Drama Movies
Little Annie Rooney (1925)
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive, in partnership with…
The Iron Horse (1925)
Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave…
The Mystic (1925)
Zara, a phony psychic in a Hungarian carnival who, under the guidance of a Svengali-like con man crashes — and proceeds to swindle — American high society.
Kentucky Pride (1925)
This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes…
Motherhood: Life’s Greatest Miracle (1925)
In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.
The Gold Rush (1925)
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
The Late Mathias Pascal (1925)
Zander the Great (1925)
Mamie, an orphan girl who was abused in the orphanage, is taken in by Mrs. Caldwell, a kindly woman with a young son named Alexander. Mamie hits it off with…
Strike (1925)
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
The Lost World (1925)
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Too Many Kisses (1925)
Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in…
The Last Laugh (1924)
He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists…
L’Inhumaine (1924)
A famous singer Claire Lescot, who lives on the outskirts of Paris, is courted by many men, including a maharajah, Djorah de Nopur, and a young Swedish scientist, Einar Norsen….
Three Women (1924)
A frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed.
The Reckless Age (1924)
Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding…
The City without Jews (1924)
Manhandled (1924)
Comedy which concerns the struggles of an ambitious department store sales clerk who is caught up in New York high society.
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the…
The Enchanted Cottage (1924)
The Enchanted Cottage stars Richard Barthelmess as Oliver, a physically and emotionally wounded World War I veteran who comes home to a fiancée who promptly leaves him. Licking his wounds…
White Tiger (1923)
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they’re forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Regeneration (1923)
A ne’re-do-well man, a beautiful girl, and her one-legged body-guard/family servant are the sole survivors—they think—of a ship wreck and make it to a uninhabited south-seas island. The influence of…
The Ten Commandments (1923)
The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The…
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923)
Zaza (1923)
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he…
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate (1923)
When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city…
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
Drifting (1923)
In Shanghai, an American girl who helps runs an opium ring meets an American agent disguised as a mining engineer. The two fall in love, and she has to determine…
Where the North Begins (1923)
A German Shepherd puppy is “adopted” by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later…
Merry-Go-Round (1923)
A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country’s war…
The Toll of the Sea (1923)
A young Chinese woman saves an American man washed up onto the shore and the two fall in love, only for him to have second thoughts.