An undercover government agent on a case in Mississippi meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman who’s being menaced by a local crime boss.

A tramp cares for a boy after he’s abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her…

Wanting his son to get away from his many girlfriends and buckle down to work, the New York industrialist father of a playboy sends him to an obscure village in…

A young couple and their child fall prey to kidnappers when a storm drives them into a seemingly abandoned farmhouse.

A former All-American football star, now working as a steel mill supervisor in New Jersey, falls in love with the mill owner’s wealthy, very spoiled daughter.

A woman’s love for and devotion to a married man results in her being relegated to the “back streets” of his life.

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint…

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men’s lives, and soon Valjean finds himself…

Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no…

When a busybody teacher in a girls’ finishing school finds a love letter from a student to an unknown man, a minor scandal erupts.

The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his…

The children of feuding gangsters fall in love and fight to escape their parents’ notoriety.