Silent Film Movies

A suitor arrives at Kaiku's house, who has mistaken both the house and the person, and causes a series of commotions

Ethel, whose financially distressed parents depend on her marrying into wealth, may be forced to abandon the man she loves for her father's rich frien...

Intelligent monkeys, dogs, and ducks enact a spoof of boxing dramas. (MoMA)

The Cost of Carelessness was commissioned by the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company for its campaign to reduce trolley car accidents.

A con artist at large goes around conning the citizens of the town out of their money in the most clever and hilarious ways possible. Determined to pu...

The mute documentary-experimental film "Ten Minutes of Silence" is a film expression of the trends embodied in the painting "Black Square" by Malevich...

A woman attorney is seen in her apartment with her poor henpecked husband, who is more like her man servant than her better half. She is so taken up w...

A boy competes in various events during the Olympic games. Short film from 1936.

A workman places his paint can in an unfortunate spot.

From a futuristic airship, the French police stop crime, arrest criminals, and catch dogs without touching the ground. (MoMA)

The activities of a recently opened amusement park in Havana, Cuba, similar to New York's Coney Island.

In this play on the symmetry of black and white, Robinet leaves home in his bright new suit for a stroll through a blackening industrial landscape. (M...

A family sends a man out for some bread. Instead, he seems to be trying to find every drink in Paris. Another man goes out after him, but does the sam...

A crew of astronauts land on the moon.

Clouds, mostly filmed frame by frame on the outskirts of Quarzazate, Tabount, Morocco.

Italian drama from the Società Anonima Ambrosio company.

A young writer, 'living' in the land of the dead, struggles to complete his book as he is faced with a lot of mental setbacks.

Servant Eeva promises to marry her childhood friend, tailor Aapeli, via letter, but withdraws after meeting the man. Though mostly preserved, the film...

Non-narrative film, highly manipulated: tape-over-frames, ink-tinted, bleached and drawn into. As a montage, abstractly and rhythmically intense. Sup...