Flesh and the Devil is a silent film from 1926 that tells the story of two lifelong friends who become estranged when they both fall in love with the same femme fatale. Their friendship is put to the test as they navigate the complexities of love, betrayal, and societal expectations.
In 'The Wind,' a woman named Letty moves to a remote area in the West, where she faces isolation and the constant onslaught of a fierce sandstorm. As her mental state deteriorates, Letty starts to believe that the wind is out to get her and becomes increasingly paranoid. She navigates the challenges of living alone in the harsh desert, dealing with attempted rape, drinking, and family relationships. The film explores themes of insanity, self-defense, and the dark side of the human psyche.
In the small town of Varmland, Sweden, Gosta Berling, a former priest, is living a reckless and self-destructive life as an alcoholic. He finds himself caught up in a dangerous affair with a countess, leading to a series of events filled with melodrama, deception, and tragedy. As Gosta struggles to find redemption and escape the consequences of his actions, he must confront his inner demons and make a choice between salvation and damnation.
Working as a pageboy on an ocean liner, a street orphan and his friend Slugger end up on the wrong side of the ship's captain when they try to tell him that his wife is cheating on him with other members of the crew. The boys end up in deeper trouble, after they are thrown in the brig and the ship starts sinking...
An allegory of Germany's WWII occupation of Norway. Members of a theater ensemble join the resistance.
When his ancestors seem to appear in the clouds during a storm of biblical proportions, young Ingmar decides to give up his career as the village teacher and to reclaim the land and farm of his fathers. The same stormy night, the charismatic preacher Helgum arrives in the village to spread the word about the promises of the Holy Land, which turns parents and children, men and wives, brothers and sisters, against one another. Ingmar is torn between his love for the headmaster’s daughter Gertrud who is under the preacher’s spell, and the prospects of marrying the judge’s daughter Barbro in order to keep the farm.
One day when Ruben Stiller is playing in a bath, he gets an alien talking to Nadja, who asks him to find out the fate of Charly's dog. Ruben agrees because Charly's host was Mauritz Stiller, and Ruben is the grandson of Mauritz's brother.
Just before the young Anna is getting married to the lighthouse keeper Holmstrand, she meets the Norwegian sailor John. He falls in love with her, but leaves her when he is told she is engaged.
A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.
A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
In Stockholm in the year 2248 an excavation leads to the discovery of 45,000 meters of film from the 1940's master director Hasse Ekman . The material is in a disarray but the Society for Ancient Film Research compiles the material after what is believed to have been the master's artistic intentions
In colonial America, a minister's love affair with a married woman leads to public humiliation and a life of guilt and shame. Set in the puritanical society of Boston, the story explores themes of sin, punishment, and redemption.
Erotikon is a silent film that tells the story of a married couple facing marital troubles and infidelity. The husband, an entomologist, becomes infatuated with a temptress while the wife is pursued by a sculptor. The film explores themes of marriage, deception, and temptation.
A young divinity student helps and protects a down and out prostitute, at the cost of his own standing in the community.
[For 9 minute surviving fragment] Lucian, a soldier in Paris, is to ship out for Algiers at 9 that evening. He stops by for a last meal with his love, Marianne. He may be worried that when he leaves she will find another soldier to love. They argue then embrace and, when the clock strikes midnight, he is still in her arms. Is desertion in the cards? Can the relationship survive the military demands and a soldier's obligations? A lost film.
"Conflict" - Shipbuilder Edvard Banck is busy building new ships, but forgets that his wife Birgit wants his attention and tenderness. A new engineer, Reidar Hagen, begins at the shipyard, and Birgit is immediately attracted to him. They fall in love, and Birgit decides to leave her husband. But is it possible and what will Edvard do?
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisexual model and lover, Mikaël, ultimately leading to Zoret's death in a raging storm at the base of a statue of Mikaël as the mythological Icarus. The film is missing 19 minutes of run time.
Professor Barring is awarded the Nobel Prize in physics. According to Barring the scientist's sole duty is to seek the truth, even if this leads to the "gates of hell".
Celebrated elderly Austrian poet opposes nazism, while his daughter admires and falls in love with leading nazi activist, who eventually becomes concentration camp commander with his father-in-law as prisoner.
A 1917 Swedish drama film directed by Victor Sjöström, based on a 1913 novel by Selma Lagerlöf. It was the first in a series of successful Lagerlöf adaptions by Sjöström, made possible by a deal between Lagerlöf and A-B Svenska Biografteatern (later AB Svensk Filmindustri) to adapt at least one Lagerlöf novel each year. Lagerlöf had for many years denied any proposal to let her novels be adapted for film, but after seeing Sjöström's Terje Vigen she finally decided to give her allowance.