Movies by Year - 1924 (103)Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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$50, 000 Reward [$50,000 Reward]Tex Sherwood has just come into possession of a valuable piece of land that will be irrigated by a new dam. Banker Holman knowing the deed must be registered the next day, offers a $50,000 reward for Tex's capture. | 1924 | Clifford S. Elfelt | Western | 5.3 (74 votes) | 55 | 20230126 |
Aelita - Queen of MarsA mysterious radio message is beamed around the world, and among the engineers who receive it are Los, the hero, and his colleague Spiridonov. Los is an individualist dreamer. Aelita is the daughter of Tuskub, the ruler of a totalita | 1924 | Yakov Protazanov | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (2.6K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
All WetJimmie Jump is a boarding house resident who receives a telegram telling him to pick up an important shipment at the train station at 2:30 p.m. on Wednesday. No good deed goes unpunished, and Jimmie has a whole lot of trouble getting | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.9 (91 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
AmericaThe story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War. | 1924 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.3 (431 votes) | 141 | 20211228 |
April FoolChase appears as a small town cub reporter of the rather "dumber" sort who indulges in some April Fool jokes with results disastrous to himself. A good burlesque on the suspicion with which most people regard their neighbors on the d | 1924 | Ralph Ceder | Comedy, Short | 5.9 (161 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
At First SightWhile Jimmy Jump is having a shine, he sees a girl struggling to put the top of her convertible. He helps her and they make a date for dinner, and exchange calling cards. Jimmy tells his boss, who fits him up with clothes and money. | 1924 | J.A. Howe | Short, Comedy | 6.7 (44 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Backward Flow [Gyakuryû]The story of a nihilistic samurai whose mother is killed, whose sister is used and deceived, and who loses the only love of his life. | 1924 | Buntarô Futagawa | Short | 6.3 (77 votes) | 28 | 20230126 |
Ballet mécaniqueA pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. A young women swings in a garden; a woman's face smiles. The rest is spinning cylinders, pistons, gears and turbines, kitchen objects in concentric circles or rows - p | 1924 | Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy | Short | 6.7 (3K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Beau BrummelGeorge Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, emba | 1924 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (463 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
Beautiful Rebel, The [Janice Meredith]It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drun | 1924 | E. Mason Hopper | Drama, History, Romance, War | 5.7 (711 votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
Beauty from Nivernais, The [La belle Nivernaise]Bargeman Louveau finds an abandoned boy, Victor, and with the authorities permission takes him back to his own family where he raises him. 10 years later Victor and Louveau's daughter Clara have fallen in love, and it is then that Lo | 1924 | Jean Epstein | Drama | 7.0 (128 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Black OxfordsA misguided youth escapes jail with his pal and discovers that his mother and sister are being threatened with eviction. | 1924 | Del Lord | Comedy, Short | 5.8 (117 votes) | 19 | 20220423 |
Captain JanuaryA lighthouse keeper finds a little girl who is washed ashore tied to some wreckage. He adopts her and they become inseparable. Eventually her real family finds her and tries to take her away. | 1924 | Edward F. Cline | Drama | 7.0 (238 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom, The [Papirosnitsa ot Mosselproma]As she works in her tedious office job, Maria Ivanovna dreams about being married, and she has particular hopes that her co-worker Nikodim Mityushin will take an interest in her. Nikodim, though, is in love with Zina, who sells cigar | 1924 | Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (161 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
City Struck by Lightning, The [La cité foudroyée]A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightning/ray gun. | 1924 | Luitz-Morat | Sci-Fi | 5.4 (38 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
City Without Jews, The [Die Stadt ohne Juden]Jews are expelled from the city of Utopia. | 1924 | H.K. Breslauer | Drama | 6.3 (354 votes) | 80 | 20220414 |
Don't ForgetJimmy Jump has a habit of forgetting everything - important or not. When his wedding day arrives, he forgets the fact until he sees the girl waiting. Then he forgets the ring and license in turn, but he finally ends up at the church, | 1924 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 6.4 (23 votes) | 3 | 20211228 |
Edmund Kean - Prince Among Lovers [Kean]When a famous Shakespearean actor falls in love with a woman above his station, his professional and personal life begin to crumble. | 1924 | Alexandre Volkoff | Drama | 6.7 (168 votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
Empty HeartsMilt Kimberlin (Bowers) falls in love with an marries a cabaret dancer, Rosalie (Bow) but looses all his money. Rosalie dies. Years later, a wealthy Milt marries Madeline (Rich), but wishes he could have the same happiness that he... | 1924 | Alfred Santell | Drama | 6.5 (21 votes) | 60 | 20240313 |
Enchanted Cottage, TheA crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind young woman. She reveals to him that the hou | 1924 | John S. Robertson | Drama | 6.6 (655 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Entr'acteAn absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear. | 1924 | René Clair (*) | Short | 7.4 (3.8K votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
Extraordinary Adventures of Mr. West in the Land of the Bolsheviks [Neobychainye priklyucheniya mistera Vesta v strane bolshevikov]Experience the chronicle adventures of Mr. West and his faithful bodyguard and servant Jeddie, as they visit the land of the horrible and evil Bolsheviks. | 1924 | Lev Kuleshov | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance | 6.6 (982 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Family Secret, TheA modest man unknowingly has a baby with a woman from a affluent family.Through a series of coincidences he is reunited with his daughter, forcing the family to confront its secrets. | 1924 | William A. Seiter (*) | Drama | 6.4 (170 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Finances of the Grand Duke [Die Finanzen des Großherzogs]The likeable and carefree Grand Duke of Abacco is in dire straits. There is no money left to service the State's debt; the main creditor is looking forward to expropriating the entire Duchy. The marriage with Olga, Grand Duchess of R | 1924 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (873 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
The First 100 YearsA man saves his lady love from Black Mike then comes wedded bliss. He hires a cook, who's brusque, domineering, and constantly smoking a cigar. Out of the blue, the couple gets a visit from his old friend, Roland Stone, bluff and por | 1924 | F. Richard Jones, Harry Sweet | Short, Comedy | 6.3 (124 votes) | 14 | 20220423 |
Flood, The [L'inondation]After the death of her mother, Germaine moves in with her father in a small town near the Rhône river. She falls in love with a young man, Alban, already engaged. | 1924 | Louis Delluc | Drama | 6.5 (53 votes) | 77 | 20220723 |
Folly of VanityA young husband and wife, Alice and Robert, attend an extravagant party given by one of Robert's wealthy clients, Ridgeway. At the party Alice accepts a gift of a pearl necklace from her wealthy host and in consequence has a misun... | 1924 | Maurice Elvey, Henry Otto | Drama, Fantasy | 6.3 (21 votes) | 60 | 20241019 |
Forbidden ParadiseAlexei saves the Czarina from conspirators and is rewarded with her love. He deserts his sweetheart Anna, but discovers that his Queen is unfaithful too. Enraged, Alexei becomes a leader in the ongoing revolution against the royals. | 1924 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy | 6.1 (174 votes) | 76 | 20220315 |
Fraidy Cat, TheJimmy Jump is a coward. Everyone and everything makes him afraid. He cowers from the neighborhood children, even though he's old enough to be their father. He is terrified of Lem Tucker, who is his rival for the heart of Dorothy. Onl | 1924 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 7.0 (111 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
Gallery of Monsters [La galerie des monstres]The life of the clown Riquet and his young wife, the dancer Ralda, is threatened by the despotic owner of the circus where they work together. He wants the girl and will not hesitate to try to kill her when Ralda rejects him. But ... | 1924 | Jaque Catelain | Drama | 7.1 (96 votes) | 75 | 20220723 |
Galloping BungalowsAll the qualified men line up to be chosen, as an heiress advertises that she will marry the man with the most interesting mustache, that marriage which comes with a mansion. John Syrup Soother wins the marriage to who he believes is | 1924 | Edward F. Cline | Short, Comedy | 6.0 (74 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
Girl ShyA shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way. | 1924 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (3.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (9.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
Hands of Orlac, The [Orlacs Hände]A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn't know they once belonged to a murderer. | 1924 | Robert Wiene (*) | Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (2.8K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
The Hansom CabmanHarry Doolittle wakes up on the day he's to marry Betty Bright. He has a terrible hangover. A strange woman appears in his room saying that he married her the night before, and just then, his fiancée and her mother arrive. There's an | 1924 | Harry Edwards | Short, Comedy | 6.7 (115 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
Hard KnocksJimmy Jump, a hard working clerk, has all the bad luck while his associate has all the good luck. They are both invited to a birthday party by the boss's daughter. In the midst of the party Jimmy returns to the office to get a ring h | 1924 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 6.6 (34 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
He Who Gets SlappedA bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him. | 1924 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (3.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Heart of an Actress [Âme d'artiste]A famed London actress has an ardent playwright admirer who is married.Dulac contrasts the women,s willingness to sacrifice with the men,s possessiveness. | 1924 | Germaine Dulac | Drama | 7.1 (29 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Helen of TroyHelena is a 1924 German silent drama film directed by Manfred Noa and starring Edy Darclea, Vladimir Gajdarov and Albert Steinrück. | 1924 | Manfred Noa | Action, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.0 (103 votes) | 204 | 20211228 |
Helen's BabiesA young man who has vowed never to marry and doesn't particularly like children is left in charge of his two very young nieces. At first they drive him to distraction, but then he begins to warm to them, and also to a beautiful yo... | 1924 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy | 6.3 (133 votes) | 85 | 20240313 |
Help! [Au secours!]Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) without crying for help. As soon as he arrives he encounters strange and nightmarish visions, but he is nevertheless on the verge of winni | 1924 | Abel Gance (*) | Short, Comedy, Horror, Mystery | 6.9 (414 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Her Night of RomanceAn impoverished British lord (Paul Menford) impersonates a doctor in order to woo an ailing American heiress (Dorothy Adams). The lord is in it for love, but his business associate (Joe Diamond) smells money. | 1924 | Sidney Franklin | Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (282 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
His New MammaThe aging father of a farm lad thinks the boy is after dad's fiancée, so he banishes the lad. The young man heads to California where he drives a cab. Through a fare, he meets a lovely lassie. His work takes him to the beach, where h | 1924 | Roy Del Ruth | Short, Comedy | 6.0 (103 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
Hot WaterEpisodic look at married life and in-law problems. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live turkey; a wild spin in a new auto with the in-laws in tow; and a sequence in which Hubby accidently chloroforms his mother- | 1924 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Comedy | 7.2 (1.4K votes) | 53 | 20211228 |
Husbands or Lovers [Nju - Eine unverstandene Frau]A wife is bored by her overweight slob of a husband, so she gives in to the temptation of a slickly seductive poet. | 1924 | Paul Czinner | Drama, Romance | 6.1 (112 votes) | 56 | 20240605 |
Inhuman Woman, The [L'inhumaine]Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself. | 1924 | Marcel L'Herbier | Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 7.2 (866 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
Interplanetary Revolution [Mezhplanetnaya revolyutsiya]A tale about Comrade Kominternov, the Red Army Warrior, who flew to Mars and vanquished all the capitalists on the planet. The film is a parody on the famous SF film "Aelita" from the same year. | 1924 | Nikolay Khodataev, Zenon Komissarenko, Youry Merkulov | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi | 5.6 (188 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
Iron Horse, TheAfter witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway. | 1924 | John Ford (*) | History, Romance, Western | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
Island Fishermen [Pêcheur d'Islande] Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away. | 1924 | Jacques de Baroncelli | Drama | 6.6 (61 votes) | 93 | 20240605 |
Isn't Life WonderfulA family of Polish refugees tries to survive in post-World War I Germany. For a while it seems that they are making it, but soon the economic and political deterioration in the country begins to take their toll. | 1924 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (350 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Jeffries, JrChase's Jimmy Jump character needs toughening so his dad sends him to the farm of former champion Jim Jeffries where he does comic exercises. We see his later home life where he is still intimidated by his now wife. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.8 (46 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Just a MinuteCharley Chase plays Jimmy Jump, an automobile salesman, who is about to be married when his boss orders him to show the Mayor a car. Jimmy leaves the girl on the corner for just a minute, but the minute is so long that the girl has m | 1924 | James Parrott | Short, Comedy | 7.0 (34 votes) | 12 | 20211228 |
Just a Real Good CarI was initially much interested in this little film where Charley/Jimmy Jump is a car salesman who takes an unruly family of prospective buyers for a picnic in the woods because I thought it might have been made specially for Pathex but it in fact it is just the central episode from the film Just a Minute. | 1924 | Hal Roach | Short, Comedy | nan | 3 | 20211228 |
King of the Circus [Max, der Zirkuskönig]Max suffers from drunkenness, but gets serious after he falls for the daughter of a circus director - who forbids her romance with an outsider. | 1924 | Édouard-Émile Violet | Comedy | 7.1 (27 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
King of Wild Horses, TheA stallion known as "The Black" is the leader of a band of wild horses. A cowboy is determined to capture and break him. | 1924 | Fred Jackman | Western | 6.8 (41 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
Kino Eye [Kinoglaz]This documentary promoting the joys of life in a Soviet village centers around the activities of the Young Pioneers. These children are constantly busy, pasting propaganda posters on walls, distributing hand bills, exhorting all to " | 1924 | Dziga Vertov (*) | Documentary | 7.1 (1K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Kriemhild's Revenge [Die Nibelungen Kriemhilds Rache]After Siegfried's death Kriemhild marries Etzel (Atilla), the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a feast. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, to kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfrie | 1924 | Fritz Lang (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.0 (4.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
Last Laugh, The [Der Letzte Mann]An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel. | 1924 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama | 8.1 (13.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Leap YearA young man, heir to his misogynistic and millionaire uncle, and in love with a nurse, gets in trouble when he gives advice on marriage to his girlfriends. | 1924 | James Cruze, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Comedy | 6.1 (313 votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
Lion of the Moguls, The [Le lion des Mogols]In the kingdom of the Moguls, Prince Roudghito-Sing, a young officer of the palace, falls in love with Zemgali, a captive princess held prisoner and coveted by the Grand Khan. Fleeing the country, he takes refuge in Paris and his pre | 1924 | Jean Epstein | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (138 votes) | 102 | 20220414 |
Little DorritThe series tells the story of Amy Dorrit, who spends her days earning money for the family and looking after her proud father, who is a long term inmate of Marshalsea debtors' prison in London. Amy and her family's world is transf... | 1924 | A.W. Sandberg | Drama | 5.6 (8 votes) | 131 | 20241012 |
The Luck o' the FoolishHarry and Marcie are on a train headed for a new job. There's comedy in the berths and during Harry's morning shave, then a thief steals the money Harry needed for his new job, so he has to go back to being a beat cop and Marcie work | 1924 | Harry Edwards | Short, Comedy | 6.4 (121 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
ManhandledGloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction | 1924 | Allan Dwan | Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (1.1K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Marriage Circle, TheProfessor Stock and his wife Mizzi are always bickering. Mizzi tries to seduce Dr. Franz Braun, the new husband of her good friend Charlotte. | 1924 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
MichaelTriangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess. | 1924 | Carl Theodor Dreyer (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Monsieur BeaucaireWhen M. Beaucaire, a handsome barber, catches the Duke of Winterset cheating at gambling, Beaucaire exacts Winterset's cooperation in sneaking Beaucaire into a great ball, disguised as the Duke de Chartres, and to introduce him to th | 1924 | Sidney Olcott | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (484 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Moon of Israel, The [Die Sklavenkönigin]Egypt, circa 1230 BC. Israelites are inslaved, and the jewish girl Merapi falls in love with egyptian prince Seti, son of pharaoh Merneptah., which creates a lot of problems. By the end, Moses leads his people away from Egypt. | 1924 | Michael Curtiz (*) | Drama | 5.8 (89 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Navigator, TheTwo spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship. | 1924 | Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Action, Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (9.7K votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
New Year's EveThe film is set in a bar on New Year's Eve. We see plenty of Germans swilling beer non-stop and the owner of the bar and his wife await the arrival of his mother for a little celebration together. | 1924 | Lupu Pick | Drama | 6.2 (161 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Not WantedAfter five years as the best of the Chaplin imitators, Billy West struck out with his own comedy character, a middle-class man in a nice suit and a fedora -- but with the mustache. These movies involved him in cartoonish situations in which he executed some extended gags very nicely -- in this one he does the one in which the water pump only works when he's not ready for it and another in which he can't catch a fish with some expensive gear, while the boy next to him catches whoppers with a stick and a bent pin -- and gradually moved behind the camera. | 1924 | Robert P. Kerr | Short, Comedy | 5.8 (16 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
One of the FamilyJimmy Jump is hired as chauffeur by a lady who wishes to make her husband jealous. The lady gets him various costumes and takes him around wherever her husband will see them. The husband objects and Jimmy is rescued by Patricia, the | 1924 | Scott Pembroke | Short, Comedy | 6.4 (26 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Open All NightA couple's marriage is going stale. She wants a take-charge kind of guy, someone who'll show her who the boss is. He's not that type, and in fact believes that women don't really respect men who are. When they meet a macho profession | 1924 | Paul Bern | Comedy | 5.1 (122 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Outdoor PajamasJimmy Jump (Charley Chase) wakes up late for his wedding so he ends up leaving the house dressed in his pajamas and then encounters one disaster after another. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short | 7.0 (50 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Peg o' the MountedA child plays in the woods next to an isolated cabin. An exhausted Mountie faints by the cabin, and the child helps him inside to the bed. She gives him a spoonful of liniment and rubs Castor oil on his face. He awakes and tells h... | 1924 | Alfred J. Goulding | Comedy, Short | 6.3 (108 votes) | 22 | 20230328 |
Peter PanPeter Pan enters the nursery of the Darling children and, with the help of fairy dust, leads them off to Never Never Land, where they meet the nefarious Captain Hook. | 1924 | Herbert Brenon | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 7.1 (1.1K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Poor Fish, TheCharley, frustrated by his office job, quarrels with his wife, after which they decide to switch jobs. She goes to the office and Charley does the housework. Having never done something like this in his life before, he starts a chaos | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.0 (40 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Powder and SmokeChase plays a traveling lightening rod salesman who gets caught up in a real estate transaction gone wrong. | 1924 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (29 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Publicity PaysJimmy Jump's young wife goes in strongly for amateur theatricals. After one of her performances a theater manager signs her up. He opens a publicity campaign by having her appear in public in spectacular costumes, with a monkey for a | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (38 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Reckless Age, TheLord Harrowby, an English nobleman about to marry American heiress Cynthia Meyrick, takes out a $100,000 insurance policy against the loss of his wealthy bride. Sent to usher at the proceedings, the company's confidential agent, D... | 1924 | Harry A. Pollard | Comedy, Drama | 6.3 (55 votes) | 70 | 20220723 |
Red Lily, TheTwo young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them. | 1924 | Fred Niblo | Drama | 7.1 (475 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Roaring RailsA railroad engineer adopts a French orphan while he's fighting in the army in World War I, and takes him back to the US when the war ends. Later the boy needs an eye operation that the engineer can't afford, so he takes the rap for a | 1924 | Tom Forman | Drama | 6.5 (80 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
RomolaIn Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a beautiful daughter named Romola. Tito flirts wit | 1924 | Henry King | Drama, History | 6.2 (214 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
Saga of Gösta Berling, The [Gösta Berlings saga]A drunkard priest who has been cast out by his community struggles to atone and regain his honour and dignity. | 1924 | Mauritz Stiller | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 183 | 20211228 |
Sea Hawk, TheA wrongly convicted English gentleman goes from galley slave to pirate captain. | 1924 | Frank Lloyd | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.1 (533 votes) | 123 | 20211228 |
SecretsAfter 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband. | 1924 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama | 5.7 (234 votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
Seeing Nellie HomeJimmy Jump vies with the other stags for the honor of taking Nellie home from the dance and wins the honor. When they reach Nellie's house, Nellie has no key, so Jimmy climbs in a second story window and tries to find the front door. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (43 votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
Sherlock JrA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. | 1924 | Buster Keaton (*) | Action, Comedy, Romance | 8.2 (47.4K votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
Short KiltsAs a way to make peace between two feuding Scottish clans, one invites the other over for supper, but things don't turn out quite as expected. | 1924 | George Jeske | Short, Comedy | 5.3 (193 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Siegfroed [Die Nibelungen -.Siegfried]Bold, fearless Siegfried travels to King Gunther's castle. On the way he kills a dragon, and an evil dwarf king, thus gaining a treasure and a magic helmet of invisibility and illusion. In return for permission to marry Gunther's sis | 1924 | Fritz Lang (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (5.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Signal Tower, TheA railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to stop a runaway train, he makes a play for the man's wife. | 1924 | Clarence Brown | Drama | 6.5 (87 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Sittin' PrettyCharley Chase starred in a series of one-reel comedies as ""Jimmie Jump"" before his better-known series of twenty-minute two-reelers, and most of them were little comedy gems in miniature. This is one of the funniest of these. In a variation on a formula that would work often for Chase, farcical complications proceed from incredible circumstances, and here we have a beginning gag premise that is hilarious in its goofiness -- the problems caused by a thief who steals Jimmie's car (he removes the steering wheel as a precaution, but the thief has brought his own!) and insists that Jimmie prove it his his. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.2 (51 votes) | 14 | 20211228 |
Speed Spook, TheAn auto racer driving through a small town finds himself tangled up in a local political controversy, an election and a mystery that surrounds a supposedly "haunted" car that speeds through town with no driver and disappears before a | 1924 | Charles Hines | Comedy | 5.5 (21 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Stolen GoodsStolen Goods (1924) | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.5 (36 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
Such is LifeA street urchin is trying to survive on her own, getting into mischief along the way. | 1924 | Alfred J. Goulding | Comedy, Short | 5.4 (78 votes) | 17 | 20230328 |
Sun Down LtdThe kids decide to build their own locomotive. But jealous neighborhood bully Toughy attempts to run it off the tracks. | 1924 | Robert F. McGowan | Comedy, Short, Family | 6.7 (119 votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
Ten Minute Egg, AJimmy prints up business cards that give his job description as "bouncer," which intimidates everyone--until he runs out of cards. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (57 votes) | 15 | 20211228 |
Thief of Bagdad, TheA recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. | 1924 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 (6K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
Three WomenA frivolous middle aged socialite is suddenly put upon to have her daughter live with her. Her conniving paramour dumps her for the daughter, leaving the young boyfriend crushed. | 1924 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Drama | 6.6 (140 votes) | 83 | 20220419 |
Too Many MammasJimmy (Charley Chase) must help his boss hide an affair with a beautiful woman and try to keep his own girlfriend happy. | 1924 | Leo McCarey (*) | Short, Comedy | 7.5 (55 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
WaxworksA wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories. | 1924 | Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
White Moth, TheThe White Moth is a 1924 silent film drama produced and directed by Maurice Tourneur and distributed by First National Pictures. Barbara La Marr was the female lead supported by young Ben Lyon. This film survives at the Library of... | 1924 | Maurice Tourneur | Drama | 6.8 (38 votes) | 70 | 20231001 |
Wild OrangesMillie Stope lives with her grandfather on a remote island. Her grandfather fled there for political reasons. But they're not alone. An escaped prisoner, Nicholas, is terrorizing them, and further more, he's interested in Mllie. John | 1924 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (505 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Wine of YouthUnlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follow | 1924 | King Vidor (*) | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (374 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |