The Light (1919)
To the Light! This is the toast the lovers drink. But in their hearts they know they are drinking to darkness and sin.
Género : Drama
Tiempo de ejecución : 0M
Director : J. Gordon Edwards
Sinopsis
Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold. Her character, Blanchette DuMonde, is known as "the wickedest woman in Paris," and because of this sordid reputation, she is not allowed to serve as a nurse during World War I. So she becomes an Apache dancer instead.
Un profesor de filosofía ya retirado y una joven parisina se conocen. Y de pronto, sus vidas cambian.
Un honesto e ingenuo maestro recibe una lección sobre cómo funciona el mundo fuera del aula, cuando un rico barón y su amante usan al maestro y su sobresaliente reputación para comercializar bajo su nombre una bebida de dudosa calidad.
A poor but ambitious young girl is determined to crash high society, but isn't prepared for the reception she receives.
This last recital will remain forever marked in the history of the famous hall. It is one of the only testimonies of Jacques Brel on stage where his talent was best expressed. This concert also retains a very strong emotional dimension because it is his last tour.
Beady Eye are an English rock band formed in 2009. The band consists of singer Liam Gallagher and guitarists Gem Archer and Andy Bell.
Narra la historia de Nick y Meg, una pareja de maduros profesores británicos, con los hijos ya independizados, que deciden regresar a la romántica París muchos años después de su luna de miel para intentar revitalizar su matrimonio.
‘Madame Claude’ cuenta la historia real de una parisina con un oscuro pasado. Madame Claude (Françoise Fabian) ha creado, en la actualidad, una red de chicas de compañía para la alta sociedad. Ella se encarga de enviar a sus prostitutas a cualquier parte del mundo en la que se necesiten sus prácticas sexuales para satisfacer los deseos de los hombres más poderosos del mundo.
Con su empresa es capaz de manipular a los grandes hombres de negocio y políticos. Mientras tanto, David Evans (Murray Head) está chantajeando a las autoridades con fotos de los miembros de las altas esferas y las prostitutas de Madame Claude. Pero, aunque David cree que su plan será muy efectivo, los hombres con poder harán cualquier cosa por mantener guardados sus secretos.
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
“A marvelously clear picture taken from the top of the elevator of the Eiffel Tower during going up and coming down of the car. This wonderful tower is 1,000 feet in height, and the picture produces a most sensational effect. As the camera leaves the ground and rises to the top of the tower, the enormous white city opens out to the view of the astonished spectator. Arriving at the top of the tower, a bird's eye view of the Exposition looking toward the Trocadero, and also toward the Palace of Electricity, is made, and the camera begins its descent. The entire trip is shown on a 200-foot film. 30.00. We furnish the ascent in 125 foot film.” (Edison film catalog)
Una aspirante a cantante y un joven compositor se enamoran y se casan: pero, mientras que ella alcanza el éxito, él sigue siendo un desconocido. Así las cosas, ella decide renunciar a su prometedora carrera por amor a su marido.
Tres historias de amor tienen lugar simultáneamente en tres ciudades: Nueva York, París y Roma. Un escritor neoyorquino (Liam Neeson), que acaba de separarse de su esposa y se encuentra en París, mantiene una relación más bien problemática con su amante (Olivia Wilde). Una madre neoyorquina (Mila Kunis) niega tajantemente ser la responsable de un accidente que casi le cuesta la vida a su hijo. El padre del niño (James Franco) intenta que culpen a su mujer de negligencia para conseguir la custodia. En Roma, un empresario estadounidense (Adrien Brody), se enamora hasta tal punto de una gitana (Moran Atias) que participa en la liberación de la hija de su amante, a la que ha secuestrado un mafioso.
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like Paris, so she goes back to London. But trouble begins on a drive through the countryside, where he meets a free spirit whose charms pressure his long-distance marriage.
The 1900 Paris World's Fair as seen from Trocadéro.
In this drama, a 50-year-old married man (played by John Halliday) goes with his wife (Belle Bennett) and son (Junior Durkin) to a nightclub in a fancy hotel in Detroit. He meets a gold-digger (Dorothy Burgess) there, singing the theme song of the picture, and eventually ends up going out with her on a subsequent occasion and falls in love with her. His wife finally finds out and this leads to her leaving him and getting a divorce in Paris. He is married to the gold-digger but finds life with her and her "jazz friends" to be too much for him. He begins to long for his old wife when he finds her in a nightclub with another man and becomes jealous.
Paris, at night. This is where Jeni, Wenceslas, Christine, Pascal and the others live. Homeless, they haunt the streets and bridges, and corridors of the metro; on the edge of a world where society no longer offers protection. They face us and they talk.
Jean and Marise, young lovers forced from their homes, flee to Paris. Irrevocably separated there, their lives deviate into the slums and hard labor of low-class French society. All the while, the two desperately search for one another.
La acción tiene lugar en París, cuando un preso llamado Jacques Costard (Victor McLaglen) escapa de la cárcel con el objetivo de salvar a su hija Manon(Helen Mack) de una banda de delincuentes que la ha raptado para servir en redes de prostitución. Algo que no será fácil porque no sabe adónde han llevado a la muchacha.Además, para enredar las cosas, ella cree que su padre murió como un héroe en la Primera Guerra Mundial.
Juliette was simply not sure about coming to live in this residential suburb of the greater Paris metropolitan area. All the women here are in their forties, have children to raise, houses to keep and husbands who return home late at night.Today she has an appointment in Paris that is important for her career, but she also has to run errands and pick up the kids from school. During the course of her day, monopolized by petty, everyday tasks, Juliette can feel the noose of domestic obligations and household chores slowly tightening around her neck.
Alice y Elsa son dos hermanas marcadas por la infancia, un tiempo en el que la fuerte relación sentimental entre ellas las mantenía atrapadas en un mundo de crueles juegos. Después de dos años sin verse, Elsa deja a su marido y sus hijas para encontrarse de nuevo con Alice.
El reino de Marshovia está asfixiado por las deudas. La única solución sería que una viuda millonaria destinara su fortuna a sacar al estado de una situación tan apurada. Con tal propósito, el rey le pide a un conde que vaya a verla y la corteje.
