Pola Negri
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1897-01-01
Locus Natus: Lipno, Poland
Et ut: Barbara Apolonia Chalupiec
The Eyes of the Mummy
Egyptians Radu and Ma milk British tourists out of their money by offering phony tours of a mummy's tomb-- Radu has the girl lend her eyes to the...
release : 1918.10.03popularis : 1.817
The Moon-Spinners
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner...
release : 1964.07.08popularis : 6.709
Yesterday and Today
A compilation of early-day silent films that serves as a glimpse back to the formative days of the movie industry as a salute to Hollywood's Golden...
release : 1953.12.02popularis : 0.921
Madame DuBarry
The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
release : 1919.09.18popularis : 2.38
Hi Diddle Diddle
When the bride's mother is supposedly swindled out of her money by a spurned suitor, the groom's father orchestrates a scheme of his own to set...
release : 1943.08.02popularis : 1.794
Sumurun
The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a...
release : 1920.09.01popularis : 1.512
The Wildcat
A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, thus setting in motion a madcap farce that is...
release : 1921.04.14popularis : 2.879
The Legend of Rudolph Valentino
A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.
release : 1961.05.24popularis : 0.321
The Spanish Dancer
The Spanish Dancer is the story of Maritana, a Romani girl who dances in courtyards and even tells people's fortunes. Despite her lowly position,...
release : 1923.10.06popularis : 3.405
Hotel Imperial
During World War I, an Austrian officer is trapped behind the Russian lines. He tries to sneak through to his own lines, but is forced to take refuge...
release : 1927.01.01popularis : 0.958
Carmen
The tragic story of Don Jose, a Spanish cavalryman, who falls under the spell of a gypsy girl, Carmen, who treats him with both love and contempt and...
release : 1918.12.20popularis : 5.709
The Yellow Ticket
"The Yellow Ticket" (aka "The Devil's Pawn") was directed by Vicor Janson and Eugen Illes as a German project shot partially in Warsaw. A story of a...
release : 1918.11.21popularis : 3.284
Mad Love
Richard de la Croix's brother, Andreas, has been driven insane by a notorious vamp and socialite named Sappho. A friend takes Richard to the Odeon to...
release : 1921.09.09popularis : 3.473
Barbed Wire
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
release : 1927.09.09popularis : 1.04
Betty Boop: Queen of the Cartoons
From the A&E "Biography" series, a review of the birth, development and cinematic history of Betty Boop, the flapper cartoon character who has been a...
release : 1995.01.01popularis : 1.593
Mazurka
A woman is put on trial for murdering a musician who ruined her marriage.
release : 1935.11.14popularis : 3.478
A Woman of the World
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins and causes havoc among the rather...
release : 1925.12.28popularis : 1.17
Moskau - Shanghai
A drama film directed by Paul Wegener.
release : 1936.10.07popularis : 0.619
Die Flamme
In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
release : 1923.02.02popularis : 0.779
Forbidden Paradise
Film based on the Lajos Biró play, directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
release : 1924.01.02popularis : 1.102
Madame Bovary
A drama film directed by Gerhard Lamprecht.
release : 1937.04.22popularis : 0.353
Slave of Her Senses
Pola is a beautiful but poor girl, a locksmith's daughter. Unexpectedly, she's successful as a stage dancer. After her success, she breaks with her...
release : 1914.01.02popularis : 0.578
The Golden Twenties
Feature-length compilation of 1920s newsreel footage, with commentary about news, sports, lifestyles, and historical figures.
release : 1950.04.08popularis : 1.29
East of Suez
After being educated in England, Daisy Forbes returns to China, the country of her birth, and discovers that her father has recently died and that...
release : 1925.01.12popularis : 3.794
Bella Donna
Bella Donna, a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes...
release : 1923.03.31popularis : 0.655
The Woman He Scorned
A lighthouse keeper's wife shelters her fugitive lover.
release : 1929.01.20popularis : 3.508
The Polish Dancer
A wild young girl runs away from her parents' house to support herself and attracts the attentions of a married man, who is prepared to abandon his...
release : 1917.01.05popularis : 1.049
Arabella
A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.
release : 1917.05.01popularis : 2.024
His Last Gesture
A silent film directed by Aleksander Hertz.
release : 1917.09.28popularis : 1.24
The Woman from Moscow
A silent film directed by Ludwig Berger.
release : 1928.11.03popularis : 2.275
The Wife
A silent film directed by Jan Pawłowski.
release : 1915.10.05popularis : 1.113
Shadows of Paris
A young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
release : 1924.02.17popularis : 1.917
The Cheat
After losing money she embezzled, a socialite borrows cash from a foreign "prince" who expects sexual favors in return.
release : 1923.08.27popularis : 1.266
The Charmer
A wild dancer in a cheap Seville cafe, Mariposa is taken to New York by Señor Sprott, a prominent theatrical producer. Billed as "The...
release : 1925.04.20popularis : 1.76
Lily of the Dust
Lily, a poor and friendless orphan, is married to a sensual and elderly Colonel in the German army who divorces her when he finds her with a former...
release : 1924.08.24popularis : 0.745
Flower of Night
Triumph of the daughter of a cheated mine owner over a renegade and her love for the superintendent.
release : 1925.10.17popularis : 0.598
Good and Naughty
Four middle-aged actors jointly adopt an orphaned baby girl, raising her in a backstage milieu.
release : 1926.06.07popularis : 1.107
The Secret Hour
An Elderly fruit grower sends a photo of his foreman, not himself, to a waitress he wishes to marry. She falls in love with the foreman.
release : 1928.02.04popularis : 1.494
The Woman on Trial
A story of a woman who committed a murder. In a French court room her life is retold by long flashbacks of her testimony and life.
release : 1927.10.28popularis : 1.896
The Crown of Lies
Romantic drama directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki.
release : 1926.03.27popularis : 1.343
Three Sinners
A woman allows her husband, who she knows no longer loves her, to believe that she has been killed in a train wreck. Her husband later finds her as a...
release : 1928.04.13popularis : 1.249
Loves of an Actress
Rachel becomes the leading actress in the Comédie Française through the patronage of three influential men: Baron Hartman, the...
release : 1928.08.18popularis : 1.658
A Woman Commands
In order to keep his lover, Maria Draga, in luxury, Captain Alex Pastitsch contracts huge debts which threaten his military career. To save Alex's...
release : 1932.02.12popularis : 3.865
Fanatisme
After many difficulties, the seductive Italian dancer, Rosine Savelli, manages to clear herself of a plot hatched against Napoleon III...
release : 1934.06.01popularis : 0.834
Die fromme Lüge
The stand-alone opera singer Carmen Casini dare not admit to her adult son, the spoiled race car driver Cecil, that she ruined her voice on a stormy...
release : 1938.03.25popularis : 1.831
Screen Snapshots (Series 10, No. 8)
Pola Negri, Bebe Daniels, Mitzi Green, Polly Moran, Mack Sennett and Marjorie Beebe are seen relaxing at Palm Springs, a California winter resort;...
release : 1931.06.01popularis : 1.437
Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
Before the G, PG and R ratings system there was the Production Code, and before that there was, well, nothing. This eye-opening documentary examines...
release : 2007.05.23popularis : 9.089
The Love Goddesses
This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...
release : 1965.03.03popularis : 7.217
Arme Violetta
A modern adaptation of Dumas' Camille.
release : 1920.12.25popularis : 1.48
Die Marchesa d'Arminiani
A police chief raids a gambling den, and arrests the elderly mother of the young Assunta. Though she pleads with him, he will not release her mother....
release : 1920.05.26popularis : 0.96
Vendetta
In Corsica, Marianna Paoli's brother is killed by an Englishman whose identity is unknown to her. She swears vengeance and tracks the killer to Monte...
release : 1919.08.22popularis : 1.662
100 Years of the UFA
The intricate history of UFA, a film production company founded in 1917 that has survived the Weimar Republic, the Nazi regime, the Adenauer era and...
release : 2017.08.28popularis : 0.311
Nicht Lange Täuschte Mich das Glück
Pola Negri plays a dual supporting role as a nun and a cabaret dancer in this film.
release : 1917.11.01popularis : 0.107
Kisses Stolen in the Dark
German silent film starring Pola Negri.
release : 1917.06.01popularis : 0.307
Rampant Blood
A german film released in 1917 starring Pola Negri.
release : 1917.05.01popularis : 0.493
Dead Eyes
German silent film starring Pola Negri.
release : 1917.07.01popularis : 0.179
Wenn das Herz in Haß erglüht
German film from 1917 starring Pola Negri
release : 1917.10.01popularis : 1.383
Rosen, die der Sturm Entblättert
German film from 1918 starring Pola Negri
release : 1918.08.17popularis : 0.316
The Woman at the Crossroads
The Woman at the Crossroads (German: Kreuzigt sie!) is a 1919 German silent film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke and...
release : 1919.06.01popularis : 1.447
The Last Payment
A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of...
release : 1919.07.07popularis : 0.341
Pokój nr 13
Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).
release : 1917.06.12popularis : 0.129
Komtesse Doddy
Countess Doddy (German: Komtesse Doddy) is a 1919 German silent comedy film directed by Georg Jacoby and starring Pola Negri, Harry Liedtke and...
release : 1919.11.01popularis : 0.589
Mystery of Uyazdovsky Lane
Part of a 3 part series (Mysteries of Warsaw).
release : 1917.02.25popularis : 0.191
Czarna ksiazeczka
'The Yellow Pass' An early version of Der Gelbe Schein (The Yellow Ticket).
release : 1915.12.30popularis : 0.416
The Closed Chain
The Closed Chain (German: Die geschlossene Kette) is a 1920 German silent film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri, Aud Egede-Nissen,...
release : 1920.12.10popularis : 0.494
Intrigue
Intrigue or The Martyrium is a 1920 German silent drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Pola Negri and Eduard von Winterstein.
release : 1920.10.15popularis : 0.088
Men
Cleo lives in Marseilles and works as a waitress in a waterfront dive. A stranger entices her into coming to Paris to take dancing lessons, but...
release : 1924.05.04popularis : 0.919
Hollywood
Angela comes to Hollywood with only two things: Her dream to become a movie star, and Grandpa. She leaves an Aunt, a brother, Grandma, and her...
release : 1923.08.19popularis : 1.373