The Manxman
A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.
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Director: Alfred Hitchcock, Frank Mills
Actors: Anny Ondra, Carl Brisson, Clare Greet, Harry Terry, Kim Peacock, Malcolm Keen, Nellie Richards, Randle Ayrton, Wilfred Shine
Back Pay
This 1922 Frank Borzage film is a masterwork waiting to be rediscovered. Hester Bevins is a simple country girl who yearns for adventure. Though she has a handsome young man,…
Five Star Final
Searching for headlines at any cost, an unscrupulous newspaper owner forces his editor to print a serial based on a past murder, tormenting a woman involved.
The Birth of a Nation
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…
Kentucky Pride
This rare John Ford silent is a charming, sweetly sentimental tale of the relationship between humans and animals told largely from the point of view of a racehorse who observes…
Susan Lenox (Her Fall and Rise)
A young woman runs away from an abusive home and pre-arranged marriage only to be frustrated in her attempts to find happiness with a handsome engineer.
What Do Men Want?
According to this Lois Weber production, men don’t really seem to know what they want at all — first Frank (J. Frank Glendon) wants to be an inventor. Then he…
Consent
In 2013, Vanessa Springora recounts how she found herself under the influence of a famous writer. In 1986, she was 13; him, almost 50. The victim of a triple predation:…
Grand Hotel
Guests at a posh Berlin hotel struggle through worry, scandal, and heartache.
Martyrs of the Alamo
The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.