The best movies 1916

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where...

Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from...

Robert Armstrong, falsely accused of a murder committed thirty years ago in a western gambling hall, faces the alternative of imprisonment or paying...

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is...

Margot is the pawn in a game set up by her father, "Old Bill" Prewitt, and her husband, Tom Sloan. They use her to fleece gamblers until a gun fight...

Ruth Merrill and her father both are serving prison terms but her's is lighter and she is released. She becomes the wife of the wealthy Dr. Richard...

Full length survey of highpoints in the explorer's life. Shows influencers he sought who supported his project and opposition and even indignities he...

Musty Suffer hunts wild horses in the bad lands of New Jersey. He captures a fine specimen and sells it, but it breaks away to join the fascinating...

Antamoro's CHRISTUS, epic in scale and ambition, and featuring decidedly otherworldly special effects, was released in 1916. Telling the story of the...

Early Hungarian feature directed by Michael Curtiz

Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I....

While honeymooning in Paris, wealthy John Battleby Watts is persuaded to purchase a $20,000 necklace for his capricious young wife. When the jeweler...

The French girl Nanette Lubin came to Rio looking for her aunt and ended up finding the son of a baroness, Ricardo de Toneleiros. Not finding her...

Early Hungarian feature from Michael Curtiz

At the age of 50, the surgeon Privy Councillor Professor Imhoff marries the young, beautiful but poor orphan Annie von Arenberg. On the wedding day,...

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales...

Believed to have been the first film produced by the company Christiania Film Co. For unknown reasons, the film was never examined by the censorship...

Elderly hidalgo, Alonso Quijano (played by DeWolf Hopper Sr.), becomes obsessed with tales of knights and chivalry to the point of losing his sanity....

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...

A doctor find himself in front of the corpse of a woman who was the most intense love of his life.

In 1916 the Santiago society shuddered with the crime of a wealthy businessman. Corina Rojas, his young wife, was the first woman sentenced to death...

Rolando, head of the republican party, saves the life to the young queen Alexia when her horse bolts. Both fall in love but his principles do not let...

Carmen, Martin and Lucas, children of the Motherland, are imprisoned for protecting a fugitive indigenous person. Carmen is also really imprisoned...

A Spanish Charlie Chaplin wannabe (Benito Perojo/Peladilla) takes his girl to watch a football match in Madrid. Doesn't take long before Peladilla...

After eating a full bag of popato chips, Cardo is very thirsty, but he hasn't got a penny to buy a drink.