Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s. Read More »
Tag Archives: 1920s
The House on Trubnaya (1928) Boris Barnet, Vera Maretskaya, Anel Sudakevich, Ada Vojtsik
A girl Paranya Pitunova comes to Moscow from a deep province, eventually she arrives at a house. Read More »
The Triumph of the Rat (1926) Graham Cutts, Ivor Novello, Isabel Jeans, Nina Vanna
Pierre Boucheron, alias ‘The Rat’ and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. Read More »
Underground (1928) Anthony Asquith, Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen
A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Read More »
Algol – Tragödie der Macht (1920) Hans Werckmeister, Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers. Read More »
The Belle of Broadway (1926) Harry O. Hoyt, Betty Compson, Herbert Rawlinson, Edith Murgatroyd
Madame Adele, once a great star of the Paris theatre, has fallen upon hard times. Read More »
The Spiders, Part 2: The Diamond Ship (1920) Fritz Lang, Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation “Die Spinnen” to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia Read More »
Our Hospitality (1923) John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton, Natalie Talmadge, Joe Keaton
After her husband John McKay is killed in an ongoing feud with the Canfield family Read More »
Strike (1925) Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov
In Russia’s factory region during Czarist rule, there’s restlessness and strike planning among workers Read More »
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) Sam Taylor, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell
In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. Read More »
Twelve Miles Out (1927) Jack Conway, John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. Read More »
By the law (1926) Lev Kuleshov, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergey Komarov, Vladimir Fogel
A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success Read More »
L’Argent (1928) Marcel L’Herbier, Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Yvette Guilbert
The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. Read More »
You Never Know Women (1926) William A. Wellman, Florence Vidor, Lowell Sherman, Clive Brook
You Never Know Women is a thrilling romance that constructs a combustible love triangle between a Russian dancer Read More »
The Lighthouse Keepers (1929) Jean Grémillon, Paul Fromet, Geymond Vital, Genica Athanasiou
Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany Read More »