The Golem: How He Came Into the World

The Golem: How He Came Into the World 1920

7.00

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

1920

The Eyes of the Mummy

The Eyes of the Mummy 1918

5.40

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.

1918

The Wildcat

The Wildcat 1921

7.70

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most unrestrained. A wonderfully anarchic and playfully subversive satire of military life from one of the great comedy filmmakers.

1921

The Doll

The Doll 1919

7.40

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

1919

Anna Boleyn

Anna Boleyn 1920

6.90

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

1920

The Island of the Blessed

The Island of the Blessed 1913

4.30

Max Reinhardt’s second and last silent film. It tells the story of two young girls (Cheerful & Shy) who, in order to escape their father’s authority, reaches an island of wonder filled with gods, nymphs, fauns and other creatures.

1913

The Oyster Princess

The Oyster Princess 1919

6.80

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.

1919

Sumurun

Sumurun 1920

6.00

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

1920

When Four Do the Same

When Four Do the Same 1917

1

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

1917

Where Is My Treasure?

Where Is My Treasure? 1916

6.30

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

1916

Die Flamme

Die Flamme 1923

5.80

In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.

1923

I Don't Want to Be a Man

I Don't Want to Be a Man 1918

6.40

A teenage tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun. She quickly discovers that being the opposite sex isn’t as easy as she had hoped for. What ensues is a gender-bending comedy decades ahead of its time.

1918

The Traitress

The Traitress 1911

4.40

A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.

1911

Rübezahl's Wedding

Rübezahl's Wedding 1916

5.00

In this film, the people of a Tyrolean town climb up into the nearby mountains, searching for a place where they can hold a picnic and a spring festival: ideally, a place where they can eventually erect dwellings and cultivate crops. Led by the local nobleman (Arthur Ehrens), they find an appropriate spot, and the festivities begin. Some children briefly perform a charming folk dance. Suddenly the Rübezahl arrives and threatens to kill all the townsfolk if they don't leave immediately.

1916

The Toboggan Cavalier

The Toboggan Cavalier 1918

1

A young woman is forced by her father to marry a man she doesn't love and flees before the marriage takes place. In a small village she falls in love with a young man, but her father disapproves of the match.

1918

The Pied Piper of Hamelin

The Pied Piper of Hamelin 1918

6.00

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.

1918

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry 1919

6.40

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

1919

Lulu

Lulu 1917

5.00

The circus dancer Lulu is a thoroughly liberal being. Although she loves her former savior, the clown Alfredo, she begins a relationship with the noble Henri von Reithofen. Henri kills himself ruined by the horrendous expenses for Lulu. She however is fishing for the next rich patron, the much older Baron Waldheim. His son knows Lulu and warns his father that she will also hurt him. Waldheim succumbs to Lulus's insinuations and punishes his son.

1917

Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer

Der geheimnisvolle Wanderer 1915

1

A mysterious man saves the son of a wealthy couple so they allow him to stay at their place for one night but soon a murder happens.

1915