Movies

A man unknowingly falls madly in love with the fiancé of a close friend who has twice saved his life.

Documentary short film extolling the virtues of the American Community Chest charity program and its value to the Allied war effort.

Events of strange and serious nature mark the invention and the manufacture of the nylon stockings. For example inhuman exploitation of workers in...

Until 1932's Grand Hotel, never had there existed an all-star ensemble cast on film. Conceived by MGM's production genius Irving Thalberg, the film...

Compilation of lighting and costume tests from various films, most notably Sternberg's "The Devil Is a Woman" (1935).

The rise and fall of Nazi Germany in part through the use of classical allegory.

Documentary about film.

Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell...

A British colonel escapes from the Gestapo to the Black Forest and poses as a Gypsy's mate.

A young intellectual falls in love with a circus performer and decides to cultivate her into a lady and marry her. Eventually however she decides to...

Heads Up, Charley is a 1927 German silent comedy film directed by Willi Wolff and starring Ellen Richter, Anton Pointner, and Michael Bohnen. Marlene...

Cher, the star who refused to be boxed in, stood up to conformity, and championed female independence. Proving the doubters wrong with every change...

After a chance meeting at a train station, Henry and Stascha, unhappy with their circumstances, are determined to leave and be together.

Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

Documentary about the birth of bossa-nova, in Brazil, and the major stars of this musical style.

This silent German drama contained the screen debut of the legendary Marlene Dietrich in a small role. It's survival status is uncertain.

This visual essay focuses on the visual style and composition of the Hollywood films made together by Josef von Sternberg and Marlene Dietrich.