The Magic Purse

a silent movie by Robert Wiene

Steel mill owner Sarah Maitland has raised her two children, Blair and Nannie, to be honest and caring, however Blair disappoints her when he seduces...

Lilla Gravert falls into the clutches of a master blackmailer, Eric Helsingor.

Charlotte Baker is drugged and taken to a brothel by Paul, her fiance, who in reality is a pimp. To find her, Charlotte's family contacts the...

A knight returns home from the Crusades to find his village devastated by disease and his family gone. He roams the forest searching for them, until...

On a South Seas island, "three white derelicts drink away memories of the past. After many adventures during which a girl enters the picture, the...

A green-skinned demon places a woman and two courtiers into a flaming cauldron.

The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid...

A British engineer in India takes a simple native girl as his bride, an act which defies social strictures and leads to tragedy.

The plot is the embodiment of everyday belief about the impact of a certain evil force on a person. The action develops in a peasant environment.

A shop girl finds herself disgraced after being pressured into drinking too much at a party and getting arrested for public drunkenness.

With input from actor and writer Jan Hlobil, director and cinematographer Rene Smaal presents a film in the true surrealist tradition, in the sense...