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Yotsuya Kaidan

June 1911 •Japanese

Earliest japanese horror film.

Warned Off

July 1930 •English

An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.

The S.O.S.S.B.U

February 2025 •English

3 Cornell students are broke and left with no money, they must come up with a plan to seek their way into wealth. Will they succeed?

The Last Kiss

December 1931 •English

First ever Bangladeshi feature film. The film about a conflict between two family members.

The 47 Loyal Ronin

December 1910 •Japanese

An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content comes from the 1911 adaptation by legendary Japanese filmmaker Makino Shozo.

Daughters of Today

January 1928 •English

Daughters of Today was a 1928 silent film from Lahore, in present-day Pakistan (then British India). It was produced by G.K Mehta and directed by Shankradev Arya. This was the first feature film made in Lahore, and helped to establish the city of Lahore as one of the centers of filming in India. The Lahore film industry is now known as Lollywood. Production started in 1924 and took three years to complete, mainly due to financial problems. Two participants later became prominent personalities of the South Asian film industry: A.R. Kardar was one of the most famous Bombay film directors in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s; and actor M. Ismael's film career spanned over five decades.

The Vow Made Below the Moon

April 1923 •Korean

Yeong-deuk and Jeong-sun and engaged. Yeong-deuk comes back home after completing his studies and meets the wrong kind of friends who revel in liquor and women.

The Kid Brother

January 1927 •English

The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.

Alma de Dios

October 1923 •Spanish

Eloisa is an orphan, the fiancée of Agustín, who meets her when she arrives in Madrid fleeing her stepmother's mistreatment. She happens to be the mother of an illegitimate child, but in reality the mother is his cousin Irene (with whom he lives, next to his aunt) married to Mr. Adrian. Her aunt Marcelina tries with this lie to save her daughter Irene. After numerous family entanglements, the truth becomes clear and the couple can live together and in peace.

Gigantes y cabezudos

March 1926 •Spanish

Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to go to the war in Cuba.

La malcasada

February 1927 •Spanish

A silent film centering around bull fighting and general melodrama, which also serves nicely as a documentary with 'cameos' by many Spanish personalities of the time.

El conde de Maravillas

March 1927 •Spanish

The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.

La terrible lección

January 1927 •Spanish

Carmen

November 1909 •Italian

The Life of Moses

December 1909 •English

Released in five parts (The Persecution of the Children of Israel by the Egyptians, Forty Years in the Land of Midian, The Plagues of Egypt and the Deliverance of the Hebrews, The Victory of Israel, The Promised Land), 4 December 1909 to 19 February 1910. A Vitagraph advertisement in the Moving Picture World (31 Dec. 1909) refers to The Life of Moses as a "Biblical Film-de-Luxe". It is preserved in the Library of Congress collection.

Mustat silmät

April 1929 •Finnish

Valentin Vaala's (and Teuvo Tulio's) first film. Only fragments survive.

Scrap-Mattila and the Beautiful Woman

June 2012 •Finnish

A silent film about a sorrowful man who's searching for a buyer for his goods and acceptance for his existence.

The Making of a Man

October 1911 •English

A young woman becomes infatuated with the leading man of a traveling theatrical troupe. She sneaks away to join him in the next town, but her father forces her to return home...

The Cigarette

October 1919 •French

A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.

Dante's Inferno

March 1911 •

A two-reel adaptation of Dante Alighieri's Inferno from the Divine Comedy by Helios Film. It is less well-known than the five-reel feature produced the same year by Milano Films, but it was released earlier in 1911.