Pasquale (1916)
silent film
Silent films movies
Explore silent cinema and its distinctive storytelling.
Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 3,359 films · Page 63.
The Judgement House (1917)
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Jasmine Grenfel forsakes her suitor Ian Stafford and marries Rudyard Byng, who has worked his way up to the top rungs of success in the African diamond mines of the Transvaal. Stafford, saddened, goes to Af…
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The Third Eye (1920)
crime film, drama film, mystery film, serial film, silent film
As described in a film publication, Curtis Steele (Oland), a society man at a film studio, has been pursuing actress Rita Moreland (Percy) and confronts her at the studio with the intention of having sex with her. She repulses him and duri…
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White Mice (1926)
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine review, Roddy Forrester and Peter de Peyster form the White Mice club for the purpose of aiding humans in distress. When Roddy's father sends him to South America, Peter accompanies him. In the Republic of M…
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The Danger Line (1924)
silent film
The Romantic Age (1927)
drama film, silent film
The Sap (1926)
silent film
The titular sap is Barry Weston, a coward who goes off to war unexpectedly fights heroically and is welcomed back to his hometown.
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Wolf Fangs (1927)
action film, silent film
Rose o' the River (1919)
drama film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Rose (Lee) is the center of a typical circle of small town admirers, dangling them all but laying most carefully the chosen suitor Steve Waterman (Foss), foreman of the lumber gang working the forest near h…
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The Apple Tree Girl (1917)
silent film
Charlotte Marlin grew up on a farm in Connecticut near Micah's apple tree, which was said to have turned from pale green to spotted red when a peddler was buried under it. After losing her parents, Charlotte moves in with her aunt and cous…
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In the Name of Love (1925)
romantic comedy, silent film
As described in a film magazine advertisement, young Frenchman Raoul Melnotte, leaving his boyhood sweetheart Marie behind, goes to America to make his fortune. Marie promises to wait for him. Ten years later he returns to France, his fort…
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Out of the Darkness (1915)
drama film, silent film
The owner of a large cannery (Charlotte Walker) employs many women and children in horrible working conditions. She refuses to see the manager (Thomas Meighan) who wants to try to get better conditions for the employees. She hits her head …
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The Kiss (1916)
silent film
The Lion's Den (1919)
drama film, silent film
Time, the Comedian (1925)
drama film, silent film
As described in a review in a film magazine, Nora is a discontented mother leaves her husband and baby to go with Larry, a wealthy idler. The husband commits suicide and the idler leaves her. Later we find the woman a successful opera sing…
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Greater Than a Crown (1925)
romantic comedy, silent film
An American man in London assists an escaped Princess who has fled to England to escape a royal marriage. After she is kidnapped and taken home, he goes to rescue her with the assistance of his English actress friend.
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St. Elmo (1923)
drama film
When St. Elmo Thornton catches his fiancée Agnes in the arms of his best friend Murray Hammond, he shoots Hammond and decides to travel around the world in hopes of forgetting women. Upon returning, he meets Edna, the blacksmith's daughter…
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The Better Way (1926)
silent film
The County Fair (1920)
drama film, silent film
As summarized in a film publication, Aunt Abigail and her adopted daughter Sally are threatened with the loss of their home through foreclosure of a mortgage held by Solon Hammerhead. The only outlets available are either for Abigail to ma…
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The Land Beyond the Law (1927)
silent film
A Blonde for a Night (1928)
silent film
After an argument with her husband on their honeymoon in Paris, a wife disguises herself as a blonde woman to test her husband's fidelity.
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One Summer's Day (1917)
drama film, silent film
The Man from Wyoming (1924)
Western film, silent film
As described in a film magazine, Jack Halloway (Payton) covets the land of cattleman David Messiter (Welsh), but Messiter will not sell. When Ned Bannister (Hoxie) escapes from prison and falls into the hands of Halloway, the latter recogn…
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The Vanishing Dagger (1920)
adventure film, serial film, silent film