1915 Movies

368 movies found (page 1/13):

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 Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris(1915)

6h 52min | Drama, Thriller

3.4/5 (with 42 votes)

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)

Directed by Louis Feuillade - With Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Ayme, Louis Leubas, René Poyen, ...

The Tramp(1915)

26min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 49 votes)

The Little Fellow finds the girl of his dreams and work on a family farm. He helps defend the farm against criminals, and all seems well, until he discovers the girl of his dreams already has someone in her life. Unwilling to be a problem in their lives, he takes to the road, though he is seen skipping and swinging his cane as if happy to be back on the road where he knows he belongs.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Paddy McGuire, ...

The Champion(1915)

| 31min | Comedy

3.3/5 (with 39 votes)

Walking along with his bulldog, Charlie finds a "good luck" horseshoe just as he passes a training camp advertising for a boxing partner "who can take a beating." After watching others lose, Charlie puts the horseshoe in his glove and wins. The trainer prepares Charlie to fight the world champion. A gambler wants Charlie to throw the fight. He and the trainer's daughter fall in love.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Ben Turpin, Broncho Billy Anderson, ...

Work(1915)

| 28min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 29 votes)

Charlie and his boss have difficulties just getting to the house they are going to wallpaper. The householder is angry because he can't get breakfast and his wife is screaming at the maid as they arrive. The kitchen gas stove explodes, and Charlie offers to fix it. The wife's secret lover arrives and is passed off as the workers' supervisor, but the husband doesn't buy this and fires shots. The stove explodes violently, destroying the house.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Charles Inslee, Paddy McGuire, Billy Armstrong, ...

A Woman(1915)

23min | Comedy

3.1/5 (with 24 votes)

Mother, father and daughter go to the park. The women doze off on a bench while the father plays a hide-and-seek game with a girl, blindfolded. Charlie leads him into a lake. Both dozing ladies on the bench fall for Charlie and invite him for dinner. The father returns home with a friend. Charlie rushes upstairs and dresses like a woman, shaving his mustache. Both men fall for Charlie.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Inslee, Leo White, Jess Robbins, Billy Armstrong, ...

A Burlesque on Carmen(1915)

31min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 31 votes)

A gypsy seductress is sent to sway a goofy officer to allow a smuggling run.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin, Leo White - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Ben Turpin, Jack Henderson, Wesley Ruggles, ...

His New Job(1915)

29min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 29 votes)

When one of the actors on a movie set doesn't show up, Charlie gets his chance to be on camera and replaces the actor. While waiting, he plays in a dice game and gets on many people's nerves. When he finally gets to act, he ruins his scene, accidentally destroys the set, and tears the skirt of the star of the movie.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Charlotte Mineau, Leo White, Robert Bolder, Jess Robbins, ...

A Night in the Show(1915)

| 24min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 34 votes)

Mr. Pest tries several theatre seats before winding up in front in a fight with the conductor. He is thrown out. In the lobby he pushes a fat lady into a fountain and returns to sit down by Edna. Mr. Rowdy, in the gallery, pours beer down on Mr. Pest and Edna. He attacks patrons, a harem dancer, the singers Dot and Dash, and a fire-eater.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Wesley Ruggles, Phyllis Allen, Charlotte Mineau, ...

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 Jitney Elopement(1915)

| 25min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 22 votes)

Edna's father wants her to marry wealthy Count He-Ha. Charlie, Edna's true love, impersonates the Count at dinner, but the real Count shows up and Charlie is thrown out. Later on Charlie and Edna are chased by her father, The Count, and three policeman. The pursuers drive off a pier.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Lloyd Bacon, Carl Stockdale, Bud Jamison, ...

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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By the Sea(1915)

14min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 29 votes)

It is windy at a bathing resort. After fighting with one of the two husbands, Charlie approaches Edna while the two husbands themselves fight over ice cream. Driven away by her husband, Charlie turns to the other's wife.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Bud Jamison, Snub Pollard, Carl Stockdale, Paddy McGuire, ...

In the Park(1915)

| 15min | Comedy

2.6/5 (with 26 votes)

A tramp steals a girl's handbag, but when he tries to pick Charlie's pocket loses his cigarettes and matches. He rescues a hot dog man from a thug, but takes a few with his walking stick. When the thief tries to take some of Charlie's sausages, Charlie gets the handbag. The handbag makes its way from person to person to its owner, who is angry with her boyfriend who didn't protect her in the first place. The boyfriend decides to throw himself in the lake in despair, so Charlie helps him out.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Leo White, Edna Purviance, Charlie Chaplin, Lloyd Bacon, Bud Jamison, Leona Anderson, ...

A Night Out(1915)

| 33min | Comedy

3.0/5 (with 27 votes)

After a visit to a pub, Charlie and Ben cause a ruckus at a posh restaurant. Charlie later finds himself in a compromising position at a hotel with the head waiter's wife.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin, George D. Baker - With Charlie Chaplin, Ben Turpin, Edna Purviance, Leo White, Bud Jamison, Fred Goodwins, ...

The Bank(1915)

25min | Comedy

3.2/5 (with 24 votes)

A janitor at a bank is in love with a secretary and dreams that she has fallen in love with him too.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Leo White, Carl Stockdale, Wesley Ruggles, ...

Assunta Spina(1915)

1h 13min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 11 votes)

Assunta and Michele are in love, but others come between them and jealousy arises. Assunta Spina stands out as an early landmark of naturalistic acting and a blueprint for the Italian Neorealist films to come.

Directed by Gustavo Serena, Francesca Bertini - With Francesca Bertini, Gustavo Serena, Luciano Albertini, Alberto Collo

Shanghaied(1915)

| 27min | Comedy

2.9/5 (with 22 votes)

A shipowner intends to scuttle his ship on its last voyage to get the insurance money. Charlie, a tramp in love with the owner's daughter, is grabbed by the captain and promises to help him shanghai some seamen. The daughter stows away to follow Charlie. Charlie assists in the galley and attempts to serve food during a gale.

Directed by Charlie Chaplin - With Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, Leo White, Bud Jamison, John Rand, ...

The Golem(1915)

1h | Horror

3.5/5 (with 18 votes)

This mostly lost film (please check your attic) is often confused with director Paul Wegener third and readily available interpretation of the legend; Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam (1920). In this version of the golem legend, the golem, a clay statue brought to life by Rabbi Loew in 16th century Prague to save the Jews from the ongoing brutal persecution by the city's rulers, is found in the rubble of an old synagogue in the 20th century. Brought to life by an antique dealer, the golem is used as a menial servant. Eventually falling in love with the dealer's wife, it goes on a murderous rampage when its love for her goes unanswered.

Directed by Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen - With Paul Wegener, Carl Ebert, Henrik Galeen, Lyda Salmonova, Rudolf Blümner, Jakob Tiedtke, ...

After Death(1915)

46min | Drama, Horror

3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Young scholar Andrei, fascinated by haunting actress Zoia Kadmina, is surprised when she sends him a note. The two have a brief scheduled meeting, then three months later Andrei is shocked to learn she has died. He becomes obsessed with her memory and decides he must find out all that he can about her.

Directed by Yevgeni Bauer - With Vitold Polonsky

Satan's Rhapsody(1917)

44min | Mystery, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 22 votes)

A Faustian tale about an old woman who makes a pact with Mephisto to regain her youth, but in return she must stay away from love. After making the deal, she meets two brothers who fall in love with her.

Directed by Nino Oxilia - With Lyda Borelli, Alberto Nepoti

Alice in Wonderland(1915)

| 52min | Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.

Directed by W. W. Young - With Viola Savoy, Herbert Rice

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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, ...

The Regeneration(1915)

| 1h 12min | Romance / Love, Crime, Drama

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

At 10 years old, Owen becomes a ragged orphan when his mother dies. Abusive next-door neighbors the Conways take him in, and by 17, Owen has learned that might is right. At 25, he's a career gangster: loitering, gambling and drinking in dens of iniquity. Marie Deering arrives in Owen's area, eager to empower the impoverished, gang-affiliated youth through education. Owen slowly but surely leaves his old life behind, choosing the narrow path- all the while falling in love with Marie. Skinny, who's taken over Owen's role in the gang, reappears to him, spelling trouble.

Directed by Raoul Walsh - With Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, James A. Marcus, Carl Harbaugh, Harry McCoy, William Sheer, ...

The Diamond from the Sky(1915)

Adventure

This serial told the story of the diamond heir loom of the Stanley family.

Directed by William Desmond Taylor, Jacques Jaccard - With Lottie Pickford, Irving Cummings, William Russell, Eugenie Forde, Charlotte Burton, George Periolat, ...

Children of the Age(1915)

38min | Drama

2.6/5 (with 4 votes)

The picture tells the story of Maria (Vera Kholodnaya), a devoted wife of a bank employee. The couple has a cozy life; they have a baby but he is cared for by their maid so Maria can spend her time doing terrific things like going shopping. During one of these consumer afternoons Maria meets by chance an old friend, Lidia, who will introduce her to exclusive idle class social circles. Soon Maria's beauty attracts the interest of Lebedev, a rich old libertine. From that point on Maria suffers continual sexual harassment (worthy of inclusion of any silent film encyclopedia article on beleaguered heroines) which she resists for a time. In the end, however, she falls into his bourgeois claws.

Directed by Yevgeni Bauer - With Vera Kholodnaya, Arseny Bibikov

Vanity Fair(1915)

| 1h 20min | Drama

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

The Madness of Dr. Tube(1915)

14min | Science Fiction, Comedy

2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

A scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples.

Directed by Abel Gance - With Albert Dieudonné

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, ...

Alias Jimmy Valentine(1915)

50min | Drama, Crime

2.9/5 (with 4 votes)

After robbing a bank, a criminal is wrongfully pardoned from prison.

Directed by Maurice Tourneur - With Alec B. Francis, Madge Evans, Robert Cummings, Robert Warwick, Walter Craven, Nora Cecil, ...