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MGM Plus
90
8.4
/257496/
81
/3679/
82
/2796/
4.4
/318575/
98
/125/
95
/3486/
94
/32/
cc age 13+

Sunset Boulevard (1950)
A hack screenwriter writes a screenplay for a former silent film star who has faded into Hollywood obscurity.
poster
Criterion Channel
85
7.9
/38428/
77
/871/
75
/637/
4.2
/70603/
96
/52/
89
/442/

In a Lonely Place (1950)
A violent screenwriter and a female neighbor fall in love after she clears him of murder, but she begins to have second thoughts.
poster
The Roku Channel
84
7.8
/254097/
76
/4667/
75
/3402/
3.8
/164001/
95
/321/
87
/6582/
89
/41/
cc age 13+

The Artist (2011)
Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
poster
Kanopy
78
7.7
/1232/
74
/59/
72
/39/
3.8
/4165/
96
/89/
96
/133/
76
/13/

Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché (2018)
The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.
poster
74
7.3
/11375/
73
/157/
70
/171/
3.7
/6240/
84
/19/
77
/121/
57
/8/

Ragtime (1981)
A young black pianist becomes embroiled in the lives of an upper-class white family set among the racial tensions, infidelity, violence, and other nostalgic events in early 1900s New York City.
poster
MGM Plus
67
7.5
/64969/
75
/1389/
74
/1155/
3.6
/39488/
62
/52/
81
/1342/
47
/22/
cc age 13+

Chaplin (1992)
An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.
poster
Kanopy
74
66
7.5
/9643/
69
/105/
67
/120/
3.5
/5747/
91
/22/
75
/136/

Dinner at Eight (1933)
An ambitious New York socialite plans an extravagant dinner party as her businessman husband, Oliver, contends with financial woes, causing a lot of tension between the couple. Meanwhile, their high-society friends and associates, including the gruff Dan Packard and his sultry spouse, Kitty, contend with their own entanglements, leading to revelations at the much-anticipated dinner.
poster
78
64
7.6
/4203/
67
/48/
71
/52/
3.7
/2299/
92
/13/
87
/28/

Show People (1928)
Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don't go entirely according to plan.
poster
MGM Plus
62
6.3
/2721/
66
/80/
56
/45/
3.3
/1807/
69
/13/
55
/31/

Inserts (1975)
A young, once-great Hollywood film director refuses to accept changing times during the early 1930s, and confines himself to his decaying mansion to make silent porn flicks.
poster
fuboTV
77
51
7.3
/1999/
75
/109/
75
/24/
3.6
/2648/
96
/45/
87
/2/
66
/14/

The Real Charlie Chaplin (2021)
A look at the life and work of Charlie Chaplin in his own words featuring an in-depth interview he gave to Life magazine in 1966.
poster
63
25
6.7
/1193/
67
/27/
66
/23/
3.3
/1014/
50
/10/

Hollywood Story (1951)
An independent producer unwisely opens a can of worms after he decides to make a movie about the unsolved murder of a famous silent film director.
poster
52
19
6.3
/798/
55
/12/
61
/14/
3.2
/848/
20
/66/

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)
A silent Western star has trouble adjusting to the coming of sound.
poster
52
18
5.4
/758/
48
/10/
45
/38/
3.1
/453/

Rum Runners (1971)
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
poster
70
17
7.1
/383/
70
/16/
71
/17/
3.4
/498/

Birth of the Tramp (2013)
A look back at Charlie Chaplin's early life and career, from his rough childhood and music hall success in England to his early Hollywood days and the development of his enormously popular character, the Little Tramp, also called Charlot.
poster
MGM Plus
47
17
5.3
/977/
67
/17/
47
/20/
3.0
/442/
40
/5/
15
/4/

The Wild Party (1975)
An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.
poster
60
16
6.3
/539/
64
/5/
68
/4/
45
/153/

Merton of the Movies (1947)
In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.
poster
Netflix
58
?
5.9
/325/
55
/8/
59
/7/
3.0
/409/
cc age 10+

Garbo: Where Did You Go? (2024)
An urgent, timely and compelling portrait of Hollywood icon Greta Garbo, whose fame, isolation and loneliness still captures us.
poster
?
6.2
/36/
40
/2/

Star Power: The Creation Of United Artists (1998)
The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and 1919.
poster
?
6.8
/51/

Curse of the Remote Island (2008)
An explorer comes to a remote island seeking treasure. He discovers traps, terrors and a magic remote control.
poster
?
6.3
/27/

A Lover's Oath (1925)
"The plot introduces Omar as a leader of his people but deals rather with the love of his nephew, Ben Ali, for the fairest daughter of the tribe" (Variety, 7 Oct 1925, p44).
poster
?
7.4
/87/
20
/1/
58
/5/

Out of the Closet, Off the Screen: The Life of William Haines (2001)
Chronicles the life of William Haines, Hollywood's first openly gay movie star, who sacrificed his career to live openly with his lover.
poster
53
?
5.3
/147/
53
/3/
55
/2/

Mabel and Fatty Viewing the World's Fair at San Francisco (1915)
Frequent comedy co-stars Fatty Arbuckle and Mabel Normand take viewers on a tour of the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in San Francisco. Attractions shown include the U.S. Battleship "Oregon", the Australian convict ship "Success" (complete with such punishment devices as a flogging rack and a spiked Iron Maiden), the world's tallest flagpole (251 feet), the Court of Abundance, the Court of the Universe (with sunken garden) and the Tower of Jewels. Fatty and Mabel also visit Frisco's still-under-construction City Hall, accompanied by Frisco's then-Mayor James Rolph Jr. Also appearing in the film is opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink.
poster
65
?
6.5
/147/
70
/1/
62
/2/

The Bachelor's Daughters (1946)
A department store floor walker is persuaded by four husband-seeking salesgirls to pose as their father in a Long Island mansion which they have rented by pooling resources and pretending to be wealthy themselves.
poster
79
?
7.7
/228/
73
/3/
57
/6/
88
/8/
100
/3/

Mary Pickford: The Muse of the Movies (2008)
This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen businesswoman. Pickford's life also parallels an even larger story, telling of the birth of the cinema itself.
poster
75
?
7.3
/129/
77
/4/

What a Glorious Feeling: The Making of 'Singin' in the Rain' (2002)
Movie and stage icon Debbie Reynolds hosts the making of "Singin' in the Rain". The short documentary includes Donald O'Connor, who played the comical "Cosmo Brown", Stanley Donen, one half of the directors next to Gene Kelly, and Kathleen Freeman, who played Phoebe Dinsmore, Lina Lamont's (Jean Hagen) voice coach.
poster
?
6.8
/16/
40
/2/

Houdini (1996)
The film takes a look back at the life of the great Houdini, escape-artist and magician extraordinaire. It also looks into his trying to debunk spiritualists and his silent movie career. It also investigates his promise to return in the afterlife if it is at all possible.
poster
43
?
4.6
/174/
40
/8/
44
/5/

Hollywood Babylon (1972)
This is like a documentary on the scandals in the Golden Age of Hollywood during the 1920's. Contains many reenactments of major scandals.
poster
?
7.3
/71/
60
/1/
60
/1/

Good Night Valentino (2003)
Dramatization of an H.L. Mencken story. Rudolph Valentino comes to Menckin's hotel room to seek advice about how to deal with a newspaper editorial that claims Valentino's screen career has emasculated the American male.
poster
66
?
6.9
/159/
65
/10/
65
/8/

Chaplin's Goliath (1996)
A film about the tall actor who was most famous for playing the quintessential villain for Charlie Chaplin's Tramp character.
poster
64
?
6.4
/358/
62
/4/
60
/4/
3.4
/206/

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)
The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.
poster
33
?
4.0
/172/
32
/4/
19
/7/

Forever (1992)
A hot-shot music video director moves into a haunted house, where he's seduced and possessed by two alluring and sexy women. One, a beautiful ghost, the other his lustful agent. Torn between the here-and-now and the supernatural... will he find true love or forever be alone?
poster
Amazon Prime Video
47
?
5.4
/148/
35
/2/
55
/2/

The Legend of Valentino (1975)
An embellished dramatization of the career and personal life of actor Rudolph Valentino, widely regarded as the screen's first male sex symbol.
poster
43
?
5.7
/389/
30
/2/
43
/7/

Valentino (1951)
Italian immigrant Rudolph Valentino makes it big in silent Hollywood, but he ends up struggling between his career and the woman he loves.
poster
47
?
5.2
/369/
43
/3/
49
/8/

The Buster Keaton Story (1957)
An inaccurate retelling of the life of silent filmmaker and comedian Buster Keaton.
poster
54
?
7.6
/182/
10
/1/
75
/2/

4 Clowns (1970)
Robert Youngson once again compiles scenes from the golden age of comedy's silent film era. Laurel and Hardy are shown battling a gum machine, and Hardy is a debaucherous Romeo whose amorous plans are thwarted by Rex, the Wonder Horse. Charley Chase is hampered by hiccups and a female professor, and he fleeces a drunken Oliver Hardy with a mannequin in a nightclub. The third part finds bachelor Buster Keaton desperately trying to get married by 7:00 PM in order to collect a $7-million-dollar inheritance. Keaton is pursued by money-hungry prospects in one of the best chase scenes ever filmed. Narration is provided by Jay Jackson.
poster
?

In Hollywood with Potash and Perlmutter (1924)
A sequel of sorts, the Jewish ethnic comedy characters of Potash and Perlmutter return from their 1923 debut film, also produced by Goldwyn, but with a different actor for Potash.


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