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Silent Melodrama Film

With a plot to appeal to the heightened emotions of the audience, and sometimes complemented with an exaggerated acting style well suited to the demands of silent cinema, melodrama came in many forms during the silent era. DW Griffith's films with Lillian Gish are prime examples, while the director FW Murnau used, and extended, the format in Sunrise to create a film that was named by Cahiers du Cinema in 1967 as 'the single greatest masterwork in the history of the cinema'.


 

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Sunrise (Masters of Cinema)

1927, F.W. Murnau, DVD+Blu-ray

 

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Sunrise (Masters of Cinema)

A landmark of silent cinema and one of the finest films of any era. A woman from ...

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 Piccadilly

1929, E A Dupont, DVD

 

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Piccadilly

Seething with sexual and racial tension, this is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama starring Anna May ...

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 Pandora's Box

1928, Georg Wilhelm Pabst, DVD

 

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The all time silent classic based on two plays by Frank Wedekind. With a legendary performance by...

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The Holy Mountain (Fanck) (Masters of Cinema)

1926, Arnold Fanck, DVD

 

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The Holy Mountain (Fanck) (Masters of Cinema)

Aka 'The Holy Mountain: A Heroic Song from a Towering World of Heights'. Fanck's ...

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 A Throw of Dice

1929, Franz Osten, DVD

 

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After Prince Sohan contrives a hunting accident for his rival, Prince Ranjit, so that he might in...

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 Mad Love

1913-17, Evgenii Bauer, DVD

 

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Bauer's pioneering work is celebrated in these three silent films showing his creative use of lig...

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The Eagle (Brown, 1925)

1925, Clarence Brown, DVD

 

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The Eagle (Brown, 1925)

Silent feature based on Pushkin's story Dubrowsky, in which a Cossack lieutenant ...

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