Comrade Elena

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Runtime

2h 28m

Director

Fritz Lang

Cast

Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Alfred Abel

When housewife Trina wins the lottery, her comfortable life with her dentist husband John slowly deteriorates, in part by her own increasing paranoia and partly by the machinations of villainous acquaintance Marcus.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Erich von Stroheim

Cast

Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Runtime

3h 17m

Director

D.W. Griffith

Cast

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron

A hotheaded youth in 1880s Meiji Japan apprentices to judo master Shōgorō Yano, trading brute jujutsu bravado for discipline and humility. As Sanshirō matures, he proves judo’s spirit against old-guard challengers—including a deadly duel—while falling for his vanquished opponent’s daughter. Based on the novel by Tsuneo Tomita, son of ...

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Akira Kurosawa

Cast

Denjirō Ōkōchi, Susumu Fujita, Yukiko Todoroki

Eddie Haskins, a wisecracking young man, teams up with two ham-acrobats known as 'Bugs & Sunny', and ,when they are all kicked out of a vaudeville theater in California, they enlist in the U. S. Cavalry. Eddie falls in love with Dorothy Clark, the daughter of a sergeant and, following a moonlight tryst, they are discovered by Sergeant ...

Runtime

1h 20m

Director

Norman Taurog, B. Reeves Eason

Cast

Rex Lease, Dorothy Gulliver, Roscoe Karns