Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.

Tartuffe

1925

German

7.1

♡ 11

88%

F.W. Murnau Director

Lil Dagover as Frau Elmire / Elmire, Orgon's wife

Werner Krauss as Herr Orgon

Rosa Valetti as Seine Haushälterin / Housekeeper

Emil Jannings as Tartüff

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

Where is My Treasure?

1916

German

5.9

♡ 5

Ernst Lubitsch Director

Julius Falkenstein as

Ernst Lubitsch as Der Gatte

Louise Schenrich as Die Gattin

Helene Voß as Schwiegermutter

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

J'accuse!

1919

French

7.7

♡ 9

Abel Gance Director

Elizabeth Nizan as

Angèle Guys as Angele

Maryse Dauvray as Edith Laurin Mancini

Mancini as Jean's Mother

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

The Divine Voyage

1929

French

6.6

♡ 2

Action

Drama

silent film

Julien Duvivier Director Muller

Muller as

Alfred Argus as (as Argus)

Pierre Mindaist as (as Mindaist)

Henri Valbel as Kerjean

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Timothy's Quest

6.4

Sidney Olcott Director

William F. Haddock as Dave Milliken

Helen Rowland as Lady Gay

Marie L. Day as Miss Avilda Cummins

Gladys Leslie as Miss Dora

Timothy and Gay, orphans from the slums of Boston, escape to Maine in search of a home and manage to thaw Avilda's embittered, grief-stricken heart. A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love.

Destiny

1921

German

7.6

♡ 11

79%

Fritz Lang Director

Marie Wismar as Alte Frau

Károly Huszár as China's Emperor / Kaiser

Paul Rehkopf as Grave-Digger / Küster

Lothar Müthel as Messenger / Vertrauter

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Death, who tells her three separate stories set in exotic locales, all involving circumstances similar to hers.

The Cigarette

1919

French

6.6

♡ 7

suspicion of adultery

woman director

Germaine Dulac Director

Andrée Brabant as Denise

Genevieve Williams as L'amie

Jules Raucourt as Maurice Herbert

Gabriel Signoret as Pierre Guérande

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Algol: Tragedy of Power

1920

German

6.4

♡ 2

Hans Werckmeister Director

John Gottowt as Algol

Käthe Haack as Magda Herne

Hanna Ralph as Maria Obal

Emil Jannings as Robert Herne

An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that creates enough energy to power the entire world.

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

1927

English

7.3

♡ 34

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Alfred Hitchcock as Extra in Newspaper Office

Arthur Chesney as Her Husband

Marie Ault as The Landlady

Ivor Novello as The Lodger

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Easy Virtue

1928

English

5.4

♡ 5

63%

25%

bad mother-in-law

based on play or musical

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Ben Webster as Justice Halstead

Alfred Hitchcock as Man with Stick Near Tennis Court

Dacia Deane as Marion Whittaker

Benita Hume as Telephone Receptionist

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under an assumed name. But when John brings her home to his disapproving family, Larita’s past begins to resurface.

The Red Mill

1927

English

6.8

♡ 6

69%

Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle Director

Louise Fazenda as Gretchen

Sally Eilers as Skater

Marion Davies as Tina

George Siegmann as Willem

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster's daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

The Ring

1927

English

6.1

♡ 10

90%

woman between two men

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Gordon Harker as Jack's Trainer

Alfred Hitchcock as Man-Dipping Attraction Worker

Carl Brisson as 'One-Round' Jack Sander

Forrester Harvey as The Promoter

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.

Man with a Movie Camera

1929

Russian

8.3

♡ 11

Dziga Vertov Director

Mikhail Kaufman as The Cameraman

Elizaveta Svilova as Woman editing film

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Blancanieves

2012

Spanish

7.5

♡ 3

94%

goya award for best film

matador (bullfighter)

silent film

Pablo Berger Director

Daniel Giménez Cacho as Antonio Villalta

Inma Cuesta as Carmen de Triana

Ángela Molina as Doña Concha

Maribel Verdú as Encarna

A black and white silent movie, based on the Snow White fairy tale, that is set in a romantic version of 1920s Seville and centered on a female bullfighter.

The Eagle

1925

English

6.6

♡ 5

83%

Clarence Brown Director

Spottiswoode Aitken as Dubrovsky's Father

James A. Marcus as Kyrilla Troekouroff

Gary Cooper as Masked Cossack

Rudolph Valentino as Vladimir Dubrovsky

Vladimir Dubrouvsky, a lieutenant in the Russian army, catches the eye of Czarina Catherine II. He spurns her advances and flees, and she puts out a warrant for his arrest, dead or alive. Vladimir learns that his father's lands have been taken by the evil Kyrilla Troekouroff, and his father dies. He dons a black mask, and becomes the outlaw The Black Eagle. He enters the Troekouroff household disguised as a French instructor for Kyrilla's daughter Mascha. He is after vengeance, but instead falls in love with Mascha.

I Was Born, But...

1932

Japanese

7.8

♡ 19

Yasujirô Ozu Director

Michio Sato as Asobi nakama

Masao Hayama as Asobi nakama

Mitsuko Yoshikawa as Haha

Chishû Ryû as (uncredited)

Two young brothers become the leaders of a gang of kids in their neighborhood. Ozu's charming film is a social satire that draws from the antics of childhood as well as the tragedy of maturity.

Where the North Begins

1923

English

6.7

♡ 3

Chester M. Franklin Director

Claire Adams as Felice McTavish

Walter McGrail as Gabrielle Dupree

Lew Meehan as Mountie

Charles Stevens as The Fox

A German Shepherd puppy is "adopted" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel a kinship with him that is stronger than the one he has with his adopted pack.