The Rink

The Rink 1916

6.60

After amusements working in a restaurant, a waiter uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

1916

The Fireman

The Fireman 1916

6.20

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

1916

The Vagabond

The Vagabond 1916

6.70

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

1916

The Floorwalker

The Floorwalker 1916

6.37

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.

1916

The Pawnshop

The Pawnshop 1916

6.59

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.

1916

Police

Police 1916

6.25

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

1916

One A.M.

One A.M. 1916

6.70

A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

1916

The Count

The Count 1916

6.20

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise…

1916

Behind the Screen

Behind the Screen 1916

6.50

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.

1916

The Love Tragedy of the Homunculus

The Love Tragedy of the Homunculus 1916

7.00

The homunculus and his companion Edgar Rodin make an invention that would allow the hateful homunculus to destroy the world. But first he wants to find out about love. When he observes how young Anna is rejected by her parents, he takes care of her and asks her parents for forgiveness - without success. He brings her to her seducer, who also rejects the girl. The homunculus then takes revenge by ruining the man financially and throwing Anna at his feet. But she still loves the villain and asks Homunculus for mercy. The homunculus cannot understand this feeling of love - he wants to try it out on himself. He puts a young woman who loves him to the hardest test, but she will do anything for him, sacrificing her fiancé and her parents. Only when he reveals his artificial nature to her, she leaves him. This experience confirms the homunculus in his intention to destroy mankind.

1916

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 1916

6.20

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.

1916

Hell's Hinges

Hell's Hinges 1916

6.10

When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.

1916

The Warrior

The Warrior 1916

5.90

A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.

1916

Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes 1916

6.30

When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)

1916

Judex

Judex 1916

6.80

When an unscrupulous banker ruins his family, a young man swears to bring him to justice, so he adopts a new identity, the mysterious Judex, and ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)

1916

Hoodoo Ann

Hoodoo Ann 1916

5.60

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.

1916

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish 1916

5.80

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.

1916

Joan the Woman

Joan the Woman 1916

5.60

A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

1916

The Fall of a Nation

The Fall of a Nation 1916

1

A sequel to DW Griffith's The Birth of a Nation, by the same author, and now lost. It is considered the first film sequel ever made and recounts a fictional invasion of America by a united army from Europe.

1916