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The Painted World

1914

Raised to believe that her mother Elois, is dead, 18-year-old Yvette Muree is aghast to learn that mom is a burlesque queen.

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The Soul Master

1917

Deserted by his wife Arline, who absconds with their baby daughter Ruth as well, Robert Travers loses all faith in women. Years later, Travers, now known as the man without a soul, is the owner of a chain of department stores in which young Ruth Carroll is employed as a ribbon clerk. Finding himself strangely attracted to the girl, he takes a fatherly interest in her and offers Ruth a position in his office. Laura Wilson, who wants Travers for herself becomes jealous and tries to lure the girl away but Travers comes to realize she is his own daughter.

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Esmeralda

1922

Silent adaptation of the Victor Hugo classic focusing on the character of Esmeralda rather than Quasimodo.

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The Offenders

1922

Girl is held at mercy of gang of crooks, her only friend being a half-wit. A murder is committed and blame shifted to the girl. The half-wit has seen it but cannot remember. When he is cured, his testimony frees the girl.

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Kiss or Kill

1918

Henry Warner (Herbert Rawlinson) is so broke that he has sold his overcoat and now his landlady won't leave him alone about the rent. When he sees a wallet sticking out of a rich man's pocket, he's desperate enough to steal it. The police give pursuit, and Henry winds up in someone's study. The man who lives there, Middleton (Alfred Allen) has been looking for someone with Henry's nerve and offers him a job (along with an overcoat and some cash): He must steal back a will that Middleton's nephew, Craig (Harry Carter) stole from him.

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Such Is the Law

1930

British drama centered on a mother's desperate attempts to save her daughter's failing marriage as the film explores family loyalty, domestic conflict, and the social pressures surrounding divorce during the early 1930s.

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The Making of O'Malley

1925

A policeman falls for a teacher, and befriends her students. A gang of bootleggers threatens his newfound joys.

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The Shadow of the East

1924

Barry Craven meets former sweetheart Gillian Locke, who is visiting India with her father. Craven's love for Gillian is revived, but he already has a wife, Lolaire, a native. In a jealous rage, Lolaire kills herself, freeing Craven, who returns to England and marries Gillian. His Indian servant, Kunwar Singh, casts a spell on Craven, causing him to leave Gillian and to go into the Algerian desert. There he joins Said, an old university friend who is the son of an Algerian sheik. Gillian follows, the servant is killed, and with him dies the spell, "The Shadow of the East."

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Little Women

1917

Four sisters come of age in America in the aftermath of the Civil War.

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Sea of Vanity

1984

A film adaptation (funded by Ken Togo) based on an expose book by a person involved in the Japanese entertainment industry of the time. The book describes among other things the drug-fueled parties, orgies of the entertainment business and what some celebrities like Johnny Kitagawa among others were allegedly up to in their free time. Basically giving an open-book about the secrets of the entertainment-world. The film adapts and portrays some of the shocking scenes of this book, focussing more on the gay-aspect of the expose.

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Lying Lips

1916

Neal Frazer, a performer with old-fashioned ideas about women attending a Broadway show, saves the life of the star, Emily Alden. Their friendship matures into love. After marriage, Emily feels her loss of independence and Neal's restraint on her spending.

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In the Shuffle

1916

Bill Ensor is Bluff Stuart's silent partner in a gambling den. An unpleasant feeling develops among the partners because Stuart feels that Bill's efforts to keep things fair and square are ruining the business. Bill incurs the Kid's enmity when he prevents the slightly inebriated Kid from sitting in on a poker game.

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Cupid Angling

1918

Cupid Angling is a 1918 silent film starring Ruth Roland and Albert Morrison, with walk-on appearances by Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks. It was the only feature film photographed using the Douglass Natural Color process.

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Drifting

1915

Gladys Manners, a wealthy socialite feels unfulfilled by her privileged life. Her millionaire father suggests a camping trip to the mountains. The prospect of escaping society's constraints strongly appeals to Gladys. While in the mountains, she meets Bill Long, a mountain guide. Bill rescues Gladys from a dangerous fall, and soon after, her sweetheart, Frank, makes an unexpected visit.

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Visitors and Visitees

1915

Mr. Martin and Mr. Purdy, both businessmen, are tricked into believing their wives are visiting each other. While they embark on a night out, their wives actually meet at Martin's house. A thief then robs the intoxicated men upon their return, and they end up in each other's marital beds. The story resolves with explanations, reconciliations, and a shared vow to avoid such mishaps in the future.

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Our Daily Bread

1926

The daily lives and struggles of a group of workers in a small German town. They face poverty, unemployment, and various hardships, but also find moments of hope and solidarity. The film portrays their efforts to survive and support each other in difficult economic conditions.

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The Shine Girl

1916

An optimistic girl survives city life as a shoe shine till she ends up in children's court. Just as she helps her geranium, Sally, to grow, a kindly judge sees her potential and takes her to his mother's country home to flourish.

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Daphne and the Pirate

1916

Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing that her family would never approve of their marriage, he takes her and hides her in a brothel, but is soon captured by pirates. Soldiers looking for women to bring with them to a settlement across the ocean in Louisiana raid the brothel and take the girls, including Daphne. Later on the trip to the new world their ship is attacked by pirates--and she discovers that her lover Philip is on board the pirate ship.

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The Winding Stair

1925

Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away outpost, he discovers that the revolt is actually a subterfuge hatched by the Arabs, so that the city under Paul's command will be left unguarded and defenseless.

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Over the Hills

1911

A young woman who disguises herself as a man to go gold prospecting after her father and brother forbid her from joining them.

Genre	Drama
Production Companies	Vitagraph Company of America
Production Ccountries	United States of America

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