1920s – Rarefilm Archive

Thunderbolt (1929) Josef von Sternberg

rarefilm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:37:33 +0000

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Morgan, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt’s girl, without knowing of their relationship. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution long enough to kill young Morgan for romancing his girl.

Director: Josef von Sternberg

Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen

Also Known As (AKA): El trueno, Die Rache des Delinquenten, Sein letzter Gang, O Homem de Mármore, L’assommeur, La rafle, La mazzata

IMDB

File Name : Thunderbolt.1929.mkv
File Size : 2.33 GB / 2381.21 MB
Resolution : 778×576
Duration : 01:31:16
Video : AVC, 3 181 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 256 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: English, commentary (2 separate audio tracks)
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: United States
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance, Thriller

Thunderbolt.1929.mkv

Other movies by Josef von Sternberg:

A Daughter of Destiny (1928) Alraune

rarefilm — Sun, 30 Aug 2026 21:33:57 +0000

A scientist, Professor Jakob ten Brinken, interested in the laws of heredity, impregnates a prostitute in a laboratory with the semen of a hanged murderer. The prostitute conceives a female child who has no concept of love, whom the professor adopts. The girl, Alraune, suffers from obsessive sexuality and perverse relationships throughout her life. She learns of her unnatural origins and she avenges herself against the professor.

Director: Henrik Galeen

Stars: Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Iván Petrovich

Also Known As (AKA): Mandrake, Unholy Love, A Daughter of Destiny

IMDB

File Name : A.Daughter.of.Destiny.AKA.Alraune.mkv
File Size : 3.68 GB / 3772.63 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 02:16:00
Video : AVC, 3 344 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 448 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 6 channels, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: German intertitles, commentary (2 separate audio tracks)
Subs: English (embedded)
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi

A.Daughter.of.Destiny.AKA.Alraune.mkv

Other movies by Henrik Galeen:

The Student of Prague (1926) Henrik Galeen

Queen Kelly (1929) Erich von Stroheim

rarefilm — Wed, 15 Jul 2026 20:53:22 +0000

Prince Wolfram is the betrothed of mad Queen Regina V of Kronberg. Supreme ruler, her word is law and he is a playboy. On maneuvers as punishment for partying with other women, he sees Kelly walking the the other students of a convent. He is intrigued by her beauty and wants her. He kidnaps her that night from the convent and takes her to his room and professes his love for her. When the Queen finds them together the next morning , she whips Kelly and throws her out of the castle.

Director: Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski

Stars: Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen

Also Known As (AKA): La reina Kelly, La reine Kelly, La regina Kelly, A Raínha Kelly, The Swamp

IMDB

File Name : Queen.Kelly.1932.4K.Restoration.1080p.mkv
File Size : 4.17 GB / 4272.43 MB
Resolution : 1920×1080
Duration : 01:45:14
Video : AVC, 5 500 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 192 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: BRRip
Language: English intertitles
Country: United States
Genre: Drama, Romance

Queen.Kelly.1932.4K.Restoration.1080p.mkv

13 Washington Square (1928) Melville W. Brown

rarefilm — Wed, 08 Jul 2026 16:04:28 +0000

A leader of New York society leaves her ship bound for Europe ,in disguise as a maid, to prevent her son’s marrying into a lower class. Also converging on her home are a crook also disguised (as a deacon) several reporters and the police.

Director: Melville W. Brown

Stars: Jean Hersholt, Alice Joyce, George J. Lewis

IMDB

File Name : 13.Washington.Square.1928.mkv
File Size : 1.95 GB / 1999.68 MB
Resolution : 768×576
Duration : 01:06:24
Video : AVC, 3 742 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: BRRip
Language: English intertitles
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance

13.Washington.Square.1928.mkv

The Devious Path (1928) Abwege

rarefilm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:25:17 +0000

Neglected by her husband, an ambitious lawyer, Irene seeks variety in Berlin’s nightlife, drugs and flirtations included.

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Stars: Gustav Diessl, Brigitte Helm, Hertha von Walther

Also Known As (AKA): Begierde, Crise, Crisi, Crisis, Desire

IMDB

File Name : Abwege1928.1080p.mkv
File Size : 3.37 GB / 3450.66 MB
Resolution : 1920×1080
Duration : 01:38:26
Video : AVC, 4 645 kb/s, 24.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 253 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: German intertitles
Subs: English, Italian (embedded)
Country: Germany
Genre: Drama, Romance, Silent

Abwege1928.1080p.mkv

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ernst Lubitsch

rarefilm — Mon, 09 Mar 2026 20:03:52 +0000

Mrs Erlynne, the mother of Lady Windermere – her daughter does not know about her – wants to be introduced in society, so that she can marry Lord Augustus Lorton. Lord Windermere, who helped her with a cheque, invites her to his wifes birthday-party, but Lady Windermere thinks, she has reason to be jealous, so she decides to leave her husband and go to Lord Darlington, who is pining for her. Mrs Erlynne finds this out and tries to prevent her of this mistake, but her daughter leaves her fan in Lord Darlingtons residence.

Director: Ernst Lubitsch

Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell

Also Known As (AKA): Lady Windermeres Fächer, O Leque de Lady Margarida, L’éventail de Lady Windermere, Il ventaglio di Lady Windermere, O Leque de Lady Margarida, El abanico de Lady Windermere

IMDB

File Name : Lady Windermere.s Fan.mkv
File Size : 1.3 GB / 1334.95 MB
Resolution : 650×438 @ 594×438
Duration : 01:29:19
Video : AVC, 1 704 kb/s, 23.976 (24000/1001) FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English intertitles, commentary (2 separate audio tracks)
Country: United States
Genre: Comedy

Lady_Windermere.s_Fan.mkv

The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929) Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü

rarefilm — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 20:22:39 +0000

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Directors: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen

Also Known As (AKA): O Inferno Branco do Piz Palü, L’enfer blanc du Piz Palu, Prisonniers de La Montagne, La tragedia di Pizzo Palù, Prisioneros de la montaña

IMDB

File Name : The.White.Hell.of.Pitz.Palu.1929.mkv
File Size : 2.06 GB / 2107.81 MB
Resolution : 706×480 @ 628×480
Duration : 02:14:22
Video : AVC, 2 000 kb/s, 20.000 FPS
Audio : AC-3, 192 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English intertitles
Country: Germany
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance

The.White.Hell.of.Pitz.Palu.1929.mkv

Tempest (1928) Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone

rarefilm — Fri, 13 Feb 2026 19:37:37 +0000

In the final days of Czarist Russia, a peasant is raised from the ranks to Lieutenant. The other officers, aristocrats all, resent him, and make his life difficult. He falls in love with a princess, who spurns him. When he is caught in her room, he is stripped of his rank and thrown into prison. Then comes the Red Terror, and the tables are turned.

Directors: Sam Taylor, Lewis Milestone

Stars: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim

Also Known As (AKA): La tempestad, A Tempestade, Der Rote Sturm, Wetterleuchten, Tempête, Den röda stormen

IMDB

File Name : Tempest.avi
File Size : 1.64 GB / 1678.81 MB
Resolution : 624×464
Duration : 01:50:20
Video : MPEG-4 Visual, 1 794 kb/s, 22.000 FPS
Audio : MPEG Audio, 160 kb/s (CBR), 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 2 streams

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English intertitles
Genre: Drama, Romance

Tempest.avi

Peter the Great (1922) Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

rarefilm — Fri, 06 Feb 2026 00:29:38 +0000

Peter the Great, on becoming czar of Russia, using his knowledge of shipbuilding gained in a foreign country to establish a navy, and to be able to use the navy, provokes a war with Sweden, defeating that country at the battle of Poltava. This battle marks a turning point with Peter and with Russia, his only son proves a coward, he meets a girl refugee and finally makes her his empress, he alienates the church and many nobles. All these factors finally lead to a conspiracy which, while it is crushed, ends in Peter finding out how he is hated by his people, and in his killing of his son, the remorse for which hastens his own death.

Director: Dmitriy Bukhovetskiy

Stars: Emil Jannings, Dagny Servaes, Bernhard Goetzke

Also Known As (AKA): Peter der Große, Pierre le Grand, Pedro el Grande

IMDB

File Name : Peter der Grosse 1923.mkv
File Size : 2.57 GB / 2627.43 MB
Resolution : 704×576 @ 768×576
Duration : 01:14:24
Video : AVC, 5 000 kb/s / 5 000 kb/s, 25.000 FPS
Audio : AAC, 129 kb/s, 48.0 kHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: WEBRip
Language: Russian intertitles
Subs: English (srt)
Country: Germany
Genre: Biography, Drama, Silent

Peter_der_Grosse_1923.mkv
Peter_der_Grosse_1923.srt

Walking Back (1928) Rupert Julian, Cecil B. DeMille, Richard Walling, Sue Carol, Robert Edeson

rarefilm — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:47:30 +0000

Jazz age youngster Smoke Thatcher “borrows” a neighbor’s car to take Patsy, his sweetheart, to a dance after his father refuses to lend him his car. A car-fight with a rival results in the borrowed automobile’s being so wrecked that Smoke cannot return it. The garage to which he and Patsy take the car for repair turns out to be actually a gang’s hideaway and a place where stolen cars are brought and later fenced.

Stars: Richard Walling, Sue Carol, Robert Edeson

Also Known As (AKA): Mocidade Heroica, Gärendes Blut, Jazz-Ungdom, Nuit de folie

IMDB

File Name : Walking.Back.1928.mkv
File Size : 1058.78 MB
Resolution : 626×480
Duration : 00:52:01
Video : AVC (AVC), 2 405 Kbps, 23.976 fps
Audio : AC-3 (AC3), 384 Kbps (CBR), 48.0 KHz, 2 channels, 1 stream

Quality: DVDRip
Language: English intertitles
Genre: Drama

Walking.Back.1928.mkv