The Virginian (1914)

In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.

Stella, a circus princess, has two suitors: young, handsome Count Waldberg and the greying, hidebound jeweller Hirsch. Stella’s love for Waldberg drives Hirsch mad with jealousy. He will stop at nothing to be near the woman of his dreams. When the count loses a staggering sum to the jeweller in a gambling duel, Stella embarks on a fateful mission to save her beloved’s honour.

Mary Maddock works as a seamstress to bring home money while her husband Steve, unemployed, has no real prospects of earning money. Mary's employers, are trying to strike an oil related business deal with a rich man by the name of Nelson Rogers. The deal does not seem to be on the table, as Mr. Rogers is leaving town shortly and does not have the time to work out the details of such a deal. In an order to entice him to stay, Mrs. Mallory - wife of Mr. Mallory who is proposing the business deal - convinces Mary to be her guest at a dinner party with the intent of making Mr. Rogers fall for her and thus stay long enough for Mr. Mallory to make him agree to a business deal.

Produced at the Reliance studio in Yonkers, New York, HIS PICTURE IN THE PAPERS solidly established Fairbanks as the American ideal of pop, vim, and vigor. Furthermore, the film brought him together with the two collaborators who were to play a profound role in the evolution of his screen persona: writer Anita Loos and her future husband, director John Emerson. The theme was, according to Emerson and Loos, "the great American love of publicity."

Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But although Steve falls for the gag, he ends up turning the tables on his friends.

En 1797 se produjo la botadura del "Constitución", una de las primeras fragatas estadounidenses diseñada, en principio, para acabar con la tiranía de los piratas berberiscos, que asolaban los mares y exigían tributo a las naciones. A partir de este dato histórico, se mezcla la ficción: un joven de Salem trata de embarcar en el "Constitución", pero por el camino encontrará a un par de lobos de mar embaucadores. Los tres, por distintas vías, se reunirán en una nave que, sin proponérselo, seguirá la estela del "Constitución".

A woman abandoned by her lover sells his body to a sculptor, who is the best friend of her lover.

A button factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the throne of a small European kingdom. However, there are forces at work who don't want him to survive to take the throne.

Anthony Hamilton hace saltar la banca de Montecarlo y se va, en compañía de su buen amigo, a visitar Europa antes de regresar a su país natal, Estados Unidos. Al llegar cerca de la pequeña nación de Bovinia, se encuentra con un grupo de bolcheviques enloquecidos que tratan de liquidar el régimen de su rey y que, para ello, pretenden hacerse con los millones ganados por Hamilton en la ruleta. (filmaffinit)

A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

Un piloto de carreras abandona su profesión para casarse, ya que su mujer no quiere que vuelva a las carreras, pero tiempo después la mujer le abandona con su hijo. Cuando el hijo se encuentra enfermo en San Francisco, el piloto usará un coche último modelo para juntarse con su familia al otro lado del país.

Los forajidos Al y Frank Jennings (interpretándose a ellos mismos), huyendo tras robar un banco, entran en un refugio de la pradera para pedir comida. Allí descubren que la mujer y el niño que lo habitan, viven en extrema pobreza, y no han comido en varios días.

Versión del mito de Carmen, rodada en España, alejada de pintoresquismos, seca y trágica. “No me han pedido hacer una película sobre Carmen con Raquel Meller, sino hacer con Raquel Meller algo sobre Carmen” (Jacques Feyder).

Al igual que la novela de Sand, la película tiene elementos góticos, caballerescos, melodramáticos y detectivescos. La acción transcurre antes de la Revolución Francesa y muestra el ingreso a la adultez de Bernard de Mauprat, un noble huérfano, criado por aristócratas renegados y criminales, que es salvado de la horca por su prima Edmée y por su padre, el Caballero Hubert de Mauprat. El regreso de Bernard provocará tensiones desconocidas en el seno de la familia Mauprat, a cuyos refinados modales querrá adaptarse sólo para ganar el corazón de su prima Edmée (prometida del Caballero de La Marche) después de haber ganado ya su promesa de fidelidad bajo una cierta amenaza de violación. (Fuente: Wikipedia) (FILMAFFINITY)

A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

Karin Daughter of Ingmar is a 1920 Swedish silent drama film directed by Victor Sjöström. It is the second part in Sjöström's large-scale adaption of Selma Lagerlöf's novel Jerusalem, following Sons of Ingmar from the year before, and depicting chapter three and four from the novel. The critical reception was however unenthusiastic and Sjöström decided to not direct any more parts.

"The County Fair" begins with a nasty rich guy threatening to turn an old lady onto the street--unless her niece (who lives with her) marries this man's son. While she's dead set against it, the niece is a sweet thing and would do anything to help her aunt--even marry the rich jerk. However, a possible way out is presented. When a poor young man is taken in and fed, he turns out (naturally) to be a jockey and thinks he can win the $3000 prize at the fair and save the farm.

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building. However, she is in love with a wealthy and handsome young man, who soon disappears. The mailman provides the maid with letters that get her hopes up... but tragedy will soon befall all three.