Paul Davidson

La hija del jefe de una cuadrilla de bandoleros de la montaña se enamora del jefe del comando militar encargado de arrestar a su padre...

The Maharaja of Odhapur goes on a trip to Europe and meet the young dancer Ellen Esmond. In her London accommodation, the Savoy Hotel, the Indian prince can prove to be a gallant gentleman and protect Ellen from an intrusive theatrical agent. The Maharaja asks the artist to entertain his guests the following evening with her dancing skills, including England's representatives in India. The maharaja is thrilled with both the person Ellen and her dance performances. His brother Bhima, who was always in the shadow of the Maharajah, drinks excessively and also is also magically attracted to Ellen Esmond.

Suntuosa recreación histórica que fue calificada como 'la película más grande de todos los tiempos'. El Enrique VIII robusto, brutal y cruel de Emil Jannings contrasta con la inocencia de la Ana Bolena de Henny Porten. Dos arquitectos dirigieron la construcción de las réplicas de la Torre de Londres, el Castillo de Windsor y la Abadía de Westminster.

Clásico del cine mudo alemán que cuenta la leyenda de una estatua: el Golem. En el siglo XVI, en el gueto de Praga, vivía el Rabino Löw, mago y maestro en el arte de la nigromancia. Para evitar la expulsión de los judíos, ordenada por el Emperador Rodolfo II, modeló la figura de arcilla del Golem e invocó al espíritu de Astaharot para que le otorgará la vida. Sin embargo, cuando los judíos consiguen quedarse en la ciudad, y el Golem salva la vida del Emperador, el rabino trata de invalidar su conjuro y quitarle la vida porque ya ha realizado su cometido. Pero cuando un sirviente, cegado de amor, se la devuelve, la figura de arcilla escapa de la influencia humana y se convierte en una amenaza. Esta fascinante obra maestra del expresionismo, claro precedente del mito de Frankenstein es, seguramente, la primera gran película sobre monstruos de la historia del cine .

Yeggar, un payaso jorobado, director de un espectáculo ambulante, se enamora de una de las bailarinas. Ella cede a sus deseos, pero también le es infiel. Basada en la pantomima teatral creada por Max Reinhardt, es un nuevo acercamiento al ambiente de cuento de hadas en parajes exóticos.

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

Cuenta la historia de Madame DuBarry, quien de humilde origen, llegó a alcanzar el puesto de favorita del rey Luis XV, quien la hizo condesa al casarla con un noble de la Corte, así como los hechos que llevaron a la Revolución Francesa.

Quaker, el rey de las ostras, es tan rico que lo único que le sorprendería sería ver a su hija casarse con un príncipe. Hace una oferta al príncipe arruinado Nucki, quien manda a un amigo suyo para que le explique cómo es Ossi, la hija de Quaker. Sátira social en la que es para muchos -incluido el propio Lubitsch- la primera película en la que desarrolla su estilo personal; el que acabará conociéndose como el "toque Lubitsch".

Mientras rueda una película en los Alpes, la famosa protagonista se enamora de un noble.

Un hombre que quiere pasar un fin de semana lejos de su mujer finge estar enfermo. El médico le receta unos días en el campo y él se disfraza de tirolés para iniciar una serie de desastrosas conquistas amorosas.

The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and leads him into temptation and thus damnation.

A traveler comes into a town overrun with rats and vermin. He promises to free the place of the pests and names his price. When the townspeople refuse to pay him after he has done what he promised, he plays his tune again with consequences. This film survives in incomplete/fragmentary form.

La historia de una niña judía obligada a ocultar su identidad para poder asistir a la escuela de medicina en San Petersburgo. POLA NEGRI Se llamaba Apolonia (1897/1987) y a pesar de ese nombre se hizo un lugar entre las vampiresas más acreditadas del silente. Recuerdo que en mi familia se la llamaba "la de los ojos negros" y, en efecto, el rimmel corría sin mesura por su rostro. Durante el entierro de Valentino montó un número espectacular para la prensa, "desmayándose" varias veces y fingiendo ser la amante nunca correspondida de Rodolfo (algo que el hermano de éste y Mary Pickford se encargaron de desmentir). A comienzos del sonoro su estrella palideció y sus últimos años son un misterio similar al de la la Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson) de "Sunset Boulevard". Nos dejó por un tumor cerebral a los noventa años y legó toda su fortuna a la St. Mary's University. (Eddie Constanti)

Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the "mummy" from inside an empty sarcophagus. When adventurer Wendland comes to visit the tomb, Ma is rescued and falls in love with him, leaving Radu in the dust. Needless to say, her former employer / captor follows them abroad in order to exact his revenge.

Ossi Oswaldo interpreta a una joven que, cansada de que le reprochen todos sus actos, decide disfrazarse de hombre. De este modo descubre la insolidaridad entre los hombres... y también sus amistades equivocadas.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

An adaptation of the famous fairy tale.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch. Lubitsch plays a book shop employee who falls in love with Jannings' daughter.

A stonemason who killed his landlord faces hardship trying to reintegrate into society after being released from prison.

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.

Ernst Lubitsch es el protagonista, con un doble papel, de esta comedia sobre un matrimonio amenazado por una suegra enredadora. Cuando la esposa pretende divorciarse, el marido finge un suicidio y reaparece como nuevo mayordomo de la casa.

Lost film.

An innkeeper in sheer despair murders a passing by musician and steals his money in order to buy medicine for his dying wife. Eventually, he falls into an endless turmoil of guilt and madness.

Fräulein Seifenschaum is a German silent film by Ernst Lubitsch from 1915. It is considered Lubitsch's first directorial work and is one of the director's lost works. With the outbreak of World War I , all the men, including the barbers , are drafted. As a result, the women have to take over their work, and so mother and daughter share the work in a barber's shop: the daughter soaps the customers, while the mother then more or less skilfully shaves the men. A customer named Ernst also wants to be shaved. He makes eyes at the daughter and is resolutely thrown out of the shop by his mother. Ernst flees with his great love in the car and is followed by his mother on foot and finally on a tricycle.

Der Stolz der Firma, meaning The Pride of the Business, is a classic German silent film from 1914. The film tells the story of a shrewd apprentice and is filmed in the comical style of director Lubitsch. This is one of the few Lubitsch films from World War I that wasn’t lost.

Comedy about a film crew shooting a movie about guns and robbers, when real robbers turn up. Having to go home in robbers costume, they are mistakingly accused. In the end the real robbers are brought to justice. One of the earliest films portraying bisexual characters.

Engelein is a comedy of deliberately mistaken identity. If Jesta, a 17-year-old, can play the part of a 12-year-old, her family will gain a large inheritance from a rich uncle from Chicago. Her unruly “play-acting” for the uncle is preceded by an earlier incident in the film that results in Jesta being evicted from her girl’s school. Wearing a long, woman’s skirt, she climbs up a ladder and onto a thatched roof. She reaches over the top of the wall to kiss her boyfriend, who appears from the other side. However, Jesta is caught by the headmistress, and her forced descent is precipitous. Pulled downward, she reveals a great deal of a black-stockinged leg. She looks distinctly sexual as she falls into the matrimonly arms of the law, whose duty is to enforce the rules of female decorum.

Nymphs and gods and their foul play. Directed by Max Reinhardt.

Nelly's mother is a suffragette and persuades her daughter to join the good cause. Placing a bomb under Lord William's chair love develops between the two.