Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1932 • United States
Starring Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen

One of director Dorothy Arzner’s most fascinatingly subversive portraits of marital dysfunction stars Sylvia Sidney as a wealthy socialite who falls in love with an alcoholic writer (Fredric M...

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

Two chefs cook up pandemonium at a high-end restaurant.

Directed by John S. Robertson • 1920 • United States
Starring John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Martha Mansfield

Considered by many to be the first great American horror film, John S. Robertson’s DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE allowed stage legend John Barrymore to deliver one of his most virtuosic screen...

Directed by Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone • 1923 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge

OUR HOSPITALITY broadened the boundaries of slapstick and proved that Buster Keaton was not just a comedian, he was an artist. Keaton stars as youthful dreamer Willie McKay...

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch, Norman Taurog, Norman Z. McLeod, H. Bruce Humberstone, James Cruze, Stephen Roberts, and William A. Seiter • 1932 • United States
Starring Gary Cooper, Charles Laughton, George Raft

An all-star cast of golden-age Hollywood legends adorns this unique and whimsical dayd...

Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1922 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

A bumbling blacksmith’s assistant tries his hand at fixing a car.

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

Buster Keaton makes his film debut as one of a number of troublesome customers at a general store.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1922 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Renée Adorée, Joe Roberts

A luckless young man tries to impress his sweetheart’s father by getting a job—but winds up all wet.

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1918 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Alice Lake

It’s shenanigans at a sanitarium—with Buster Keaton as a cleaver-wielding surgeon.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety

A day at the amusement park goes awry when Buster becomes an accidental hit man.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair • 1921 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

Buster is wanted—dead or alive!

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Molly Malone

Fatty Arbuckle plays a hilarious game of hide and seek.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1921 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts

A despondent young man finds that suicide isn’t as easy as it seems.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1932 • United States
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Genevieve Tobin

Ernst Lubitsch reunites Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald, this time as a seemingly blissful couple whose marriage hits the skids when her flirtatious school chum comes on to ...

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle and Buster Keaton • 1917 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Al St. John, Buster Keaton

The hapless proprietor of a seaside resort starts a fire and gets creative in the kitchen.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely

Farmhand Buster looks for love and ends up playing the dummy in a cornfield.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1932 • United States
Starring Lionel Barrymore, Phillips Holmes, Nancy Carroll

Though best known for the sophisticated comedies he turned out with elegant ease in the 1930s, director Ernst Lubitsch took a rare, often overlooked detour into serious-minded drama with t...

Directed by Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner • 1928 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire

STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. was Buster Keaton’s last independent silent comedy and also one of his finest. He stars as the sensitive son of a gruff riverboat captain (Ernest Torrence...

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1917 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John

A doctor bets it all at the horse races and winds up in quite a fix.

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton

A slapstick “Romeo and Juliet” plays out in a tenement house.

Directed by Dorothy Arzner • 1931 • United States
Starring Claudette Colbert, Fredric March, Monroe Owsley

The incandescent presence of two rising stars—Claudette Colbert and Fredric March—lights up this deft blend of comedy, romance, and social drama. A young secretary (Colbert) faces a life-al...

Directed by Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline • 1920 • United States
Starring Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely

Buster Keaton’s first short as an independent producer displays his daredevil innovation as a pair of newlyweds struggle to assemble their prefab house.

Directed by Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle • 1919 • United States
Starring Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Jack Coogan Sr.

The stagehands get in on the act during a vaudeville performance gone wrong.

Directed by Ernst Lubitsch • 1931 • United States
Starring Maurice Chevalier, Claudette Colbert, Miriam Hopkins

Maurice Chevalier’s randy Viennese lieutenant is enamored of Claudette Colbert’s freethinking, all-girl-orchestra-leading cutie. Yet complications ensue when the sexually repressed pri...