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- An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
- Two romantic rivals play a game of pool for the hand of their lady love.
- Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.
- After avoiding a bandit's advances, a woman receives his bet that she will kiss him willingly.
- Charlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America.
- A ranch foreman battles a rich stockbroker for the affections of a beautiful young woman.
- A neglected wife disguises herself in order to lure her wastrel husband into a compromising position.
- Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.
- The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
- On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
- Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
- In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
- Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
- A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
- An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
- An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
- A documentary on the Olympic games of ancient Greece, made during the 1924 games.
- A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.
- A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
- An American criminal imports a gang of Hungarian gypsies to gain control over a fortune. The victim, Doris Merrick, is persuaded by fake medium Zara to hand over her jewels to Nash.
- A malevolent phony preacher plots to take advantage of a woman from his congregation who happens to be in love with his long-estranged identical twin brother.
- A scientist's invisible ray freezes Paris into immobility.
- When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
- A documentary on the 1924 Olympic Game in Paris.
- A documentary covering the Olympic Games at Chamonix in 1924.
- An educational film, a movie through a microscope, in two parts. Within minutes after the egg drops in the water, fertilization occurs and contractions start. Soon, in a fertilized egg, we see the germinal disc divide into two blastomeres. Divisions continue; contractions re-occur at the cap as it covers the egg. Title cards in French tell us what to watch for. Muscular movements and circulation appear; the heart beats. In part two, we see blood circulation begin as red cells develop on the surface of the yoke. They mass toward the heart. Arteries form, blood flows. The egg hatches and blood flows to new areas.
- A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
- A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
- Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.
- Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
- Bound by honor, a successful schoolboy takes the blame for his roommate's indiscretion, and it's all downhill from there.
- A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
- The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
- In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
- Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion-picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
- A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
- A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
- Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.
- Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
- Underwater photography presents the octopus: breathing, swimming, eating, dying.
- A documentary about the 1928 St. Moritz Olympics.
- A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
- Titles in French and English help us know what we're seeing. In all waters, daphnia abound. They are crustaceans about 2 ml long, with one eye that turns in all directions. Antennae enable daphnia to move: in a close up magnified 150,000 times, we see the muscles of the antennae pulse. We see the eye, the nerve mass, blood globules, and the heart, beating several times per second. The intestine forms a long line. All are females; eggs develop above the intestine. New generations come rapidly. Inside each daphnia are tiny infusoria; we watch them clean the intestine of a dead daphnia. An enemy, the hydra, approaches. A daphnia dies, but many remain.
- A documentary on the 1928 Olympic Games in Amsterdam.
- The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
- After killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.
- A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant, who is in love with his young protege', who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
- A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
- A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle.