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Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth

A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.

Dir: John Cosgrove

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of The Guyra Ghost Mystery perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

The Films centers around a family who is plagued by a mysterious pultergeist. Basesd on true events

Dir: Joe May

A fascinating piece of cinema that shares thematic elements.

Dir: Jacques Feyder

A visual fragment from the archive: The thematic resonance of Die Herrin der Welt 8. Teil - Die Rache der Maud Fergusson perfectly mirrors the editorial trajectory of our deep dive.

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

Dir: Urban Gad

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

Dir: George Fitzmaurice

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

Architect Peter Ibbetson is hired by the Duke of Towers to design a building for him. Ibbetson discovers that the Duchess of Towers, Mary, is his now-grown childhood sweetheart. Their love revives, but Peter is sentenced to life in prison for an accidental killing. Mary comes to him in dreams and they are able to live out their romance in a dream world.

Dir: Jan S. Kolár

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: Joe May

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

The unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination.

Dir: Viktor Tourjansky

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: Gustav Adolf Olsen

In the most beautiful Telemark a young boy grown up on a rich farm wanting to be a fiddle player like the son at the poorer neighboring farm, to his father's dislike. One day the father is found dead.