Silent

Richard Cross, Letterboxd wrote:
Evil businessman Lorenzo (L. Rogers Lytton) doesn’t handle rejection by a waitress (Rosemary Theby) well, and makes it his life’s work to ruin both her and Miguel (Leo Delaney), the honest worker who comes to her rescue and becomes her husband. At 39 minutes, Mills of the Gods doesn’t quite qualify as a feature, but is a lot longer than most films from 1912, and fills its running time with enough incident – including arson, poisoning, kidnapping, insanity and eviction – to fill a couple of movies.Read More »

It tells about young painter Tchartkoff who bought a weird portrait represented an old man. The portrait appeared to be unfinished, but the power of the handling was striking. The eyes were the most remarkable picture of all: it seemed as though the full power of the artist’s brush had been lavished upon them. At home Tchartkoff moistened a sponge with water, passed it over the picture several times, washed off nearly all the accumulated and incrusted dust and dirt, hung it on the wall before him, wondering yet more at the remarkable workmanship. The whole face had gained new life, and the eyes gazed at him so that he shuddered; and, springing back, he exclaimed in a voice of surprise: “It looks with human eyes!” This was no copy from Nature; it was life, the strange life which might have lighted up the face of a dead man, risen from the grave… And there was only the beginning of horror that was coming to young painter.Read More »

Danish Film Institute wrote:
Jørgen wants to propose to Marie as soon as he has been promoted and can offer her a proper home. Indeed, his future looks promising until his father, who is a bookkeeper in the town bank, tells Jørgen that he has embezzled and spent money from the bank. In order to uphold his father’s honour, Jørgen must raise the missing amount, and the only one he knows with that much ready money is his uncle, the canny merchant Ole Konge, whom his father detests. Ole Konge will only help if Jørgen marries his daughter Amalie, who has long pined for her cousin from afar..Read More »

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The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.Read More »

For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman worth of loving? Absorbed in his dreary thoughts and indifferent to the advances of Lyduschka, Balduin is unexpectedly offered a fortune by the mysterious money-lender Scapinelli – but on a strange condition…Read More »

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?Read More »

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Maurice Elvey’s silent biopic maps out the life of British Prime Minister Lloyd George from childhood to the end of the Great War. In 1918, the film disappeared, as £20,000 was paid to The Ideal Film Company to stop its release. The film then mysteriously disappeared until 1994, when it was found by the Wales Film and Television Archive. The film was painstakingly restored and premiered in Cardiff in 1996 and has since been screened around the world.Read More »

Synopsis
Sister Béatrix, a young novice, left the veil to follow a childhood friend, Count Jehan de Gormond.
A happy life awaits her upon the birth of a child. But the count abandons her for the beautiful Nilidor, and her child dies.
Desperate, she then leads a life of debauchery, and one day, aged and exhausted, she returns to the convent where the Virgin, by a marvelous miracle, has taken her place in her cell.Read More »

Holk, an unemployed mans wife is taken ill. He must find food for her. He goes out poaching on the manors hunting grounds, succeeds in shooting a grouse, but the shot is heard by the forester. During his flight Holk is caught by the forester. During their fight Holk’s rifle accidentally goes off and kills the forester. Terrified, Holk leaves the place leaving his rifle behind.Read More »