Brittish Silent memories
by quietgiant2 | created - 30 Jun 2017 | updated - 3 months ago | PublicRELATED LISTS:
on the Brittish Islands (great movies)
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The two last silents directed by Walter Forde: What Next? (1928) and The Last Night(1929)_are needing rediscovering
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1. Sallie Gardner at a Gallop (1878)
TV-G | 1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The clip shows a jockey, Gilbert Domm, riding a horse, Sallie Gardner. The clip is not filmed; instead, it consists of 24 individual photographs shot in rapid succession, making a moving picture when using a zoopraxiscope.
Director: Eadweard Muybridge | Stars: Gilbert Domm, Sallie Gardner
Votes: 3,688
2. Child Carrying Flowers to Woman (1887)
1 min | Short
Eadweard Muybridge's motion photography film depicts a child bringing a bouquet of flowers to a topless woman who kisses his cheek.
Director: Eadweard Muybridge
Votes: 421
3. Roundhay Garden Scene (1888)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
In the garden, a man asks his friends to do something silly for him to record on film.
Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince | Stars: Annie Hartley, Adolphe Le Prince, Joseph Whitley, Sarah Whitley
Votes: 6,796
4. Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888)
1 min | Documentary, Short
A shot of people walking on The Leeds Bridge.
Director: Louis Aimé Augustin Le Prince
Votes: 3,299
5. Leisurely Pedestrians, Open Topped Buses and Hansom Cabs with Trotting Horses (1889)
1 min | Documentary, Short
Alleged silent black-and-white short film shot at Apsley Gate, Hyde Park, London.
Director: William Friese-Greene
Votes: 486
6. The Derby (I) (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short, Sport
The Derby is an 1896 British short black-and-white silent documentary film, produced and directed by Birt Acres for exhibition on Robert W. Paul's Kinetoscopes, featuring the end of the 29 ... See full summary »
Director: Robert W. Paul
Votes: 411
7. The X-Ray Fiend (1897)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A man and woman are flirting when a professor turns on an X-ray machine, revealing their insides. After turning it off again the two have a dispute and break up.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 1,046
8. The Corsican Brothers (1898)
Short, Drama
The ghost of a man's twin shows him a vision of how he was killed in a duel.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 36
9. A Kiss in the Tunnel (I) (1899)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A humorous subject intended to be run as a part of a railroad scene during the period in which the train is passing through a tunnel.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, George Albert Smith
Votes: 1,696
10. Attack on a China Mission (1900)
4 min | Short, Action, Crime
The titles tell us this film is based on an incident in the Boxer Rebellion. A man tries to defend a woman and a large house against Chinese attackers. They attack with swords, guns, and ... See full summary »
Director: James Williamson | Stars: Mr. James, Mr. Lepard, Florence Williamson
Votes: 680
11. The Last Days of Pompeii (1900)
Short, Drama
Vesuvius erupts and people escape from a room as the ceiling falls.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 28
12. As Seen Through a Telescope (1900)
1 min | Short, Comedy
An elderly gentleman in a silk hat sits on a stool in front of a store on the main street of town. He has a telescope that he focuses on the ankle of a young woman who is a short distance ... See full summary »
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 900
13. Grandma's Reading Glass (1900)
2 min | Short, Family
A boy looks through glasses at various objects, seen magnified.
Director: George Albert Smith | Star: Harold Smith
Votes: 1,371
14. The Countryman's First Sight of the Animated Pictures (1901)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A satire on the way that audiences unaccustomed to the cinema didn't know how to react to the moving images on a screen - in this film, an unsophisticated (and stereotypical) country yokel ... See full summary »
Director: Robert W. Paul
Votes: 779
15. A Photographic Contortion (1901)
1 min | Comedy, Short
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
Director: James Williamson | Star: Sam Dalton
Votes: 2,091
16. Magical Sword (1901)
2 min | Short, Fantasy, Romance
On the roof of an ancient palace appear a young Knight and his lady. While they are making love an ugly old witch appears and is rather troublesome. The Knight commands her to leave, and ... See full summary »
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 196
17. The Death of Poor Joe (1901)
1 min | Short, Drama
A child-crossing sweeper dies in the snow.
Director: George Albert Smith | Stars: Laura Bayley, Tom Green
Votes: 208
18. The Sick Kitten (1903)
1 min | Short, Comedy, Family
A girl gives a spoonful of medicine to a kitten.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 1,154
19. A Chess Dispute (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A stationary camera looks on as two dapper gents play a game of chess. One drinks and smokes, and when he looks away, his opponent moves two pieces. A fight ensues, first with the squirting... See full summary »
Director: Robert W. Paul | Star: Alfred Collins
Votes: 729
20. An Extraordinary Cab Accident (1903)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
A man and a woman talk beside a street near a corner where a cop stands. Just as a horse-drawn cart rounds the corner, the man backs off the sidewalk saying good-by to his companion. The ... See full summary »
Directors: Walter R. Booth, Robert W. Paul
Votes: 554
21. An Interesting Story (1904)
Not Rated | 4 min | Short, Comedy
The adventures of an inattentive man. He's at his kitchen table, reading. A woman brings his hat and points to the clock. He continues reading and pours coffee into his hat. He leaves, ... See full summary »
Director: James Williamson
Votes: 719
22. The '?' Motorist (1906)
3 min | Fantasy, Short, Comedy
A British trick film in which a motorist ends up driving around the rings of Saturn.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 1,280
23. Tartans of Scottish Clans (1906)
2 min | Documentary, Short
Pioneering color guide to various Scottish tartans.
Director: George Albert Smith
Votes: 83
24. The Fatal Hand (1907)
7 min | Short, Crime, Drama
An escaped lunatic kills a woman, strangles a railway passenger, climbs a building, and is caught by a sailor.
Director: J.H. Martin
Votes: 18
Martin also directed 'The Viion of Opium Smoker'
26. Romeo and Juliet (II) (1908)
13 min | Short, Drama
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Stars: Godfrey Tearle, Mary Malone, James Annand, Gordon Bailey
Votes: 13
27. The Battle in the Clouds (1909)
20 min | Short, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.
Director: Walter R. Booth
Votes: 433
28. A Day in the Life of a Coal Miner (1910)
9 min | Short, Documentary
A coal miner says good-bye to his wife and children, and heads off to work. He reaches the mine, prepares his lamp, and then descends into the mine along with some other workers. As he and ... See full summary »
Votes: 295
29. Hamlet (II) (1910)
20 min | Short, Drama
Directors: William Barker, Charles Raymond | Stars: Charles Raymond, Dorothy Fane, Constance Backner
Votes: 17
30. Henry VIII (1911)
40 min | Short, Drama, History
Directors: William Barker, Herbert Beerbohm Tree | Stars: Arthur Bourchier, Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Violet Vanbrugh, Laura Cowie
Votes: 16
31. Richard III (1911)
23 min | Short, Biography, Drama
Although several others are ahead of him in the line of succession, Richard of Gloucester is determined to gain the throne. Through deceit, manipulation, and murder, he does become King ... See full summary »
Director: Frank R. Benson | Stars: James Berry, Alfred Brydone, Kathleen Yorke, Murray Carrington
Votes: 228
32. Old Scrooge (1913)
40 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
Miserly Ebenezer Scrooge is visited on Christmas Eve by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley, who tries to help him change his selfish ways and redeem his soul by showing ... See full summary »
Director: Leedham Bantock | Stars: Seymour Hicks, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock, J.C. Buckstone
Votes: 168
33. David Copperfield (1913)
67 min | Drama
A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Kenneth Ware, Reginald Sheffield, Len Bethel, Alma Taylor
Votes: 52
34. 0-18 or A Message from the Sky (1914)
Crime, Drama
A typist exposes a group of businessmen as German spies plotting to blow up a bridge.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Jane Gail, Douglas Munro, Gerald Ames, Edward O'Neill
Votes: 45
35. The Eternal Strife (1915)
79 min | Biography, Drama, History
A goldsmith's wife becomes the king's mistress to save her husband's life.
Directors: Bert Haldane, F. Martin Thornton | Stars: Blanche Forsythe, Roy Travers, Robert Purdie, Thomas H. MacDonald
Votes: 36
36. Florence Nightingale (1915)
Biography, Drama
A 1915 British silent historical film about Florence Nightingale, and her innovations in nursing care during the Crimean War.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Fred Groves, A.V. Bramble, M. Gray Murray
Votes: 8
37. Disraeli (1916)
60 min | Biography, Drama
The Prime Minister's wife helps acquire shares in the Suez Canal.
Directors: Charles Calvert, Percy Nash | Stars: Dennis Eadie, Mary Jerrold, Cyril Raymond, Dorothy Bellew
Votes: 13
38. The Prisoner of Zenda (1915)
Adventure
An English tourist poses as his royal double to foil revolutionary kidnappers
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Gerald Ames, Arthur Holmes-Gore
Votes: 61
39. Rupert of Hentzau (1915)
50 min | Drama, History
When the king is killed by his rival, his English double takes his place and is shot.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Henry Ainley, Jane Gail, Gerald Ames, Charles Rock
Votes: 42
Lost
40. Far from the Madding Crowd (1915)
Drama, Romance
A girl farmer weds a faithless sergeant who is killed by her suitor, and realises she loves the bailiff.
Director: Laurence Trimble | Stars: Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Malcolm Cherry, Campbell Gollan
Votes: 27
41. East Lynne (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Drama
A woman leaves her husband and children for mistaken reasons. After being thought killed in a train crash, she returns in disguise to be the children's governess.
Director: Bertram Bracken | Stars: Theda Bara, Ben Deeley, Stuart Holmes, Claire Whitney
Votes: 43
42. Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)
75 min | Drama
A squire's mischievous son becomes a boarder at Rugby.
Director: Rex Wilson | Stars: Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman, Miss Marley, Evelyn Boucher
Votes: 30
43. Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Mystery
When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
Director: Arthur Berthelet | Stars: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding
Votes: 473
Rediscovered
44. East Is East (1916)
80 min | Drama, Romance
In the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Ruth Mackay, W.G. Saunders
Votes: 76
45. Milestones (1916)
90 min | Drama
A radical shipbuilder revolts against his father in 1860, yet seems reactionary to his son in 1912.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: Isobel Elsom, Owen Nares, Campbell Gullan, Minna Grey
46. On the Banks of Allan Water (1916)
Drama, Romance
A bart's son weds a miller's daughter and their class disparity almost causes her suicide.
Director: Wilfred Noy | Stars: Basil Gill, Violet Graham, J. Hastings Batson, F.G. Clifton
Votes: 21
47. Tom Brown's Schooldays (1916)
75 min | Drama
A squire's mischievous son becomes a boarder at Rugby.
Director: Rex Wilson | Stars: Joyce Templeton, Jack Coleman, Miss Marley, Evelyn Boucher
Votes: 30
48. The Vicar of Wakefield (1916)
Drama
A squire jails a vicar for debt and fakes a marriage to his daughter.
Director: Fred Paul | Stars: John Hare, Laura Cowie, Ben Webster, Marie Illington
Votes: 11
49. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916)
74 min | Documentary, War
Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
Director: Geoffrey Malins | Star: Beauvoir De Lisle
Votes: 458
50. Vice Versa (1916)
Comedy, Fantasy
A pompous father magically changes places with his schoolboy son.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Charles Rock, Douglas Munro, Edward O'Neill, Guy Newall
Votes: 20
51. The Manxman (1916)
90 min | Drama
Pete Quilliam, a fisherman on the Isle of Man, and his best friend, a lawyer named Philip Christian, are each in love with Kate Cregeen, an innkeeper's daughter. Pete is rejected by the ... See full summary »
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Henry Ainley, Fred Groves, Adeline Hayden Coffin
Votes: 39
Lost?
52. Arsene Lupin (1916)
74 min | Crime, Drama
An inspector tries to catch a gentleman thief.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro
Votes: 33
53. The Hypocrites (1916)
Drama
A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Charles Rock, Cyril Raymond, Douglas Munro
Votes: 39
54. In Another Girl's Shoes (1917)
Romance
Parents assume a girl with amnesia is married to their soldier son.
Directors: Alexander Butler, G.B. Samuelson | Stars: Mabel Love, Ruby Miller, Lionel Belcher, Lionel d'Aragon
Votes: 28
55. Ora Pro Nobis (1917)
Drama
An organist dreams he kills the Lord who eloped with his adopted daughter.
Director: Rex Wilson | Stars: Henry Victor, Harding Thomas, Elizabeth Calkin
56. The Life of Lord Kitchener (1917)
Biography, Drama
Biography of Lord Kitchener (1850-1916).
Directors: Dane Stanton, Rex Wilson
57. The Mother of Dartmoor (1917)
Drama
A man turns poacher for love of a married woman and is jailed by his widowed mother's evidence.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Bertram Burleigh, Enid Bell, George Bellamy
Votes: 34
58. The Life Story of David Lloyd George (1918)
152 min | Biography, Drama, History
Bio-pic of Britain's World War 1 Prime Minister.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Norman Page, Alma Reville, Ernest Thesiger, Douglas Munro
Votes: 100
59. The Beetle (1919)
61 min | Drama, Horror
A beetle is possessed by the soul of an ancient Egyptian princess, who is determined to get her revenge on a member of the British Parliament.
Director: Alexander Butler | Stars: Maudie Dunham, Hebden Foster, Fred Morgan, Frank Reade
Votes: 23
60. The First Men in the Moon (1919)
50 min | Fantasy
The inventor of a space sphere flies to the moon and is marooned by a crooked financier.
Directors: Bruce Gordon, J.L.V. Leigh | Stars: Bruce Gordon, Heather Thatcher, Hector Abbas, Lionel d'Aragon
Votes: 56
Is it Found?
61. King Solomon's Mines (1919)
89 min | Adventure
Adventurer Allan Quatermain leads an expedition into uncharted African territory in an attempt to locate an explorer who went missing during his search for King Solomon's gold mines.
Director: Horace Lisle Lucoque | Stars: Albert Lawrence, H.J. Hamlin, Raymond Brown, Umpikayiboni
Votes: 22
62. The Great London Mystery (1920)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
A magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.
Director: Charles Raymond | Stars: David Devant, Lady Doris Stapleton, Charles Raymond, Robert Clifton
Votes: 18
Raymond also directed Dick Turpin's serie.
63. General Post (1920)
Drama
An aristocrat allows his daughter to marry a tailor after he wins the VC saving his son's life.
Director: Thomas Bentley | Stars: R. Henderson Bland, Lilian Braithwaite, Joyce Dearsley, Dawson Millward
Votes: 21
64. The Great Day (1920)
50 min | Drama
The 'dead' wife of a steel process inventor returns, as does her 'dead' husband, a war amnesiac.
Director: Hugh Ford | Stars: Arthur Bourchier, Mary Palfrey, Marjorie Hume, Bertram Burleigh
Votes: 44
65. Great Snakes (1920)
Comedy
Directors: Gerald Ames, Gaston Quiribet | Stars: John Beresford, Hugh Clifton, Eileen Dennes, Gladys Humphries
Votes: 40
66. Alf's Button (1920)
Passed | 78 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A soldier's tunic button, made from Aladdin's lamp, grants his wishes.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor, Gerald Ames, James Carew
Votes: 17
67. Wuthering Heights (1920)
90 min | Drama
The first screen adaptation of Emily Bronte's book about star-crossed lovers who demolish themselves and everyone around them with their self-destructive love.
Director: A.V. Bramble | Stars: Milton Rosmer, Colette Brettel, Warwick Ward, Ann Trevor
Votes: 28
68. The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss (1920)
Comedy
A millionaire bets £25,000 that he can earn his own living for six months.
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, Gerald Ames, Mary Dibley
Votes: 15
69. Helen of Four Gates (1920)
64 min | Drama
A madman adopts the daughter of the dead woman who rejected him and forces her to marry a crook.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Alma Taylor, James Carew, Gerald Ames, George Dewhurst
Votes: 100
70. Squibs (1921)
Comedy
A cockney flower-girl is in love with a policeman, but her father is a bookie and her sister loves a crook.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough
Votes: 8
71. Tansy (1921)
62 min | Romance
Farming brothers give a home to an orphan shepherdess evicted for suspected immorality.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Alma Taylor, Gerald Ames, James Carew, Hugh Clifton
Votes: 38
72. Cocaine (1922)
80 min | Drama
A drug king kills a criminal for giving cocaine to his teenage daughter.
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Hilda Bayley, Flora le Breton, Ward McAllister, Cyril Raymond
Votes: 32
73. The Bohemian Girl (1922)
70 min | Romance
A Polish officer posing as a gypsy loves a gypsy girl who is really the count's daughter.
Director: Harley Knoles | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello, C. Aubrey Smith, Ellen Terry
Votes: 66
74. The Man from Home (1922)
70 min | Drama
An American heiress's fiancé saves a fisherman accused of stabbing his wife.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: James Kirkwood, Anna Q. Nilsson, Geoffrey Kerr, Norman Kerry
Votes: 60
75. Love's Boomerang (1922)
60 min | Crime, Drama
In France a man frames his daughter for poisoning her rich husband.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Ann Forrest, Bunty Fosse, David Powell, John Miltern
Votes: 40
76. The Power of Love (1922)
60 min | Drama
Because of his financial trouble, Don Almeda (Noah Beery) promises his daughter, Maria (Barbara Bedford), to Don Alvarez (Albert Prisco). But Maria does not love Don Alvarez, and, in fact, ... See full summary »
Directors: Nat G. Deverich, Harry K. Fairall | Stars: Elliott Sparling, Barbara Bedford, Noah Beery, Aileen Manning
Votes: 76
77. Rob Roy (1922)
86 min | Adventure
A clan chief seeks revenge on the jealous Duke who outlawed him.
Director: W.P. Kellino | Stars: David Hawthorne, Gladys Jennings, Simeon Stuart, Wallace Bosco
Votes: 66
78. Bulldog Drummond (1922)
Action, Adventure, Crime
A captain saves a kidnapped magnate from a nursing home run by foreign agents.
Director: Oscar Apfel | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Evelyn Greeley, Dorothy Fane, Warwick Ward
Votes: 39
79. The Glorious Adventure (1922)
70 min | Adventure, History
An Earl's cousin survives drowning and saves a lady from the Great Fire of London.
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Diana Manners, Gerald Lawrence, Cecil Humphreys, Victor McLaglen
Votes: 44
80. Nanook of the North (1922)
Passed | 78 min | Documentary
In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
Director: Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou, Allegoo
Votes: 13,448
81. The Greek Interpreter (1922)
Short, Drama, Mystery
An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
Director: George Ridgwell | Stars: Eille Norwood, Hubert Willis, Joseph R. Tozer, Robert Vallis
Votes: 10
82. The Great White Silence (1922)
80 min | Documentary
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
Director: Herbert G. Ponting | Stars: Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans
Votes: 1,680
83. Bonnie Prince Charlie (1923)
Biography, Drama, History
In the Jacobite Rising of 1745, the Young Pretender Bonnie Prince Charlie leads an insurrection to overthrow the Protestant House of Hanover and restore his family, the Catholic branch of the House of Stuart, to the British throne.
Director: Charles Calvert | Stars: Gladys Cooper, Ivor Novello, Hugh Miller, A.B. Imeson
Lost?
84. A Couple of Down and Outs (1923)
Drama
An ex-soldier steals his horse to save it from the battlefield, and becomes a tramp.
Director: Walter Summers | Stars: Edna Best, Rex Davis, George Foley, Philip Hewland
Votes: 16
85. The Wandering Jew (1923)
80 min | Fantasy
A cursed Jew lived through the Crusades, Mediaeval Italy, and dies in the Spanish Inquisition.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Matheson Lang, Nellie Hutin Britton, Malvina Longfellow, Isobel Elsom
Votes: 14
86. The School for Scandal (II) (1923)
Comedy
An uncle poses as a usurer to learn which nephew deserves his fortune.
Director: Bertram Phillips | Stars: Queenie Thomas, Frank Stanmore, Basil Rathbone, John Stuart
Votes: 22
87. Married Love (1923)
60 min | Drama
A fireman's fiancée, ejected by her father, becomes a maid and finds small families happier than large ones.
Director: Alexander Butler | Stars: Lillian Hall-Davis, Rex Davis, Sydney Fairbrother, Sam Livesey
Votes: 8
88. Always Tell Your Wife (1923)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Two couples, the Hawkeses and the Chessons, engage in an affair.
Directors: Hugh Croise, Seymour Hicks, Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Seymour Hicks, Stanley Logan, Gertrude McCoy, Ellaline Terriss
Votes: 175
remake. Original movie 1914
89. Love, Life and Laughter (1923)
61 min | Drama, Romance
A chorus girl, who dreams of being a music-hall star, falls for an impoverished author.
Director: George Pearson | Stars: Betty Balfour, Harry Jonas, Frank Stanmore, Annie Esmond
Votes: 21
90. Woman to Woman (1923)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
David Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault
Votes: 88
91. Guy Fawkes (1923)
Biography, Drama, History
Papists hire a Dutchman to blow up Parliament in revenge for an anti-Catholic decree.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Matheson Lang, Nina Vanna, Hugh Buckler, Shayle Gardner
Votes: 17
92. Mist in the Valley (1923)
75 min | Crime, Drama
An ex-nun weds an amnesia victim and is framed for killing her usurping uncle who posed as her father.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Alma Taylor, G.H. Mulcaster, James Carew, Esme Hubbard
Votes: 42
93. Comin' Thro' the Rye (1923)
88 min | Romance
A jealous girl breaks up a friend's engagement with a fake wedding announcement.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth | Stars: Alma Taylor, Shayle Gardner, Eileen Dennes, Ralph Forbes
Votes: 40
remake. Original movie 1916
94. Not for Sale (1924)
Drama, Romance
An Earl's disowned son becomes a chauffeur, loves a landlady, and is jailed for theft.
Director: W.P. Kellino | Stars: Mary Odette, Ian Hunter, Gladys Hamer, Mary Brough
Votes: 13
95. Henry, King of Navarre (1924)
Drama, History
In France the Queen poisons the Huguenot Queen and weds her son to the King's sister as part of an extermination plan.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Matheson Lang, Gladys Jennings, Henry Victor, Stella St. Audrie
96. Decameron Nights (1924)
100 min | Drama, Romance
A Saracen sultan's disguised son loves an amnesiac Moslem princess.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke
Votes: 14
97. The Rat (1925)
70 min | Crime
When bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris ... See full summary »
Director: Graham Cutts | Stars: Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh, Isabel Jeans, Robert Scholtz
Votes: 74
98. Jungle Woman (1926)
67 min | Adventure
In New Guinea a man escapes from natives and saves a girl from marrying her crooked partner.
Director: Frank Hurley | Stars: Eric Bransby Williams, Grace Savieri, Jameson Thomas, Lilian Douglas
Votes: 24
99. Nell Gwyn (1926)
80 min | Biography, Drama, History
An actress becomes the king's mistress and persuades him to convert the palace to a servicemen's home.
Director: Herbert Wilcox | Stars: Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton, Juliette Compton, Sydney Fairbrother
Votes: 265
100. Moana (1926)
Not Rated | 85 min | Documentary
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early 1920s.
Directors: Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty | Stars: Ta'avale, Fa'amgase, T'ugaita, Tama
Votes: 736
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