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- DirectorArchie MayoStarsPauline FrederickBert LytellLois WilsonA court-room drama in which Robert Strickland (Bert Lytell) finds himself on trial for the murder of his friend.
- DirectorEdward SlomanStarsRudolph SchildkrautRosa RosanovaRobert GordonThe two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, each generation learns to accept change to preserve the family as a source of love and respect.
- DirectorEdmund GouldingStarsConstance BennettJoan CrawfordSally O'NeilThree women performing in a Broadway show face temptation, love, money, betrayal and tragedy as the cost of fame.
- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsLewis StoneBarbara BedfordWalter PidgeonGervas Carew's wife, Elinor, has deserted him while he was fighting for France, for Lord Clyde Geraldine, a cad of the first order, but Elinor, in turn is cast off when Lord Geraldine turns his attention to an Irish lass, Marny. Marny has no idea of Geraldine's past nor his brutal nature. Carew goes to Algiers where he studies medicine and becomes a friend of the Aranian tribes, who call him the "Desert Healer.' Lord Geraldine comes to Algiers for his health, and is beating Marny when Carew is passing their house one night. Carew rescues her and carries her off to his desert tent. Lord Geraldine comes after him the next day looking for revenge, but Lord Geraldine makes his elephant mad, and the elephant gores him to death. Carew and Marny take up light tent-keeping together, and the circle is completed.
- DirectorClarence G. BadgerJosef von SternbergStarsClara BowAntonio MorenoWilliam AustinA salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
- DirectorHenry KingStarsRonald ColmanVilma BánkyAgostino BorgatoA love triangle involving two members of a travelling circus and an aristocrat has serious consequences for all three individuals.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGösta EkmanEmil JanningsCamilla HornThe demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsColleen MooreDonald ReedClaude GillingwaterGawky country girl Berenice Summers (Colleen Moore) is catapulted head-first into High Society when her Uncle Seth (Burr McIntosh) strikes oil. Shipped off to a fancy boarding school, Berenice suffers at the hands of her snooty classmates, but the last straw comes when she's publicly humiliated by local wise-guy Paul Carroll (Donald Reed).
- DirectorLuther ReedStarsRichard DixMary BrianCharles ByerAmidst revolution-torn China, Jim Bucklin, captain of the Fan Tan, a river freighter, anchors at Chow Luen, a town near Shanghai, and finds the hunger-mad populace in an uprising. In a small cafe he meets Shanghai Rose. During dinner, Louden, owner of the ship, Sheila, his daughter, Payson, his manager, and Algy, an aristocratic Englishman, arrive and demand food. They are attacked by a band of revolutionary bandits, and Jim ushers them aboard his ship and sets out for Shanghai. Scarface and his men, thirsting for vengeance, attack the ship, and Jim, lacking a crew, puts his passengers to work. Sheila realizes her love for Jim when she believes him killed; the Louden party is rescued by a warship; and Sheila is happily reunited with Jim, who is actually a lieutenant-commander in the United States Navy.
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsConstance TalmadgeTullio CarminatiEdward MartindelThe storyline is loosely-based on Buffalo candy-maker August Merckens' opera-singer daughter Baroness Platon Von Wrangel, who married the Russian leader in the fight for restoration of the Russian monarchy.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsRichard BarthelmessDorothy MackaillAnders RandolfU. S. Cavalry Lieutenant Ranson belittles the exploits of a bandit known as "The Red Rider," and boasts to his fellow officers that he could hold up a stagecoach with a pair of scissors. And rides out and does so. But the next day, the postmaster, returning from a neighboring town, is also held up and his bodyguard is killed. Ranson is arrested on suspicion and placed on trial. But at the trial suspicion point to Cahill, post trader, and father of Ranson's sweetheart, Mary. In order to save him, Ranson pleads guilty but, in return and knowing that his daughter loves Ranson, Cahill admits he is "The Red Rider." Meanwhile, the real "Red Rider" is still at large.
- DirectorDorothy ArznerStarsClara BowCharles 'Buddy' RogersJosef SwickardA young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert J. FlahertyStarsMonte BlueRaquel TorresRobert AndersonAn alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellGuinn 'Big Boy' WilliamsMary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
- DirectorJohn Francis DillonStarsRichard BarthelmessBetty CompsonLoretta YoungA sea captain comes to rescue of a prostitute in Shanghai, who is being run out of town. He takes her aboard his ship and heads out to sea. Not long afterwards the ship sinks but the pair manage to get into a lifeboat before it goes under. They are later picked up by a passing ship, but it turns out that the crew had just mutinied against their captain and taken over the ship.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsJohn GilbertGreta GarboLars HansonChildhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves.
- DirectorAlfred RabochStarsOlive BordenRalph EmersonDuke MartinDuke Martin falls in love with Ralph Emerson's beautiful wife
- DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsWilliam HainesAnita PageErnest TorrenceBill Whipple is Jim MacDonald's happy-go-lucky mechanic, who thinks that he is the world's greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees the lovely Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport, and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid, and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Lee Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and drives the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
- DirectorFred NibloMauritz StillerStarsGreta GarboAntonio MorenoMarc McDermottAn architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
- DirectorWilliam A. WellmanStarsGertrude OlmsteadGeorge K. ArthurJoan CrawfordIdealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. Peter discovers Harry is a bootlegger and turns him over to he prohibition agents, including Jane (Joan Crawford). Amy, at last, is impressed with Peter.
- DirectorLynn ShoresStarsDouglas Fairbanks Jr.Marceline DayHenry B. WalthallWhen Steve Maxwell and flapper Sue Randall wreck her father's automobile during a drunken escapade, her father exploits the mishap and blackmails Steve's father into supporting an illegal contract in city affairs.
- DirectorRowland V. LeeStarsWarner OlandNeil HamiltonJean ArthurDuring the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vows to take his revenge on the British army officers he holds responsible for the killings.
- DirectorPaul L. SteinStarsJetta GoudalIvan LebedeffLeonid SnegoffZita, a beautiful spy for the Sultan of Morocco, is ordered to obtain military secrets from the French army. The Sultan cleverly arranges for Zita to meet Col. Pierre Gautier, which results in their marriage. This alliance enables Zita to gain valuable information, which she transmits to the Sultan through her maid. Shortly after the wedding, Pierre is called back to France, and Zita follows. During the voyage, she meets internationally famous violinist Jean La Coste, and they fall desperately in love. Upon her arrival, Zita is shocked to learn that Jean is Pierre's younger brother, and both despair over the situation. Pierre soon finds them together, and orders Jean to Morocco. When Jean spurns Zita, she frames him as a spy, but his confession of love prompts her admission of guilt. The reunited brothers witness her execution.
- DirectorGregory La CavaStarsCorinne GriffithGrant WithersAlbert ContiYouthful sweethearts Bobby and Jim plan to get married, but Bobby wants them to settle down in their sleepy hometown. Jim has bigger plans and walks out on Bobby, who then resorts to her feminine tricks to win him back.
- DirectorRichard WallaceStarsNancy CarrollGary CooperPaul LukasShortly after the United States enters World War I in 1917, a Broadway actress agrees to let a naive soldier court her in order to impress his friends, but a real romance soon begins.
- DirectorKenneth S. WebbStarsRichard BarthelmessLois MoranGeoffrey KerrPrince Rupert of Koronia comes to the United States and, bored with pomp and circumstance, falls in love with Linda Lee Stafford. Called home when the crown prince dies unexpectedly, Rupert finds himself first in line for the throne, and a royal marriage is arranged for him. Before the wedding ceremony takes place, however, the widow of the late crown prince gives birth to twins, who become the heirs presumptive to the throne, a situation freeing Rupert to marry as he wishes. Linda Lee comes to Europe for a visit, and she and Rupert are married.
- DirectorClarence BrownStarsNorma TalmadgeRonald ColmanGertrude AstorKiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
- DirectorJohn G. BlystoneStarsMadge BellamyLouise DresserBarry NortonA stage-actress mother and her daughter wage a battle of wills in a "don't do this, daughter" and "don't do that, daughter" story of youthful folly and over-zealous parental devotion.
- DirectorAllan DwanStarsDouglas FairbanksBelle BennettMarguerite De La MotteKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled when his son is born--an heir to the throne. But his Queen has actually delivered twin boys. Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu outsmarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever. Richelieu enlists D'Artagnan to look after and protect the young prince. Meanwhile, de Rochefort learns of the twins and Richelieu's plans, and kidnaps the twin, raising him in secret. Many years later, with Richelieu dead and the young prince crowned King Louis XIV, Rochefort launches his plan. The king is kidnapped, replaced with his twin, put in an iron mask so as not to be recognized, and led off to a remote castle to be held prisoner. Louis XIV is able to alert D'Artagnan, who realizes that only his friends Athos, Porthos, and Aramis can help him, so he reunites the Musketeers to derail Rochefort's nefarious plot but at a heavy toll.
- DirectorArvid E. GillstromStarsEdward ThompsonEvelyn PreerSpencer WilliamsA nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsCharles MurrayGeorge SidneyVera GordonThe story of two families, one Jewish and one Irish, living side by side in the poorer quarters of New York in a state of hostility.
- DirectorMillard WebbStarsJohn BarrymoreDolores CostelloGeorge O'HaraThis silent movie is based on Melville's classic Moby Dick. Ahab and his brother compete for the affections of minister's daughter Esther. But the great white whale has been eluding the harpooners, bearing many scars of failed attacks. Can our hero Ahab succeed where others have perished?
- DirectorGeorge MelfordStarsSeena OwenArnold GrayMatthew BetzGeorge Fowler, a young man from the states, arrives at the Mias saloon, and the proprietor, "Blak Jack" Hovey, orders a saloon girl, known only as "The Flame," to fleece him. When she learns he doesn't have any money she gets him a job at a café. News of a gold strike in the Ophir area comes, and George sets out, with a dog team supplied by Flame. Meanwhile a woman comes to town, says she is Mrs. Fowler and is looking for her husband.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsMargarita FischerJames B. LoweArthur Edmund CareweSlavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsWilliam BoydElinor FairWalter LongAfter fleeting glimpses of the girl in Italy and New York, Jim is called home to take up the feud with the cattlemen and finds the girl owns one of the ranches. She turns on him but warns him of attempts against his life and he outwits a lynching party landing his enemies in jail. Thrilling western with exceptionally tense suspense.
- DirectorIrving CummingsStarsMonte BlueLeila HyamsClyde CookMartin Sondes (Monte Blue) is an easy-going cowhand going up against a shady, saloon owner called "Square Deal" Fenton (Paul Nicholson", whose chief means of making money is befuddling cowpuncher's brains with liquor and then cheating and robbing them of their money.
- DirectorLouis RalphStarsLouis RalphFritz GreinerJohn Mylong
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsIrene RichWilliam RussellWilliam Collier Jr.Diana Maxwell, a British army officer's-wife cause havoc, desire and jealousy among the men stationed in an isolated outpost in the Sahara desert and other locations.
- DirectorPaul LeniStarsMarian NixonFlorence TurnerHobart BosworthDetective Charlie Chan investigates a pearl necklace, which has caused misery for all of its owners.
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelGeorge E. StoneAt the Café du Chat Noir, Joan Billaire, a dancer, attacks Mitzi for schooling her brother, Petit, in picking pockets and is saved from a knifing by Lupine, a thief. Later, Lupine enlists Petit's aid in a robbery, and the boy is accidentally wounded by him. Joan calls on Dr. Raoul de Boise, who informs the police; and when the boy dies, she is prevented from shooting Raoul by the intervention of Father Colomb. As Joan becomes romantically involved with the doctor, the jealous Lupine wounds Raoul. Joan confesses her part in robbing the church but is forced to marry Lupine as the price. Learning Raoul is alive, Lupine in a jealous rage confesses to killing Petit and is himself killed by the gendarmes.
- DirectorF. Richard JonesStarsRonald ColmanClaud AllisterLawrence GrantA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsAudrey FerrisWilliam Collier Jr.Tom RickettsA young couple, Ed (Willain Collier Jr.) and May (Audrey Ferris) have to stay married for a year in order to receive a large monetary windfall from a kindly relative. If they don't the money goes to a cousin, Claude de Brie (George Beranger as Andre Beranger). Enter the oily cousin whose only agenda is to separate the couple before the year passes. Cad that he is, he uses femme-fatale, vamp-for-hire Miss Pfeffe (Margaret Livingston) as part of his unsavory plan.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHarold GoodwinJack AckroydThe adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
- DirectorHerbert BrenonStarsRonald ColmanNeil HamiltonRalph ForbesMichael "Beau" Geste leaves England in disgrace and joins the infamous French Foreign Legion. He is reunited with his two brothers in North Africa, where they face greater danger from their own sadistic commander than from the rebellious Arabs.
- DirectorKing VidorGeorge W. HillStarsJohn GilbertRenée AdoréeHobart BosworthA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
- DirectorJosef von SternbergArthur RossonStarsGeorge BancroftClive BrookEvelyn BrentBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
- DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsOlive BordenJohn HollandNoreen PhillipsAmbitious Rosemary Merton ( Olive Borden ), agrees to pose in the studio of Larry Kane ( Ben Bard ), a depraved artist, but she refuses to do so in the nude. However, Kane makes it appear in the portrait that she posed in that manner, and she is disgraced when local newspapers print the picture. She is eventually exonerated by the intervention of Sloan Whitney ( Clifford Holland ), her wealthy young sweetheart; and Rosemary makes the sacrifice of ambition for love.
- DirectorFrank LloydJosef von SternbergStarsClara BowEsther RalstonGary CooperA young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
- StarsEarl McCarthy
- DirectorDonald CrispStarsLeatrice JoyCharles RayPhyllis HaverRoxanna is married to British official John Clayton, but when she catches John in the apparent embrace of another woman, Roxanna leaves England and goes to visit her friend Betty in America. There she tells people that her 'beloved' husband is dead. Betty's friends take to Roxanna, especially Ned, for whom Betty has strong feelings. Further complications arrive in the presence of John Clayton, who has followed Roxanna and now pretends to be the Duke of Morebay and another potential suitor for 'widowed' Roxanna.
- DirectorFrank UrsonStarsVera ReynoldsKenneth ThomsonMajel ColemanJohn Livingston is a rich mama's-boy, who owns a blooded dog named Paul. Paul meets Maggie Mutt, and Paul, being a pedigree canine and somewhat of a cad, lures trusting Maggie to the barn to have his way. He then departs for his palatial doghouse at the Livingston estate. Meanwhile Maggie is brokenhearted and also finds that she is in a "family way", and gives birth to a pup she names Hank. Maggie tells Hank to find his "human", and departs the scene. Hank goes to the park, meets a "human" named Mary Kelly, who is a homeless waif and sweetheart of poverty, and the two adopt each other. Later on in the park Paul comes strolling along with his "human", John. A child falls into the lake and Paul and Hank team up to save her. This leads their "humans" to strike up a conversation, and the male human falls in love with the female human, and takes her home to meet his aristocratic mother and expresses his desire to marry Mary. John's mother is having none of this and objects strongly, especially since neither Hank nor his human, Mary, have a pedigree. But of course John's mother does not know that Hank is Paul's illegitimate pup. Also John's mother has other plans for him which include his marriage to Cecile Adams, who has a high-society pedigree but does not have a dog.
- DirectorAlfred E. GreenStarsJanet GaynorGlenn TryonBen BardMarianna Miller, dressing as a boy to seek employment in the city, becomes involved with a gang of ruffians; and when she hits Dexter Wright, a young businessman, with a tomato, he detects her disguise and helps her obtain a secretarial position with his competitor. Misunderstanding his interests in her girl friend, Edna, Marianna and her pal answer an advertisement for two girls wanted--a maid and a cook--and end up as servants in the country house of Dexter's uncle. Marianna learns of a plan to swindle Dexter's uncle, and in the process, she and Dexter fall in love. .
- DirectorEdward H. GriffithStarsRod La RocqueJeanette LoffRichard TuckerRod La Roque is a subway ticket taker who believes beautiful Jeanette Loff is involved in a robbery but he still falls in love with her and tries to stop her wedding.
- DirectorMack SennettStarsJohnny BurkeSally EilersMatty KempJohnny (Johnny Burke), a Great War American doughboy whom everyone, including his sweetheart Sally (Sally Eilers), assumes is a coward, turns out to be a real hero.
- DirectorReginald BarkerStarsDorothy MackaillIan KeithMyrna LoySteven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he visits the annual Fiesta for the last time, and he encounters Ruth Jordan, the daughter of his long-dead partner, and discovers that she is a decadent, world-weary society girl. He decides that she's in need of reforming, and that a dose of the Greats Outdoors might do it - so he kidnaps her.
- DirectorMervyn LeRoyStarsAlice WhiteJack MulhallThelma ToddA cloakroom girl falls for a rich boy who might not actually be rich.
- DirectorSidney OlcottStarsBetty BronsonRicardo CortezEdwards DavisAgainst the backdrop of New York City of the early 1850s, a young woman -- naively seeking to win the love she reads about in the romance novels she devours -- finds one prospect in an earnest denizen of the Bowery, and another in an elegant young aristocrat. Focusing on the bygone era's fashions, the novelty of the bicycle-built-for-two, and an inventor's quest for the horseless carriage, the film gently stirs the audiences' nostalgia for simpler times.
- DirectorRobert Z. LeonardStarsMarion DaviesJetta GoudalNils AstherA ditzy American girl visiting Monte Carlo is hired by a tennis champ to be his "cardboard lover"--to pretend to be in love with him so he can teach his two-timing fiancée a lesson and win her back. What he doesn't realize is that the girl isn't pretending; she actually is in love with him, and she sets out to win him for herself.
- DirectorGeorge B. SeitzStarsJack HoltNoah BeeryBillie DoveDesperate for money, a rancher decides to trap and sell wild horses, using barbed wire. The local Navajo tribe tries to persuade him not to do it.
- DirectorFrank TuttleStarsBebe DanielsHarrison FordAlfred LuntEngaged to African explorer Anthony Blunt, Pamela Gordon grows tired of waiting and becomes engaged to MackIntosh Josephs. Blunt returns, and he and Pamela decide to elope to Bermuda. To deceive MackIntosh, Pamela has Blunt pretend to make love to her hoydenish sister, Diana. The latter believes him and with the aid of Amelia Pincent, the girls' spinster chaperon, locks up Pamela in a closet and goes in her place aboard ship. The next day, Blunt discovers the substitution and is shocked. To get back at him, Diana, using her sister's trousseau, transforms herself into the ship's most popular female. Blunt becomes jealous. Complications arise when all the passengers are quarantined for a week on Quarantine Island, with the "honeymooners" put in a tiny cottage for privacy. When the quarantine is lifted, Diana marries Blunt, leaving Pamela to MackIntosh.
- DirectorWilliam BeaudineTom McNamaraStarsMary PickfordRoy StewartMary Louise MillerMolly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
- DirectorRalph InceStarsConway TearleMargaret MorrisFrankie Darro
- DirectorLouis J. GasnierStarsClara BowDonald KeithLillian LeightonStreet people Armand and Marie are madly in love, and she persuades Armand and other gang members to rob the home of Pierre Marcel, a wealthy scientist. The police break up the robbery but Pierre hides Armand from them because he kept a gang member from stabbing him, but Armand is wounded in doing so. When Armand regains his health, Pierre takes him around town and introduces him to many women, and Armand has no objections. Marie - jealous of the women - swears revenge on Marcel. They meet and he falls in love with her, and they are married while Armand is away in London. On their wedding night, Marie tells Marcel she is an Apache and her revenge is complete, and she rushes into Armand's arms. But another Apache, in love with Marie, wounds her with a gun shot.
- DirectorMurray RothStarsHorace HeidtLobo