Temptations of a Great City (1911)

Após a morte do rei, sua esposa assume o comando do reino. Extremamente vaidosa, ela passa a cobrar cada vez mais impostos para sustentar uma vida de opulência. Ao mesmo tempo mantém presa em seu quarto a enteada, Branca de Neve. Ao completar 18 anos, Branca de Neve resolve sair do castelo e conhecer a realidade do reino. Horrorizada com a situação de fome e miséria do povo, ela retorna decidida a derrubar a rainha.

Laura 19 anos, estudante em seu primeiro ano de faculdade, quer terminar seus estudos, não importa o custo. Embora tenha um trabalho casual, ela não pode fazer face às despesas. Cada vez mais desesperada com sua situação financeira, ela resolve responder a um anúncio on-line certa noite. "Joe, 57, gostaria de conhecer estudantes para os momentos de ternura . 100 euros por hora." Uma vez e nunca mais, Laura promete a si mesma. Três dias depois, Laura está em um quarto de hotel com Joe - e assim começa uma espiral descendente. A ilusão do dinheiro "fácil": Esqueça as sensações repugnantes e pense apenas no envelope cheios de dinheiro. No momento em que ela chega ao seu segundo cliente, Laura, uma jovem estudante com a ferida, mas já uma prostituta, quer parar. Será que ela consegue fazer isso?

An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.

How do 1.1 billion people around the world live on less than one dollar a day? Four young friends set out to research and live this reality. Armed with only a video camera and a desire to understand, they spend just 56 dollars each for 56 days in rural Pena Blanca, Guatemala. They battle E.Coli, financial stress, and the realization that there are no easy answers. Yet, the generosity and strength of their neighbors, Rosa, Anthony and Chino gives them resilient hope. They return home transformed and embark on a mission to share their new found understanding with other students, inspiring and challenging their generation to make a difference.

The inspirational true story of a woman who decides to bake 100 apple cakes and sell them at $40 each in order to save her home – and how this idea completely changes her and her family.

Dax é um grande fã de basquete, que atua como técnico de um time amador. Ele decide gastar todas as suas economias para garantir a presença de sua equipe em um campeonato de basquete de rua realizado no Harlem, Nova York, de olho no prêmio de US$ 100 mil ao vencedor. No entanto, após uma série de eventos desastrosos, ele perde o controle do grupo e precisa urgentemente formar uma nova equipe. Para resolver o problema, ele recruta uma grande lenda do esporte, o incrível tio Drew, que está aposentado há anos. Com um novo time repleto de setentões, Dax acredita que finalmente conseguirá alcançar uma vitória em sua carreira esportiva.

Após anos de casamento, Pete e Debbie estão chegando em uma fase de decadência. Enquanto tentam equilibrar romance, carreiras profissionais, pais e filhos, com seu próprio e hilariante, eles também tem que imaginar como aproveitar o resto de suas vidas.

Quando Anna Wyncomb é apresentada a um submundo de luta feminina para lidar com toda a bagunça que está a sua vida, ela percebe que está mais conectada à história do clube do que imaginava, redescobrindo a si mesma, sua força interior e seu verdadeiro propósito.

A wayward youth of a rich father, Jomon is a carefree youngster who doesn’t care about ‘being responsible enough’ for his age. When the family lands in a financial soup out of the blue, a different side of the youngster surprisingly emerges. ​

Richard voa para Montana para comprar um rancho de 2.500 acres com problemas financeiros e construir um resort. Porém, Sam, a dona do resort, é uma mulher bonita e solteira, por quem ele se interessa.

A story of two sisters, the older being more traditional, the younger a "moga" ("modern girl"). Their widowed father runs the family sake shop, but is running into financial trouble, causing him to tamper with his stock; Meanwhile, his long-time mistress yearns for something more serious. Amidst this, the older sister is introduced to a well-off suitor: A university boy, much more intrigued by the less traditional little sister. A doddering grandfather, an officious uncle and busybody neighbors also don't make the lives of the hardworking members of the family any easier.

Slavica is living on the margins of society, always skirting borders of what is legal. She is trying to change her ways and to make a living, but it turns out to be an impossible achievement for her. Not having any other means to survive, she turns to stealing, but is quickly apprehended and severely sentenced. She tries to cover her tracks and takes on the identity of Marija, a successful scientist who is preparing her PhD in psychoanalysis. The real Marija learns about this identity theft, which awakens an interest in Slavica's way of life. The two of them switch identities and discover worlds which are sure to change them.

A romantic girl, influenced by a popular magazine, has a series of brief adventures with her ambitious cousin, her gay cousin, her neighborhood's electrician and a distant aunt, which will land her from myths and dreams to reality.

A couple inherit a 'house of their dreams' and for a while they think they got lucky, but soon find themselves in the middle of a renovation nightmare.

3 brothers live in Singapore, each leading a different lifestyle. They discover the deeper meanings in life as tragedies unfold, with comedy & tears along the way.

A lucrative real estate deal, or romance with the boss' daughter--that's the dilemma facing a yuppie in this comedy.

A poor man accepts the money someone offers him to marry a foreign woman so that she can stay in Greece.

One of the rooms inside the legendary Barba Azul Cabaret has become a shelter for the girls working there: the women's bathroom. Every night La Mami, who's in charge of the bathrooms, offers them the warmth and the advice they need to take on the challenge they face in the dance hall.

"Money No Enough" is about three friends of different backgrounds who end up facing the same problem of surviving in a cash-strapped society where lack of money can bring endless problems. The film stars Chew Wah Keong (Jack Neo), who is white collar but a spend thrift, Ong (Mark Lee), a contractor, and Hui (Henry Thia), a coffee shop waiter who has a crush on his customer...

Vacationing in Germany, May falls for boatman Max. Her father disapproves and during a night of romance between the young couple Max drowns.

A woman betrays the regiment location in which the officer she is interested in is assigned because he despises her, only to regret it when he is caught and try to free him.

The ballet pupil Camilla Favier makes for a quick success and falls for the author Jean Mayol. She discovers a love letter to him from a rich married woman and is devastated. In revenge she reveals the secret love story for the cuckolded husband and his guests at a big party. Later she finds a new love message from the wayward wife and brings it to the husband, who gets furious, grabs a pistol and incites the climax of the story.

Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.

A young woman takes over her sick father's role as telegraph operator at a railway station, and has to deal with a team intent on train robbery.

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.

Cartoon figures announce, via comic strip balloons, that they will move - and move they do, in a wildly exaggerated style. Also known as "Winsor McCay, the Famous Cartoonist of the N.Y. Herald and His Moving Comics".

Primeira adaptação do cinema da obra de Dante Alighieri, "A Divina Comedia". O maior épico italiano da sua época, uma fantástica viagem dentro do universo de Dante e das gravuras de Gustave Doré, retratando com grande perfeição os anjos, demônios e o próprio Lúcifer. Uma produção monumental que durou três anos de filmagens, utilizou incríveis efeitos especiais e cenários gigantescos. Na versão reeditada recentemente, ganhou trilha sonora do Tangerine Dream.

Anna, a beautiful girl from a poor background, is offered a well-paid position as a lady's companion in London. Anna's boyfriend, the sceptical Georg, suspects that the job offer is too good to be true, but Anna dismisses him and reports to the London address. The stately home in England turns out to be a whorehouse that imports women from Denmark. Anna manages to overpower her first client but is unable to escape.

The day before the Christmas holiday, Ebenezer Scrooge, a hard-fisted miser, refuses to contribute to the Charity Relief Committee, and then rudely rejects his nephew Fred when he visits Scrooge in his office. When Scrooge returns home, he sees the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who warns him of the punishment he will suffer in the next life if he does not change his ways. That night, Scrooge is visited by three more spirits, who show him his past, the present, and the future that awaits him.

Magda, a piano teacher, meets Knud, a parson’s son, who invites her to spend the summer at his parents’ parsonage. When a travelling circus stops in the village, Magda leaves the meek Knud for the dashing circus rider Rudolf. But circus life with Rudolf quickly turns out to be anything but happy, and Magda comes to a tragic end.

A pequena Dorothy morava com os tios Henry e Em em uma pequena fazenda do Kansas. Seu único amigo era o cãozinho Totó que, durante uma tempestade, desaparece. Procurando-o desesperadamente, a menina entra no abrigo contra tornados e esconde-se na pequena casa que, levada pelos ares, termina por arremessá-la numa distante e desconhecida terra. No meio da tempestade, Dorothy encontra seu animalzinho. Quando finalmente pousam, descobre que a casa caíra sobre uma perigosa bruxa, matando-a. Surgem alguns homenzinhos - os Munchkins - que eram dominados por aquela malvada senhora. Dorothy é aclamada como heroína, por ter matado a Bruxa Malvada do Leste.

Uma gangue de ladrões atrai um homem para fora de sua casa para que eles possam roubá-la e ameaçar sua esposa e filhos. A família se entrincheira em uma sala interna, mas os criminosos estão bem preparados para arrombar. Quando o pai descobre o que está acontecendo, ele precisa correr contra o tempo para voltar para casa.

Primeira versão cinematográfica do clássico de Mary Shelley. O louco Dr. Victor Frankestein cria uma criatura que toma consciência de sua monstruosidade. Frankenstein, um jovem estudante de medicina, tentando criar o ser humano perfeito, cria um monstro disforme. Adoentado com o que fez, Frankenstein é consolado por sua noiva, mas em sua noite de núpcias é visitado pelo monstro. Uma luta sonha, mas o monstro, ao se ver no espelho, fica horrorizado e foge. Mais tarde, ele retorna, entrando no quarto da nova noiva e a encontra sozinha.

Stenka Razin is the leader of a group of outlaws who live a life of revelry and carousing along the Volga River and in the nearby forests. When Razin becomes distracted by a captured foreign princess and starts to dote on her, his men are displeased, feeling that he is neglecting them and their usual activities. Soon they come up with a plot, in the hopes of turning Razin against the princess.

A one-armed street peddler notices that a well-to-do man has dropped his ring. He returns it to him. The wealthy man is very grateful and, to show his appreciation, takes the peddler to a 'Limb Store', where he buys him a new arm. The recipient soon discovers that this new arm has a will of its own - causing him considerable embarrassment.

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

A smoker falls asleep, and two mischievious fairies play with his pipe. He discovers this, and imprisons them in a cigar box. He removes a flower from the box, which contains a fairy smoking a cigarette. Next, he leaves briefly while his smoking paraphenalia clears itself from the table and the flower reassembles itself into a cigar. He lights the cigar, then breaks a bottle containing the fairy, who interacts with him in various ways reeling from his cigar smoke, building a bonfire that he extinguishes, etc.

A man rents an apartment and furnishes it in remarkable fashion.

Por capricho, um magnata ganancioso decide dominar o mercado mundial de trigo. Isso dobra o preço do pão, forçando os produtores de grãos a entrar em filas de caridade e outros ainda mais na pobreza. O filme contrasta as diferenças entre a vida de quem trabalha para cultivar o trigo e a vida do homem que se envolve em sua venda com fins lucrativos.