1915 Drama Movies

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The Birth of a Nation(1915)

3.1/5 (with 223 votes)

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie's congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.

Directed by D. W. Griffith - With Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Miriam Cooper, Henry B. Walthall, Ralph Lewis, George Siegmann, ...

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The Cheat(1915)

| 59min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 27 votes)

A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Sessue Hayakawa, Fannie Ward, Raymond Hatton, James Neill, Lucien Littlefield, Yutaka Abe, ...

A Fool There Was(1915)

| 1h 7min | Drama

2.7/5 (with 13 votes)

John Schuyler, a happily married lawyer, is appointed diplomat and sent to England; But, due to an unfortunate accident, his wife and child can not come along with him. On the ship to England, Schuyler meets the notorious Vampire-- A relentless gold-digger who causes the moral degradation of those she seduces, first fascinating and then draining the very life from her victims.

Directed by Frank Powell - With Edward José, May Allison, Theda Bara, Frank Powell, Creighton Hale, Victor Benoit, ...

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Carmen(1915)

| 59min | Drama

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Hot-blooded gypsy Carmen attempts to seduce Don Jose, a lawman sent to thwart a gang of illegal smugglers in Spain. Carmen's plan backfires when Don Jose's passion for the gypsy girl escalates into a jealous rage as she spurns him for her bullfighter beau, Escamillo, with tragic results.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Jeanie MacPherson, Raymond Hatton, Horace B. Carpenter, Pedro de Cordoba, ...

Vanity Fair(1915)

| 1h 20min | Drama

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Directed by Charles Brabin - With Minnie Maddern Fiske, Shirley Mason

Martyrs of the Alamo(1915)

1h 11min | Drama, History

2.5/5 (with 4 votes)

The story of the defense of the mission-turned-fortress by 185 Texans against an overwhelming Mexican army in 1836.

Directed by Christy Cabanne - With Walter Long, Alfred Paget, Douglas Fairbanks, Juanita Hansen, Ora Carew, Augustus Carney, ...

The Toast of Death(1915)

| 40min | Drama

Ballerina Poppea is adored by all the men of Calcutta, especially British soldier Captain Drake and Indian PrinceYar Khan. Because of his title and wealth, Poppea decides to marry the prince, while keeping Drake as a lover. But the prince eventually discovers what she's up to and goes out of his way to catch the adulterers together. He takes two glasses of wine, pours arsenic into one, and tells Poppea to choose which glass each man will drink. She innocently picks the poisoned glass for Drake and he dies horribly. The prince disposes of the body and drives Poppea out into the desert.

Directed by Thomas H. Ince - With Louise Glaum, Harry Keenan, Herschel Mayall

John Halifax, Gentleman(1915)

Drama

An apprentice inherits a master's mill, weds a disowned heiress, and remains true to his class.

Directed by George William Pearson - With Fred Paul, Peggy Hyland

The Red Circle(1915)

| Drama

The Red Circle is a birthmark, on the hand of the heroine, noticeable only in times of stress and excitement, which forces her to steal, leading to no end of complications and intrigue.

Directed by Sherwood MacDonald - With Ruth Roland, Frank Mayo

The Sentimental Lady(1915)

50min

When he wasn't churning out "Curses, foiled again!" melodramas, playwright Owen Davis Sr. specialized in such social dramas as The Sentimental Lady. Irene Fenwick stars as Amy Cary, who has invested her life savings in a utility stock. Amy's fiance Norman Van Aulsten (John Davidson) is saddled with a crooked father (Thomas McGrath), whose Wall Street shenanigans threaten to wipe out Amy and the rest of the stockholders. Fortunately, crusading attorney Bob Nelson (Jack Devereaux) manages to prevent this financial catastrophe.

Directed by Walter Edwin - With Irene Fenwick

Esmeralda(1915)

40min

A lost film. Esmeralda, a simple farm girl is in love with country boy David, but her mother yearns for a high society city life. Ore is discovered on their farm and the money rolls in. The family is packed up and moved to the big city where Esmeralda is forced into an engagement with a wealthy Count. Suddenly the ore is depleted and a fresh supply is discovered on David's farm. Much to the delight of Esmeralda, her impending marriage to the Count is off and her mother happily consents to a marriage between Esmeralda and David.

Directed by James Kirkwood - With Mary Pickford, Arthur Hoops, William Buckley

Fanchon, the Cricket(1915)

| 1h 15min | Drama

3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation. One day the girl rescues a boy from drowning and they fall in love, but Fanchon won't agree to marry him unless his father asks her. A year later the boy has fallen very ill and it is only the presence of the enchanting Fanchon that helps to restore his health.

Directed by James Kirkwood - With Mary Pickford, Lottie Pickford, Jack Pickford, Milton Berle, Jack Standing

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The Cub(1915)

1h 15min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

This breezy comedy is about a cub newspaper reporter who goes to investigate a family feud, which has erupted into violence again—a parody of the real Hatfield-McCoy feud.

Directed by Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown - With Martha Hedman

Blackbirds(1915)

50min | Drama, Crime

Leonie Sobatsky (Laura Hope Crews) belongs to a ring of international thieves, headed by Bechel (George Gebhardt). She meets English crook Nevil Trask (Thomas Meighan), and they fall in love -- however, neither one knows of the other's criminal ways.

Directed by J. P. McGowan - With Laura Hope Crews, Thomas Meighan, George M. Gebhardt, Raymond Hatton, Jane Wolfe, Florence Dagmar, ...

Hypocrites(1915)

| 54min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 10 votes)

The story of St. Gabriel, who was killed by an ignorant mob for making a nude statue representing Purity, who is also represented by a ghostly naked girl that flits through the film.

Directed by Lois Weber, Nate Watt - With Myrtle Stedman, Jane Darwell, Nigel De Brulier

Madame Butterfly(1915)

1h 1min | Drama

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The story of a Japanese woman and the tragedy that ensues when she loves an American naval officer.

Directed by Sidney Olcott - With Mary Pickford, David Burton, Marshall Neilan

The Heart of a Child(1916)

50min | Drama

A slum orphan, injured by a lady's car, becomes a dancer and marries the lady's brother.

Directed by Harold M. Shaw - With Edna Flugrath

The Romance of an American Duchess(1915)

The Duke de Longtour, a European nobleman, with impoverished estates, comes to America and wins the hand of Stephana Martin, an American heiress, defeating Marquis Ferdinand, an adventurer and his rival.

With Richard Travers, Ruth Stonehouse, Gloria Swanson

Jordan Is a Hard Road(1915)

| 50min | Drama

A bandit reforms himself and gives up his baby into better hands. Years later, he attempts to reunite with his daughter without revealing who he is.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Dorothy Gish, Elmo Lincoln, Frank Campeau, Joseph Singleton, Owen Moore, Ralph Lewis, ...

The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde(1915)

| Drama

Judge Randolph Legarde becomes a dual personality when he is kicked in the head by a horse.

Directed by William Senderling Davis - With Lionel Barrymore

The Clemenceau Case(1915)

1h | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the Alexander Dumas story, The Clemenceau Case involves Iza, a vampire-wife (Bara), whose wicked ways scandalize her husband, Pierre (William E. Shay).

Directed by Herbert Brenon - With Theda Bara, William E. Shay, Stuart Holmes, Frank John William Goldsmith, Jane Lee

The Devil's Daughter(1915)

50min | Drama

"My heart is ice, my passion consuming fire. Let men beware," exclaimed Theda Bara (via an inter-title, of course) in this "Vamp" melodrama based on Grabriele D'Annunzio's 1898 story La Gioconda.

Directed by Frank Powell - With Theda Bara

Gambier's Advocate(1915)

Drama

Hazel Dawn starred as Clarissa, who upon graduating from a private girl's school learns that her widowed father has remarried. At first resentful of her new stepmother (Dorothy Bernard), Clarissa slowly warms up to the woman. Later on, the heroine falls in love with a handsome attorney named Gambier (James Kirkwood), only to be disillusioned when she catches the attorney and the stepmother in a warm embrace.

Directed by James Kirkwood - With Hazel Dawn

The Melting Pot(1915)

| Drama

The wide-ranging storyline of The Melting Pot takes its characters from the Jewish ghettoes of Russia to the Lower East Side of New York.

Directed by James Vincent - With Henry Bergman, Reginald Denny

The Devil(1915)

Drama

The Devil, in the guise of a human, meets a young couple who remark upon looking at a Renaissance painting of a martyr that Evil could never triumph over Good. The Devil, taking this as a challenge, decides to bring about the couple's downfall.

Directed by Reginald Barker - With Arthur Maude, Bessie Barriscale, Clara Williams, Edward Connelly, J. Barney Sherry, Rhea Mitchell, ...

The Moonstone(1915)

50min | Mystery

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Directed by Frank Hall Crane - With Eugene O'Brien, Edmund Mortimer

A Mother's Atonement(1915)

20min | Drama

2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.

Directed by Joe De Grasse - With Lon Chaney, Wyndham Standing, Cleo Madison

The Price of Betrayal(1915)

40min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

An unemployed man encounters trouble when he tries to find a way to help his sick wife.

Directed by Victor Sjöström - With Gabriel Alw, Stina Berg, Egil Eide, John Ekman

The Second in Command(1915)

| 45min | Drama

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Lt. Col. Anstruther vies for the attention of Muriel Mannering with Major Bingham. The latter tricks Anstruther into believing that the girl loves Bingham, when in reality she has refused the major's proposal of marriage. When Anstruther saves Bingham's life during the Boer war, the deceitful major finally tells the truth.

Directed by William Bowman - With Francis X. Bushman, Marguerite Snow, William Clifford, Lester Cuneo, Evelyn Greeley

The Warrens of Virginia(1915)

50min | War, Drama

As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille - With Blanche Sweet, DeWitt Clarke Jennings, Dick La Reno, House Peters, Sr., James Neill, Lucien Littlefield, ...

1915 Drama Movies

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The Birth of a Nation(1915)

The Cheat(1915)

A Fool There Was(1915)

Carmen(1915)

Vanity Fair(1915)

Martyrs of the Alamo(1915)

The Toast of Death(1915)

John Halifax, Gentleman(1915)

The Red Circle(1915)

The Sentimental Lady(1915)

Esmeralda(1915)

Fanchon, the Cricket(1915)

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The Cub(1915)

Blackbirds(1915)

Hypocrites(1915)

Madame Butterfly(1915)

The Heart of a Child(1916)

The Romance of an American Duchess(1915)

Jordan Is a Hard Road(1915)

The Curious Conduct of Judge Legarde(1915)

The Clemenceau Case(1915)

The Devil's Daughter(1915)

Gambier's Advocate(1915)

The Melting Pot(1915)

The Devil(1915)

The Moonstone(1915)

A Mother's Atonement(1915)

The Price of Betrayal(1915)

The Second in Command(1915)

The Warrens of Virginia(1915)

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