Film Dictionary

Dreadful silent melodrama from Cecil B. DeMille. It's all about a swindler who changes his identity with a dead man and who is later sen...

One of Chaplin's worst films.

A simple Allied soldier (Charlie) manages to kidnap the Kaiser during World War I. One of Chaplin's best comedies.

Larry Semon and Stan Laurel star as a pair of convicts in this hilarious slapstick farce.

A poor tramp tries to survive in a ruthless world.

Hilarious silent comedy starring Harold Lloyd as a fireman.

Harold Lloyd pretends to be a professor.

Harold Lloyd and Snub Pollard are crooks.

The tragic sinking of the American passenger ship by a German U-Boat in 1917 was metriculously recreated by Winsor McCay in this impressive ...

An amusing comedy with Dorothy Devore dressed as a man. Directed by Al Christie.

Silent comedy set in a restaurant, where some customers try to have a drink without paying for it. The film stars Chaplin's imitator, Bi...

Pola Negri is excellent in this otherwise mediocre silent version of Prosper Merimee's immortal tale. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch (one of...

Hungry Stan Laurel tricks a cook by tasting his food and pretending not to like it. Simple comedy set in a cafeteria. Directed and produced...

A confusing Harold Lloyd's comedy.

Everyone is shooting at the piano player in this Harold Lloyd comedy from his "Winckle" period. Directed by Alf Goulding and prod...

Widely considered as Mary Pickford's greatest film.

An incoherent Fatty Arbuckle comedy. Buster Keaton's weird dance is a highlight, but otherwise there is little humor in this failed effo...

Harold Lloyd is running a hotel.

Brechtian touches (mostly in self-reflexive inter-titles) greatly enliven this otherwise routine comedy set in Virginia's hillbilly coun...

Slapstick comedy western starring Roscoe Arbuckle (who also directs), Buster Keaton and Al St.John. The train sequence is a classic.

While very confusing as far as the plot is concerned, this Roscoe Arbuckle comedy is a real gem, with incredibly inventive gags, elaborate p...

Rollicking farce with Fatty as a patient in a sanatorium. Buster Keaton plays a surgeon. Directed by Roscoe Arbuckle.

A Mutt and Jeff cartoon directed by Charles R. Bowers and Bud Fisher.

Bobby and his dog are working in a restaurant, but the evil cook makes their lives miserable. Today, the cartoon might seem somewhat simpl...

1. "Il Fauno" (Febo Mari, Italy) 2. "The Merry Jail" (Ernst Lubitsch, Germany) 3. "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook ...

Beautiful and poetic Italian film about a statue coming to life.

Only brief fragments of this legendary film have been preserved.