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A well-dressed lady thief (Betty Amann) steals a precious stone from a jewellery shop. The aged jeweller prefers to let the young woman go, but the policeman who catches her explains he is obliged to pursue the case further. She tries to seduce the policeman (Gustav Frohlich), and he gradually succumbs to her charms, but her criminal background dooms their relationship when an argument leads to murder. One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May's 'Asphalt' is a l
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Mind those steps! Perhaps the most famous movie scene in the history of cinema. The documentary style story of mutiny aboard the Potemkin as the sailors fight oppression and fire on Tzarist troops attempting to quell rebellion in the city of Oddessa. Almost every shot is so beautiful it could work as a still.
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The collection opens with Len Lye's modernist abstraction ‘Tusalava’, which, heavily influenced by Maori and Aboriginal art, shares an interest in ‘primitive’ cultures that was typical of the Modernist movement of the time. It was almost refused a certificate by the puzzled British Board of Censors who suspected that the dancing abstract shapes might be about sex. Lye's own explanation was that it showed the beginnings of organic life.
‘Crossing the Great Sagrada’, is a lowbrow spoof on travel
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A fascinating look at some of Charlie Chaplin's early work, a series of shorts (all from 1916), most of which predate America's entry into the First World War. This compilation of Chaplin's performances, which include biographies, stand as a testament not only to the man's genius but also an insight into the nation who adopted him nearly a century ago.
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A fascinating look at some of Charlie Chaplin's early work, a series of shorts, most of which predate America's entry into the First World War. This compilation of Chaplin's performances, which include biographies, stand as a testament not only to the man's genius but also an insight into the nation who adopted him nearly a century ago.
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A fascinating look at some of Charlie Chaplin's early work, a series of shorts, most of which coincide with America's entry into the First World War and the following years. This compilation of Chaplin's performances, which include biographies, stand as a testament not only to the man's genius but also an insight into the nation who adopted him nearly a century ago.
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One of the classic Chaplin feature films in which the little tramp falls in love with a blind flower girl and, through a number of typical exploits, raises the money to pay for an operation. Chaplin's comic genius has rarely, if ever, been bettered and is as fresh now as it was fifty years ago.
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This classic piece of early silent cinema is noted not merely for its dramatic camerawork and cast of thousands but also for its contribution as a cinematic template, particularly in the genre of horror. Set in 16th Century Prague, a monstrous creature of Jewish myth is unleashed by a Rabbi to save his people from anti-Semitic legislation; unfortunately for all concerned The Golem's taste for destruction is not sated by the demands of his master, and so begins an unstoppable rampage.
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The girl that launched a thousand haircuts stars in this story of riches to rags to riches. Brooks plays Thymian cast out by her family when pregnant, only to be reinstated in society by the patronage of a wealthy count. A classic tale of patriarchy dominating a young girl's struggle to survive.
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Lang's epic thriller, drama and social commentary portrays Dr Mabuse as the villains' villain, a megalomaniac of the highest order and a man so utterly devoid of morality that no opportunity is beneath him. One of his earliest the film works almost like a testing ground for his later seminal works, with the director returning to Dr Mabuse's hypnotic character a number of times over the next thirty odd years with great success. Of historic interest.
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