The Golem: How He Came Into the World

The Golem: How He Came Into the World 1920

6.90

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

1920

The Doll

The Doll 1919

7.40

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

1919

Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn 1920

6.90

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

1920

The Oyster Princess

The Oyster Princess 1919

6.80

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.

1919

The Wildcat

The Wildcat 1921

7.70

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. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

1921

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry 1919

6.40

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

1919

Carmen

Carmen 1918

5.60

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.

1918

The Eyes of the Mummy

The Eyes of the Mummy 1918

5.38

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.

1918

The Merry Jail

The Merry Jail 1917

6.40

A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.

1917

I Don't Want to Be a Man

I Don't Want to Be a Man 1918

6.40

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.

1918

Sumurun

Sumurun 1920

6.00

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

1920

Where Is My Treasure?

Where Is My Treasure? 1916

6.30

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

1916

Die Flamme

Die Flamme 1923

5.80

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

1923

The Suffragette

The Suffragette 1913

4.60

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.

1913

Zapata's Gang

Zapata's Gang 1914

6.00

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

1914

Lulu

Lulu 1917

5.00

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.

1917

The Island of the Blessed

The Island of the Blessed 1913

4.30

Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.

1913

Pinkus's Shoe Palace

Pinkus's Shoe Palace 1916

5.70

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.

1916