Movies and TvShows featuring "blind-beggar" theme.
When his son mysteriously disappears on Halloween night, a father must navigate a dark underworld in order to find him before it's too late.
In the silent film 'Mr. Wu', a Chinese man finds himself entangled in a forbidden love affair and seeks revenge after his daughter's tragic death. The story explores themes of honor, dishonor, interracial romance, and cultural clashes.
Orphans of the Storm follows the lives of two sisters, one blind and one orphaned, as they navigate through the turbulent times of the French Revolution. Their bond is tested as they search for each other amidst political turmoil, deceit, and a love triangle. This silent film depicts the struggles of the lower classes and the stark contrast with the aristocracy in a time of great upheaval.
The Righteous Judge recreates the events that surround Jesus in teaching the principles of love, forgiveness and righteous judgment. In the story of the adulteress Jesus confronts the Pharisees with the simple phrase, “let him without sin cast the first stone,” and thereby teaches us of God’s immense mercy and grace. Caiaphas, who unrighteously judges a blind man sinful, is contrasted against the gratitude of the blind man when Jesus freely heals him.
An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
In Athens, Greece during the 1950s, a blind beggar finds a counterfeit coin and sets off a chain of events that intertwines the lives of various individuals. From a curmudgeonly artist to a young couple facing eviction, the fake coin has a profound impact on their fates and desires. As secrets are revealed and relationships tested, the characters navigate through themes of love, fate, devotion, and the pursuit of happiness in a city filled with both hope and imperfection.
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
Below Zero is a comedy movie set in the depression-era. It follows the hilarious misadventures of a comedy duo who find themselves in various comical situations during a snowy winter. From hitting the wrong person with a hat to being run over by a truck, they go through a series of comedic mishaps while trying to make a living as street performers.
In this film noir melodrama, a black vampire is on the loose, terrorizing the city by murdering children. The vampire, disguised as an alley beggar and lurking in the sewers, becomes the object of ridicule for the hypocritical citizens. When a little girl is abducted, a merchant seaman, an English tutor, and a wheelchair-bound woman team up to hunt down the vampire and seek justice. The investigation leads them to a cabaret owner and a drug dealer involved in the child murders. As the police investigation intensifies, the city becomes a battlefield between good and evil.
A Nazi spy ring is after a chemical formula that increases the power of ordinary gasoline for U.S. Army aviation use. Two U.S. chemical companies are developing the formula, with each working on half for security purposes. The spies get half the formula and know that either of two chemists, Robert Norton or Tom Fielding, knows the rest. They capture Fielding, through a ruse by gang member Linda Pavlo, and threaten the life of his sister Nancy and his mother if he does not give them the formula. To protect his friend Fielding, who does know the formula and is engaged to Nancy, Tom pretends to know the secret and boards the Dawn Express plane with the spy leader and his gang.
Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.
A movie serial in 13 chapters, and Lionel Atwill's final film: Following the end of WWII, war-monger Sir Eric Hazarias sets the wheel in motion for WWIII. His search for Meteorium 245, the only practical defence against the atomic bomb, leads him to mythical Pendrang. Obstructing his sinister plan to rule the world are Rod Stanton, United Peace Foundation investigator, Tal Shan , Pendrang native, and Marjorie Elmore, daughter of scientist Dr. Elmore, unwilling assistant to Sir Eric.
Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar curses him, saying, "May you always have everything that you want."
Two children sneak out of their bedroom on the night of December 24th, so they can ask Santa Claus what he does the rest of the year. Santa tells the children about his life in the Land of Winter, and about how he keeps an eye on all the children in the world.
A boy gets involved in a bank robbery
Treasures in Heaven is a wonderful story of contrast between two men who seek to follow Jesus. The young rich man asks how to gain eternal life and leaves saddened because he won’t forsake worldly wealth; while Zacchaeus, the publican, gives half of his wealth to the poor and restores four-fold anything wrongly taken, to follow Jesus and receive salvation.
Juvenile delinquents (Joyce Holden, Glenda Farrell, Harvey Lembeck) trap a neighborhood hoodlum in New York.
Dance hall Romeos and an irresponsible father create comic complications in the life of a nickel-per-whirl taxi dancer.
An old blind beggar and an old cripple in a wheelchair meet on a desolate street corner. The latter proposes that the two form an alliance, but the men are not destined to get along together.
Charley Chase is a hapless inventor with a better mouse trap in this silent comedy from 1925.