Way Out West (1937), Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Jour de Fete (1948), Saps at Sea (1940), Judex (1963), Louisiana Story (1948), Trouble Brewing (1939), The Cost of Living (2003) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Silent Film Style movies.
Storyline: Stan and Ollie are charged with delivering the deed to a valuable gold mine to the daughter of a dead prospector. However they reckon without the machinations of her evil guardian Mickey Finn who is determined to have the gold mine for himself and his saloon singer wife Lola.—Stephen Harrison <stephen@telos.demon.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: comedy, western, classic, black and white, musical, adventure, slapstick ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort, but accidents and misunderstandings follow him where ever he goes. The peace and quiet of the hotel guests don't last very long with Hulot around, because although his intensions are good, they always turn out catastrophically.
Plot Keywords: comedy, french cinema, vacation, beach, slapstick, social satire, 1950s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Once a year the fair comes for one day to the little town 'Sainte-Severe-sur-Indre.' All inhabitants are scoffing at François, the postman, what he seems not to recognize. The rising of the flagstaff under his direction nearly leads into a catastrophe - but everybody tells him how important his work is. Sneering up François continues in the evening of the festive day. Made drunk, some 'friends' persuade him to watch a short-movie in a tent. This film is a stunt-show, covered as 'The modern delivery-techniques of the US-post. François takes it serious, not recognizing being teased. Next day, after getting sober in a goods wagon, he reorganizes his own delivery-methods. He has not the equipment, as his ideals in the short-movie have, but using only his bicycle, he makes good, funny progresses.—Christian Wenger <wenger@ls7.informatik.uni-dortmund.de>
Plot Keywords: comedy, french cinema, classic, black and white, rural life, humor, satire ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After working in the noisy horn factory, just the sound of one drives Oliver into a violent fit. Dr. Finlayson prescribes a long, restful sea voyage, so Stan and Oliver rent a boat and set sail, unaware that escaped killer Nick Grainger has stowed away onboard. To disable the crook, the boys prepare him a meal using string for spaghetti, sponges for meatballs and soap for cheese. But Grainger discovers their plan and decides to make them eat the stuff themselves.—Paul Penna <tterrace@wco.com>
Plot Keywords: comedy, short film, black and white, classic, hilarious, slapstick, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Favraux, an unscrupulous banker, receives a threatening note, signed by "Judex", demanding that he pay back the people he has swindled. He refuses, and apparently dies after a midnight toast at his masked ball. However, he is only drugged by Judex and locked away. Judex spares his life when the banker's widowed daughter, Jacqueline, rejects the inheritance. Meanwhile Diana Monti, the former governess, kidnaps Jacqueline to try to get the banker's money. But Judex is hot on her trail.—Will Gilbert
Plot Keywords: crime, mystery, french film, black and white, classic, revenge, detective ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.—Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
Plot Keywords: documentary, american film, black and white, 1940s, louisiana, child's perspective, rural life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: George has won a lot of money at the races but he's paid with counterfeit money. He sets about tracking down the criminals himself.
Plot Keywords: comedy, humor, slapstick, short film, black and white, classic, farce ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Some of French cinema's best known faces appear in this light hearted comedy about people's relationships with money.
Plot Keywords: drama, short film, british film, dance, art film, experimental film, visual storytelling ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A man (Matt Foyer) tells his psychiatrist of the struggles that led to his downfall, beginning at his great-uncle's bedside, where he receives a key to a locked collection of his papers. The papers reveal a lifelong obsession with an underwater deity, Cthulhu, around which a cult has formed. Using the style of a 1920s silent film, director Andrew Leman retells H.P. Lovecraft's short story, in which the documents reveal individuals who had contact with Cthulhu.
Plot Keywords: horror, black and white, supernatural, madness, cult, thalassophobia, cosmic horror ...
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