Film Archive of Public Domain Movies
In the remote reaches of the Amazon rainforest, a clash of ideologies unfolds when two disparate groups of Americans arrive with devastating intentions for the uncontacted Niaruna tribe. While a pair of fundamentalist Christian missionaries attempts to “save” the Indigenous people through spiritual colonization, two cynical, stranded bush pilots are hired by a corrupt local […]
Herbert J. Biberman’s Salt of the Earth (1954) is a legendary, blacklisted neo-realist masterpiece depicting a strike by Mexican-American miners where the women take over the picket line, sparking a radical social and domestic revolution.
Christy Cabanne’s Conspiracy (1930) is a gritty pre-Code crime melodrama starring Bessie Love and Ned Sparks, following a desperate woman on the run after killing a drug kingpin who finds refuge with a bumbling, cynical mystery writer.
Dudley Murphy’s The Emperor Jones (1933) is a historic, haunting drama starring Paul Robeson as an escaped convict who crowns himself king of a Caribbean island, only to face a terrifying psychological descent in the jungle.
William Marshall’s The Phantom Planet (1961) is a deliciously campy retro sci-fi B-movie about an astronaut shrunk to six inches tall on a mysterious asteroid, forced to fight rubber rock-monsters and navigate miniature alien politics.
Fritz Lang’s Scarlet Street (1945) is a devastating, bleak masterpiece of film noir, capturing the agonizing psychological downfall of a meek clerk who loses his mind, his morality, and his soul to a cruel femme fatale.
Paul Leni’s 1928 silent masterpiece is a devastating, expressionistic blend of gothic horror and melodrama, telling the tragic story of a man cursed with a permanent, surgically carved grin who must navigate a world far more monstrous than his disfigurement.
This is your life, and it’s a mechanical labyrinth built out of giant typewriter keys and someone else’s delusion. The SetupTwo men. One endless, claustrophobic machine. An infinite web of cables, pipes, and grinding gears that seems to stretch into the void. That’s it. That’s the whole script. Bassam Kurdali drops us into a world […]
How to Dump Your Husband’s Body in a Lake, Gaslight Your Mother-in-Law, and Launch Francis Ford Coppola’s Career on a Twenty-Grand Budget It’s 3:15 AM. My eyes feel like they’ve been rubbed with coarse sandpaper, the cold pizza on my desk is starting to look back at me, and I am currently watching a greedy, […]
How to Fall in Love with a Carny Mermaid, Survive a Full Moon, and Witness Dennis Hopper Before He Went Wild It’s 3:15 AM. My eyes feel like they’ve been rubbed with coarse sandpaper, the cold pizza on my desk is starting to look back at me, and I am currently watching a very young, […]
