Film Dictionary

A classic silent horror film about a mysterious man living in secret donjons under the Opera building in Paris.

College comedy starring Harold Lloyd. Co-directed by Fred Newmeyer and Sam Taylor.

Buster Keaton in a parody of westerns. One of his weakest films, but still quite worthwhile.

Sergei Eisenstein's film debut. It's the story of police repression in tsarist Russia.

Silent "chambara jidai-geki" about a persecuted ronin. Directed by Buntaro Futagawa.

Oscar Wilde's verbal wit is hard to translate in a silent film, but it's still a fine picture.

Mary Pickford is excellent in this gritty urban melodrama directed by William Beaudine.

Being a silent movie, Erich von Stroheim's film adaptation of the famous operetta isn't as musically entertaining as the 1934 versio...

Before "Jurassic Park" (1993), there was "King King" (1933). But before "King Kong", there was "The Lost ...

Entertaining feature comedy starring Larry Semon.

Uneven, but often very interesting adaptation of the famous story. Directed by Larry Semon (who also plays the Scarecrow). Oliver Hardy play...

Jean Renoir's first film (or, to be more exact, his first solo film and his first released film). It's quite uneven – the first ...

A silent film adaptation of the famous play by Moliere, with a modern twist.

Silent film starring Lon Chaney as an old woman.

Silent drama starring Rudolpho Valentino.

Slightly disappointing sequel to "The Mark Of Zorro" (1920), but set in Spain instead of California. Short on action, long on page...

Directed by Louis Gasnier. A torrid (and very dated) melodrama starring Clara Bow.

Directed by Wesley Ruggles. A college drama starring Clara Bow as a flirtatious Jazz Baby.

Alfred Hitchcock's first film is not a suspense thriller, but a maudlin melodrama about two showgirls and their love affairs.

Norma Shearer in a double "Madonna/whore" role.

A Russian "Zorro", starring Rudolpho Valentino.

A "northern" (a western set in Canada) about two warring lumber companies.

Boring silent melodrama starring Bela Lugosi.

A very dated melodrama starring Greta Garbo as a young woman almost forced into prostitution to save her family from starving. A German film...

Very incoherent comedy with plenty of car chases and boat races. Madeline Hurlock is a spoiled young lady who loves to drive fast, Andy Cl...

A picnic goes all wrong.

A comedy about an inventor (Andy Clyde) and his clumsy assistant (Billy Bevan). It's most memorable for the classic sequence with B...

Funny comedy, produced by Joe Rock for Standard, about three fat lodgers ("Fat" Karr, "Kewpie" Ross and "Fatty...

Directed by Leo McCarey. Charley Chase shares a bathroom with a professor - a young and sexy lady. Mrs Chase isn't amused. Silent come...

Some racist (and unfunny) jokes almost ruin this otherwise promising Charley Chase comedy about a family leaving their daughter behind on a ...

A Mack Sennett comedy about baseball. One moderately amusing scene set in a bathroom, but mostly unmemorable.

There is one memorable sequence in this film, with Harry Langdon riding on a log, but the rest is perfectly forgettable.

A drunk (Stan Laurel) wrecks havoc in a posh restaurant and tries to get back home. An angry man, who finds Stan sleeping in his bed, chases...

A weird old train (called "Twenty-Cents Limited") is attacked by Indians. This Al St.John comedy is a parody of John Ford's ...

Timid Stan finds himself on a ship full of playful girls. After a shipwreck, Stan's virtue is seriously at risk. Produced by Joe Rock fo...

Larry Semon (who also directs) flirts with a pretty girl next door, but their parents are ennemis. Meanwhile, Larry burns a client's hai...

A young man is so taken with chess that he ignores his girlfriend. A Soviet film directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovski

Typical silent comedy.

James Finlayson visits his in-laws and fights with his wife's former beau, Oliver Hardy. Produced by Hal Roach and co-directed by Stan L...

Little orphan Harry Langdon is separated from his childhood sweetheart. Years later, he finds she's a bearded lady in a circus.

A mediocre Harry Langdon comedy. Harry gets married, but later suspects his wife of trying to poison him. Directed by Harry Edwards.

Harry Landon, cross-dressing, jewel thieves and sailors.

Harry Langdon gets involved with criminals.

Harry Langdon is selling fake medecine bottles.

Directed by Otto Messmer and produced by Pat Sullivan. Felix sails to the South Sea to find a cure for a red nose, encountering garlic-hat...

Alice is a hotel manager.

Felix goes to Russia to solve a cross-word puzzle.

Alice wins a mixed cars-and-horses race.

Alice wants to become a bullfighter, but she's revealed as a fraud when her bull turns out to be a cat in disguise! Quite uneven (the be...

A bolshevik agitator (a hen named Henski, looking suspiciously like Trotsky) encourages Alice's hens to go on strike. A very good cart...

Exciting train rides with Alice.

A cat wakes up, shaves while preparing breakfast with his tail and goes to work on a poultry farm. He also flirts with Farmer Al Falfa...