Silent Film Movies

A young aristocrat strikes up an affair with a mysterious woman for three weeks.

When Algie Allmore asks to marry Clarice, the young woman's father gives him one year to prove that he's a man.

“Showing the entire height of this wonderful structure from the base of the dome and return, with the great Paris Exposition in the background,...

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several...

A family goes to a photographer. The photographer pushes the boy around, and no one seems to care. The boy gets his revenge.

It is winter and a couple invites an old woman to eat. The old woman then becomes a fairy and makes the spring appears.

A brief fantasy tale involving a strange fairy who can produce and deliver babies coming out of cabbages. This film is lost or never existed. Copies...

An early version of the classic, based more on the 1902 stage musical than on the original novel.

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on...

Playboy Teddy Ward wants to marry Jeannie King, an artist, but his father wants him to marry Loris Lane, but tells Teddy he can marry whom he pleases...

During an annual celebration in which English peasants and aristocrats mingle, the Duke of Loame is thrown from his horse and saved by Ivis Benson,...

A boy finds it difficult to live up to his father's reputation at his school.

A new film compiled from the BFI National Archive's unparalleled holdings of early films of China, features films from 1900-48 filmed across China....

Long treated with indifference by critics and historians, British silent cinema has only recently undergone the reevaluation it has long deserved,...

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper...

Short film of 300 individually painted images. A lost film.

The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately...

The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar....

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from...

Fannie joins Johnny to perform a music-hall act which becomes a success, until two Broadway producers catch the act and offer Fannie a job on their...