1900s English-language Movies

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Mad Love(1995)

PG-13

2.6/5 (with 43 votes)

Matt falls for Casey, the new girl in school. She's fun-loving and eccentric, but there's a darkness to her whimsy that Matt can't begin to comprehend. When Casey attempts to commit suicide, her parents place her in a mental institution. Matt springs her out, and together the young lovers head on a road trip. They believe their love can "cure" Casey's problems. Matt starts to wonder, though, if are they inspired or misguided.

Directed by Antonia Bird - With Chris O'Donnell, Drew Barrymore, Matthew Lillard, Joan Allen, Jude Ciccolella, Kevin Dunn, ...

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The Great Train Robbery(1903)

12min | Crime, Action, Western

3.5/5 (with 257 votes)

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter - With Alfred C. Abadie, Broncho Billy Anderson, Justus D. Barnes, Marie Murray, J. Barney Sherry, Morgan Jones, ...

A Corner in Wheat(1909)

| 14min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 40 votes)

On a whim, a greedy tycoon decides to corner the world market in wheat. This doubles the price of bread, forcing grain producers into charity lines and others further into poverty. The film contrasts the differences between the lives of those who work to grow the wheat and the life of the man who dabbles in its sale for profit.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Blanche Sweet, Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson, W. Chrystie Miller, ...

The Lonely Villa(1909)

| 8min | Thriller, Drama, Action

3.1/5 (with 26 votes)

A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan, Adele DeGarde, Charles Avery, Clara T. Bracy, ...

Life of an American Fireman(1903)

6min | Action

3.1/5 (with 49 votes)

Porter's sequential continuity editing links several shots to form a narrative of firemen responding to a house fire. They leave the station with their horse drawn pumper, arrive on the scene, and effect the safe rescue of a woman from the burning house. But wait, she tells them of her child yet asleep in the burning bedroom...

Directed by Edwin Stanton Porter, George S. Fleming - With James White

The Merry Frolics of Satan(1906)

21min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Two travellers are tormented by Satan from inn to inn and eventually experience a buggy ride through the heavens courtesy of the Devil before he takes one of them down to Hell and roasts him on a spit.

Directed by Georges Méliès - With Georges Méliès

The Airship Destroyer(1909)

7min | Drama, War, Science Fiction, Action

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

An inventor uses a wireless controlled flying torpedo to destroy enemy airships.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

Dream of a Rarebit Fiend(1906)

6min | Fantasy, Comedy

3.2/5 (with 29 votes)

A live-action film adaptation of the comic strip Dream of the Rarebit Fiend by American cartoonist Winsor McCay. This silent short film follows the established theme: the “Rarebit Fiend” gorges himself on rarebit and thus suffers spectacular hallucinatory dreams.

Directed by Wallace McCutcheon, Sr., Edwin Stanton Porter

Electrocuting an Elephant(1903)

1min | Documentary

1.4/5 (with 32 votes)

This is a film taken of the execution of Topsy, an elephant employed to help build Luna Park on Coney Island.

Directed by Thomas Edison

Humorous Phases of Funny Faces(1906)

3min | Comedy, Animation

3.0/5 (with 24 votes)

A cartoonist draws faces and figures on a blackboard - and they come to life.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

The Haunted Hotel(1907)

7min | Comedy, Animation

2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

A traveler stays the night at a rural inn, but gets no rest as he is tormented by various spectres and mysterious happenings.

Directed by J. Stuart Blackton

A Midsummer Night's Dream(1909)

| 11min | Fantasy, Comedy

2.6/5 (with 6 votes)

The worlds first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Directed by Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton - With Walter Ackerman, Dolores Costello, Helene Costello, Maurice Costello, Julia Swayne Gordon, Gladys Hulette, ...

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Scrooge; or Marley's Ghost(1901)

4min | Drama, Fantasy

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

A scene from Charles Dicken's A Christmas Carol.

Directed by Walter R. Booth

The Cowboy Millionaire(1909)

21min | Western

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Bud Noble, a handsome specimen of manhood, is foreman on the Circle "D" ranch outside of Circle City, Idaho, and our opening scene pictures Bud as the cowboy roping and tying a steer. With its bucking bronchos, pitching mustangs, bucking steers, and the biggest novelty ever, the acme of all thrillers, "see Bud bulldog a steer." Only three men have successfully accomplished this feat and lived to tell about it. Then Bud receives a shock. The local operator appears with a telegram. "Your Uncle John dead. You are sole heir to his estate valued at several millions. Come to Chicago at once." The astounded cowboys tumble over with sheer amazement. Bud buys and the scene closes with a characteristic rush for the bar.

Directed by Francis Boggs, Otis Turner - With William Garwood, Adrienne Kroell, Tom Mix, William Stowell

Those Awful Hats(1909)

| 2min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 23 votes)

A pair of young ladies cause trouble at the cinema with their lavish hats.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Mack Sennett, Flora Finch, Linda Arvidson, John R. Cumpson, George M. Gebhardt, Robert Harron, ...

The Heart of O Yama(1908)

15min | Romance / Love, Drama

Pretty Miss Chrysanthemum has but little to say as to the disposal of her heart, at least, such is the custom in Japan. Her parents attend to that for her. However, pretty little O Yama Sum had a will of her own, and casting tradition to the winds, insisted upon making her own choice. The Grand Daimio has long loved the pretty O Yama and presents himself before her mother in quest of her hand. His offer is scorned by O Yama, for she loves another, a low-born but worthy warrior.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Florence Lawrence, George M. Gebhardt, D. W. Griffith, George Nichols, Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, ...

A Trap for Santa Claus(1909)

16min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 9 votes)

The children of a household attempt to capture Santa, but they catch something else entirely.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Henry B. Walthall, Marion Leonard, Gladys Egan, Kate Bruce, William J. Butler, W. Chrystie Miller, ...

The Taming of the Shrew(1908)

17min | Romance / Love, Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Florence Lawrence, Arthur V. Johnson, Linda Arvidson, Harry Solter, Charles Avery, Gene Gauntier, ...

The Fatal Hour(1908)

14min | Crime, Thriller, Adventure

This one-reeler has been regarded as a classic example of a Griffith thriller. It engages with the Chinese White slave traffic from the perspective of a female detective, played by Marion Leonard, whose assignment is to expose and break the traffic ring. A fragment is widely available.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With George M. Gebhardt, Harry Solter, Linda Arvidson, Florence Auer, D. W. Griffith, Marion Leonard, ...

The Story of the Kelly Gang(1906)

32min | Crime, Drama, Action, History

2.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Just as Galeen and Wegener's Der Golem (1915) can be seen as a testament to early German film artistry, The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906) symbolizes both the birth of the Australian film industry and the emergence of an Australian cinema identity. Even more significantly, it heralds the emergence of the feature film format. However, only fragments of the original production of more than one hour are known to exist, preserved at the National Film and Sound Archive, Canberra; Efforts at reconstruction have made the film available to modern audiences.

Directed by Charles Tait, Millard Johnson, William Gibson - With John Tait

The Mended Lute(1909)

11min | Western

2.3/5 (with 9 votes)

In an Indian tribe, a girl escapes from her father and suitor to be with the man she loves.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Florence Lawrence, Frank Powell, Owen Moore, James Kirkwood, Arthur V. Johnson, Alfred Paget, ...

The Curtain Pole(1909)

13min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 4 votes)

An upper class drawing room. A gentleman breaks the curtain pole and goes in search of a replacement, but he stops into a pub first. He buys a very long pole, and causes havoc everywhere he passes, accumulating an ever-growing entourage chasing him, until he escapes them through a bit of movie magic, only to discover that the pole has already been replaced.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, Mack Sennett - With Mack Sennett, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Clara T. Bracy, George M. Gebhardt, ...

Ben's Kid(1909)

| 11min | Drama, Western, Comedy

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Buck Minor was the most detested man in Wolf Hollow, partly because he was quarrelsome and treacherous, partly because he abused and neglected his little wife, Molly, whom all the camp adored, and for whose sake it tolerated Buck.

Directed by Francis Boggs - With Roscoe Arbuckle, Tom Santschi, Harry Todd

The Call of the Wild(1908)

16min | Comedy

2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

George Redfeather, the hero of this subject, returns from Carlisle, where he not only graduated with high honors, but was also the star of the college football team. At a reception given in his honor by Lieut. Penrose, an Indian agent, the civilized brave meets Gladys, the lieutenant's daughter, and falls desperately in love with her.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Charles Inslee, Harry Solter, Florence Lawrence, George M. Gebhardt, John R. Cumpson, Charles Gorman, ...

Mr. Jones Has a Card Party(1909)

6min | Comedy

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. Jones, since his last escapade, had made strenuous efforts to amend the reputation he had gained in the eyes of the ladies of the Temperance League. But Oh! the ordeal, for such it was, was telling on him, and his pent-up spirits were threatening ebullition, when at last the chance comes. The league arranges to attend a three-days' convention out of town, and when Mrs. Jones departs, Jones sends a note to Smith, telling him to bring the gang, and they would have a "Prayer Meeting," enjoining him not to forget the "fixings." Well, the gang are not long in putting in an appearance, for they feel that every minute's delay is a chunk lost from a golden opportunity for fun.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With John R. Cumpson, Florence Lawrence, Linda Arvidson, Flora Finch, Robert Harron, Anita Hendrie, ...

The Country Doctor(1909)

14min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

While caring for his sick daughter, a doctor is called away to the sickbed of a neighbor. He finds the neighbor gravely ill, and ignores his wife's pleas to come home and care for his own daughter, who has taken a turn for the worse.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Kate Bruce, Adele DeGarde, Gladys Egan, Florence Lawrence, Mary Pickford, Frank Powell, ...

The Devil(1908)

10min | Comedy

Mack Sennett appears as a waiter in this film produced by the Biograph Company.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Harry Solter, Claire McDowell, George M. Gebhardt, Arthur V. Johnson, Florence Lawrence, Mack Sennett, ...

The Day After(1909)

10min | Comedy

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Mr. and Mrs. Hilton throw a New Year's Eve party. They agree not to drink the punch themselves, but as guests begin to arrive their resolve weakens, and soon they are both cavorting drunkenly. Next morning Mr. Hilton, feeling very sick, is conscience-stricken over his drunkenness and his behavior with another woman. He fears to face his wife until he discovers that she feels just as guilty herself.

Directed by D. W. Griffith, Frank Powell - With Blanche Sweet, Arthur V. Johnson, Marion Leonard, George Nichols, Linda Arvidson, Frank Evans, ...

The Little Darling(1909)

2min | Comedy

2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

This might be termed a comedy of errors, for the overzealousness of a lot of good-hearted simple folks places them in a rather embarrassing position. Lillie Green, who keeps a boarding house, receives a letter from her old school chum, Polly Brown, whom sin hasn't seen in years, to the effect that as Lillie has never seen her little darling daughter, she will send her for a few days' visit, asking that someone meet the child at the 3:40 train. Lillie's boarders are a bunch of kind-hearted bachelors, who at once prepare to give the "Little Darling" the time of her life, buying a load of toys, etc., for her amusement, also procuring a baby carriage with which to meet her at the train. You may imagine their embarrassment when they find that Tootsie, instead of being a baby, proves to be a handsome young lady of seventeen, whose tastes run rather to garden gates, shady lanes and quiet nooks, than toys. (Moving Picture World)

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Mary Pickford, Charles Avery, Verner Clarges, John R. Cumpson, Robert Harron, Arthur V. Johnson, ...

Ben Hur(1907)

15min | Adventure, Drama, History

2.4/5 (with 9 votes)

The first adaptation of Lew Wallace's novel, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ.

Directed by Sidney Olcott, Harry T. Morey, Frank Oakes Rose - With Herman Rottger, William S. Hart

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