Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. 1924

8.08

A 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

The Last Laugh

The Last Laugh 1924

7.80

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

1924

Ballet Mécanique

Ballet Mécanique 1924

6.50

A pulsing, kaleidoscope of images set to an energetic soundtrack. This is a world in motion, dominated by mechanical and repetitive images, with a few moments of solitude in a garden.

1924

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge 1924

7.60

When Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries to Etzel, king of the Huns, she invites King Gunther and his court to visit them, intending to finally take the life of the man responsible of her disgrace.

1924

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried 1924

7.70

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

1924

The Navigator

The Navigator 1924

7.11

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.

1924

The Thief of Bagdad

The Thief of Bagdad 1924

7.30

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

1924

He Who Gets Slapped

He Who Gets Slapped 1924

7.60

After a baron steals his scientific discoveries, runs away with his wife, and slaps him in public, a man joins a Parisian circus sideshow as a clown whose act consists of being slapped repeatedly and becomes infatuated with a showgirl colleague whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.

1924

Greed

Greed 1924

7.40

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

1924

The Hands of Orlac

The Hands of Orlac 1924

6.80

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

1924

Girl Shy

Girl Shy 1924

6.90

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men. Fate has him meet rich girl Mary, and they fall in love. But she is about to wed an already married man, so our hero embarks upon a hair-raising daredevil ride to prevent the wedding.

1924

Entr'acte

Entr'acte 1924

6.90

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes. We witness a rooftop chess match between Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray, a hearse pulled by a camel (and chased by its pallbearers) and a dizzying roller coaster finale. A film of contradictions and agreements.

1924

Waxworks

Waxworks 1924

6.40

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper. While writing, the poet and the daughter of the owner, Eva, fantasize the fantastic stories and fall in love for each other.

1924

Peter Pan

Peter Pan 1924

7.00

Peter 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

The Great White Silence

The Great White Silence 1924

7.80

Herbert Ponting travelled to Antarctica as part of Captain Scott's ill-fated South pole expedition and shot the footage that makes up this extraordinary documentary.

1924

The Iron Horse

The Iron Horse 1924

6.70

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route. They discover a new pass which will shave 200 miles off the expected distance, but they are set upon by a party of Cheyenne. One of them, a white renegade with only two fingers on his right hand, kills Brandon and scalps him. Davy is all alone now.

1924

Aelita: Queen of Mars

Aelita: Queen of Mars 1924

6.00

A young man travels to Mars in a rocket ship, where he leads a popular uprising against the ruling group with the support of Queen Aelita, who has fallen in love with him after watching him through a telescope.

1924

Andy's Stump Speech

Andy's Stump Speech 1924

9.00

Andy Gump is a clueless yokel that decides that he can run for President.

1924

America

America 1924

5.50

The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

1924