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A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

Dir: Cecil M. Hepworth

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

Dir: F.W. Murnau

In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first Count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first husband, three years ago. So he is rather undesirable. But Oetsch stays; arguing he is not the murderer and will find the real one...

Dir: Jacques Feyder

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

Dir: Edward F. Cline

After waking up from his wacky dream, a theater stage hand inadvertently causes havoc everywhere he works.

Dir: Maurice Elvey

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

Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.

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.

Dir: Charles Swickard

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

A young Egyptian goes to the rescue of his employers, a wealthy European family, when they are menaced by a local strongman and his gang.

Dir: Jacob Fleck

Depicts a society lady trapped under the spell of an unskilled hypnotist.

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.