Silent shorts 1920+
Short silent films up to 45 minutes in length.
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- DirectorHal YatesStarsAnita GarvinMarion ByronEdgar KennedyTwo girls are invited to dinner by the tight boss of the boyfriend of one of them. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream, but swinging doors, ventilators, policemen, and a brat make getting the ice-cream even close to the car where the rest are waiting impossible.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceCharles AberA tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinPhyllis AllenMack SwainAfter a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsAlex AllinLucien BatailleGenica AthanasiouObsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.
- DirectorBuster KeatonMalcolm St. ClairStarsBuster KeatonVirginia FoxJoe RobertsA series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonSybil SeelyJoe RobertsA newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineVirginia FoxA series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerPing Pong receives a bottle of alcohol as a gift from the Emperor. When he gets drunk and chokes on a fish bone, no one in the city wants to take responsibility for his death.
- DirectorSergei EisensteinStarsGrigoriy AleksandrovAleksandr AntonovSergei EisensteinFilmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.
- DirectorMannus FrankenJoris IvensRegen is an experimental documentary film directed by Joris Ivens in 1929. It can be defined as a cinematic-poem. In 2021 Breve Storia Del Cinema restored the film with a new score composed by Nikolas Labrinakos.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisWally HoweAfter numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisFred McPhersonThe comic adventures of a new car owner.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisNoah YoungBlase eastern boy is shipped off to a ranch in the 'wild west ' by his father.
- DirectorMaks KalmicStarsMirko MilisavljevicTatjana FarcicMilan TimoticA short film which documents a 24 hour period in the city of Belgrade, Yugoslavia.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineMarion HarlanBuster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
- DirectorHarry EdwardsStarsCharlotte MineauVernon DentLeo SulkyA high-society woman films a vanity film of her dancing with a group of women. The premiere takes an hilariously disastrous turn when a lion gets loose.
- DirectorFred GuiolStarsAnita GarvinMarion ByronMax DavidsonAnita & Marion take a temporary job as waitresses in Max's diner, next to a train station. When the train stops off, pandemonium erupts when the passengers fill the diner and all want meals immediately.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerA poor young fisherman tries to rescue the Emperor of China's daughter.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerAnimated version by Lotte Reininger of the well known story of Cinderella who finds her prince with the help of a fairy godmother. The animated short film sticks very close to the source material.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerNivea commercial from 1922 in which a margrave meets a marquess with the most beautiful skin. While dancing below her balcony at night, the marquess tells him her secret: She uses Nivea soap and Nivea cream.
- DirectorLotte Reiniger
- DirectorJulius PinschewerLotte Reiniger
- DirectorLotte ReinigerAlex Strasser
- DirectorDziga VertovThe first animated movie in the Soviet Union. A bloated caricature of a Capitalist devouring a massive heap of food and drink.
- DirectorNikolay KhodataevZenon KomissarenkoYoury MerkulovA tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF film "Aelita" from the same year.