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Your #1 was Pandora's Box (#1).
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Dir. G.W. Pabst · Louise Brooks · Fritz Kortner · Francis Lederer · Carl Goetz
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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Dir. G.W. Pabst · Louise Brooks · André Roanne · Josef Rovenský · Fritz Rasp
Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Willy Fritsch · Gerda Maurus · Klaus Pohl · Fritz Rasp
A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.
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Dir. Joe May · Albert Steinrück · Else Heller · Gustav Fröhlich · Betty Amann
Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Anny Ondra · Sara Allgood · Charles Paton · John Longden
London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.
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Dir. Oleksandr Dovzhenko · Semyon Svashenko · Amvrosii Buchma · Dmytro Erdman · Serhii Petrov
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. The story of the suppression of the Bolshevik uprising at the Arsenal factory in Kyiv by the Central Council troops.
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Dir. Robert Florey · Groucho Marx · Harpo Marx · Chico Marx · Zeppo Marx
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
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Dir. Edward Sedgwick · Buster Keaton · Dorothy Sebastian · Edward Earle · Leila Hyams
An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
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Dir. Erich von Stroheim · Gloria Swanson · Walter Byron · Seena Owen · Sylvia Ashton
In Kronberg, Ruritania, the planned wedding of Queen Regina and Prince Wolfram is disrupted when the prince falls in love with Patricia Kelly, a beautiful orphan at the convent. The prince kidnaps Patricia and takes her to the palace, but the queen drives her out. After a botched suicide attempt, Patricia unwillingly allows her scurrilous aunt to marry her off to a decrepit scoundrel. Undaunted, Wolfram follows Patricia to her new home in East Africa.
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Dir. Frank Borzage · Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams · Paul Fix
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Maurice Chevalier · Jeanette MacDonald · Lupino Lane · Lillian Roth
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
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Dir. E.A. Dupont · Gilda Gray · Anna May Wong · Jameson Thomas · Charles Laughton
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.
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Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · Marfa Lapkina · M. Ivanin · Konstantin Vasilyev · Vasili Buzenkov
Also known as The Old and the New, The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.
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Dir. Rouben Mamoulian · Helen Morgan · Joan Peers · Fuller Mellish Jr. · Jack Cameron
This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading burlesque star who tries to save her convent-educated daughter April from following in mom's footsteps.
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Dir. Allan Dwan · Douglas Fairbanks · Belle Bennett · Marguerite De La Motte · Dorothy Revier
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.
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Dir. Alfred E. Green · George Arliss · Doris Lloyd · David Torrence · Joan Bennett
Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal.
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Dir. Roland West · Chester Morris · Eleanor Griffith · Purnell Pratt · Pat O'Malley
Chick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, sneaked out during the intermission to commit the crime, then used her to support his alibi. The detective squad employs its most sophisticated and barbaric techniques, including planting an undercover agent in the gang, to bring him to justice.
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Dir. Charles Reisner · Conrad Nagel · Jack Benny · John Gilbert · Norma Shearer
An all-star revue featuring MGM contract players.
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Dir. Harry Beaumont · Charles King · Anita Page · Bessie Love · Betty Arthur
The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Emil Jannings · Florence Vidor · Lewis Stone · Vera Voronina
In 18th-Century Russia, the Czar, Paul, is surrounded by murderous plots and trusts only Count Pahlen. Pahlen wishes to protect his friend, the mad king, but because of the horror of the king's acts, he feels that he must remove him from the throne.
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