| Sex Madness This is a typical sex exploitation film from the early 1930s - complete with wild parties, sex out of wedlock, lesbianism, etc. A chorus girl's exposure to the "casting couch" also exposes her to syphilis. Exploitation filmmakers hoped to capitalize on the taboo subjects of venereal disease, sex before marriage, lesbianism, etc. while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930 which forbade a film from containing such content... Keywords: exploitation; melodrama Downloads: 1,825,714 Average rating: (28 reviews) | |
| Night of the Living Dead - Karl Hardman, Russell Streiner In this classic yet still creepy horror film, strangers hold up in a rural Pennsylvania farmhouse and battle constant attacks from dead locals who have been brought back to life by mysterious radiation. Note: This item contains a user-contributed srt subtitle file. To use this file you must download an srt compatible player and point it at the correct video and srt files (google for srt subtitles)... Keywords: horror Downloads: 1,163,006 Average rating: (97 reviews) | |
| Reefer Madness - George A. Hirliman Considered THE archetypal sensationalized anti-drug movie, but it's really an exploitation film made to capitalize on the hot taboo subject of marijuana use. Like many exploitation films of the time, "Reefer Madness" tried to make a quick buck off of a forbidden subject while skirting the Motion Picture Production Code of 1930. The Code forbade the portrayal of immoral acts like drug use. (The illegal drug traffic must not be portrayed in such a way as to stimulate curiosity concerning the use o... Keywords: exploitation; cult; pdmovies Downloads: 466,268 Average rating: (31 reviews) | |
| Sita Sings the Blues - Nina Paley Sita is a goddess separated from her beloved Lord and husband Rama. Nina is an animator whose husband moves to India, then dumps her by email. Three hilarious shadow puppets narrate both ancient tragedy and modern comedy in this beautifully animated interpretation of the Indian epic Ramayana. Set to the 1920's jazz vocals of Annette Hanshaw, Sita Sings the Blues earns its tagline as "the Greatest Break-Up Story Ever Told." Downloads: 462,290 Average rating: (50 reviews) | |
| Nazi Concentration Camps **This film contains extremely graphic scenes of human suffering, please exercise caution when viewing.** Compilation footage of Nazi concentration camps in the immediate aftermath of World War II. The footage was gathered by the US Department of Defense as part of the effort to conduct war crimes trials. This copy was dubbed from a video copy at the National Archives in College Park, Maryland. National Archives Identifiers: ARC: 43452 NAIL: 238.2 Keywords: nazi; war; world war II; concentration camp Downloads: 459,090 Average rating: (84 reviews) | |
| Utopia - Raymond Eger Utopia (also known as Atoll K and Robinson Crusoe Land) is last film Laurel and Hardy made together. It was filmed and produced in Europe. Keywords: Laurel & Hardy; Laurel and Hardy; Stan Laurel; Oliver Hardy Downloads: 434,092 Average rating: (6 reviews) | |
| His Girl Friday Hilarious romantic comedy starring Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell. Russell is rough and tumble reporter looking to get out of the news racket by marrying and becoming a house wife after her divorce from newspaper publisher Grant. Just when she is about to leave town with her husband-to-be the still lovesick Grant drafts her to cover one final breaking news sensation. Along with plenty of laughs and fast paced dialog this film provides a witty and cynical look at news business... Keywords: romance; comedy Downloads: 430,960 Average rating: (26 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin Festival Four Chaplin shorts from 1917: The Adventurer, The Cure, Easy Street and The Immigrant, presented with music and sound effects. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: comedy Downloads: 404,740 Average rating: (10 reviews) | |
| Comedy Films "All I need to make a comedy is a park, a policeman and a pretty girl." - Charlie Chaplin Downloads: 384,696 |
| Film Noir Expressionistic crime dramas of the 40s and 50s: tough cops and private eyes, femme fatales, mean city streets and deserted backroads, bags of loot and dirty double-crossers. Downloads: 382,226 |
| Abraham Lincoln - D.W. Griffith A biography of the beloved United States president by D. W. Griffith. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: pdmovies Downloads: 381,930 Average rating: (12 reviews) | |
| Escape From Sobibor - Jack Gold Alan Arkin and Rutger Hauer star in this award winning movie about the successful mass escape of 300 prisoners from the Sobibor Nazi death camp. Fine acting and production values make this film a worthwhile viewing experience. Keywords: Alan Arkin; Rutger Hauer; Sobibor; Nazi; pdmovies Downloads: 379,104 Average rating: (26 reviews) | |
| Sci-Fi / Horror Science Fiction and Horror films: monsters and aliens, space and time travel, experiments gone wrong, unimagined disasters. Downloads: 368,940 |
| Gulliver's Travels - Max Fleischer You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: animation Downloads: 367,430 Average rating: (23 reviews) | |
| The Fast And The Furious - Roger Corman http://imdb.com/title/tt0046969/ A man wrongly imprisoned for murder (John Ireland) breaks out of jail. He wants to clear his name, but with the police pursuing him, he's forced to take a beautiful young woman, driving a fast sports car, hostage and slip into a cross-border sports car race to try to make it to Mexico before the police get him Keywords: drag Racing; action Downloads: 286,135 Average rating: (3 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's " The Pawnshop" Charlie Chaplin's 56th Film Released Oct 02 1916. The Pawnshop was Charlie Chaplin's sixth film for Mutual Film Company. Chaplin played the role of assistant to the pawnshop owner. Henry Bergman played the owner and Edna Purviance the owner's daughter. Albert Austin played an alarm clock owner who watches Charlie in dismay as he checks out the clock. This was one of Chaplin's more popular Mutual Films, mainly for the slapstick comedy he was famous for at the time... Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 274,677 | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Vagabond" Charlie Chaplins 53rd Film Released July 10 1916 The Vagabond was a silent film by Charlie Chaplin and his third film with Mutual Films. Released in 1916, it co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Leo White and Lloyd Bacon. This film echoed Chaplin's work on The Tramp, with more drama mixed in with comedy. The story begins with Charlie, playing music to raise money, and instead finds the abused girl (played by Edna) living in a gypsy camp... Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 273,560 Average rating: (2 reviews) | |
| Suddenly "Three gunmen, who have been hired to assassinate the President, hold a family hostage while waiting for their target. Interesting B film which focuses on psychopathic killer well-portrayed against type by Frank Sinatra." - noir expert Spencer Selby | Cast: Frank Sinatra, Sterling Hayden, James Gleason, Nancy Gates. 77 min. Keywords: crime; drama; Frank Sinatra; Sterling Hayden; James Gleason; Nancy Gates; Kim Charney Downloads: 269,893 Average rating: (30 reviews) | |
| Bloody Pit of Horror - Francesco Merli, Ralph Zucker A group of models and cameramen go to a castle to shoot covers for horror novels where they're captured and tortured by the castle's owner, the Crimson Executioner. Find out more about this film on it's IMDB page. Keywords: horror Downloads: 263,657 Average rating: (18 reviews) | |
| Dressed To Kill Aka 'Sherlock Holmes in Dressed To Kill' - features Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes. You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: Mystery; Thriller; pdmovies Downloads: 260,538 Average rating: (24 reviews) | |
| Plan 9 from Outer Space - Charles Burg, J. Edward Reynolds, Hugh Thomas Jr., and Edward D. Wood Jr. From IMDb: "Can your heart stand the shocking facts about grave robbers from outer space?" That's the question on the lips of the narrator of this tale about flying saucers, zombies and cardboard tombstones. A pair of aliens, angered by the "stupid minds" of planet Earth, set up shop in a California cemetery. Their plan: to animate an army of the dead to march on the capitals of the world. (The fact that they have only managed to resurrect three zombies to date has not discouraged them.) An intr... Keywords: Sci-Fi; Horror Downloads: 259,243 Average rating: (28 reviews) | |
| My Man Godfrey Ditzy socialite with a heart of gold, Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard) finds "forgotten man" Godfrey Smith (William Powell) in a scavenger hunt. Eventually Godfrey is taken in as the family butler for the Bullocks and screwball antics and romance ensue. Keywords: screwball; comedy; romance Downloads: 255,325 Average rating: (38 reviews) | |
| Three Stooges Episodes 4 Episodes Of The 3 Stooges. Downloads include: Disorder In The Court Brideless Groom Sing A Song Of Six Pants Malice In The Palace Keywords: three stooges; comedy; public domain Downloads: 252,733 Average rating: (14 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Rink" Charlie Chaplin's 58th Film Released Dec. 04 1916 The Rink was Charlie Chaplin's 8th film for Mutual Films. It co-starred Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman and Albert Austin. It is best known for showcasing Chaplin's roller skating skills. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007264/ Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 247,368 Average rating: (3 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Floorwalker" Charlie Chaplins 51st Film Released May 15 1916 The Floorwalker was Charlie Chaplin's first Mutual Film Company made in 1916. It starred Chaplin as a customer in a department store who finds out the manager is stealing money from the store. It was noted for the first 'running staircase' used in films. Edna Purviance played a minor role as a secretary to the store manager, played by Eric Campbell. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006689/ Watch more Chaplin films Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 246,710 Average rating: (1 review) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "The Cure" Charlie Chaplin's 60th Film Released April 16 1917 The Cure is a short comedy film written and directed by Charlie Chaplin. Chaplin plays a drunk who checks into a health spa to dry out, but his suitcase full of alcohol does not aid him in this pursuit. Along the way he aggravates a large man and seduces a young lady, as Chaplin's characters are often wont to do. The film featured Chaplin's frequent co-stars Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Henry Bergman, John Rand, James T... Downloads: 241,691 Average rating: (2 reviews) | |
| My Favorite Brunette - Daniel Dare Bob Hope comedy with Dorothy Lamour. | You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: Comedy; pdmovies Downloads: 240,034 Average rating: (19 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "A Burlesque On Carmen" Charlie Chaplin's 48th Film Released Dec. 18 1915 Charlie Chaplin's Burlesque on Carmen was Chaplin's 13th film for Essanay Films. It was released in 1915 and then later recut into a different version in 1916. Charlie Chaplin played Dain Hosiery and Edna Purviance played Carmen. Carmen was very popular at this time and one of the reasons Chaplin decided to create his own comedy version on the opera... Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 225,946 Average rating: (1 review) | |
| Lady Frankenstein - Umberto Borsato From IMDb: When Dr. Frankenstein is killed by a monster he created, his daughter and his lab assistant Marshall continue his experiments. The two fall in love and attempt to transplant Marshall's brain in to the muscular body of a retarded servant Stephen, in order to prolong the aging Marshall's life. Meanwhile, the first monster seeks revenge on the grave robbers who sold the body parts used in its creation to Dr... Keywords: Horror Downloads: 225,481 Average rating: (14 reviews) | |
| West of Hot Dog Silent western starring Stan Laurel before he teamed up with Oliver Hardy. Note: This movie can only be viewed properly using the VLC player. You can download it for free here: http://www.videolan.org/. Keywords: Stan Laurel; western, comedy Downloads: 221,908 Average rating: (5 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie Shanghaied" Charlie Chaplin's 46th Film Released Oct 04 1915 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0006032/ Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 220,461 Average rating: (1 review) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Charlie's Recreation" Charlie Chaplin's 23rd film released August 13 1914 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004518/ Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 214,305 Average rating: (5 reviews) | |
| The Stranger - Sam Spiegel Set Connecticut after World War II, The Stranger is a cat and mouse game between Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), a member of the Allied War Crimes Commission and Franz Kindler (Orson Welles), a Nazi who has assumed the false identity of Dr. Charles Rankin. To complete his new intelligentsia disguise, Kindler marries Mary Longstreet, daughter of a Supreme Court justice. Keywords: Drama; Film-Noir; Mystery; Thriller; pdmovies Downloads: 213,913 Average rating: (9 reviews) | |
| The House On Haunted Hill - William Castle Vincent Price gives a stellar performance as the suavely malevolent host of a "haunted house party" who offers his guests $10,000 if they can survive a night in the murderous mansion. Watch for the great Elisha Cook Jr,(he played Wilmer in the "Maltese Falcon") as the groveling homeowner. The eerie looking home used for the exterior shots is the Ennis Brown house in Los Angeles, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright and built in 1924... Keywords: Vincent Price; haunted house; horror; William Castle Downloads: 208,483 Average rating: (15 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Tillies Punctured Romance" Charlie Chaplin's 33rd Film Released Nov. 14 1914. Tillie's Punctured Romance was the first feature-length comedy film from Keystone Film Company and the Christie Film Company, produced in 1914. A silent film directed by Mack Sennett, the film stars Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, and Charlie Chaplin, as well as the Keystone Kops. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0004707/ Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 207,488 | |
| Invasion of the Bee girls This one's about strange women who love their men to death, literally! Maybe the fact that there's a research facility doing top secret experiments might have something to do with the suspicious deaths. Keywords: horror; scifi; feature films Downloads: 207,200 Average rating: (14 reviews) | |
| The Lost World - Jamie White The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: adventure; fantasy Downloads: 206,197 Average rating: (18 reviews) | |
| Fed Up! Genetic Engineering, Industrial Agriculture, and Sustainable Alternatives - Angelo Sacerdote About 70% of the food we eat contains genetically modified ingredients and is not labeled. The biotechnology industry is spending $50 million a year to convince us that this technology is our only hope for feeding the world and saving the environment. Family farmers are disappearing at an astonishing rate as people continue to go hungry both here and abroad. Using hilarious and disturbing archival footage and featuring interviews with farmers, scientists, government officials and activists, FED... Keywords: food; agriculture; genetically modified food; biotechnology Downloads: 201,911 | |
| D.O.A. - Leo C. Popkin D.O.A. (1950) is a film noir drama film directed by Rudolph Maté, considered a classic of the stylistic genre. The frantically-paced plot revolves around a doomed man's quest to find out who has poisoned him – and why – before he dies. The film begins with a scene called "perhaps one of cinema's most innovative opening sequences" by a BBC reviewer. The scene is a long, behind-the-back tracking sequence featuring Frank Bigelow (O'Brien) walking through a hallway into a police station to repo... Keywords: suspense; film noir; pdmovies Downloads: 201,325 Average rating: (50 reviews) | |
| Royal Wedding - Arthur Freed Brother and sister dancing duo Tom and Ellen Bowen (Fred Astaire and Jane Powell) travel to merry old England. There, against the backdrop of the impending wedding of royals, they go about the usual comedic pursuit of love. This film is probably most memorable for Astaire's dream sequence that has him dancing on the ceiling. The source is not of the best quality, with analog artifacts and blownout color... Keywords: musical; comedy; dance Downloads: 197,973 Average rating: (7 reviews) | |
| Meet John Doe You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Keywords: Comedy; pdmovies Downloads: 196,019 Average rating: (12 reviews) | |
| Das Kabinett des Doktor Caligari ( The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari ) - Rudolf Meinert and Erich Pommer The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is the first modern Horror Film and it influence a number of contemporary productions. A real classic! PLOT: A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him to a fair where they meet Dr. Caligari, who exhibits a somnambulist, Cesare, that can predict the future. When Alan asks how long he has to live, Cesare says he has until dawn... Keywords: Silent; Fantasy; Horror; German Expressionism Downloads: 190,829 Average rating: (27 reviews) | |
| The Phantom of the Opera - Carl Laemmle At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. Keywords: silent; drama; horror; pdmovies Downloads: 185,488 Average rating: (15 reviews) | |
| Big Show, The - Mack V. Wright You can find more information regarding this film on its IMDb page. Downloads: 181,289 Average rating: (8 reviews) | |
| Great Guy - Grand National Pictures James Cagney plays the plucky Irish crusader, Johnny Cave, who fights against corruption at the Weights And Measures Department. James Cagney is great in this movie. It shows why he was such a huge movie star Keywords: James Cagney; mystery; drama Downloads: 178,602 Average rating: (12 reviews) | |
| Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (A Symphony of Horror) - Enrico Dieckmann & Albin Grau This is the most complete version available (just over 93 minutes) as this movie was demanded by Bram Stokers widow to be destroyed after winning 2 lawsuits in the mid & late 1920's. Tinted scenes and beautiful quality. I have seen the current version here at archive.org and decided to post this one as it is of much better video quality and the accompanying music matches the scene incredibly better... Keywords: bram; stoker; dracula; orlek; Fantasy; Horror; Thriller; Nosferatu Downloads: 173,898 Average rating: (13 reviews) | |
| Rifle Marksmanship with the M1 Rifle - U.S. War Department These are Excellent videos for those who would like to know more about rifle shooting. They are great for both the beginner and the expert who needs a refresher. The series focuses on the M1 garand, but the techniques can be applied to any rifle. part one covers sling usage and shooting positions. Part 2 covers sight adjustments and also has one of the BEST explanations of windage adjustments EVER... Keywords: rifle marksmanship garand US Army War Department Downloads: 173,282 Average rating: (9 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "Kids Auto Race At Venice" Charlie Chaplin's 2nd Film Released Feb. 07 1914 Kid Auto Races At Venice is 1914 American-made motion picture starring Charlie Chaplin in which his "Tramp" character makes a first appearance. Made by Keystone Studios and directed by Henry Lehrman, in it Chaplin plays a spectator at a 'baby-cart race' in California. The spectator keeps getting in the way of the camera and interferes with the race, causing great frustration to the public and participants... Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 170,399 Average rating: (3 reviews) | |
| Charlie Chaplin's "One A.M." Charlie Chaplin's 54th Film Released Aug. 07 1916 One A.M. was a unique Charlie Chaplin silent film created for Mutual Films in 1916. It was the first film he starred in alone, except for a brief scene of Albert Austin playing a cab driver. Chaplin plays the role of a wealthman coming home late, after too much to drink. He only wants to go to bed, but 'everything' around him prevents him. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0007145/ Keywords: Charlie Chaplin; Silents Downloads: 169,865 Average rating: (4 reviews) | |
| Baby Love - Guido Coen Poor Luci, she is a 15 year old English schoolgirl about to embark on a promising career as the high-school mattress when she comes home one day from school to find her Mum as dead as a door knob in the tub. You see her Mum has cut her wrists after a long unrewarding career as the town mattress. Fortunately for Luci, her Mum's childhood friend is now a very successful upper-middle class doctor who has decided to take Luci home to his family (on a trial basis)... Keywords: Sex; Female Nudity; Lesbian Sex; Lolita; Independent Film; Based On Novel Downloads: 167,736 Average rating: (9 reviews) | |