The General

The General 1926

8.00

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

1926

Faust

Faust 1926

7.90

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

1926

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926

7.50

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures.

1926

A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness 1926

7.40

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

1926

Mother

Mother 1926

7.10

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

1926

Moana

Moana 1926

6.60

Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."

1926

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil 1926

7.20

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

1926

Ménilmontant

Ménilmontant 1926

7.40

A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.

1926

The Black Pirate

The Black Pirate 1926

6.80

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.

1926

Battling Butler

Battling Butler 1926

6.70

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

1926

Anemic Cinema

Anemic Cinema 1926

6.18

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

1926

Nana

Nana 1926

6.70

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

1926

The Bat

The Bat 1926

6.40

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

1926

Tartuffe

Tartuffe 1926

7.18

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

1926

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men 1926

6.80

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

1926

The Merry Widow

The Merry Widow 1926

6.80

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.

1926

For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake 1926

6.90

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

1926

So This Is Paris

So This Is Paris 1926

6.60

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame.

1926

The Holy Mountain

The Holy Mountain 1926

6.57

Professional dancer Diotima finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain climbers, Vigo and his older friend.

1926

Emak-Bakia

Emak-Bakia 1926

6.88

Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.

1926