Victor Varconi

Ships disappear on route across the Arctic Sea, and a special submarine is sent to investigate.

A new social worker at a girls' reformatory discovers that her charges are being used by a group of ancient alchemists, who have insinuated themselves as the prison's chief staffers, to keep themselves alive and free from an insidious petrification, which is already afflicting one of their number.

Sansão, um forte homem de uma tribo escravizado pelos filisteus, se apaixona por Semadar, uma devota ao reino dominante que se envolve com Ahtur, o que leva a uma guerra entre os dois povos. Na briga, Semadar acaba morta e sua irmã Dalila, que sempre amou Sansão secretamente, jura vingança. Ela planeja seduzi-lo para que ele revele seu segredo para entregá-lo ao seu líder, Saran de Gaza.

A woman journeys to Spanish California to marry a Spanish officer, but on the way she meets and falls in love with an American adventurer who is part of a movement to overthrow the Spanish in California.

In a far off country, their king is critically wounded after an assassination attempt and the only heir is a timid New York radio personality, Michael Valentine (Bob Hope). After reluctantly traveling to his father's homeland, Michael is not happy that he's become the target of the same terrorist organization that attacked the king.

Inglaterra, 1763. Após ser condenada por um crime, a jovem e bela Abigail Hale concorda, a fim de escapar da forca, em servir catorze anos como escrava na colônia da Virgínia, cujos habitantes começam a ouvir e temer o canto ameaçador dos ameaçadores tambores de guerra que ecoam no vale selvagem do rio Ohio.

A London curator loses the Mona Lisa to a collector, who discovers it's a fake.

This movie shows us the rise of Adolf Hitler from a small radical political adventurer to the dictator of Germany in the way of a gangster film. Exept for some minor inaccuracies the historical facts are given in a correct way.

Guerra Civil Espanhola, anos 30. O idealista Robert Jordan (Gary Cooper) se engaja no conflito para defender os princípios de liberdade e democracia. Numa missão de altíssimo risco, ele aguarda o melhor momento de explodir uma ponte de importância vital para as tropas inimigas. Neste cenário de idealismos e tensões quase insuportáveis, a mística Pilar, líder das forças da resistência civil, encoraja a bela e jovem Maria (Ingrid Bergman) a ajudar Robert em sua missão. Durante uma noite debaixo das estrelas, o medo da morte e a possibilidade do amor caminham lado a lado, em pleno horror da guerra.

A training film for OSS agents who are to be dropped behind enemy lines.

The British Commandos send Bob Owen (Lyle Talbot) to Norway to prepare for a raid. His mission also includes freeing General Heden (Paul Baratoff) who is being held by the Nazis. His aides include Eric Falken (George Nesie) and Harry (Charles Rogers). Inga (June Duprez), a Norwegian girl to whom Falken was once engaged but who has become the sweetheart of Oberst Von Ritter (Victor Varconi), betrays their hiding place. The three overpower the Gestapo men sent after them, take their uniforms and enter the prison camp and free Heden. The four men then start for the coast to meet the Commando expedition. Inga, who the men still trust, again informs von Ritter and Falken is captured but Bob and Harry escape with the aid of Dalberg, who they thought was a Quisling stooge.

Larry Haines, a mediocre vaudeville entertainer, boards a train for Los Angeles. Aboard, he meets an attractive, blonde British agent carrying a coded message hidden in a brooch—and is being pursued by Nazi agents.

Loxi é a jovem empresária que cuida de uma empresa de manutenção de barcos. O negócio é muito lucrativo, uma vez que a costa da Flórida em 1840 possui águas rasas e coberta de corais. Quando resgata um navio bastante danificado, Loxi conhece o capitão Jack Stuart, por quem se apaixona. A ponto de lutar ao lado do amado para convencer os proprietários do barco que Stuart não teve nenhuma culpa nos estragos. O romance entre eles estará em risco quando o advogado contratado por ela, Stephen Tolliver, também se apaixona pela moça.

On faraway Mosaque, an American pilot finds that he is in a desperate struggle with a military officer intent on sabotaging a local fort.

A government agent goes undercover in order to apprehend a saboteur who caused a plane crash.

Enquanto a Espanha prepara um exército para invadir a Inglaterra, o pirata britânico Geoffrey Thorpe embarca em uma missão para saquear barcos espanhóis. Quando ele captura o barco que transportava o embaixador Don Jose Alvarez de Cordoba, o vistoso capitão apaixona-se por sua sobrinha, a bela Dona Maria, que se instala confortavelmente na Inglaterra. Dedicado a proteger os interesses ingleses, Thorpe vai para o mar em uma perigosa expedição que pode determinar o destino do país.

Convicts escaping from Devil's Island come under the influence of a strange Christ-like figure.

An expose of attempts by wealthy people to avoid payment of customs duties. Part of the MGM "Crime Does Not Pay" series.

Two reporters compete to discover a scientist living in hiding and win his daughter.

A doctor's medical studies are threatened by his infatuation with a Chinese girl. The girl returns to China, but complications ensue when she runs into him in Nanking during a Japanese bombing raid.

Mr. Moto is in Egypt to thwart a criminal mastermind determined to steal the priceless crown of the Queen of Sheba. When the precious treasure is transported to America, Mr. Moto must race against time to unmask the cunning thief who will stop at nothing—not even murder—to get what he wants.

Vernon Castle é um ator cômico se segunda categoria. Ele conhece Irene Castle em uma praia de Nova Jersey. Os dois logo se apaixonam e se casam. Após muito insistir, Irene convence Vernon a desistir da comédia para começarem uma nova carreira como bailarinos. A agente Maggie Sutton descobre o talento do casal e Vernon e Irene atingem o sucesso. Mas quando estão no auge da fama, inicia-se a 1ª Guerra Mundial.

A naval officer is demoted for negligence and put in command of a run-down submarine chaser with a motley crew.

Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.

A poor young man's girlfriend leaves him for a gangster, who has the money and power she wants and the young man doesn't have. Determined to show her that he can be a success--and how much of a mistake she made by leaving him--he starts up a newspaper distribution business that is soon the biggest in the city, but things don't turn out exactly the way he wanted them to.

Anna and Joe are newly married, playful and deeply in love. Joe is scraping by as cab driver in New York City during a period of corruption, mob control and violence between cab companies.

An ex-con takes flight after he's framed for a jewelry store robbery and murder.

A newspaperman Paul Cluett (Jack Holt) gets rival reporter Linda Lawrence (Mae Clark) to admit that she is investigating a story in Morocco that guns are being smuggled illegally.

Wild Bill Hickok, Buffalo Bill Cody e Jane Calamidade lutam contra comerciantes inescrupulosos que, ao vender rifles para os índios, podem começar uma guerra e colocar em risco os pioneiros.

Jonathan Pride is a mild-mannered dance instructor in 1820 Boston. En route to visit relatives, Jonathan is shanghaied by a band of zany pirates and forced to work as a galley boy. When the pirate vessel arrives at the port of Las Palomas, Jonathan, clad in buccaneer's garb, makes his escape. Everyone in Las Palomas, including Governor Alcalde (Frank Morgan) and fetching senorita Serafina (Steffi Duna), assumes that Jonathan is the pirate chieftain, leading to a series of typical comic-opera complications.

After the woman who raised him claims he's not her son, Richard searches for clues about his identity. Urged on by his mentor, Capt. Randolph Courtney, Richard focuses on Julia Trent Anders, a middle-aged actress who just might be his real mother. But soon, Richard begins to fall for Julia's stepdaughter. Amidst the upheaval, Richard schemes to return Julia to the stage -- but he's in for another big surprise.

A gambler hires a detective to investigate when a murder is committed in his casino.

John visita sua tia em Paris, junto de sua banda. Ela é dona de uma loja de moda gerenciada por sua assistente, Stephanie. Lá, eles encontram a cantora Scharwenka, com quem conseguem um trabalho. Enquanto isso, Madame Roberta vem a falecer e deixa os negócios para John, que entra em sociedade com Stephanie.

England is rocked by a series of train disasters. Police are on the hunt for the perpetrator, who is always spotted leaving the scene with a scarf around his face. The newspapers dub him "The Menace".

Set in Vienna, this lively musical comedy stars Bebe Daniels as an actress who falls in love with her secretary, but has difficulty in persuading him to propose to her.

A young medical student returns to his Tyrolean home to find out that Napoleon's troops have taken over the area and that his mother and sister have been murdered.

During World War 1, an Austrian Battalion holds a mountain stronghold against the attack of the Italian army.

To avoid the rigors of the law, Gilda flees New Orleans and hides on a Caribbean island where the worst criminals can ask for asylum. Besieged by the scum of the earth, Gilda will soon find out that she has found refuge in hell.

A wealthy ex-bootlegger comes to the rescue of a formerly rich society girl after her gold-digging fiancé leaves her stranded when he finds out she's broke. The bootlegger proposes a deal: he will settle her debts if she teaches him how to be "a gentleman".

Movie star Shelah Fane is seeing wealthy Alan Jaynes while filming in Honolulu, Hawaii, but won't marry him without consulting famed psychic Tanaverro first. Tanaverro confronts her about the unsolved murder of fellow film star Denny Mayo three years earlier, and she decides to reject Jaynes' proposal. When Shelah is found shot to death in her beach-front pavilion, Charlie Chan of the Honolulu Police investigates.

The trials of being a doctor's wife are presented in this drama. The story centers upon the problematic marriage of one couple. Their troubles begin when the doctor makes a housecall to a seductive woman with designs upon him. His suspicious wife follows him and spies on him. She thinks they are getting romantic when he is actually trying to extricate himself from his predatory patient. She decides to get revenge with his best friend, but nothing happens.

A notorious Mexican bandit goes all soft and mushy when he falls for a beautiful senorita. Warner Bros.' Captain Thunder contains some of the darndest Mexican accents you've ever heard in your life. The star is Hungarian-born Victor Varconi, portraying a legendary south of the border outlaw who tries to force Canadian senorita Fay Wray to marry a rival rustler whom she despises. She pleads with the bandito so pathetically that he is moved to grant her a single wish. Without hesitation she chooses her poor but true love. The bandit king, being a somewhat honorable fellow grants the wish and without a twitch, guns down the wicked cattle thief. Fortunately the film was played for comedy, a wise decision since it probably would have garnered laughs as a straight drama anyway.

In the 19th century, Polish patriots rise up in Warsaw against domination by the Czar of Russia.

A sculptor is desperately looking for a model for his latest work entitled New Venus. One day he meets girl who seems like perfect candidate. Soon, they both fall in love with each other.

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

Sinner's Parade is a 1928 American silent crime film directed by John G. Adolfi and starring Victor Varconi, Dorothy Revier, and John Patrick. It is not known whether this film survives. The film's sets were designed by the art director Harrison Wiley.

Joe, a weakling gangster, and Bob, an ex-gambler, compete for Lyla Mason, a working girl who also runs a 10th Avenue rooming house in New York city. Bob's desire to show Lyla he can support her leads him back to the gambling table when past-due rent threatens her with eviction. Bob and Joe are both suspected when Fink, a bootlegger, is found murdered in his room.

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for Kander/Ebb's 1975 Broadway musical of the same name and its Oscar-winning 2002 film adaptation.

A colonel of the French army in North Africa believes his brother, a sensitive musician, to be in love with the colonel's wife and so arranges for his brother to be drafted into the colonel's own corps. Unknown to either is the fact that the colonel's wife is actually an Arab spy.

Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army girl and attends mission meetings on the East Side for atmosphere. There she meets Jerry Wilson, an honest truckdriver and friend of the Army captain. Although the act is a success, Babe is disillusioned to find Lonnie, a fellow worker who has been romancing her, stealing her money and making overtures to Big Bertha, the hard-boiled club hostess.

Esta excelente epopéia bíblica, produzida e dirigida pelo mestre Cecil B. DeMille, é uma mistura hábil de reverência espiritual e imaginação cinematográfica. Considerado por muitos críticos a melhor versão da vida de Cristo já produzida, o filme cobre os 33 anos vividos por Jesus Cristo, desde seu nascimento até a Crucificação, Ressureição e a Ascensão. Incluindo o relacionamento do Salvador com João, os 40 Dias no Deserto, a Escolha dos Apóstolos, o Sermão na Montanha, a Traição de Judas, a Páscoa e a sua Última Ceia. O Rei dos Reisé um épico cheio de planos sequência, figuração realizada por milhares de pessoas, efeitos especiais para a época impressionantes, com uma pesquisa de arte e produção perfeita, tanto para os cenários quanto para o guarda-roupas, fiéis totalmente ao período e um elenco estrelar com grandes atores. Obra-prima incontestável de grande valor histórico e religioso.

When Victoria’s husband Leonard leaves her for Helen , Victoria takes up with artist Antonio. However both couples end up on George La Fuente's dude ranch. Everybody begins arguing with the poor Senor Fuentes.

During the Russian Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.

The wife of an American diplomat falls in love with a young Hungarian violinist.

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration print was prepared using photochemical processes by Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale in the mid-1990s and the premiere screening of the restoration print was held in the amphitheatre in Pompeii, followed by a screening at the major restoration festival ‘Il Cinema Ritrovato’ in Bologna in 1998.

Kerry Harlan (La Rocque) is unable to work because he was injured in a battle with a shark, so his youthful wife Amy (Reynolds) becomes a fashion model. While she is away from home, Bertha, the wife of his surgeon, is trying to force her attentions on Kerry and is accidentally killed in an attempt to evade her husband. After the scandal Amy is courted by Tony Channing, but she returns to her husband and finds him near death from gas fumes. Because they both attempted to make suicide, their spirits are rejected by "the other side," and learning the truth from Bertha's spirit they fight their way back to life. This film is presumed lost.

A bored rich housewife wants to go on the stage, but her husband won't let her. When she meets a despairing actress who looks exactly like her, she suggests they swap places for a little while, giving the actress a break while the rich husband is out of town. But the rich husband comes back early, causing havoc for the actress, plus the rich housewife is finding herself attracted to the actress's boyfriend.

At the center of the story is Ann Land. Ann is a small factory worker and has only ever dreamed of great fame, recognition as an artist and applause ...

At the urging of his dying aunt, a young man of limited means forgoes marriage into comfortable society. He becomes husband to an unwed mother and father to a child. Their meager existence is threatened, however, when the woman he left at the altar reenters his life.

Patriotic Austrian costume drama, about the martyr Medardus who opposed Napoleon's occupation of Vienna in 1809. The plot proceeds in a series of confrontations with Medardus, his mother and sister, the blind exiled Count of Valois, his ambitious daughter, and Napoleon himself (portrayed as a cool strategist), including several brief flashbacks.

Exposed to bad influences since childhood, Mary, a young girl is pushed by her mother to approach an elderly banker by the name of Harber. After almost driving her fiancee to suicide and seducing his mentally-ill son, she realizes through a metaphorical dream the scope of her negligence. Sentenced to prison for incitement to murder Harber, she sees herself as a parallel figure to Lea, Lot's wife in Sodom, where the Angel of the Lord warns the sinful citizens of the city of their impending doom. Lea oppresses the angel and eventually turns it over to the pagan priests when her sexual advances to it are rejected. In another dream sequence, Mary becomes the Queen of Syria, whose oppressed people turn against her and who, in turn, condemns a young man who loves her to death. Finally, her dream returns to the present time and when she awakens, she runs back to her former lover.

A modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.

Based on a popular stage musical comedy by Károly Bakonyi and Andor Gábor, the film tells the story of a young engineer who tries to construct a railway in his hometown, helped by the Count's daughter, Marcsa (Lili Berky).

A young woman living in the country is told by her dying father that he is really her uncle and raised her as his own when her mother was sent to prison for killing her husband. Alone and not knowing her mother’s fate, Betty travels to the city in search of work. There she finds employment as a maid in the house of a wealthy couple and their dashing son, Nick, with whom she falls in love...

Silent film.