greed (1924) is a dramatic silent film. One of the most famous lost films in cinema history it is also considered one of the greatest films ever. It was directed by Erich von Stroheim and starring Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale...
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| x Sherlock, Jr. |
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Sherlock, Jr. (1924) is an American comedy silent film starring and directed by Buster Keaton and written by Clyde Bruckman, Jean Havez and Joseph A. Mitchell. It features Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton and Ward Crane.
In 1991, Sherlock, Jr. was...
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| x The Last Laugh |
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The Last Laugh (German: Der Letzte Mann) is a German 1924 silent film directed by German director F. W. Murnau from a screenplay written by Carl Mayer. It is the most famous example of the short-lived Kammerspiel or "chamber-drama" genre.
This was...
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| x Seven Chances |
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Seven Chances (1925) is an American comedy silent film directed by and starring Buster Keaton, based on a play written by David Belasco. Additional casts members include T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards, Ruth Dwyer, and others. The film also stars Jean...
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| x The Phantom of the Opera |
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The Phantom of the Opera is a 1925 silent film adaptation of the Gaston Leroux novel of the same title directed by Rupert Julian. The film featured Lon Chaney in the title role as the masked and facially deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera...
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| x The Battleship Potemkin |
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The Battleship Potemkin (Russian: Броненосец «Потёмкин», Bronyenosyets Potyomkin), sometimes rendered as The Battleship Potyomkin, is a 1925 silent film directed by Sergei Eisenstein and produced by Mosfilm. It presents a dramatised version of the...
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| x The Gold Rush |
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The Gold Rush is a 1925 silent film comedy written, produced, directed by, and starring Charlie Chaplin in his Little Tramp role. The film also stars Georgia Hale, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman, Malcolm Waite. Chaplin declared several times...
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| x The Big Parade |
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The Big Parade is a 1925 silent film which tells the story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench...
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| x Metropolis |
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Metropolis is a 1927 silent German expressionism science fiction film directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and Thea von Harbou. Lang and von Harbou, who were married, wrote the screenplay in 1924, and published a novelization in 1926, before...
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| x Sunrise |
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans, also known as Sunrise, is a 1927 American film directed by German film director F. W. Murnau. The story was adapted by Carl Mayer from the short story Die Reise nach Tilsit by Hermann Sudermann.
Sunrise won an Academy...
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| x The General |
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The General is a 1927 silent comedy released by United Artists based upon the Great Locomotive Chase from 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman. It was adapted by Al Boasberg, Bruckman, Keaton, Charles Henry...
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| x The Unknown |
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The Unknown (1927) is a silent horror film directed by Tod Browning and featuring Lon Chaney as carnival knife thrower Alonzo the Armless and Joan Crawford as the scantily clad carnival girl he hopes to marry.
The Unknown is by far the most intense...
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| x October: Ten Days That Shook The World |
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October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Russian: Октябрь (Десять дней, которые потрясли мир); translit. Oktyabr': Desyat' dney kotorye potryasli mir) is a Soviet silent film made in 1927 by Sergei Eisenstein, sometimes referred to simply as October...
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| x The Jazz Singer |
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The Jazz Singer is a 1927 American musical film. The first feature-length motion picture with synchronized dialogue sequences, its release heralded the commercial ascendance of the "talkies" and the decline of the silent film era. Produced by Warner...
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| x Napoléon |
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Napoléon (1927) is an epic silent French film directed by Abel Gance that tells the story of the rise of Napoleon I of France.
It begins from his youth in school where he managed a snowball fight like a military campaign, to his victory in invading...
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| x The Kid Brother |
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The Kid Brother is a 1927 comedy silent film starring Harold Lloyd. It was successful and popular upon release and today is considered by critics and fans to be one of Lloyd's best films, integrating elements of comedy, romance, drama, and character...
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| x The Crowd |
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The Crowd is an American silent film released in 1928 and directed by King Vidor. It is notable for its dramatization of the concerns and dangers of urbanization and modernity.
The picture is an influential and acclaimed feature and was nominated...
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| x The Docks of New York |
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The Docks of New York (1928 film) is a silent film starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook, and Mitchell Lewis, which tells the story of a prostitute who tries to rise above her life on the docks by finding love. The...
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| x Un chien andalou |
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Un chien andalou is a sixteen minute silent surrealist film produced in France by the Spanish director Luis Buñuel and artist Salvador Dalí. Its title means "An Andalusian Dog", but it is normally released under its original French title in the...
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| x The Passion of Joan of Arc |
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (French: La Passion de Jeanne d'Arc) is a silent film produced in France in 1928. It is based on the trial records of Joan of Arc. The film was directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer and stars Renée Jeanne Falconetti and Antonin...
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| x Steamboat Bill Jr. |
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Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) is a feature-length comedy silent film featuring Buster Keaton. Released by United Artists, the film is the last product of Keaton's independent production team and set of gag writers. It was not a box-office success and...
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| x Storm Over Asia |
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Storm Over Asia (original title Potomok Chingis-khanа (The Heir to Genghis Khan)) is a 1928 Russian film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and starring Valéry Inkijinoff. It forms part of Pudovkin's "revolutionary trilogy", alongside Mother (1926) and...
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| x Blackmail |
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Blackmail is a 1929 thriller/drama film directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Anny Ondra, John Longden, and Cyril Ritchard, and featuring Donald Calthrop, Sara Allgood and Charles Paton. The film is based on the play Blackmail by Charles Bennett,...
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| x Man with a Movie Camera |
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Man with a Movie Camera, sometimes The Man with the Movie Camera, The Man with a Camera, The Man With the Kinocamera, or Living Russia (Russian: Человек с киноаппаратом, Chelovek s kino-apparatom; Ukrainian: Людина з кіноапаратом, Liudyna z...
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| x Pandora's Box |
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Pandora's Box (1929) (German: Die Büchse der Pandora) is a German silent melodrama based loosely on Frank Wedekind's plays Erdgeist (Earth Spirit, 1895) and Die Büchse der Pandora (1904). Directed by Austrian filmaker Georg Wilhelm Pabst, the film...
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| x Der blaue Engel |
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The Blue Angel (German: Der blaue Engel) is a film directed by Josef von Sternberg in 1930, based on Heinrich Mann's novel Professor Unrat. The film is considered to be the first major German sound film and it brought world fame to actress Marlene...
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| x L'Âge d'Or |
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L'Âge d'Or (The Golden Age) is a 1930 surrealist film directed by Luis Buñuel and written by Buñuel and Salvador Dalí.
The film cost a million francs to produce and was financed by the nobleman Vicomte Charles de Noailles, who beginning in 1928...
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| x Earth |
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Earth (Russian: Земля, translit. Zemlya; literally translated as "Soil") is a 1930 Soviet film by Ukrainian director Alexander Dovzhenko concerning an insurrection by a community of farmers, following a hostile takeover by Kulak landowners. It is...
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| x Little Caesar |
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Little Caesar is a 1930 crime film made during the Pre-Code era which tells the story of a man who works his way up the ranks of the mob until he reaches its upper heights. It stars Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., and Glenda Farrell. The...
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| x All Quiet on the Western Front |
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All Quiet on the Western Front is a 1930 war film set on the Erich Maria Remarque novel of the same name. It was directed by Lewis Milestone, and stars Louis Wolheim, Lew Ayres, John Wray, Arnold Lucy and Ben Alexander.
All Quiet on the Western...
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| x À nous la liberté |
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À nous la liberté (English: "Freedom for Us") is a 1931 French film, directed by René Clair. With a memorable score by Georges Auric, this film has more music than any of Clair's early films. The film follows the paths of Louis and Émile. At the...
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| x Le Million |
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Le Million is a 1931 musical / comedy film directed by René Clair. The story was adapted by Clair from a play by Georges Berr and Marcel Guillemand.
A debt-ridden artist has just won a lottery worth a million Dutch florins, but lost the ticket in a...
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| x Tabu |
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Tabu (also called Tabu, a Story of the South Seas) is a 1931 film directed by F.W. Murnau. The film is split into two chapters, the first called "Paradise" depicts the lives of two lovers on a South Seas island until they forced to escape the island...
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| x Dracula |
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Dracula is a 1931 United States horror film directed by Tod Browning and starring Béla Lugosi as the title character. The film was produced by Universal and is based on the stage play of the same name by Hamilton Deane and John L. Balderston, which...
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| x Frankenstein |
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Frankenstein is a 1931 horror film from Universal Pictures directed by James Whale and very loosely based on the novel of the same name by Mary Shelley as well as the play adapted from it by Peggy Webling. The film stars Colin Clive, Mae Clarke,...
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| x City Lights |
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City Lights is a 1931 American silent romantic comedy film starring, written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. It also stars Virginia Cherrill and Harry Myers. Despite the fact that the production of silent films had dwindled with the rise of ...
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| x The Public Enemy |
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The Public Enemy is a 1931 pre-Code American crime drama film starring James Cagney and directed by William A. Wellman. The movie relates the story of a young man's rise in the criminal underworld in prohibition-era urban America. The supporting...
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M (German: M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder) is a 1931 German drama-thriller directed by Fritz Lang and written by Lang and his wife Thea von Harbou. It was Lang's first sound film, although he had directed over a dozen films previously.
The film...
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| x La Chienne |
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La Chienne, is a 1931 French film by director Jean Renoir. It is the second sound film by the director and the twelfth of his career.
The literal English translation of the film's title is "The Bitch", although the movie was never released under...
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