1920s

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A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained.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 »

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 »

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 »

A story about a family torn apart by a worker’s strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.Read More »

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Arnold Fanck’s Der Berg des Schicksals (Mountain of Destiny) from 1924, It was the first full-length feature film in the mountain film genre pioneered by Fanck, and marked lead actor Luis Trenker’s on-screen debut. The film was shot on original locations in Trenker’s homeland, the Dolomites, and premiered in 1924 at the UFA Pavilion on Nollendorfplatz in Berlin. Restored by the Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau Foundation, with a new composition by Florian C. Reithner. The Metropolis Orchestra Berlin performed under the direction of Burkhard Götze, with composer Reithner himself playing the organ.Read More »

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Alice has a fight with her boyfriend, Frank, a detective, and decides to go out with another man. When they get to his flat, he attacks her and she defends herself and kills him. Frank investigates the case and realizes Alice is the culprit, but so has someone else, and blackmail is threatened.Read More »

Thrown in prison for a hundred years, Little Goofy and Big Goofy finally break free, posing as an anarchic duo of undercover painters. Soon, the boys wind up in a private party as visiting French dignitaries; however, who are they kidding?Read More »