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13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square

Comedy

13 Washington Square is a romantic comedy in which a meddling aristocratic mother tries to stop her son from eloping with a grocer’s daughter.

The Buster Keaton Collection - Volume 4 (Go West / College)

The Buster Keaton Collection - Volume 4 (Go West / College)

Comedy

Go West: An idealistic young man hops a freight train westward to meet his destiny. College: A small-town, academically-inclined freshman applies his wiry physique to a series of sports, in order to impress a fellow student.

College

College

Comedy · Slapstick

In one of his most successful films, Keaton stars as an intellectual weakling who tries to earn the love of a young coed by demonstrating his athletic abilities. More than in any other feature, Keaton stretches the boundaries of solo physical comedy.

Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl

World Cinema · LGBTQ

Diary of a Lost Girl represents the second and final work of one of the cinema's most compelling collaborations: G. W. Pabst and Louise Brooks. Diary confirmed Pabst's artistry as one of the great directors of the silent period and established Brooks as an "actress of brilliance, a luminescent perso…

Faust (Restored Version)

Faust (Restored Version)

Silent

Newly restored. Inspired by the German legend and by Goethe's classic tale, Murnau's Faust tells the story of an alchemist (played by Gosta Ekman) who, struggling with his faith amidst a devastating plague, is offered the power to cure and the gift of youth ... in exchange for his soul. As the diabo…

The Finances of the Grand Duke (Restored Authorized Edition)

The Finances of the Grand Duke (Restored Authorized Edition)

World Cinema · Silent · Thriller

In Murnau's playful espionage thriller reminiscent of Ernst Lubitsch (who had recently left Germany for Hollywood), Harry Liedtke stars as a benevolent dictator who must preserve the tiny nation of Abacco by fending off creditors, wooing a wealthy Russian princess, and evading a band of demonic cons…

The Haunted Castle (Restored Authorized Edition)

The Haunted Castle (Restored Authorized Edition)

Silent · Horror

Before plumbing the depths of horror and despair with such films as Faust and The Last Laugh, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau tested the waters with this moody drama of a storm-bound manor and the grim mystery that lurks within.

The Last Laugh (Restored Version)

The Last Laugh (Restored Version)

World Cinema · Silent

One of the crowning achievements of the German expressionist movement, Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau’s The Last Laugh (Der letzte Mann) stars Emil Jannings stars as an aging doorman whose happiness crumbles when he is relieved of the duties and uniform which had for years been the foundation of his…

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.

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu

Silent · RT Certified Fresh · Horror

A cornerstone of the horror genre, F.W. Murnau's Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror is resurrected in an HD edition mastered from a 35mm restoration.

Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm

Historic Drama · Silent · Period Drama

Two delicate souls (Lillian and Dorothy Gish) are caught in the tempest of the French Revolution.

Ramona

Ramona

Romance · Silent · 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.

Sally Of The Sawdust

Sally Of The Sawdust

Comedy · Silent

W. C. Fields stars as a lovable con man who becomes the unlikely guardian of an orphaned circus waif (Carol Dempster).

Secrets of a Soul

Secrets of a Soul

Silent

In the 1920s, film studios around the world sought to capitalize on the public's curiosity about the newborn science of psychoanalysis. In 1925, Hans Neumann (of Ufa's Kulturfilm office) contacted members of Sigmund Freud's inner circle with a plan to make a dramatic film that explores the mystifyin…

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)

Romance · Silent

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…

The Haunted Castle / Finances of the Grand Duke

The Haunted Castle / Finances of the Grand Duke

World Cinema · Comedy · Silent

A hunting party is interrupted by the arrival of a notorious count (Lothar Mehnert), who is believed to have murdered his brother.

Way Down East

Way Down East

Silent

Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a Nation.