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A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

The Kiss

They get ready to kiss, begin to kiss, and kiss in a way that brings down the house every time.

A Cottage on Dartmoor

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

The Dragon Painter

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

Varieté

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

Tukkijoella

“Tukkijoella” (Log River – 1928). Films of this genre gave the Finnish cinema and the viewing public one of its most popular characters – the lumberjack (tukkijatka, tukkipoika, tukkilainen) who at his most heroic hour becomes the log-roller or the shooter of rapids (koskenlaskija). The significance of this character in Finnish film is comparable to that of the Cowboy on American cinema. He is the pioneer, the wanderer, the adventurer. He negotiates the frontier, he is an embodiment of the conflict between wilderness and civilization.

A Boy of Flanders

An orphan boy wins a prize for his drawing.

Saïda a enlevé Manneken-Pis

A cheetah runs away from a fair and steals Belgium's national symbol: Manneken Pis.

Умирающий лебедь

After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.

Счастье

A hapless loser (with the surname of Loser) undergoes misadventures with avaracious clergy, a tired horse, and a walking granary (among other things) on his road to collectivized happiness.

Homeward Bound

A group of seven people find themselves on a ship in the middle of an endless ocean, with no recollection of how they got there. (lost film)

L'étoile du génie

The Boy In The Barrel

A small boy is smoking his first cigarette in the door-yard of a cottage. Fearing detection, he jumps into a barrel. His parents see the smoke rising from the barrel, rush out of the house and drench the youngster with water. The finish is very laughable.

Laila

Ranged across several generations, the story begins with a wealthy merchant, Lind, and his wife travelling in the coldest depths of winter to christen their baby daughter. Attacked by wolves, they lose the baby, which is found by the Lapp Jaampa (a dominating performance by Tryggve Larssen) and subsequently raised by a rich reindeer herder,

Within Our Gates

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

L'Imagier du Mont Saint-Michel

The Detective's Dog

When Kitty's family adopts a homeless dog they couldn't guess how much it would be of help in her fathers detective work.

La Bouée

Курортен сън

The young rentier Zhezhi leads a secluded life on his estate, away from the bustle of the city. His daily routine is interrupted by the arrival of a letter form Varna: his cousin invites him to spend the summer at the seaside. Zhezhi is lost in a reverie about his future adventures, falls asleep, and has his holiday dream…

Emigrant

A short, cautionary tale of emigrating to America.