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Loulou
7.5

Loulou

Jan 30, 1929

Loulou
1929 133 min 230 vues
Loulou est une jeune femme qui ne s'encombre d'aucun préjugé et vit pour l'amour et le plaisir. Ses amis sont nombreux. Elle en a de tous les âges et de toutes les conditions. Elle est présentement la maîtresse en titre du Dr Schön, propriétaire de plusieurs journaux, qui a aidé sa carrière de danseuse en faisant beaucoup parler d'elle. Ce jour-là, Schön fait grise mine en annonçant à Loulou son prochain mariage avec la fille du ministre de l'intérieur.
Drama
Le Journal d'une fille perdue
7.4

Le Journal d'une fille perdue

Sep 27, 1929

Le Journal d'une fille perdue
1929 113 min 112 vues
Thymiane, la fille d'un riche pharmacien, note ses faits et gestes sur le journal qui lui a été offert le jour de sa confirmation. C'est avec horreur qu'elle assiste au licenciement d'une jeune gouvernante, seule, sans ressources, avec un enfant à charge. La malheureuse meurt peu après. Profondément écoeurée, Thymiane accepte le rendez-vous que lui fixe Meinert, le préparateur de son père, et se donne à lui entre les fioles et les onguents. Elle ne peut cacher longtemps qu'elle est enceinte. Son journal livre le nom de son séducteur. Meinert refuse toutefois de l'épouser. L'enfant est abandonné, et Thymiane placée dans une sévère maison de correction…
Drama
The Street of Forgotten Men
6

The Street of Forgotten Men

Jul 24, 1925

The Street of Forgotten Men
1925 76 min 2 vues
Easy-Money Charley, the best fake crippled beggar in New York, loses his beloved dog and adopts a dying prostitute's daughter to fill the empty place in his heart. But his fellow crooks and dissemblers mock him for sentimentality, and he disowns the child in order to bring her up secretly in the safety of a distant suburb. He brings her up as a young lady in ignorance of her true history or of his; but when he discovers that her affections have taken an unexpected slant, it brings about an end to their tranquil life, a crisis of conscience, and an opportunity for the sinister 'White-Eye' to take a hand...
Drama
The Canary Murder Case
5.6

The Canary Murder Case

Feb 16, 1929

The Canary Murder Case
1929 82 min 24 vues
A beautiful showgirl, name "the Canary" is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed "the Canary". All the suspects knew and were used by her and everyone had a motive to see her dead. The only witness to the crime has also been 'rubbed out'. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.
Crime
Prix de beauté
6.2

Prix de beauté

Aug 01, 1930

Prix de beauté
1930 93 min 17 vues
Une jolie dactylo participe, a l'insu de son fiancée, a un prix de beauté organise par un grand quotidien. Devant la jalousie de son ami, elle décide de retirer sa candidature mais il est trop tard.
Drama
Rolled Stockings
1

Rolled Stockings

Jun 18, 1927

Rolled Stockings
1927 70 min 1 vues
Though billed second, the stunningly beautiful Louise Brooks is the focal point of the campus comedy Rolled Stockings. It's the old one about two collegiate brothers, Jim and Ralph Treadway (James Hall, Richard Arlen), in love with the same girl, Carol Fleming (Brooks).
Drama
Les mendiants de la vie
7.1

Les mendiants de la vie

Sep 22, 1928

Les mendiants de la vie
1928 82 min 41 vues
Lorsque Jim, jeune mendiant, entre dans une maison pour y demander de la nourriture, il y trouve un homme assassiné. Et une jeune servante qui décide de se déguiser en homme pour fuir avec le vagabond sur les routes du Middle-west. Ils sont bientôt poursuivis par la police…
Adventure
The Show Off
7.2

The Show Off

Aug 16, 1926

The Show Off
1926 82 min 4 vues
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive (but is really just a $30-a-week clerk) catches a young bride and then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Comedy
Une fille dans chaque port
6.3

Une fille dans chaque port

Feb 26, 1928

Une fille dans chaque port
1928 78 min 19 vues
Deux marins, amis et bagarreurs qui une fois arrivés dans un port aiment fréquenter les bars et charmer les filles locales. Lors d'une escale à Marseille, Spike tombe sous le charme d'une foraine, Mademoiselle Godiva, qui ne s'intéresse à lui que pour son argent.
Adventure
It Pays to Advertise
4.7

It Pays to Advertise

Feb 18, 1931

It Pays to Advertise
1931 63 min 3 vues
To prove his thesis that any product--even one that doesn't exist--can be merchandized if it is advertised properly, a young man gets together with his father's savvy secretary to market a non-existent laundry soap. Complications ensue when his "product" turns out to be more successful than even he imagined--and now he has to deliver.
Comedy
Le Galant Étalagiste
6.7

Le Galant Étalagiste

Mar 19, 1926

Le Galant Étalagiste
1926 76 min 3 vues
Sur son lit de mort, Mame Walsh a promis à sa mère de s'occuper de sa petite sœur Janie. Mais Janie s'empare de tout ce qui appartient à sa sœur, qu'il s'agisse de ses vêtements ou de ses hommes, et même de l'argent que lui confient ses collègues du magasin où elles travaillent. Quoi qu'il en soit, Mame ne peut pas rompre sa promesse. Alors, quand il s'agit de sortir Janie du pétrin, c'est la grande sœur qui vient à la rescousse.
Comedy
Overland Stage Raiders
4.962

Overland Stage Raiders

Sep 20, 1938

Overland Stage Raiders
1938 55 min 14 vues
After gold shipments from a mining town have been hijacked, the three Mesquiteers buy a plane to fly the gold out. The owner of the shipping line brings in Eastern gangsters to thwart them.
Western
Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
5

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood

May 02, 1931

Windy Riley Goes Hollywood
1931 18 min 2 vues
A driver on a non-stop race from New York to San Francisco gets detoured to Hollywood, where he winds up working as a publicity man for a movie studio and assigned to revive the career of a beautiful but fading star.
Comedy
It's the Old Army Game
5

It's the Old Army Game

Jul 10, 1926

It's the Old Army Game
1926 77 min 10 vues
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
Comedy
God's Gift to Women
5

God's Gift to Women

Apr 13, 1931

God's Gift to Women
1931 72 min 7 vues
A notorious womanizer sets his sights on a pretty American tourist, only to be told by his doctor that he must give up all romance for his health.
Comedy
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
9

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

Apr 03, 2011

Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
2011 110 min 1 vues
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy", one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Documentary
Empty Saddles
1

Empty Saddles

Dec 20, 1936

Empty Saddles
1936 67 min 1 vues
Buck runs into trouble when he buys a deserted cattle ranch that he turns into a dude ranch.
Western
1001 Films
5.5

1001 Films

Jan 01, 1989

1001 Films
1989 8 min 4 vues
An ode to film preservation, it presents a night-time visit to a seemingly depopulated repository (presumably the Royal Film Archive of Belgium), juxtaposing a series of images of observation, reconstruction, and projection using film fragments - from the hand-painted, altered image frames of Georges Méliès' Kingdom of the Fairies to the iconic image of Louise Brooks - to turn the archive into a temporal wonderland of novel discoveries, hidden treasure, re-awakened curiosity, and critical re-assessment.
Documentary
The American Venus
1

The American Venus

Jan 31, 1926

The American Venus
1926 87 min 1 vues
A lost film - Mary Gray, whose father manufactures cold cream, is engaged to sappy Horace Niles, the son of Hugo Niles, the elder Gray's most competitive rival in the cosmetics business. Chip Armstrong, a hot-shot public relations man, quits the employ of Hugo Niles and goes to work for Gray, persuading Mary to enter the Miss America contest at Atlantic City, with the intention of using her to endorse her father's cold cream should she win. Mary breaks her engagement with Horace. When it appears that she will win the contest, Hugo lures her home on the pretext that her father is ill, and she misses the contest. Chip and Mary return to Atlantic City, discovering that the new Miss America has told the world that she owes all her success to Gray's cold cream. On this note, Chip and Mary decide to get married.
Comedy
Now We're in the Air
6.2

Now We're in the Air

Oct 21, 1927

Now We're in the Air
1927 60 min 2 vues
Wally and Ray are cousins intent upon getting the fortune of their Scots grandad, an aviation nut. They become mixed-up with the U. S. flying corps and are wafted over the enemy lines in a runaway balloon. Through misunderstanding they are honored as heroes of the enemy forces, and sent back to the U.S. lines to spy. Here they are captured and almost shot, but everything ends happily. Only 20 minutes of this 6 reel comedy are extant.
Comedy
Louise Brooks
1

Louise Brooks

Apr 17, 1986

Louise Brooks
1986 55 min 1 vues
55-Minute BBC Arena documentary on the film actress Louise Brooks
Documentary
A Social Celebrity
1

A Social Celebrity

Mar 29, 1926

A Social Celebrity
1926 70 min 1 vues
Small-town barber Max Haber is the pride of his father, Johann, who owns an antiquated barbershop. Max adores Kitty Laverne, the manicurist, who loves him but is ambitious to be a dancer, so she heads for New York, hoping that he will follow in pursuit of better things. Mrs. Jackson-Greer, a New York society matron, has occasion to note Max styling the hair of a town girl and induces him to come to New York and pose as a French count. There he meets April, Mrs. King's niece, and loses his heart to her, as well as to Kitty, now a showgirl.
Comedy
Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture

Oct 07, 1976

Memories of Berlin: The Twilight of Weimar Culture
1976 71 min 1 vues
The film tells the cultural story of Berlin during the Weimar Republic through interviews with a number of persons who were involved in literature, film, art, and music during the period. It includes interviews with Christopher Isherwood, Louise Brooks, Lotte Eisner, Elisabeth Bergner, Francis Lederer, Carl Zuckmayer, Gregor Piatigorsky, Claudio Arrau, Rudolf Kolisch, Mischa Spoliansky, Herbert Bayer, Mrs. Walter Gropius, and Arthur Koestler.
Documentary
The City Gone Wild
1

The City Gone Wild

Nov 12, 1927

The City Gone Wild
1927 54 min 1 vues
Hard-boiled underworld melodrama, with gang wars and gunfights, in which criminal lawyer turns prosecutor to avenge a friend's death.
Crime
Just Another Blonde
6

Just Another Blonde

Dec 13, 1926

Just Another Blonde
1926 60 min 1 vues
Jimmy O'Connor and Scotty are a couple of New York City gamblers and sharpies who decide to go straight and, since they are such good friends, split 50-50 "even steven" on anything they get or do. Jimmy, a confirmed bachelor, doesn't care for women but Scotty falls in love with Diana O'Sullivan, a Coney Island girl. They decide that Jimmy needs a girlfriend and they opt for Jeannie Cavanaugh. But, following their 50-50 pact, Jimmy, although he has fallen in love with Jeannie, praises Scotty to her.
Romance
Evening Clothes
1

Evening Clothes

Mar 19, 1927

Evening Clothes
1927 63 min 1 vues
Attracted by his wealth, avaricious Germaine marries D'Artois, then leaves him for a more sophisticated man. D'Artois retaliates by moving to the city and learning the proper social graces. His new life style proves to be too expensive for him, and at the end he is left with nothing but one suit of evening clothes and his now contrite wife.
Comedy
Lulu in Berlin
7

Lulu in Berlin

May 27, 1984

Lulu in Berlin
1984 48 min 4 vues
Vérité documentarian Richard Leacock’s LULU IN BERLIN features one of the few long interviews ever done with actor Louise Brooks. It took place in her apartment in Rochester, New York, in 1971.
Documentary
Mysteries and Scandals
5

Mysteries and Scandals

Nov 30, 1998

Mysteries and Scandals
1998 min 4 vues
Mysteries and Scandals is an American television program hosted by A.J. Benza. The series was originally broadcast on the E! network from March 1998 until February 2001.
Documentary
Hollywood
8.267

Hollywood

Apr 01, 1980

Hollywood
1980 min 15 vues
A 1980 documentary series exploring the establishment and development of the Hollywood studios and its impact on 1920s culture.
Documentary
Arena
6.714

Arena

Apr 22, 2023

Arena
2023 min 7 vues
Arena is a British television documentary series, made and broadcast by the BBC. Voted by leading TV executives in Broadcast as one of the top 50 most influential programmes of all time, it has run since 1 October 1975 with over five hundred episodes made, directed by the likes of Martin Scorsese, Alan Yentob, Roly Keating, Frederick Baker, Volker Schlondorff and Vikram Jayanti. Arena's subjects are a roll-call of the world's best known cultural figures from the 20th and 21st centuries, from singers Bob Dylan and Amy Winehouse to academics Edward Said and Eric Hobsbawm, from writers Jean Genet and V S Naipaul to artists Francis Bacon and Louise Bourgeois. The current series editor is Anthony Wall.
Documentary