In Praise of Older Women

In Praise of Older Women 1978

5.40

Andras Vayda grows up in a turbulent, war-torn Hungary, where he procures local girls for the occupying G.I.'s during World War II. Disappointed by girls of his age, he meets Maya, a married women in her thirties, who tutors him in the lessons of love and romance. Maya is only the first of many mature women that Andras will meet through his teenage and young adult life.

1978

Wildflower

Wildflower 1914

1

Known as "Wildflower," Letty Roberts meets Arnold Boyd, a wealthy man who is weary of life in the city.

1914

The Antics of Ann

The Antics of Ann 1917

1

Ann Wharton, a rambunctious young student at the prestigious Bredwell Academy, is in trouble after a spoonful of cereal she flung at a classmate hits Mrs. Bredwell in the face. As she is being reprimanded in Mrs. Bredwell's office, a misunderstanding results in a member of the football team arriving at the office with Ann's clothes--she had left them behind when she changed into a football uniform so she could play football with the team--and Mrs. Bredwell writes to Ann's father notifying him that Ann is being expelled. She intercepts the letter, but her troubles are far from over.

1917

The Land of Promise

The Land of Promise 1917

1

Based on the 1913 play The Land of Promise by W. Somerset Maugham about Nora Marsh and her life which ends in a farm.

1917

Cinderella

Cinderella 1914

5.50

Good-hearted Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but she is able to go to the Royal Ball with the help of the Fairy Godmother. Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale, and featuring unforgettable chemistry between Pickford and then-husband Owen Moore as Prince Charming.

1914

A Lady of Quality

A Lady of Quality 1913

1

News is received by Sir Jeoffrey, a dissolute roué, whose contempt for the other sex extends even to his own daughters, of the arrival of another female child in the family. The mother dies shortly after, and the child, Clorinda, is brought up among the servants without a guiding hand. True to his vow to ignore his offspring, Sir Jeoffrey does not come in contact with Clo, until her sixth year, when he finds her playing with his powder horn in the great hall of his castle, Wildair, and sternly upbraids her.

1913

The Incorrigible Dukane

The Incorrigible Dukane 1915

1

A rich contractor sends his son to supervise the building of a new dam. His clothes are stolen by a tramp and dressed in the tramp's clothes he's mistaken for a laborer.

1915

Madame Butterfly

Madame Butterfly 1915

4.50

The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.

1915

The Prisoner of Zenda

The Prisoner of Zenda 1913

3.50

King Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.

1913

The Moth and the Flame

The Moth and the Flame 1915

1

A bride who discovers during her wedding ceremony that her husband-to-be has fathered a child out of wedlock with another woman.

1915

Nearly a King

Nearly a King 1916

1

A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.

1916

The Saleslady

The Saleslady 1916

1

Poverty forces Helen Shirley, a country lass, into New York in search of a living. Shy and unsophisticated, Helen falls an easy victim of the notorious band which preys upon young girls and she is easily induced to go to a boarding house which is in reality the headquarters of the gang.

1916

The Lost Bridegroom

The Lost Bridegroom 1916

1

Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.

1916

The Sign of the Cross

The Sign of the Cross 1914

4.90

In 64 A.D., Marcus Superbus is Prefect of Rome. When the Emperor Nero decides to renew persecution of the Christians, Marcus opposes him, fearing for the safety of Mercia, the Christian woman whom he loves. Through the machinations of the Empress Poppaea and other women at court, Tigellinus, Nero's agent in the war against the Christians, convinces Nero to have Mercia arrested. Marcus appeals to the emperor for mercy, but is told that she can be saved only by renouncing Christianity. Waiting to enter the arena to be killed, Mercia steadfastly refuses to reject her religion, despite Marcus' pleas. Finally, Marcus is converted by her and they enter the arena to face death together.

1914

Seventeen

Seventeen 1916

1

Seventeen year old William Sylvanus Baxter has fallen madly in love with young coquette, Lola Pratt. After spending all of his money on the fickle girl, she runs off with an older man. William now heartbroken, contemplates suicide, until a friend from childhood, May Parcher, pays a visit and William decides to fall in love with her.

1916

A Good Little Devil

A Good Little Devil 1914

1

A partially lost film, with only one surviving reel. A movie released in 1914 directed by Edwin S. Porter.

1914

The Count of Monte Cristo

The Count of Monte Cristo 1913

4.00

A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.

1913