
Dramatization of Genesis: titles with Biblical language combined with stock shots.
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An expelled horse owner clears his name and wins the Grand National.
6.7In Biblical times, a girl disguises her Jewish origins when the Persian king comes looking for a new bride among his subjects.
0.03 Cornell students are broke and left with no money, they must come up with a plan to seek their way into wealth. Will they succeed?
0.0First ever Bangladeshi feature film. The film about a conflict between two family members.
9.0An adventure film with Benshi performers. Sometimes considered the 'first Japanese feature film', it survives today as a compilation of scenes from various different 1910s adaptations totaling nearly three hours in length. The bulk of the content comes from the 1911 adaptation by legendary Japanese filmmaker Makino Shozo.
Daughters of Today was a 1928 silent film from Lahore, in present-day Pakistan (then British India). It was produced by G.K Mehta and directed by Shankradev Arya. This was the first feature film made in Lahore, and helped to establish the city of Lahore as one of the centers of filming in India. The Lahore film industry is now known as Lollywood. Production started in 1924 and took three years to complete, mainly due to financial problems. Two participants later became prominent personalities of the South Asian film industry: A.R. Kardar was one of the most famous Bombay film directors in the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s; and actor M. Ismael's film career spanned over five decades.
0.0Yeong-deuk and Jeong-sun and engaged. Yeong-deuk comes back home after completing his studies and meets the wrong kind of friends who revel in liquor and women.
Arvid falls in love with cabaret singer Lussie and, much to his mother's dismay, marries this adventurous woman. Soon after the wedding, Lussie begins an affair with Russian lieutenant Arnold, which ultimately leads to tragic events.
6.9The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.
7.1Two pairs of Mormon missionaries from America live in a beaten-up apartment in the Dutch city of Haarlem. Their personalities are distinctly different. Elder Johnson is the District Leader and oversees their efforts. His companion, the vain Elder Van Pelt, seeks to become the assistant to the mission president (the top post available) as soon as possible. The capable Elder Rogers has become disillusioned and inattentive to his duties ever since a previous missionary companion returned to America and married Elder Roger's girlfriend. The three meet Elder Roger's new companion, Elder Calhoun, in the train station. This new elder is a nerdy but enthusiastic "greenie" that has just arrived from the Missionary Training Center (MTC) in Utah. Unfortunately, his training did not give him much fluency in the Dutch language. But as luck would have it, the first person he approaches to proselytize is a fellow American named Kyle.
7.0After crossing the line and eating from the forbidden fruit, Gringa feels that she is being monitored by someone else. Soon she will encounter herself with the happiness, love, hate and violence that exists in the small utopic island she lives in, portraying a character she is not, and under the gaze of someone else.
Eloisa is an orphan, the fiancée of Agustín, who meets her when she arrives in Madrid fleeing her stepmother's mistreatment. She happens to be the mother of an illegitimate child, but in reality the mother is his cousin Irene (with whom he lives, next to his aunt) married to Mr. Adrian. Her aunt Marcelina tries with this lie to save her daughter Irene. After numerous family entanglements, the truth becomes clear and the couple can live together and in peace.
4.5Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to go to the war in Cuba.
A silent film centering around bull fighting and general melodrama, which also serves nicely as a documentary with 'cameos' by many Spanish personalities of the time.
4.5The Count of Maravillas receives an unusual proposal from a masked woman: to kidnap the valido of King Carlos IV.
4.0A dystopian, post-modern retelling of the Easter story.