“Silent” Films

Tati’s clownish alter ego Monsieur Hulot takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another.

Jacques Tati’s hapless, old-world alter ego Monsieur Hulot traverses Paris in this quintessential example of the French auteur’s singular medley of sight gags and precise physical comedy.

Acclaimed director Miguel Gomes offers this sweeping, exquisite two-part tale of forbidden love in 60s Portuguese Africa.

Guy Maddin’s weird, wild, and extraordinary homage to the “part-talkies” of the late 1920s follows a one-legged allied trooper in snow-covered Russia during the country’s civil war.

When Shaun decides to take the day off and have some fun, he gets a little more action than he bargained for in this dialogue-free stop-motion adventure, based on the Wallace and Gromit spin-off series.

Two private detectives hunt for an actress trapped within the reel of a silent ninja film in Kaizo Hayashi’s dreamlike debut.

Charlie Chaplin’s imaginative and hilarious send-up of the modern industrialized world mixes joyful comedy gags with a satire of modern bureaucracy.

Two surreal works by Chilean auteur Raúl Ruiz question the ways in which we perceive ourselves and the world around us.

A landmark investigation of female subjectivity, Chantal Akerman journeys from isolation to love in her first narrative feature.