Manolescu's Memoirs

Esmeralda

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

1922

The Marriage Whirl

Marian marries Arthur, a party-loving man, hoping to reform him, but he becomes restless and starts an affair with a dancer, leading Marian to seek co

1925

Minnie

Minnie, the homeliest girl in town, is devoted to her father, a discouraged inventor who has been working on a wireless device. Subject to the sneers

1922

The Girl from Nowhere

Headstrong Mavis Cole defying her grandfather runs away with the wealthy but caddish Herbert Whitman. Proving he’s no good Herbert plants a stolen nec

1921

Kiss or Kill

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 w

1918

Little Women

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

1917

Contraband Love

JP Paul Machin poses as a fugitive along the Cornish coast to gain the trust of a local smuggling ring. As he integrates into their world, he works to

1931

The Offenders

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

1922

The Golden Shower

A rich libertine leaves all his money to a college girl who had refused his advances. The ensuing scandal makes her retire to a small town, where she

1919

One Year to Live

Young Elsie Duchanier, maid of the star dancer in the French Brunel's Follies, is deceived by a lascivious doctor into believing she has only one year

1925

Así te deseo

A woman takes the place of a wife who had died seven years earlier.

1948

The Keys to Happiness

Directed by Vladimir Gardin and Yakov Protazanov, this two-part epic was the most expensive Russian film at the time and smashed box office records. I

1913

Das Recht der freien Liebe

1920

Ewiger Strom

An abandoned baby is saved by a river god. Now aged 20, she yearns to see the world outside the water.

1920

Henry VIII

Early silent movie adaptation of Shakespeare's play, focused on key moments: the arrest of the Duke of Buckingham, Henry's infatuation with Anne Boley

1911

The Silver Horde

A young man who has proven a failure in business goes to Alaska and enters the salmon-fishing industry, in direct competition with the father of the w

1920

Baccarat

1920

Die Geächteten

1919

A Woman's Business

1920

Always Audacious

Reckless heir of an influential San Francisco family, Perry Danton must prove his worth by taking a job with the family lawyer before he is entrusted

1920