Theda Bara Movies

  • 1915
    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

    A Fool There Was

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    John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England. Due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come...

    A Fool There Was
  • 1925
    The Unchastened Woman

    The Unchastened Woman

    The Unchastened Woman

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    When she goes to tell her husband Hubert that she is expecting a child, Caroline Knollys finds him in the arms of another woman. Caroline leaves him...

    The Unchastened Woman
  • 1939
    The Movies March On

    The Movies March On

    The Movies March On

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    A "March of Time" presentation of the evolution of movies compiled primarily from film clips of silent movies through the early sound pictures to the...

    The Movies March On
  • 2007
    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema

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    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...

    Why Be Good?: Sexuality & Censorship in Early Cinema
  • 2011
    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films

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    Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of...

    Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
  • 1926
    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    45 Minutes from Hollywood

    45 Minutes from Hollywood

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    A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

    45 Minutes from Hollywood
  • 1917
    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

    Cleopatra

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    The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a...

    Cleopatra
  • 1918
    Under the Yoke

    Under the Yoke

    Under the Yoke

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    As described in a film magazine, when Maria Valverda (Bara) refuses the attentions of Diablo Ramirez (Nye), he starts an insurrection among the...

    Under the Yoke
  • 1917
    The Tiger Woman

    The Tiger Woman

    The Tiger Woman

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    Theda Bara's vamping is at its most evil here. She plays the Russian Princess Petrovitch, who loves only her pearls. Her husband, the Prince (E.F....

    The Tiger Woman
  • 1915
    Sin

    Sin

    Sin

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    Italian peasant girl deserts her fiancé for wealthy gangster and departs for America.

    Sin
  • 2006
    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes

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    The true story of the life of the movies first femme-fatale, Theda Bara, who made over 40 films, only a handful of which survive. Born in America,...

    The Woman with the Hungry Eyes
  • 1919
    When Men Desire

    When Men Desire

    When Men Desire

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    A woman detained in Germany attempts to escape so she can reunite with her American lover.

    When Men Desire
  • 1915
    The Devil's Daughter

    The Devil's Daughter

    The Devil's Daughter

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    "My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on...

    The Devil's Daughter
  • 1933
    The Film Parade

    The Film Parade

    The Film Parade

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    Pioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton was intrigued by the idea of a film about the history of the movies as early as 1915. He finally released a...

    The Film Parade
  • 1917
    The Darling of Paris

    The Darling of Paris

    The Darling of Paris

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    This film is a very loose film adaptation of the 1831 novel The Hunchback of Notre-Dame by Victor Hugo and presumed lost: The wealthy girl Esmeralda...

    The Darling of Paris
  • 1915
    Carmen

    Carmen

    Carmen

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    A Spanish soldier falls under the spell of a fiery gypsy girl named Carmen. His obsession with her leads to his ruin.

    Carmen
  • 1915
    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans

    The Two Orphans

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    This picture is based on the same story that became D.W. Griffith's Orphans of the Storm in 1921. This version, made by the Fox Studios, stars famous...

    The Two Orphans
  • 1918
    The Soul of Buddha

    The Soul of Buddha

    The Soul of Buddha

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    Theda Bara plays a Javanese priestess who elopes with an English military officer (Hugh Thompson). Bara's Bavahari becomes a celebrated dancer but...

    The Soul of Buddha
  • 1919
    The Light

    The Light

    The Light

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    Theda Bara does her usual vamp turn in this picture, but this time she's a vamp who turns out to have a heart of gold. Her character, Blanchette...

    The Light
  • 1916
    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

    Romeo and Juliet

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    Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families. A lost film.

    Romeo and Juliet