The Rising Generation

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Some naughty scenes from a balcony.

In 1997, a group of college misfits invite an unhoused professor to crash on their porch.

In an old warehouse, a celebration among a gang of oddball criminals turns into a deadly standoff.

In a typical day at swim practice our protagonist is bombarded by the whistling of her eccentric coach, the majesty of the older swimmers, the horror of getting her period, and naughty recordings on her teammate’s cellphone. All while, the protagonist comes to understand herself and her body.

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

The plot of the lost film is divided into two acts. Ossi Oswalda and Victor Janson play two apartment seekers, while Marga Köhler is a landlady. The housing shortage is treated in sketch form and "in a joking manner [...] the real housing calamity", whereby "humorous aspects" are wrested from the "tragedy." Lubitsch and Kräly used a sketch in the film that they had written especially for Ossi Oswalda.

19th release in 'The Smith Family' series of 2-reel comedies.

Two aging New England clammers bicker about how to live out their twilight years, with only one of the brothers willing to risk life and limb on a dream. Free on Vimeo!

A divorced couple try to pretend they are still happily married in order to get $100,000 from the woman's divorce-disapproving aunt.

The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.