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.
- DirectorVsevolod PudovkinMykola ShpykovskyiStarsJosé Raúl CapablancaVladimir FogelAnna ZemtsovaWith an international chess tournament in progress, a young man becomes completely obsessed with the game. His fiancée has no interest in it, and becomes frustrated and depressed by his neglect of her, but wherever she goes she finds that she cannot escape chess. On the brink of giving up, she meets the world champion, Capablanca himself, with interesting results.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy BrooksA man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
- DirectorLotte ReinigerDr. Dolittle, a veterinarian with a knack for talking to animals, ventures to Africa to cure a troop of sick monkeys.
- DirectorStephen RobertsStarsWallace LupinoLucille HuttonMonte CollinsA man rises to a day in which everything seems to go wrong. He handles it all in good humor, but does he have a breaking point?
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsDave FleischerMax FleischerKo-Ko, the Inkwell Clown leaps off the paper and follows a telephone wire to the cinema projectionist. Once inside the projector, the clown draws a mechanical dancing girl and soon falls in love. But the romance is not to be.
- DirectorJean EpsteinStarsJeanne HelblingSuzy PiersonOlga DayPsychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). Overpowered by weakness, the coward sidesteps the obligations that love affairs impose: rather than living up to his dates he takes his sports-car from an ultra-modern garage and speeds to the fashionable beaches of Deauville. On his way, he is fatally hit by a descending swallow. The film is divided into three segments each of which consists of events the woman experienced. These sequences are embedded in scenes in which each of the three women is telling and casting her mind back to her own love affair. Thus, present, future and past merge and cannot be distinguished clearly. The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his "L'Année dernière à Mariënbad" to a certain extent.
- DirectorBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonKathryn McGuireJoe KeatonA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsRaymond DubreuilEmma GyntRobert MirfeuilTired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
- DirectorGermaine DulacStarsGermaine DermozMadeleine GuittyJean d'YdAn unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
- DirectorLuis BuñuelStarsPierre BatcheffSimone MareuilLuis BuñuelLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
- DirectorJames W. HorneGilbert PrattStarsAnita GarvinMarion ByronMax DavidsonAnita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid out again.
- DirectorHans RichterStarsWerner GraeffWalter GronostayPaul HindemithHans Richter, noted for his abstract shorts, has everyday objects rebelling against their daily routine.
- DirectorFred C. NewmeyerHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisAnna Mae BilsonA young man, unaccustomed to children, must accompany a young girl on a train trip.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd ChaplinDisguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonBartine BurkettCharles DoretyA drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineJack DuffyA young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonJohn BrownPhyllis HaverA hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament.
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineLuke the DogTwo inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
- DirectorIvan MozzhukhinStarsIvan MozzhukhinNathalie LissenkoBartkevitchA foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.abridged version
- DirectorEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineMonte CollinsAfter waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.
- DirectorHal RoachFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy BrooksWhile at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother's permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.
- DirectorCarl AlstrupStarsCarl AlstrupPoul GuldagerVera Lense-MøllerThe eccentric Tom Nigel strolls through Copenhagen. Psychedelic dreams and grotesque coincidences propel him from one insane situation to the next. Via a personal ad he never submitted, he meets a mysterious woman with giant teeth and cannot get rid of her again. She chases him through the city while he tries to ingratiate himself with a beautiful woman who keeps crossing his path. At a café, he overhears a conversation about a cocaine temple and promptly sets out to find it.fragment
- StarsEmilie SannomA woman performs a series of dangerous stunts, many of which involve precarious climbs at tremendous heights, including riding down a windmill and hanging from the landing gear of a biplane.
- DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy BrooksA tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStarsHank MannVernon DentAlbert T. Gillespie
- DirectorEarl HurdCartoon Bobby and Fido go fishing, for a film being made by a live-action Bobby. They interact with the live-action world, and that world interacts with the cartoon world.
- DirectorRoy ClementsStarsGlenn TryonBlanche MehaffeyBilly EngleA novice learns to drive on a rental Ford to impress a girl.
- DirectorDave FleischerStarsMax FleischerMax adds Fade-Out Powder to his ink, and Ko-Ko and Fitz must deal with objects in their world disappearing before their eyes. Escaping into the real world, the duo float away on a balloon and sprinkle the vanishing powder on objects below.
- DirectorCharley ChaseStars'Snub' PollardMarie MosquiniGeorge RoweWhile his wife is shopping, Snub attempts to take a fifteen minute break.
- DirectorTom BuckinghamStarsHarry SweetHeinie ConklinWilliam IrvingA country John is detailed to deliver an Aladdin's lamp and the detective who is to prevent this finds plenty of trouble when John's double appears.fragment
- DirectorJoe RockStarsJoe RockMax AsherCharles AveryA traveling salesman battles hurricane-force winds and a disapproving father in competing with a rube for a local beauty's hand in marriage.
- DirectorJess RobbinsStarsBilly WestGlen CavenderJack HendersonA grocer's daughter, to her father's chagrin, has fallen for a fellow who is an unimposing physical specimen, but a local boxing champion hasn't given up on wooing the grocer's daughter and continues to try to muscle in.
- StarsHank MannVernon DentMadge KirbyHank is left in charge of an smarmy artist's studio, who's owner rejected a young woman who desired to be a model due to her not being shapely enough. The woman seeks revenge by getting her beach buddies to stage a false raid.
- DirectorLau LauritzenStarsAage BendixenOsvald HelmuthAxel Hultman
- DirectorRobert Storm Petersen
- DirectorDimitri KirsanoffStarsNadia SibirskaïaYolande BeaulieuGuy BelmontA couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
- DirectorClaude Autant-LaraStarsLouise LaraAntonin ArtaudPaul BarthetA story of a love trio, an adultery, an expression of jealousy and the desire to murder without the help of titles, by the combination of images, their associations, editing, tricks, overprints, idling, and acceleration.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsÈve FrancisEdmond Van DaëleGaston ModotTopinelli, who runs a bar in a harbor in Marseille with his wife Sarah, begin to quarrel in conflict when a sailor, who turns out to be a past lover of Sarah, dances with her on arrival to the bar.
- DirectorAllen WattStarsBilly BletcherHelen DarlingMary LewisA wife plots to keep her husband at home.
- DirectorJoão GonzalezEvery day, a father and his son jump with a parachute from their vertiginous cold house, attached to a cliff, to go to the village on the ground, far away where they sell the ice they produce daily.
- DirectorStan BrakhageAt a morgue, forensic pathologists conduct autopsies of the corpses assigned.