"A strong, sensational drama, a story of flowers and crooks."
Japanese architect Yoda is hired as groundskeeper for retired criminal Benson Burleigh.
Social & External
The people behind it
Sessue Hayakawa
Yoda
Myrtle Stedman
Blanche De Vore
Tsuru Aoki
Blossom (as Tsura Aoki)
Andrew Robson
Benson Burleigh
Toyo Fujita
Wong Fu
Henry Hebert
'Monocle' Harry
Harold Holland
Detective Cleary
Carrie Clark Ward
Bridget
Louise (Pickford) is a sewing-machine girl in a sweatshop in New York City. She lives together with her sisters Amy (Loretta Blake) and Jane (Dorothy West) and are all deprived by bad conditions at work and sickness. Louise tries for the three of them to survive and regards herself as the keeper of her sisters. Meanwhile, she stands up to her bosses and complains about the dreadful circumstances they work in. When Amy is seduced by the son of the shop-owner, Louise butts in and stops the romance. He eventually abandons Amy and becomes seriously injured in a cave-in. Louise has a secret crush on the son herself and tries to rescue him, hoping he will admit he loves her. The film is inspired by the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire, which took place in 1911. The only version of the film is a nitrate print in the Cinematheque Francaise, but only the first half remains.
Margery Carew and her widowed sister, Anna Prentice, find work in a brokerage firm, James Gray, the junior partner, soon falls in love with Margery, while his boss, William Cleves, does his best to seduce Anna. In fighting off William's advances, Anna kills him, but Margery, hoping to protect Anna's child, takes the blame and then escapes to the West, after which she gets married and begins a new life. Following a lengthy search, the police manage to track her down, but Margery still refuses to save herself by telling the truth about the murder, even though Anna and her child died several years before in a car crash. Finally, however, because he still loves her and because he has been stricken by a deadly disease that will kill him in a few months, James confesses to the murder, thereby freeing Margery to return to her husband.
Rita Martin, the partner of a phony spiritualist who uses information supplied by her to gull and astonish the rubes, gets work as private secretary to John Clayton, a wealthy man who has just disinherited his worthless son, Frank, and left his entire fortune to his upright stepson, Bob Williams. At Frank's request, the spiritualist later performs for the elder Clayton a seance during which Rita impersonates the late Mrs. Clayton and arranges for a reconciliation between Frank and his father. Rita falls in love with Bob, however, and, in order to protect Bob's interests against Frank's, exposes the spiritualist as a faker. Frank is disgraced in his father's eyes, and Bob quickly forgives Rita for her past complicity in Frank's schemes.
A demoralized husband must choose between becoming his wife’s dog or risk being alone forever.
Four young filmmakers struggle to finish shooting a short film before the end of summer. Many challenges plague the production, the most sinister being a conspiracy of an otherworldly nature.
Yotams is a guitar teacher who loves Science but one day his students get kidnap and he needs to save them with his big guitar
A barber fantasizes about killing his customers after hearing them complain about the world.
A disheveled 40-year-old kids party performer dressed as a bunny on Easter Sunday thinks he's hit his lowest point. Little does he know, that an interaction with an unhinged party guest will show him what rock bottom truly is. Based on a True Story.
A professional football player is accused of murdering the man who attacked his sister. His brother, an investigate reporter, sets out to prove his brother's innocence.
A teenage girl's running away from home causes a lot of soul-searching in a family dominated by an authoritarian grandmother.
A man insists on being furniture for his wife.
Melanie can't stand her life anymore, a source of too much suffering. One day she decides to end it all and sets off in a stolen car on a suicidal race on the highway. But at a gas station, a somewhat eccentric old woman discreetly slips into the vehicle. Garance has a habit of randomly taking a seat in other people's cars, with only her suitcase and a binder bearing the title "The Flight Ceremony of the Northern Gannet". Melanie's suicidal plans are thwarted by this nuisance, whom she does not hesitate to inveigh against. But anger soon gives way to affection.
Colette Valier wears her sixty years with petulance. She wants to help her grandson financially, who is setting up a modest business and intends to take advantage of her deceased husband's stock portfolio to recover funds. To her great surprise, she discovers that the investments made at the time are now worthless. Determined to assert her rights, she goes to Paris and asks for help from an old friend, Charles. Living with her daughter Véronique, who is overexcited by Parisian life, Colette discovers a turbulent family, a careerist and absent husband, agitated children and a depressive permanent guest, Arnaud. In this electric atmosphere, Colette begins her investigation.
Ava & Hélios, friends-in-love, evolve in a golden Paris. At a party, their obsession with each other drives them to excess and manipulation.
A collection of gay short films. The 7 short films are: Poor Girl! [Pov' fille !] (2003); Oedipus N+1 [Œdipe - [N+1]] (2003); Piglets [Ferkel] (1999); Tommy Trips [Thomas trébuche] (1999); Breakfast? [Frühstück?] (2002); Sunday Morning (2001); The Case of O [Le cas d'O] (2003).
Eighty-year-old Tadeusz lives a quiet life as a pensioner with his wife Helena. After years of working in a hospital, he wants to enjoy old age and his charming house with a garden, where they soon plan to hold their beloved granddaughter’s wedding. The idyll is shattered by a tragic car accident that casts a shadow over his marriage and reveals cracks in his relationship with his son.
On the verge of adulthood, Oskar is confronted with an unresolved trauma, slowly blurring his sense of reality.
Jasmina gets a call from her friend Lukas who persuades her to come outside. While the two are still talking on the phone, the doorbell rings. Instead of Lukas the police is at the door. They tell Jasmina and her parents that they will be deported within fifteen minutes. For Jasmina, a world comes crashing down. The long-awaited class trip to Berlin and her plans to get to know Lukas better on that trip are gone. In desparation, Jasmina asks Lukas for help whose mother is a lawyer.
A spectacular heist starts to unravel as the crooks take it on the lam.
After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.
Eddie Kenner is given a special assignment by the Army to get the inside story on Sandy Dawson, a former GI who has formed a gang of fellow servicemen and Japanese locals.
At a desert diner, the lives of five strangers become linked through a single twenty-dollar bill. Shot for $20,000 and starring Philip Baker Hall, the short premiered at Sundance and later inspired Anderson’s debut feature Hard Eight (1996).
After being framed for a policeman's murder, a criminal escapes prison and sets out for revenge.
Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.
A corrupt D.A. with governatorial ambitions is annoyed by an investigative reporter's criticism of his criminal activities and decides to frame the reporter for manslaughter in order to silence him.
Upon waking up to the news that the man she’d gone on a date with the previous night has been murdered, a young woman with only a faint memory of the night’s events begins to suspect that she murdered him while attempting to resist his advances.
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Recently paroled from prison, legendary burglar "Doc" Riedenschneider, with funding from Alonzo Emmerich, a crooked lawyer, gathers a small group of veteran criminals together in the Midwest for a big jewel heist.
A veteran homicide detective who has witnessed his socialite girlfriend kill her husband sees his inexperienced brother assigned to the case.
Truck driver Mike Lambert is a down-and-out mining engineer searching for a job. When his rig breaks down in a small town, he happens upon a venomous seductress. When her boyfriend robs a bank, they intend to frame Lambert.
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
P.C. George Dixon is a long-serving traditional copper who is due to retire shortly. He takes a new recruit under his aegis and introduces him to the easy-going night beat. Dixon is a classic ordinary hero but also anachronistic, unprepared and unable to answer the violence of the 1950s.
A district attorney investigates the racially charged case of three teenagers accused of the murder of a blind Puerto Rican boy.
A crooked politician finds himself being accused of murder by a gangster from whom he refused help during a re-election campaign.
An ex-fireman with PTSD goes on the run when accused of a crime he doesn't even remember committing, leading him down a rabbit hole of conspiracy to the highest degree.
Japanese master spy Daka operates a covert espionage-sabotage organization located in Gotham City's now-deserted Little Tokyo, which turns American scientists into pliable zombies. The great crime-fighters Batman and Robin, with the help of their allies, are in pursuit.
When an employee at an illegal gambling den dies suspiciously, her sister, Nancy, looks into the situation and falls for Johnny O'Clock, a suave partner in the underground casino. Selfish and non-committal by nature, Johnny slowly begins to return Nancy's affection and decides to run away with her, but conflict within his business threatens their plans. As Johnny tries to distance himself from the casino, his shady past comes back to haunt him.
After completing military service, Walter Gulick takes a job as a sparring partner at a gym, the owner of which sees potential in Walter as a professional fighter—and takes him under his wing.
