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Suggestions of similar film to The Big City
There are 306 films with the same actors, 63 films with the same director, 67050 with the same cinematographic genres (including 8697 with exactly the same 2 genres than
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, 1h9
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Fantastic,
Horror,
CrimeThemes Films about magic and magicians,
Ghost films,
Vampires in filmActors Lon Chaney,
Marceline Day,
Conrad Nagel,
Henry B. Walthall,
Polly Moran,
Claude KingRating65%




The setting of the film is 1920s London. Sir Roger Balfour is found shot to death in his home. Inspector Burke (Lon Chaney) of Scotland Yard is called in to investigate. The suspects are Williams (the butler), Sir James Hamlin (Henry B. Walthall) and his nephew, Arthur Hibbs (Conrad Nagel). A suicide note is found and the case is supposedly closed.
, 1h5
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Horror,
RomanceThemes Circus filmsActors Lon Chaney,
Norman Kerry,
Joan Crawford,
Nick De Ruiz,
John George,
Frank LanningRating76%




Alonzo the Armless is a circus freak who uses his feet to toss knives and fire a rifle at his partner, Nanon. However, he is an impostor and fugitive. He has arms, but keeps them tightly bound to his torso, a secret known only to his friend Cojo, a midget. Alonzo's left hand has a double thumb, which would identify him as the perpetrator of various crimes.
, 1h20
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceActors Lon Chaney,
Owen Moore,
Renée Adorée,
Doris Lloyd,
Sidney Bracey,
Ernie AdamsRating66%




The Blackbird (Lon Chaney) is a thief who uses a second identity when necessary: a rescue mission keeper with contorted legs, known as his bishop brother The Bishop. He lives above a cheap bar in the Limehouse district, where his alter ego The Bishop is beloved among all guests, unlike The Blackbird himself. One evenings, the police drops by looking for him after a robbery, and he flees to a vaudeville theater, where his ex-wife Limehouse Polly (Doris Lloyd) has an act. Since their divorce they have become bitter towards one another, but Polly is willing to admit that she once married The Blackbird 'because she saw the soul in him that he did not know he got himself'. Furthermore, she admits to her father that she is still in love with him.
, 1h15
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Mob film,
Crime,
RomanceActors Priscilla Dean,
Wheeler Oakman,
Lon Chaney,
Ralph Lewis,
Anna May Wong,
E. Alyn WarrenRating64%




Silent Madden, a criminal leader in San Francisco, and his gangster daughter Molly (Priscilla Dean) have forsaken a life of crime after receiving counsel from Chang Lo, a Confucianist philosopher living in Chinatown. A despicable gangster named Black Mike Sylva (Lon Chaney) frames Molly's father for murder, causing Molly to lose faith in abiding the law and prompting her return to a life of crime. Black Mike plots to double-cross Molly as well during a jewelry theft, but Molly gets word from her gangster lover and foils Black Mike's plans. While hiding out from the law, Molly's hard heart is slowly melted by her gangster lover. The film ends with a climactic shootout.
, 1h26
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Thriller,
Crime,
RomanceThemes Films about sexuality,
LGBT-related film,
Cross-dressing in filmActors Lon Chaney,
Mae Busch,
Matt Moore,
Victor McLaglen,
Harry Earles,
Edward ConnellyRating70%




Three performers leave a sideshow after Tweedledee (Harry Earles), the midget, assaults a young heckler and sparks a melee. Prof. Echo, the ventriloquist, assumes the role of Mrs. O'Grady, a kindly old grandmother, who runs a pet shop, while Tweedledee plays her grandchild. Hercules (Victor McLaglen), the strongman, works in the shop along with the unsuspecting Hector McDonald (Matt Moore). Echo's girlfriend, pickpocket Rosie O'Grady (Mae Busch), pretends to be his granddaughter.
, 59minutes
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
Crime,
RomanceActors Priscilla Dean,
Wellington A. Playter,
Lon Chaney,
Spottiswoode Aitken,
Gertrude Astor,
Martha MattoxRating63%




Mary Stevens est une crocheteuse qui travaille avec Stoop Connors (Lon Chaney) et accessoirement pour son « parrain » Fadem (Spottiswood Aitken), un fourgue qui a tout du fourbe. Après un larcin, elle se réfugie chez Kent Mortimer (Wellington A. Playter), un homme qui vient de tout perdre, jusqu’à sa fiancée, qui ne peut décemment pas rester avec quelqu’un de condition inférieure…
, 1h2
Directed by Tod Browning,
Maurice TourneurOrigin USAGenres Drama,
RomanceActors Jack Holt,
Seena Owen,
Lon Chaney,
Wallace Beery,
Spottiswoode Aitken,
William BaileyRating64%




Axel Heyst, un vagabond des mers, a décidé de s'installer sur une île des Mers du Sud. Il y recueille une jeune femme désemparée, Alma. Mais une bande de pirates tente d'envahir l'île…
, 1h5
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres Drama,
ThrillerThemes Films set in Africa,
Films about magic and magicians,
Théâtre,
Films based on playsActors Lon Chaney,
Lionel Barrymore,
Mary Nolan,
Warner Baxter,
Jacqueline Gadsden,
Kalla PashaRating71%




Anna (Jacqueline Gadsden) cannot bring herself to tell her professional magician husband, Phroso (Lon Chaney), that she is leaving him. Her lover, Crane (Lionel Barrymore), informs Phroso that he is taking Anna to Africa, shoving the distraught husband away so forcefully that he falls over a railing and is crippled, losing the use of his legs. After a year, Phroso learns that Anna has returned. He finds his wife dead in a church, with a baby beside her. He swears to avenge himself on both Crane and the child.
, 1h10
Directed by Tod BrowningOrigin USAGenres DramaActors Lon Chaney,
Lois Moran,
Owen Moore,
Henry B. Walthall,
Sōjin Kamiyama,
John GeorgeRating62%




À Singapour, le trafiquant surnommé 'Singapore Joe' mène ses affaires louches à l'aide de deux complices, le chinois Charlie Wing (surnommé 'English') et Edward Herrington (surnommé 'L'amiral'). Ce dernier tombe amoureux de Rosemary, qui tient un bazar en ville. Le père James, sollicité pour célébrer leur mariage, est le seul à savoir que la jeune femme est la fille de son frère, prétendument disparu, qui n'est autre que 'Singapore Joe'.