Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms 1919

6.90

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.

1919

Way Down East

Way Down East 1920

6.93

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

1920

Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln 1930

5.40

A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.

1930

The Mother and the Law

The Mother and the Law 1919

6.60

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.

1919

Orphans of the Storm

Orphans of the Storm 1921

6.80

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents' lives causes Louise's blindness, they decide to travel to Paris in search of a cure, but they separate when a lustful aristocrat crosses their path.

1921

True Heart Susie

True Heart Susie 1919

6.84

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.

1919

Hearts of the World

Hearts of the World 1918

6.00

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.

1918

Isn't Life Wonderful

Isn't Life Wonderful 1924

6.50

A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.

1924

The Sorrows of Satan

The Sorrows of Satan 1926

6.70

Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.

1926

A Romance of Happy Valley

A Romance of Happy Valley 1919

7.00

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly-arrived "stranger" for his money.

1919

The Love Flower

The Love Flower 1920

4.70

A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.

1920

The Fall of Babylon

The Fall of Babylon 1919

6.00

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.

1919

Scarlet Days

Scarlet Days 1919

5.80

Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's station in life, is to return the next day from her school in the east, Rosie is granted three days of grace to be spent in company with her daughter at a nearby cabin. The three days begin happily enough, thanks to the serenades of heroic bandit Alvarez and the poetry of romantic Randolph. But Bagley, the dance hall manager, has seen the daughter and has determined to make her his own.

1919

The White Rose

The White Rose 1923

7.00

A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.

1923

The Struggle

The Struggle 1931

6.70

A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.

1931

America

America 1924

5.50

The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.

1924

Drums of Love

Drums of Love 1928

5.00

A princess is betrothed to a deformed monarch, but falls hard for his handsome brother.

1928

Dream Street

Dream Street 1921

6.60

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.

1921

The Idol Dancer

The Idol Dancer 1920

5.20

A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.

1920

The Girl Who Stayed at Home

The Girl Who Stayed at Home 1919

5.30

Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.

1919