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1926
Resurrection
Roses in April
1926
Seizing a National Treasure
1926
The Black Pirate
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he…
The Flirting Scholar
1926
The General
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, '…
1926
The Migration Act
This partially-extant silent film focuses on the lives of people in rural China during the…
1926
The Monkey King Conquers the Leopard
The Movie Actress
1926
The Pearl Necklace
A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzle…
The Pearl Pagoda
A film by the Tianyi Movie Company
The Unknown Hero
1926
The White Snake
Three Girls in Shanghai
Three Years Later
1926
Transparent Shanghai
Two Butterflies
A Chinese silent film released in 1926
1926
Why Not Her
1926
Xiao Qing Ren
木兰从军·走边
In the autumn of 1924, Peking Opera master Mei Lanfang, at the invitation of Minxin Film C…
A Beauty of 16
1927
A Flower of Passion
1927
A Married Couple in Name Only
1927
A Poet from the Sea
Hou Yao wrote, directed and starred in A Poet from the Sea (1927). It was shot in Stanley,…
1927
A Prostitute's Wish
A Wandering Songstress
1927
Call of the Cuckoo
Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.
1927
Do Detectives Think?
An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hi…
1927
Duck Soup
Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, th…
1927
Foiled
Four Heroes of the Wang Family
1927
Hats Off
Stan and Ollie are salesmen attempting to sell a washing machine; they fail constantly aft…
1927
Hua Mulan Joins the Army
A silent film based on the legend of Hua Mulan, released by Tianyi Film Company and direct…
Imperial Concubine Yang of Beijing
1927
Love 'Em and Weep
Titus Tillsbury is a successful businessman who is visited by a blackmailing old flame. He…
1927
Lustrous Pearls
Depicts the machinations of three men who seek to steal two large pearls from a former col…
1927
Metropolis
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's…
1927
Now I'll Tell One
This film was presumed lost for a long time, until the second reel of this movie showed up…
1927
Princess Iron Fan
1927
Putting Pants on Philip
Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He…
Reciprocity
1927
Robbers from Shandong
1927
Sailors, Beware!
A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a stewa…
1927
Sex-Trap
1927
Slipping Wives
Neglected by her husband, our heroine decides to make him jealous by getting the handyman…
1927
Spring Dream by the Lake
To get over a breakup with his actress girlfriend, a playwright goes on holiday to a lakes…
1927
Sugar Daddies
After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night…
1927
The Battle of the Century
Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try…
1927
The Beloved Rogue
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an…
1927
The Cave of the Silken Web
One of the earliest cinematic adaptation of Chinese classic novel Journey to the West. Whe…
1927
The Dream of Red Mansions
1927
The Hunter's Legend
1927
The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in…
The Reviving Rose
1927
The Ring
Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but thei…
1927
The Second 100 Years
Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.
1927
Uproar in an Art Studio
Lost film. Commonly regarded as the first animated short film in China. The film was combi…
1927
Way Down West
Based on the classic Chinese play Romance of the Western Chamber, Way Down West follows th…
1927
Why Girls Love Sailors
Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag an…
1927
With Love and Hisses
Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in cons…