Drama

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Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn

Silent · Romance · Biography

The tragic story of the second wife of England's Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

Annie Laurie

Annie Laurie

Silent · Romance · Drama

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Asphalt

Asphalt

Silent · World Cinema · Drama

Joe May's Sensual Drama of Life in the Berlin Underworld.

The Beloved Rogue

The Beloved Rogue

Silent · Romance · Adventure

A rich historical romance starring John Barrymore as poet Frances Villon who battles against nasty King Louis the XI in 17th Century France. 

Blood and Sand

Blood and Sand

Silent · Romance · Drama

A young Spaniard who achieves his boyhood ambition to become a celebrated toreador finds himself the victim of his own desires, forsaking the pure love of the sweet-natured Carmen for the sinister charms of the exotic Doña Sol.

The Daughter of Dawn

The Daughter of Dawn

Native and Indigenous Americans · Western · Drama

Lost for almost a century, this rousing melodrama of love and jealousy was filmed in the Wichita Mountains of Oklahoma with an all-Native American cast of Kiowa and Comanche actors.

Drifting/White Tiger

Drifting/White Tiger

Crime · Drama

Drifting - An opium trafficker is caught between an undercover government agent and a fellow smuggler in a remote Chinese village. White Tiger involves a band of jewel thieves who employ a chess-playing automaton to gain entry into the homes of the wealthy.  

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Fritz Lang's Destiny

Adventure · Action & Adventure · Silent

A young woman (Lil Dagover) confronts the personification of Death (Bernhard Goetzke), in an effort to save the life of her fiance (Walter Janssen). Death weaves three romantic tragedies and offers to unite the girl with her lover, if she can prevent the death of the lovers in at least one of the ep…

The Godless Girl

The Godless Girl

Silent · Romance · Drama

A naive teenager leads a Godless Society at her high school and encourages her fellow students to “Kill the Bible.” A pious schoolmate organizes a mob to destroy her headquarters, resulting in the death of her comrade.

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo

Horror · Musical · Drama

One of Hollywood's earliest -- and most peculiar -- musicals, The Great Gabbo stars von Stroheim as an egotistical ventriloquist who casts a Svengali-like spell upon an ingenue.

Hindle Wakes

Hindle Wakes

Silent · Romance · Drama

Directed by Maurice Elvey, this British adaptation of the popular stage play provides laughs, thrills and revelations about women's liberation for audiences on both sides of the pond!

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection

Comedy · Drama

Before he became known as the Master of Suspense in Hollywood, Alfred Hitchcock had already established himself as a precociously talented filmmaker in England. Hitchcock: British International Pictures Collection brings together five features he directed for the production company that first displa…

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

The Hunchback Of Notre Dame

Silent · Romance

One of the greatests spectacles of the silent era, Hunchback made Lon Chaney a top star.

The Informer

The Informer

Drama

Based on Liam O’Flaherty’s popular Irish novel (which John Ford famously adapted in 1935), this gripping thriller is set among a group of revolutionaries in the newly independent Ireland of 1922. When one of their number kills the chief of police, he goes on the run. But when he returns …

Lorna Doone

Lorna Doone

Action & Adventure · Based on Literature · Romance

Tourneur's adaption of Richard Blackmore's perennially loved romance stars John Bowers as a yeoman farmer who valiantly rescues a kidnapped princess. This edition was transferred from an original print at 18fps and features a new score for piano and strings by Japanese singer/songwriter and composer…

The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney

Silent · Drama

The Love of Jeanne Ney follows a young French woman’s struggle for happiness amid the political turbulence and corruption of post-World War I Europe.

Michael

Michael

Silent · LGBTQ · Drama

Danish film master Carl Theodor Dreyer's homoerotic classic Michael is a mature and visually elegant period romance decades ahead of its time.

Nana

Nana

Drama

When her father dies, a young girl is sent to live with her uncle. Mistreated, she runs away to lead a vagabond’s life in the forest. When she is found, she becomes Nana, a fashionable actress of loose morals, becoming first the mistress of a count, and then of the Emperor’s chamberlain.

Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Crime · Silent · Drama

American actress Anna May Wong had to travel to Europe for her greatest role, as Shosho, the scullery maid whose sultry dancing makes her the toast of London in E.A. Dupont's silent masterpiece.

Queen Kelly

Queen Kelly

Silent · Drama

In Eric von Stroheim’s lost silent masterpiece, Gloria Swanson stars as an innocent but flirtatious convent girl from the imaginary European country of Cobourg-Nassau who catches the eye of the prince and the ire of the mad queen he is set to marry.

Ramona

Ramona

Silent · Romance · Drama

Set in 19th-century California, Ramona is a woman of mixed race, who abandons her position of privilege in order to marry a Native American.

Reginald Denny Collection: The Reckless Age, Skinner's Dress Suit, What Happened to Jones?

Reginald Denny Collection: The Reckless Age, Skinner's Dress Suit, What Happened to Jones?

Comedy · Drama

The Reginald Denny Collection gathers three silent features from the career of the debonair British star.

Sensation Seekers/A Chapter in her Life

Sensation Seekers/A Chapter in her Life

Drama

Lois Weber produced and directed a series of popular and provocative films at Universal Studios, often depicting women’s struggles for independence within the ever-shifting moral landscape of 1920s modernity.

The Shakedown

The Shakedown

Sports · Drama

A boxer who is part of a traveling team of scammers, falls head-over-heels for a fiery waitress and a rough-and-tumble orphan and begins to dramatically alter his life inside and outside of the ring.

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Western · Drama

Shooting Stars is a sophisticated, modern morality tale, while also offering an affectionate critique of the film industry and a celebration of its possibilities. Kino Classics is proud to present this new restoration by the BFI National Archive, which is accompanied by a dazzling new score by John …

The Spanish Dancer

The Spanish Dancer

Historic Drama · Period Drama · Silent

One of the great romance epics, The Spanish Dancer is action-packed, witty, and romantic with huge sets and a cast of thousands. Brenon keeps the adventure going full steam ahead while Negri and Moreno show why they were huge stars of their day.

Spies (Restored Version)

Spies (Restored Version)

World Cinema · Romance · Spies

Having defined the espionage genre with Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler, Fritz Lang returned to the genre with this surprisingly fast-paced and remarkably grim thriller. Rudolf Kleine-Rogge stars as Haghi, the head of an elaborate criminal empire, and Willy Fritsch is the undercover agent assigned to topple…

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Steamboat Bill Jr. and College

Comedy · Action · Drama

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the effete son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence), who struggles to earn his father’s respect (and the love of beautiful Marion Byron). But the film is best remember…

Sumurun

Sumurun

Silent · Drama

A rebellious harem girl rejects the old sheikh and instead falls for a charming clothing merchant in this exotic spectacle that is one of the key early works of the celebrated director. The cast includes Pola Negri as a traveling dancer and Lubitsch himself as a hunchbacked clown.

Tartuffe

Tartuffe

Silent · Drama

Restoring censored images and filling in forgotten facts, Jia Zhangke provides an alternative version of 20th-century China’s fraught history as reflected through life in the Yangtze city.

Tempest (1928 w Barrymore)

Tempest (1928 w Barrymore)

Silent · Romance

An epic romance set in Russia during the final days of the Tsarist autocracy, Barrymore stars as Sgt. Ivan Markov, a dedicated soldier who defies the rigid class system to receive an officer's commission. But even as he rises through the ranks of military and society, he must contend with resentment…

Three Women

Three Women

Drama

Pauline Frederick and May McAvoy star as a mother and daughter who find themselves competing for the attention of George, a handsome opportist (Lew Cody) who yearns to lay hands on the women’s $3 million fortune.

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

Crime · Pre-Code · Film Noir

Condemned gangster Thunderbolt Jim Lang plots revenge on the young man who stole his girlfriend and landed next to him on death row.

The Trap (1922)

The Trap (1922)

Drama

A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

Underground (1928)

Underground (1928)

Romance · Drama

Anthony Asquith’s Underground (1928) tells the story of an electrician (Cyril McLaglen) and an underground porter (Brian Aherne) who both fall in love with the same shop girl (Elissa Landi). Asquith (A Cottage on Dartmoor, Shooting Stars) is one of the supreme stylists of the British silent ci…

Variete

Variete

Silent · World Cinema · Romance

Now available in a newly-restored 2K DCP version! Former trapeze artist “Boss” Huller leaves his wife and child to go to Berlin with the younger, seductive Berta-Marie. They become the lead attraction at Berlin’s famed Wintergarten, where they perform as a trio with trapezist Artin…

Whirlpool of Fate

Whirlpool of Fate

Drama

Whirlpool of Fate (1925) is Jean Renoir’s debut feature, a lyrical tale of the tragic life of an orphan girl.

The Woman One Longs For

The Woman One Longs For

Silent · World Cinema · Drama

The true screen debut of Marlene Dietrich sees her play a haunting adulteress in the story of a young businessman waylaid from his plans for marriage by her charms. Restored in 2012 with an original orchestral score by Pascal Schumacher.