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Moran of the Lady Letty
MORAN OF THE LADY LETTY, based on the novel by Frank Norris, casts Valentino as Ramon Laredo, a pampered aristocrat who is shanghaied in contemporary San Francisco by Captain Kitchell (Walter Long), the brutal commander of a smuggling schooner bound for Mexico. The Moran of the title is a beautiful young...Start your free trial to watch
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The Murderous Corpse
With his mentor Inspector Juve missing, journalist Jérôme Fandor (Georges Melchior) assumes the difficult task of pursuing the infamous Fantômas (René Navarre), a frightfully brilliant villain who excels in deception, larceny and murder. In this third film of the classic silent film series, Fantômas uses a...Start your free trial to watch
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The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador
Léonce Perret made a number of self-referential films in which the medium of cinema is a component of the plotline. In THE MYSTERY OF THE ROCKS OF KADOR, an amnesiac woman undergoes a sort of cinematic hypnosis as a means of recalling the details of a tragic crime.Start your free trial to watch
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Naked Fury
A gang of thieves led by American Eddy (Reed de Rouen) kill a security guard during a botched safe robbery and flee with his daughter (Leigh Madison) as a hostage. They hide out in a dangerously unstable old warehouse for a couple of days awaiting their getaway ship to sail, but Johnny (Kenneth Cope) falls for the girl,...Start your free trial to watch
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The New Janitor
Charlie (Charles Chaplin) is a janitor in an office building who blunders his tasks and is eventually fired. As he is about to leave, the stenographer rings for help. He returns to stop a robbery; saving the pretty stenographer and capturing the thieving office employee. Charlie the hero is rewarded and all ends well. Chaplin...Start your free trial to watch
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The Painted Lady
Sometimes, women fall in with a bad sort of man. This is one of those times. The protagonist of this short moral tale meets a fellow who seems to take a liking to her. However, he's less interested in her than she suspects. His interests are elsewhere in this D.W. Griffith short.Start your free trial to watch
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Pearl of the South Pacific
Phony missionary Virginia Mayo, in cahoots with crooks Dennis Morgan and David Farrar, plan to steal a fortune in black pearls from the unsuspecting islanders. They soon discover these pearls rest in an underwater shrine guarded by a giant octopus. Just as they are about to make off with the booty, the...Start your free trial to watch
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Persons Unknown
When former cop and current security expert Jim Holland has a one night stand with Amanda he does not realize that it is a set-up by Amanda and her sister Molly to obtain security codes to the office of his client. In the process, he falls in love with Molly and, once the cops get on the case, things get increasingly confusing.Start your free trial to watch
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The Return of Jesse James
Johnny is a spitting image of the real Jesse James. Unfortunately for him, he is mistaken for Jesse by a grizzled old member of the now defunct James gang. Johnny is convinced to lead a new gang to rob banks using the same infamous methods as the famed outlaw. Jesse's brother Frank decides to put a stop to...Start your free trial to watch
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The Robber
A champion marathoner leads a double life as a serial bank robber, sprinting between fixes (and away from police cavalcades) as many as three times a day. A lean, visceral study of pathological compulsion from Austrian director Benjamin Heisenberg, featuring a riveting central performance by Andreas Lust (REVANCHE).Start your free trial to watch
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Sir Arne's Treasure
A key film from Sweden's first golden age of filmmaking, SIR ARNE'S TREASURE (HERR ARNES PENGAR) has long ranked among the most famous (and famously hard-to-find) classics of the silent era. Now restored by the Swedish Film Institute and featuring a magnificent score by Matti Bye and Fredrik Emilson, this...Start your free trial to watch
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Straight to Hell Returns
STRAIGHT TO HELL RETURNS, directed by Alex Cox, is a new version of Cox's 1986 feature STRAIGHT TO HELL. Four hapless bank robbers bury their loot and attempt to hide out in a deserted desert town. But the town is not deserted. Feasting, song, sexual tension and inevitable deaths ensue. Featuring digitally...Start your free trial to watch
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They Made Me a Fugitive
Set in unsettled postwar England where crime is on the upsurge, FUGITIVE is a suspenseful genre film which uses the picturesque Soho district as background to brilliant effect. The brooding and atmospheric cinematography of cameraman Otto Heller (FUNERAL IN BERLIN) is in the noir visual tradition, while...Start your free trial to watch
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The Thief of Bagdad
A spectacular accomplishment in production design and special effects, Raoul Walsh's THE THIEF OF BAGDAD is a bold Arabian adventure starring Douglas Fairbanks as a carefree pickpocket who turns his appealing brand of mischievous thievery toward the attainment of happiness and an exotic princess (Julanne...Start your free trial to watch
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Three Desperate Men
Deputies Preston Foster and Jim Davis save their brother Ross Latimer from hanging for a crime he didn’t commit. But a guard is killed in the fracas and this makes all three hunted criminals. Now living to defy the law instead of defend it, they rob a train and then brazenly attempt a one-of-a-kind...Start your free trial to watch
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Tillie's Punctured Romance
The film's simple story involves Tillie Banks (Marie Dressler), a country girl deceived by a city slicker (Charles Chaplin) to steal her father's money and run away with him to the city. Once there, the slicker takes her money and abandons her for Mabel (Mabel Normand). When it is reported that Tillie is...Start your free trial to watch
