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1917 Drama Movies

Public list by WPS with 303 movies or TV shows/series

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A Man There Was(1917)

56min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 30 votes)

Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.

The Dying Swan(1917)

49min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

When Viktor meets Gizella one day beside the lake, he takes an interest in her and begins to call on her regularly. The one passion in the life of Gizella, who is unable to speak, is dancing. When Viktor deceives her and she finds him with another woman, she moves away and begins a career as a ballerina. Later, as she is on tour performing “The Dying Swan”, the artist Glinskiy attends her performance. Glinskiy, whose own obsession is to depict death in his art, becomes fascinated by Gizella, and he is determined to use her as a model for a special project.

Directed by Yevgeni Bauer - With Vera Karalli

A Little Princess(1917)

1h 2min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 7 votes)

Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

A Tale of Two Cities(1917)

2.3/5 (with 3 votes)

At the outbreak of the French Revolution, Charles Darnay goes to Paris to rescue an imprisoned former family servant. He is himself imprisoned and condemned by the revolutionary forces there. His wife, the former Lucie Manette, is secretly loved by a gentlemanly wastrel, Sydney Carton. Carton embarks on a daring plan to save the husband of the woman he loves.

Directed by Frank Lloyd - With William Farnum

Madame du Barry(1917)

1h 10min | Drama, History
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The picture shows Jeanette (Thelda Bara) becoming the mistress of the ambitious Jean du Barry (Herschel Mayall) who marries her off to one of his cousins so that she has an entree to the royal court. She soon becomes the favorite of the King (Charles Clary) and Jean du Barry becomes a regular around the court too. But all this is disturbed when Madame du Barry falls for Conte Brissac of the King's Guard (Fred Church). Jean du Barry's attempts to expose her affair only get him banished from the court.

Arms and the Girl(1917)

NR
| 50min | Drama

Ziegfeld Follies headliner Billie Burke starred in a handful of silent films, of which Arms and the Girl was the second. Burke plays an American lass who journeys to Europe to be reunited with her fiance. Not only has her sweetheart been unfaithful, but she arrives on the continent just as World War I breaks out.

Directed by Joseph Kaufman - With Billie Burke, Thomas Meighan

Patria(1917)

NR
| 5h 10min | Drama, Action
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Spies from Japan conspire to steal the Channing "preparedness" fortune and invade the United States, beginning in New York, then allying themselves with Mexicans across the border. They are stopped by the efforts of munitions factory heiress Patria Channing and U.S. Secret Service agent Donald Parr.

A Kentucky Cinderella(1917)

50min | Drama

After the death of her father, a young girl goes to live with her uncle in Kentucky. She immediately comes into conflict with her uncle's shrewish wife.

A Romance of the Redwoods(1917)

NR
| 1h 31min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

Peace on Earth(1917)

1h 22min | War, Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace – pax aeterna. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. When the neighbouring state declares war, the prince’s heart stops beating. Is the vision of global peace just a naive dream, or will his followers be able to see it through? (stumfilm.dk)

Bridges Burned(1917)

54min

When Mary O'Brien falls in love with Ernest Randall, the younger son of an English baronet, she gives herself completely to him and becomes pregnant. Her father (Robert Broderick), an Irish gentleman, finds this out and demands that she marry Randall.

Directed by Perry N. Vekroff - With Olga Petrova

Hilde Warren and Death(1917)

1h 20min | Drama, Horror
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Hilde Warren, a famous actress, is impregnated by a convicted murderer and becomes plagued by visions of Death. Upon discovering her child is the image of its criminal father, Hilde must decide whether to allow it to live, or to kill it and risk the embrace of Death himself.

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Lost and Won(1917)

NR
| 55min | Drama
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A newswoman meets a man who has bet his colleagues he can make her beautiful.

Where Love Is(1917)

NR
| Drama

A six-part adaptation of William J. Locke's novel "Where Love Is.".

The Promise(1917)

NR
| 50min | Romance / Love, Drama

After an argument with his father, in which he is accused of stealing, Bill Carmody leaves home. His girlfriend Ethel is mad at him because of his carousing. So he heads out West, but he gets in a railroad accident and saves the life of Appleton, who owns a lumber mill. To reward Bill, Appleton gives him a job, and it doesn't take him long to discern that Buck Moncrossen, the camp boss, is crooked.

Directed by Jay Hunt - With Harold Lockwood, May Allison, George Fisher

Redemption(1917)

NR
| 1h | Drama

An actress with a wild reputation finally settles down to a sedate and pleasant marriage. One of her former lovers, an architect, arrives to disrupt her happiness by renewing their affair. She humiliates this suitor in public with her rejection, and he seeks revenge, revenge that catapults her into tragedy.

Directed by Joseph A. Golden, Julius Steger - With Evelyn Nesbit

Hamlet(1917)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

The short film tells the story of Hamlet, who was forced to flee from the treachery of the usurper of the throne who had killed all the relatives of the young. But he will now return to the castle to avenge his father ...

Directed by Eleuterio Rodolfi - With Ruggero Ruggeri, Helena Makowska, Mercedes Brignone, Martelli

On Trial(1917)

1h 10min | Drama

Robert Strickland, the self-confessed murderer of Gerald Trask, refuses to defend himself on the witness stand. His attorney, however, cross-examines Strickland's wife.

Castles for Two(1917)

48min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

An American heiress who goes to Ireland meets a bankrupt lord. She switches places with her maid to avoid fortune hunters.

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle(1917)

1h | Drama

A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.

Satan Triumphant(1917)

1h 27min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Pastor Talnoх furiously urges the flock to fight temptations, but he himself becomes a victim of temptation. In his house appears Satan, pushing the hero to theft and spiritual fall.

The Neglected Wife(1917)

5h | Drama

A 1917 movie serial.

Directed by William Bertram - With Ruth Roland

The Whip(1917)

1h 20min | Drama
2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and of the villains who attempt to keep it from racing.

Directed by Maurice Tourneur - With Irving Cummings, Paul McAllister, Alma Hanlon, June Elvidge

Alimony(1917)

1h 6min | Drama

Bernice Bristol Flint, an attractive grass widow (a woman divorced or separated from her husband), associates herself intimately with a number of divorce attorneys who live well on their percentage from unscrupulously secured divorces carrying a large alimony.

Bondage(1917)

NR
| 50min | Drama

Dorothy Phillips was starred as Elinor Crawford, a small-town girl who becomes a reporter on a big-city newspaper -- and immediately plunges into the "Bohemian" lifestyle. Assigned to interview a condemned murderer, Elinor must first obtain permission from criminal lawyer Evan Klavert (William Stowell), who happens to hail from Elinor's hometown and who prudishly disapproves of her current mode of living.

Directed by Ida May Park

Wife Number Two(1917)

NR
| 50min | Drama

Bored by her country life and misunderstood by her parents, Emma Rolfe marries Dr. Charles Bovar, an older man whose dedication to his medical practice results in wifely neglect. To alleviate her growing loneliness, Emma enjoys the company of many of the young men from the village and eventually begins an affair with Rudolph Bulwer.

Directed by William Nigh - With Valeska Suratt

Unsühnbar(1917)

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Directed by Georg Jacoby

Mutiny(1917)

NR
| 50min | Drama

Although Esther Whitaker is in love with Caleb Tilden, her sea captain father demands that she marry his first mate. However, Esther's grandfather encourages her and Caleb to marry in secret. After Grandfather Whitaker's death, Esther discovers she is pregnant. The captain, believing that she has disgraced the family, beats Caleb to death (at least that's what he assumes) and drags his daughter along on the ship. Afraid of the consequences, the captain refuses to go home and eventually the crew mutinies.

Directed by Lynn Reynolds

The Light in Darkness(1917)

NR
| Crime, Drama

Bank cashier Ramsey Latham is sentenced to prison for violation of the banking laws. On his way to the penitentiary, he encounters Hilary Kenyon, a young girl who speaks encouragingly to him. Later he is surprised to discover that Hilary is also a prisoner, having been found guilty of manslaughter for killing a man who attacked her.

Directed by Alan Crosland

The Scarlet Car(1917)

50min | Drama
2.4/5 (with 4 votes)

Paul Revere Forbes, an ancestor of Paul Revere, is a teller at Cyrus Peabody's bank. He learns that Cyrus and his son, Ernest, have speculated with $35,000 of the bank's money, and the entire sum has been lost.

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