Silent Cinema Movies

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first...

The turbulent life and professional career of vaudeville actor and silent screen horror star Lon Chaney (1883-1930), the man of a thousand faces;...

In one of those wonderful coincidences of history, lumière, the French word for “light,” was also the last name of brothers...

A collection of restored prints from the Lumière Brothers.

A boy confesses his love to a girl — and turns to stone forever.

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

In 1970, Kuster Beaton, a former silent-film star, gives an interview looking back over his career. A journalist asks him about his legendary power :...

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character to his contemporary vicissitudes, passing...

A raucous comedy of errors about a singer stuck in a dead-end job who sees his last, best shot at rock stardom threatened by freak accidents, movie...

A newly elected village parson is required to marry his predecessor's widow. However, he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his...

Time is not linear, it is an infinite circle that surrounds us. -Andrei Tarkovsky

William J. Oliver filmed the ascent of Mount Tupper in the Glacier National Park by the famous Swiss mountain guide Edward Feuz accompanied by his...

In the near future, two bandits try to survive in a voiceless world. Humans have lost their ability to audibly communicate. Paranormal phenomena...

Based on the novel by Allen Raine - In Wales, a girl loves a manager but weds her employer who dies in a fire lit by a jealous madwoman.

A spiral of dreams and ages unravel as two celestial characters awaken and transmutate into a mythological being.

The night before her eighteenth birthday recital, an overworked and undertalented pianist is abducted by three ghouls.

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent...

Charlie Chaplin's beloved Tramp returns.

The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring...

From 1920 to 1965, the great Buster Keaton made spectacular use of locomotives in his films. This video essay charts the course of his iconic...