Broken Blossoms

Broken Blossoms 1919

6.88

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

A Day's Pleasure

A Day's Pleasure 1919

6.10

A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.

1919

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

The Doll

The Doll 1919

7.40

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the puppet-maker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.

1919

Blind Husbands

Blind Husbands 1919

6.30

An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.

1919

Bumping Into Broadway

Bumping Into Broadway 1919

6.90

A young playwright spends his last cent to pay the past-due rent for the pretty dancer who's his boarding house next-door neighbor. Soon after, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big - just before a police raid.

1919

Back Stage

Back Stage 1919

6.30

Roscoe and Buster give a bullying Strongman the what-for, but after the performance troupe quits it's up to Fatty and Buster to keep the show going.

1919

J'accuse

J'accuse 1919

7.40

The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

1919

The World and Its Woman

The World and Its Woman 1919

5.00

A Russian peasant girl rises to fame as an operatic diva. She becomes beloved of a Russian prince. When the 1917 revolution overthrows the czar's government, the pair attempts to cross the icy steppes and find their way to America.

1919

Upstairs and Down

Upstairs and Down 1919

1

Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at the Ives' Long Island house party, then encourages Terence O'Keefe, a playboy polo player from Ireland, to rendezvous with her in the city; they are seen together at the "Midnight Frolic". Because of this, Mrs. Ives convinces Alice's newly-arrived sister Betty to look after Alice.

1919

Wagon Tracks

Wagon Tracks 1919

5.90

Buckskin Hamilton guides a wagon train across the wasteland, caring well for the pioneers he escorts, but hoping to solve the murder of his brother by one of the travellers.

1919

True Heart Susie

True Heart Susie 1919

6.90

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

1919

The Dragon Painter

The Dragon Painter 1919

6.40

A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.

1919

Different from the Others

Different from the Others 1919

6.80

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the paragraph which punishes homosexuality).

1919

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea

The Spiders: Part 1 - The Golden Sea 1919

5.90

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.

1919

For Better, for Worse

For Better, for Worse 1919

6.20

Dr. Edward Meade and friend Richard Burton both love Sylvia Norcross. Both enlist in the military, but Meade stays back to care for deformed children. Sylvia thinks him a coward and marries Burton. After Burton is presumed dead, Meade and Sylvia are to wed, but Burton returns maimed and scarred.

1919

Yankee Doodle in Berlin

Yankee Doodle in Berlin 1919

5.30

Behind enemy lines, Captain Bob White disguises himself as a woman in order to fool members of the German High Command, including the Kaiser himself.

1919

The Oyster Princess

The Oyster Princess 1919

6.80

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.

1919

Sunnyside

Sunnyside 1919

6.40

An overworked farmhand who works also at the adjacent hotel dreams of marrying the village belle.

1919

Madame DuBarry

Madame DuBarry 1919

6.40

The story of Madame du Barry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

1919