The Recommended Vault Deeply Connected to Magic Flute: Cult Guide

Dir: Victor Sjöström

On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.

Dir: Jan S. Kolár

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Arrival from the Darkness perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of the Black Tower and he falls asleep. He goes into the tower and finds an alchemist's laboratory and the body of a man holding instructions describing how he can be revived. Drazicky successfully carries out the experiment and finds out that the man is his ancestor Jesek Drazicky who lived during the time of Rudolf II. He had become the apprentice of the alchemist Borro who had entrusted him with the mystery of the elixir of life.

Dir: Maxwell Karger

Horace Parker is a wealthy young man who is exceedingly selfish and self-centered. He is engaged to Minnie Talbotr who has discovered his selfishness and she is on the brink of calling off the engagement. On Christmas Eve, a messenger from Mars comes to Earth to show Parker the error of his ways.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Message from Mars perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Dir: Emmett J. Flynn

In 1921, a young man, having read Mark Twain's classic novel of the same title, dreams that he himself travels to King Arthur's court, where he has similar adventures and outwits his foes by means of very modern inventions including motorcycles and nitroglycerine.

Dir: Urban Gad

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Missing Husbands perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

Story of the adventures of the resourceful Scheherazade. Newly married to Shahryar, a deranged monarch who murders his brides after the wedding night, Scheherazade manages to keep her head by entertaining her husband with exciting stories.

Dir: Ward Lascelle

The story shows the development of the united state in divergent fields : Political, social and even economic field.

Dir: George D. Baker

Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.