You can watch for free the best films of the so called “silent era”. The best film directors of our time learned a lot watching this films. Enjoy!
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Human (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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The Man with the Movie Camera (Dziga Vertov, 1929)
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
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The Passion of Joan of Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d’Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
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Battleship Potemkin (Sergei Eisenstein, 1925)
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resulting street demonstration which brought on a police massacre.
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The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
When Union spies steal an engineer’s beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
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Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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City Lights (Charlie Chaplin, 1931)
With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
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Sherlock Jr. (Buster Keaton, 1924)
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.
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Greed (Erich von Stroheim, 1923)
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
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Un chien andalou (Luis Buñuel, 1928)
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present seventeen minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
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