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- A social film with high melodrama, concerning a peasant (Shantaram) who loses his land to a greedy money-lender and moves to the city where he becomes a mill worker. Taking its cue from the realist tradition, the film counterposes an idyllic rural life (destroyed but the greedy money-lender who uses forged papers to steal the peasant's land) with the harsh city life. The shot of a hut accompanied by a howling dog are regarded as one of the most memorable moments of Indian cinema to date.Votes5
- The scene opens in Japan, and in a number of wonderfully beautiful scenic settings the young love of Masao and the lovely Hisa are shown. Sweethearts from childhood, the two decide to marry, just before Masao goes away to study in America. Masao is very ambitious and makes a very great success at the University of California, taking many prizes for his athletic prowess, and becoming the favorite of both faculty and students. He is seen winning running and swimming races. The picture takes us back to his beloved Hisa, who is very lonely, and her grief is added to by the death of her father. As he is passing away he administers to her "Katano," or the oath of the sword, which means that in case she commits sin, she is bound by honor to commit hara-kiri, killing herself with the sacred family sword. She is left with her mother and brother. Then the film shows more triumphs of Masao at the University, and a letter from him telling of his love for Hisa. At a reception on the University field day he meets Captain Doane and his wife. Next we see Capt. Doane boarding his ship and going out through the Golden Gate. The ship is wrecked by a typhoon near the Japanese shore, and Doane, almost dead, is rescued from the water by Hisa and her brother. He is taken to Hisa's house, and when he is convalescent a love springs up between them, Hisa forgetting Masao completely. Misa's brother does not approve of the new love, but is powerless to prevent it, and we see Hisa married to Doane, who decides to forget his wife at home and take a new name. He establishes himself, and in another year is in control of the local fishing industry. Next we see Masao, after his four years' course, taking leave at college. He comes home, and not knowing Hisa is married, goes to her house. He finds her with a baby, and is astonished. Just then Doane comes in, and Masao recognizes and denounces him. Doane flees. Masao follows, and after a hard fight kills him. When Masao returns to Hisa's house he finds that she has kept the oath of the sword, and killed herself for the sin of her unfaithfulness.Votes5
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- A ghost story in which the prospective son-in-law agrees to stay in the haunted house. The girl's father plays ghost, but the tables are turned on him in an amusing manner.Votes5
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- A mother and child live alone except for a big St. Bernard dog. One day the little girl dies and both mother and the little girl's playfellow, Don, seem grief-stricken. Later, in order to pay the rent, Don is sold, but is not happy in his new home, and day by day carries flowers in his mouth to the grave of his former little mistress, where he is finally found by his former owner's mother and they are never parted again.Votes5
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- For the past several years California experienced an extreme drought. But this past winter good fortune brought a bountiful amount of storms. The spring that followed took on magical and celebratory qualities of energy, joy, fullness, and rebirth. What I did not know is that the great beauty of this magnificent spring would bring forth not one, but four films, each one immediately following the previous.. Elohim was photographed in early spring, the week of the lunar new year, the very spirit of Creation.Votes5
- Lieutenant Mordaunt and his little sweetheart, Yum Yum, has many pleasant hours in the land of the Rising Sun. So winning are the ways of the little Japanese maiden, that Jack Tar falls very, very deeply in love with her. When love enters all else is forgotten, and thus, when the time for the departure of the fleet arrives, the lieutenant awakens to find that it was all a dream, and that it is now time to be up and doing and leave his little sweetheart behind him. The fleet returns to port, and Mordaunt goes home to his people. Staying at the house are three of his cousins, who greet him boisterously, for being female cousins, they look forward to jolly times with the breezy sailor. Mordaunt's thoughts still turn to the land of the Rising Sun and to his little sweetheart far across the ocean. To their great disappointment, the cousins find a great change in their once cheerful playmate. In place of the breezy sailor man is a poor love-sick swain, who can do naught else but sigh the hours away. The girls find the source of the trouble in the shape of a half-finished letter to Japan, and they decide to have some fun. Arraying themselves in Japanese clothes, they annoy their cousin considerably by appearing before him in the garb he loves so well, only to disappear again into a thicket or behind a tree. Finally, the tormentors are surprised to see their big, manly cousin burst into tears. From that moment Mordaunt becomes more and more melancholy, and in fact, his parents begin to entertain grave fears as to his health. Meanwhile the little Japanese girl beyond the seas has not remained idle. With the energy and enterprise of her race, she has decided to follow her lover beyond the seas. After a long and weary voyage, the little Japanese maiden arrives in Europe. Having carefully rehearsed her part beforehand, the winsome Yum Yum finds little difficulty in finding her way to her lover, who is, by this time desperately ill. At first Mordaunt does not recognize Yum Yum, on account of her European dress, which becomes her so well, but when she again dons the kimono and flaunts again her dainty fan, the lieutenant recognizes her, and all their troubles are forgotten.Votes5
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- We have produced in remarkably clear detail every stage in the development of a fly, following which we have shown the terrible unsanitary conditions prevailing in a large city. For example, scenes showing garbage by the ton either lying or being dumped into the streets; women nursing babies practically on top of garbage heaps; children wallowing in prevailing squalor, and so forth. In the same connection we have produced a series of interesting scenes showing our dangerous and horribly unsanitary neighbor, the push cart peddler, and with flies swarming about his products which rapidly decompose by the fierce heat of the sun.Votes5
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- The avid reader of detective novels, Astrid, tries to imitate her paper heroes in a creepy murder mystery on the otherwise peaceful estate Rømersholm.Votes5
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- Telephone current (personified as an animated messenger boy) travels to and fro across telephone wires to demonstrate what happens when a call is made through the late-1920s telephone system.Votes5
- When suitors start courting his daughter, Daddy sends her off to boarding school. Crooks stealing a mummy bound for the school replace the mummy with a man.Votes5
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- An adaptation of Karin Michaëlis' novel, also published as The Dangerous Age: Letters and Fragments from a Woman's Diary. It focused on themes of gender roles and sexuality.Votes5
- In this 9th episode, a mysterious murder sets Nayland Smith and Dr. Petrie once again on the trail of villainous Fu-Manchu, and seeking a strange old stick with magical powers.Votes5
- Mr Petterson arrives at Hotel Electric, only to be met with one surprise after another: From clothes hanging themselves up, to people who keep ending up in the wrong rooms entirely.Votes5
- El Pañuelo de Clarita is a moral drama whose most striking feature is the point of view of the girl Clarita. She finds a beggar on a park bench and gives him her handkerchief and a coin. The daughter of a wealthy family, she is kidnapped by a gang of thieves who want a ransom. Among them is the same beggar that Clarita had found in the park. He recognizes her and saves her. The beggar in question turns out to be the girl's relative, an honest carpenter who, having found himself unemployed and having been denied help by his wealthy family, unwillingly turns to crime. Once he is recognized by Clarita's mother as being part of the family, he is given the administration of family land in gratitude for his deed and the family is reunited.Votes5
- In this 15th and final episode, evil Fu-Manchu's pet marmoset leads Dr. Petrie to a secret Si-Fan ceremony. Is the Devil Doctor's game now up?Votes5
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- A highly entertaining series of views, beautifully hand colored, depicting magical qualities of exceptional merit. The dice enlarge and open up as huge boxes, from the depths of which there appear the handsome figures of lady dancers clad in exquisite costumes. Will be certain to retain the rapt attention of the entire audience.Votes5
- The plot of the story has to do with rivals for the hand of a beautiful Japanese girl, who shows her preference for one. There is a combat between the two, and the favored lover is victorious. The happy couple then continue on their little picnic in the woods, which had been interrupted by the rejected suitor. Leaving their lunch at a certain beautiful rock where they had been resting, the two happy lovers climb up a small hillside to secure some particularly beautiful flowers, which caught the little lady's fancy. The villain, who had been following, discovered the lunch, and taking up the cup from which he knew his rival would drink, he killed a poisonous spider and crushed it into the cup, pouring the poison then into the bottle of wine. The lovers return, and the favored suitor drinks from the poisoned bottle and is overcome. The villain comes in to gloat over his dying rival and another fight ensues, but the poisoned man has not strength to withstand his enemy. Seeing the death of her lover, the girl secures his dagger and stabs the murderer in the back, and then kills herself.Votes5
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- A man is torn between his smoking addiction and the possessive girlfriend whom he loves the most. A time comes when he has to choose one between these two.Votes5
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- Casey takes a beating from apartment tenants Mr. and Mrs. Little, so in revenge, Casey disguises himself as the woman who Mr. Little expects to meet in the park, with Mrs. Casey bringing Mr. Little's wife to observe.Votes5
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- A short documentary that covers the many travels made by Cornélio Pires following the west coast of Brazil, from the shores of São Paulo and all the way to Sergipe, capturing the many fascinating aspects of each place, from the nature to cities.Votes5
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- A man and a woman are captured by a mad scientist who kept them like caged animals in his personal zoo, located in a South American jungle.Votes5
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