Drama, horror, by Teinosuke Kinugasa, Japan, 1926.
A page of madness is an independent film shot on a nearly non-existent budget and then lost for forty-five years. Fortunately the director rediscovered it in his archive in 1971. It is a film made by a group of Japanese avant-garde artists, the S...

Drama, war, by Sergej Eisenstein, Russia, 1925.
The revolt of the sailors of the battleship Potemkin and the citizens of Odessa against the ruthless police of the tsar, who reacts with reprisals and carries out a massacre. Sergej Eisenstein makes a film commissioned by Goskino, the office for cin...

Short film, fantasy, by Giuliano Giacomelli, Lorenzo Giovenga, Italy, 2020.
A deaf homeless man manages to save a girl from the clutches of a rapist. Shocked and moved, the girl is very grateful to the man and she would like to repay. The homeless man wants nothing in return, until a pair of magn...

When a young real estate agent, Thomas Hutter, goes to the castle to close a deal, Orlok is attracted by his blood and decides to follow him to his hometown. The arrival of the count causes a series of mysterious deaths and spreads panic among the inhabitants.

Murnau, through evocative images an...

Drama, romance, noir, by Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau, United States, 1927
A big-city woman on vacation (Margaret Livingston) stays in a small lakeside town. After dark she goes to a farm where the man (George O'Brien) and his wife (Janet Gaynor) are looking after their child. She calls to the man fr...

Horror, fantasy, by Robert Wiene, Germany, 1920.
The symbolic film of cinematic expressionism. Francis tells a story to a man: in 1830, in a small town, a guy named Caligari, plays the barker at the fair to present the attraction of him, a sleepwalker that he holds under hypnosis in a coffin. The...

By Charlie Chaplin, Comedy, United States, 1921.
Charlie Chaplin writes, produces independently, directs and interprets his first feature film, a masterpiece in the history of cinema which after a century keeps its charm perfectly intact. A poor woman abandons her son in a luxury car hoping that ...

Drama, by F.W. Murnau, Germany, 1924.
Jannings is the doorman of the Atlantic hotel in Berlin, happy with his role and his uniform. But his boss thinks he is too old to receive customers at the entrance and sets him up to clean the bathrooms. Jannings, deeply troubled by what happened, gets drunk...

Drama, History, by Cecil B. De Mille, United States, 1923.
Classic of silent cinema is the first version of "The Ten Commandments" directed and produced by Cecil B. De Mille. A film that, for the time, was a colossal of enormous proportions. De Mille spent $ 1.4 million building an Egyptian town ...

Documentary, by Dziga Vertov, Russia, 1934.
The most famous film while the director Dziga Vertov was alive, a great success of socialist documentary cinema. An experimental documentary celebrating Lenin with the use of sound and folk songs. The liberation of Muslim women in Uzbekistan, footage of...

Drama, crime, by Yasujirō Ozu, Japan, 1930.
The plot of the film follows the story of Kenji, a low-ranking gangster, who decides to give up his life of crime and settle down. He falls in love with Yasue, a young car mechanic, and the two plan to get married. However, Kenji's past catches up with ...

Science fiction, by Yakov Protazanov, Soviet Union, 1924.
The film follows the story of Los, an engineer who dreams of traveling through space. One day, during an experiment, he receives a transmission from Mars, which seems to come from Queen Aelita. Los builds a spaceship and departs for Mars, ...

Short film, fantasy, by Georges Méliès, France, 1906.
Adaptation of the Faust legend, with elements borrowed from magic shows. In addition to directing and acting in it, Méliès personally takes care of all the technical and artistic aspects of the film, at a time when the French film industry was...