The story of a frozen girl who tries to sell matches during Christmas and dreams about a toy store. The film is based on the 1845 short story of the same name by Hans Christian Andersen.

The.Little.Match.Girl.1928.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC-LYCANTROPE.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	38 min 44 s
Size: 	3.38 GiB
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Codec: 	h264
Resolution: 	1440x1080 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
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Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC SBR (No Dialogue [Original])

https://nitro.download/view/95D678072A603EC/The.Little.Match.Girl.1928.1080p.WEB-DL.AAC-LYCANTROPE.mkv

Language(s):French intertitles
Subtitles:English, Spanish, Italian, Hungarian, Danish

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PLOT DESCRIPTION
French filmmaker Jean Renoir would later remark that he directed the sensual dance fantasy Charleston because he’d “just discovered American jazz.” He also had some stock footage left over from his previous silent success Nana, and decided it would be provident to fashion a new film from these leavings. Even without the benefit of sound, one can hear the jazzy rhythms of Charleston through the exuberant gyrations of an African-American dancer whom Renoir and his star, actress Catherine Hessling, had discovered for this picture. Originally titled Sur un air de Charleston, the film was also released as Charleston Parade in English-speaking countries. In some areas of the US and Europe, the film was greeted with protests from censorship boards who simply couldn’t appreciate the aesthetic value in Catherine Hessling’s near-nude dance numbers.
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Sur.Un.Air.De.Charleston.AKA.Charleston.Parade.1927.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container:	Matroska
Runtime:	20mn 18s
Size:	295 MiB
DXVA:	Compatible
Minimum settings:	Met
Video
Codec:	x264
Resolution:	716x572 ~> 762x572
Aspect ratio:	4:3
Frame rate:	25.000 fps
Bit rate:	1 988 Kbps

https://nitro.download/view/3CC2B67DB81F783/Sur.Un.Air.De.Charleston.AKA.Charleston.Parade.1927.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Silent – a few french intertitles
Subtitles:English

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An orphan (Catherine Hessling) escapes from her cruel uncle and finds refuge with a landowner’s son, but her happiness is short-lived.

Fernando F. Croce wrote:
The barge crossing the screen in the opening image is Auguste Renoir’s, of course, but Jean promptly claims the river as his own realm of light and darkness. (An early shot of a character ambling on deck as if on a horizontal escalator is like a lost Keaton gag, and soon enough there’s a corpse being fished out of the idyllic waters.) As the orphaned heroine, Catherine Hessling has frizzy locks and dark-rimmed peepers and squibs of mock-Gish agitation; she grins and sticks out her tongue at the camera while on the shore a boy happily takes pictures, the very definition of jeux de cinéma. From being pawed by a brutish uncle (Pierre Lestringuez) to sitting on branches with the rascally gypsy (Maurice Touzé) to hiding with the landlord’s son (Harold Levingston), “la éducation de bohémienne” as a winding parody of The Perils of Pauline. Frenzied cutting and wistful slow-motion, melodramatic close-ups and diaphanous superimpositions, stallions and fires and lizards: at play between tradition and invention, Renoir gorges on a little of everything. (“A good stew with questionable ingredients,” the protagonist’s special dish and also a fine metaphor for youthful eclecticism.) The Southerner’s fishing traps are already visible, the villain is confronted in a dry run for the scuffle in Diary of a Chambermaid and floats away like Boudu. A sort of picnic project, a documentary on the Fontainebleau forest at summertime, complete with a dream sequence at once understood by Cocteau and Vigo.

La.Fille.De.Leau.AKA.Whirlpool.Of.Fate.1924.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

General
Container: Matroska
Runtime: 1h 7mn
Size: 1 007 MiB
Video
Codec: x264
Resolution: 716x572 ~> 762x572
Aspect ratio: 4:3
Frame rate: 25.000 fps
Bit rate: 1 856 Kbps
BPP: 0.181

https://nitro.download/view/2F6D6CCDFA00B9D/La.Fille.De.Leau.AKA.Whirlpool.Of.Fate.1924.DVDRip.x264-HANDJOB.mkv

Language(s):Silent, with French intertitles
Subtitles:English

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Nana (1926)

When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.

3.87GB | 2h 48m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/552CA939219015B/Nana.1926.576p.BluRay.AAC.1.0.x264-PMT.mkv

Language(s):Silent (Music)
Subtitles:English

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IMDB:

A black and white silent short which tells the tragic story of a young girl named Lili.

135MB | 13mn 30s | 512×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/4D5ABB6EAF54090/La_Ptite_Lili_(Cavalcanti_1927)_avec_Catherine_Hessling_et_Jean_Renoir.VHSRip.avi
https://nitro.download/view/C6CA4BB3E92A977/La_Ptite_Lili_(Cavalcanti_1927)_avec_Catherine_Hessling_et_Jean_Renoir.VHSRip.srt

Language:French
Subtitles:Spanish hardcoded,English

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