Stringless Puppets (2022)

A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.

科学の飛躍的な発展の結果、労働者たちは地下に押しやられ、巨大な工場で家畜同然に管理されている一方、資本家たちは地上で享楽的生活を送っている。社長の息子は地下に降りて、彼らの悲惨な生活を知る。労働者の娘マリアは、労使間に人間的な絆が皆無であることを仲間に訴え、これがストライキの気運を生む。そこで社長はマリアを監禁、彼女そっくりの人造人間を作って事態収拾にあたるが、人造人間は狂い始める。

Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

ジョン・コンスタンティンには、普通の人間には見えないものが見える。末期の肺ガンに冒されてもタバコを吸い続けるヘビースモーカーである彼は、厭世的ですさんだ生活を続けていた。生まれたときから備わった「特殊な能力」で、超常現象を専門に扱う変り種の探偵を生業としている。普段は誰も気づかない、この世のわずかな空気の乱れを敏感に察知するコンスタンティン。異変はすでに起こりつつあった。友人の神父から依頼を受け、悪魔に取り憑かれた少女のもとへ赴いたコンスタンティンは、いつもの悪魔祓いの儀式の途中で、言い知れぬ恐怖を覚える。これまでとは何かが違う・・・。長い間保たれてきた天国と地獄のバランスが崩れ去ろうとしている予感。それを裏付けるようにコンスタンティンの周囲で蠢きだす不気味な出来事の数々。病魔に冒された現実と、得体の知れない謎を抱え込んだ彼のもとに、アンジェラ・ドッドソン刑事が、自殺した姉妹イザベルの死の真相を探るべく、協力を求めにやってきた。アンジェラの頼みをいったんは断ったコンスタンティンだが、その背後につきまとう悪魔の姿を見て、彼女こそが謎を解く鍵を握る人物と知る・・・・・。この世とあの世の境界線で、いったい何が起ころうとしているのか？ただひとつ確かなことは、かろうじてこの世を成り立たせてきた危ういバランスがついに崩壊を始めたということ。それは、終末への序章なのか？越えてはいけない一線を越えて、何かとてつもないことが動き出そうとしているのだ-----。

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

帝政に対する不満が頂点に達し、反乱を起こす水兵たち。やがてそれは軍隊による民衆の大虐殺へと発展していく。乳母車が階段を落ちる“オデッサの大虐殺”シーンがあまりにも有名な巨人セルゲイ・M.エイゼンシュテイン監督の大傑作。

The mysterious Count Orlok summons Thomas Hutter to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house near Hutter and his wife, Ellen. After Orlok reveals his vampire nature, Hutter struggles to escape the castle, knowing that Ellen is in grave danger

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.

Waking Life is about a young man in a persistent lucid dream-like state. The film follows its protagonist as he initially observes and later participates in philosophical discussions that weave together issues like reality, free will, our relationships with others, and the meaning of life.

人類の歴史の中で最も記憶に残っているのは、偉大な行為と素晴らしい冒険の時代です。 これがコナン・ザ・バーバリアンの時代です。 コナンは、両親が蛇の崇拝者の宗派の頭である邪悪なタルサ・ドゥームによって殺された後、彼がまだ子供だったときに捕らえられます。 15年の苦悩が乗り越えられない戦士としてコナンを作りました。 友人のスボタイ、モンゴル、盗賊の女王ヴァレリアの会社で彼の所有者であるコナンによってリリースされ、復venと知恵を求めて旅に出ます。

Frankenstein, a young medical student, trying to create the perfect human being, instead creates a misshapen monster. Made ill by what he has done, Frankenstein is comforted by his fiancée; but on his wedding night he is visited by the monster.

Using every known means of transportation, several savants from the Geographic Society undertake a journey through the Alps to the Sun which finishes under the sea.

The navy captain Avanti Planetaros is inspired by his astronomer-father to travel through outer space to reach other worlds. He becomes an aviator and, along with the young scientist Dr. Krafft, the driving force behind the construction of a space-ship. Despite oppostion from the mocking Professor Dubius, Planetaros gathers a crew of fearless men and takes off. During the long voyage, the crew becomes restless; a mutiny is narrowly avoided. Finally, they reach Mars and discover that the planet is inhabited by people who have reached a higher stage of development, free of diseases, sorrow, violence, sexual urges, and the fear of death. Avanti falls in love with Marya, daughter of the Prince of Wisdom, the head of the Martians. Marya shares his feelings and decides to return with him in order to bring the wisdom of the Martians to the backward Earthlings. (stumfilm.dk)

Mad scientist, doctor Ten Brinken artificially inseminates a prostitute with a dead man's semen. The resulting child grows up to be a beautiful, evil woman who turns against her creator.

Suffering under the tyrannical rule of Rudolf II in 16th-century Prague, a Talmudic rabbi creates a giant warrior to protect the safety of his people. Sculpted of clay and animated by the mysterious secrets of the Cabala, the Golem was a seemingly indestructible juggernaut, performing acts of great heroism, yet equally capable of dreadful violence. When the rabbi's assistant takes control of the Golem and attempts to use him for selfish gain, the lumbering monster runs rampant, abducting the rabbi's daughter and setting fire to the ghetto.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

In 1921, we follow two women - Marie and Grete - from the same poor Viennese neighborhood, as they try to better the lives of themselves and their families during the period of Austrian postwar hyperinflation.