Silent Film Movies

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk...

A fun-loving little boy's magic lantern show exposes some indiscreet moments between his landlady mother and her star boarder.

In very bad weather and a stormy sea, a small boat manned by two men is trying to leave the harbor of La Ciotat, while several people are watching...

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by...

A film from Méliès has him playing a magician who does a few tricks including making a woman disappear.

An aging geisha, whose angry teenage son is ashamed of her profession, works alongside a young geisha, resentful of her family for forcing her into a...

The last remaining film of Le Prince's LPCCP Type-1 MkII single-lens camera is a sequence of frames of his son, Adolphe Le Prince, playing a diatonic...

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man's thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle....

Three men compete for the attentions of a pretty girl. One of them, a little tramp, plays dirty.

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, successful shoemaker Olsen, has money and...

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

To impress the girl he loves, a naive country boy tries to capture a group of local bootleggers.

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and...

Oswald, the trolley conductor gets stopped in the tracks by a cow who refuses to move. He then faces a steep hill, which the trolley has trouble...

A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.