The Life of Moses

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

Runtime

1h 16m

Director

Robert Wiene

Cast

Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Fehér

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

Runtime

52m

Cast

Teuvo Tulio, Regina Ekroth, Valentin Vaala

Carmine Gallone and Amleto Palermi’s The Last Days of Pompeii 1926 stages in sumptuous colour tinting the epic fall of the ancient city buried by Mount Vesuvius’ eruption. Adapted from Edward Bulwer-Lytton’s love story, the film was innovative in its special effects and an early major box-office hit. A beautiful tinted restoration prin...

Runtime

3h 16m

Director

Carmine Gallone, Amleto Palermi

Cast

Victor Varconi, Rina De Liguoro, María Corda

The first Chinese film ever made, a sung representation of Battle of Mount Dingjun.

Runtime

42m

Director

Ren Jingfeng

Cast

Tan Xinpei

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by the Church and bourgeois society in general.

Runtime

1h 3m

Director

Luis Buñuel

Cast

Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Max Ernst

Four friends pretend a cruise to escape their wives and go clubbing, but they are forced to go through face-saving shipwreck, becoming castaways.

Runtime

1h 38m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Antonio Vico, Mary Santpere, Fernando Rey

In XVII century Portugal two friends change identities so one of them can escape an unwanted marriage to Beatriz.

Runtime

1h 27m

Director

Eduardo García Maroto

Cast

Virgílio Teixeira, Margarita Andrey, María Isbert