Drama
A barmaid plies a swell with smiles and with cherries from a box that's just been delivered. When she refuses a cherry to a roughly-dressed tradesman who runs a tab at the bar, he pays off his debt in a huff, using all his week's pay. He then storms penniless and without provisions into his ill-furnished house where his wife and two children, ill-clad and ill-fed, cower. Is there any hope for him and for his family? If he does realize how low he's sunk, what help is there to lift him up? Will the family ever know the taste of cherries?
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Bonnie and Clyde
What About Juvenile Delinquency
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
Pocketful of Miracles
The Birth of a Nation
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Scarface
Broken Blossoms
City Lights
Pandora's Box
The Gold Rush
The Phantom of the Opera
Submarine
Battleship Potemkin
Nanook of the North
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
A River Runs Through It
Once Upon a Time in America
People on Sunday
SIMILAR MOVIES
Bonnie and Clyde
IMDB 7.5 | Aug , 1967
In the 1930s, bored waitress Bonnie Parker falls in love with an ex-con named Clyde Barrow and together they start a violent crime spree through the country, stealing cars and robbing banks.What About Juvenile Delinquency
IMDB 2.4 | May , 1955
A teen drops out of a gang when they mug his father for his pencil.The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
IMDB 7.9 | Feb , 1920
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.Pocketful of Miracles
IMDB 7.3 | Dec , 1961
A New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when the peddler learns her daughter is marrying royalty.The Birth of a Nation
IMDB 6 | Feb , 1915
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
IMDB 7.8 | Nov , 1927
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.The Passion of Joan of Arc
IMDB 8 | Apr , 1928
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.Scarface
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1932
In 1920s Chicago, Italian immigrant and notorious thug, Antonio 'Tony' Camonte, aka Scarface, shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.Broken Blossoms
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1919
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.City Lights
IMDB 8.3 | Feb , 1931
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.Pandora's Box
IMDB 7.5 | Jan , 1929
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.The Gold Rush
IMDB 8 | Jul , 1925
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.The Phantom of the Opera
IMDB 7.1 | Sep , 1925
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.Submarine
IMDB 5.5 | Aug , 1928
Two sailors who are always competing against each other set their sights on the same girl. When she chooses one over the other, their friendship ends acrimoniously. However, things change when one the men is in a submarine trapped beneath the ocean and the other, a diver, is sent down on a rescue mission.Battleship Potemkin
IMDB 7.6 | Dec , 1925
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.Nanook of the North
IMDB 7.1 | Jun , 1922
This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada's northern Quebec region. Although the production contains some fictional elements, it vividly shows how its resourceful subjects survive in such a harsh climate, revealing how they construct their igloo homes and find food by hunting and fishing. The film also captures the beautiful, if unforgiving, frozen landscape of the Great White North, far removed from conventional civilization.October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
IMDB 6.9 | May , 1928
Sergei M. Eisenstein's docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein's 'Soviet Montage' style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several key scenes from the revolution.A River Runs Through It
IMDB 7 | Oct , 1992
The Maclean brothers, Paul and Norman, live a relatively idyllic life in rural Montana, spending much of their time fly fishing. The sons of a minister, the boys eventually part company when Norman moves east to attend college, leaving his rebellious brother to find trouble back home. When Norman finally returns, the siblings resume their fishing outings, and assess where they've been and where they're going.Once Upon a Time in America
IMDB 8.4 | May , 1984
A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.People on Sunday
IMDB 7.2 | Feb , 1930
A semi-documentary experimental 1930 German silent film created by amateurs with a small budget. With authentic scenes of the metropolis city of Berlin, it's the first film from the later famous screenwriters/directors Billy Wilder and Fred Zinnemann.