Drifting/White Tiger
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.
Lost in the Stars
Lost in the Stars transforms Alan Paton's world-famous novel of racial oppression, Cry the Beloved Country, into a tragic and beautiful film musical unlike any you've ever seen. Gilded by Maxwell Anderson's lucid lyrics and Kurt Weill's (The Three Penny Opera) powerful music, and guided by Daniel Ma…
Nana
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.
Sensation Seekers/A Chapter in her Life
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.