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Movies: Popular Movies of 1916

Movies in chronological context: 1916 (MCMXVI) was a leap year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Friday of the Julian calendar, the 1916th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 916th year of the 2nd millennium, the 16th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1910s decade. As of the start of 1916, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages(1916)

NR
| 3h 17min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 140 votes)

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

The Vagabond(1916)

24min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 56 votes)

A tramp tries to earn money by playing the violin, but he’s soon facing off against the jealous competition.

The Rink(1916)

G
| 24min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 48 votes)

After amusements working in a restaurant, Charlie uses his lunch break to go roller skating.

One A.M.(1916)

25min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.

The Pawnshop(1916)

NR
| 26min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 44 votes)

A pawnbroker's assistant deals with his grumpy boss, his annoying co-worker and some eccentric customers as he flirts with the pawnbroker's daughter, until a perfidious crook with bad intentions arrives at the pawnshop.

The Floorwalker(1916)

28min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 41 votes)

An impecunious customer creates chaos in a department store while the manager and his assistant plot to steal the money kept in the establishment's safe.

The Fireman(1916)

26min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 41 votes)

Firefighter Charlie Chaplin is tricked into letting a house burn by an owner who wants to collect on the insurance.

Behind the Screen(1916)

3.3/5 (with 37 votes)

During the troubled shooting of several movies, David, the prop man's assistant, meets an aspiring actress who tries to find work in the studio. Things get messy when the stagehands decide to go on strike.

The Count(1916)

24min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 31 votes)

A tailor's apprentice burns Count Broko's clothes while ironing them and the tailor fires him. Later, the tailor discovers a note explaining that the count cannot attend a dance party, so he dresses as such to take his place; but the apprentice has also gone to the mansion where the party is celebrated and bumps into the tailor in disguise….

Police(1916)

26min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 28 votes)

Charlie is released from prison and immediately swindled by a fake parson. A fellow ex-convict convinces Charlie to help burglarize a house.

20,000 Leagues Under the Sea(1916)

3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

Captain Nemo has built a fantastic submarine for his mission of revenge. He has traveled over 20,000 leagues in search of Charles Denver - a man who caused the death of Princess Daaker. Seeing what he had done, Denver took the daughter to his yacht and sailed away.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish(1916)

25min | Mystery, Comedy, Crime
3.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Coke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his time into periods of "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drinks". In fact, he overcomes every situation with drugs: consuming cocaine to increase his energy or injecting it in his opponents to incapacitate them. To help the police, he tracks down a contraband of opium (which he eagerly tastes) transported within "leaping fishes", saving a "fish-blower" girl from blackmail along the way.

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Hell's Hinges(1916)

NR
| 1h 4min | Western, Action, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

When Reverend Robert Henley and his sister Faith arrive in the town of Hell's Hinges, saloon owner Silk Miller and his cohorts sense danger to their evil ways. They hire gunman Blaze Tracy to run the minister out of town. But Blaze finds something in Faith Henley that turns him around, and soon Silk Miller and his compadres have Blaze to deal with.

Where Are My Children?(1916)

1h 4min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

Walton, the District Attorney, yearns to have children. Soon after defending an author on trial for publishing indecent literature, Walton discovers a secret his wife and her socialite friends have been hiding from him.

Joan the Woman(1916)

NR
| 2h 18min | History, Drama, Adventure
2.8/5 (with 11 votes)

A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.

Luke's Movie Muddle(1916)

NR
| 11min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

Lonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue.

The Battle of the Somme(1916)

1h 13min | Documentary, War
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

A documentary and propaganda film which shows the British Army's preparations for, and the early stages of, the battle of the Somme.

Directed by Geoffrey H. Malins - With Beauvoir De Lisle

Judex(1916)

3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

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 ominously disguised and sunk into the muddy path of vengeance, punishes the crooks and protects the innocents. (Originally a twelve-part epic serial.)

Shoe Palace Pinkus(1916)

45min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 8 votes)

Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' shoe salon, only to be fired again, before charming a rich benefactress to fund his ultimate dream: Pinkus' Shoe Palace.

Shoes(1916)

NR
| 50min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 8 votes)

A young working girl must support her family on only five dollars a week. The strain of trying to feed, house and clothe her mother, her father and three sisters finally gets to be too much, and she winds up selling her body for a pair of shoes.

Directed by Lois Weber - With Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Martha Witting, Jessie Arnold, William V. Mong

Sherlock Holmes(1916)

1h 57min | Mystery, Crime
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

When a couple of scammers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will to discover the whereabouts of letters whose dissemination could cause a scandal affecting the royal family, Sherlock Holmes decides to take over the case. (Considered lost, a copy was found in 2014, in the vaults of the Cinémathèque Française.)

The Return of Draw Egan(1916)

2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

A small town marshal’s secret past as an outlaw comes back to haunt him when an old associate shows up and threatens to expose his former dark deeds.

The Ocean Waif(1916)

2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

An abused young woman finds safety and love in the arms of a famous novelist.

Blind Justice(1916)

1h 40min | Drama, Thriller, Crime
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

On New Year's Eve, the convicted murderer, Strong Henry, escapes from prison and collects his son from the orphanage. When he breaks into a local manor to get some milk for his child, he is surprised by a young woman, Eva. Out of pity, she decides to help the stranger, but unfortunately some of the manor's other occupants wake up and call the police. Fourteen years later, Henry is released from prison. Convinced that Eva betrayed him, he sets out to take revenge and find his son.

Directed by Benjamin Christensen - With Benjamin Christensen, Thilda Fønss, Aage Schmidt, Otto Reinwald, Jørgen Lund, Mathilde Nielsen, ...

The Queen of Spades(1916)

1h 3min | Horror, Drama, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

While hosting a game of cards one night, Narumov tells his friends a story about his grandmother, a Countess. As a young woman, she had once incurred an enormous gambling debt, which she was able to erase by learning a secret that guaranteed that she could win by playing her cards in a certain order. One of Narumov's friends, German, has never gambled, but he is intrigued by the story about the Countess and her secret. He soon becomes obsessed with learning this secret from her, and he starts by courting her young ward Lizaveta, hoping to use her to gain access to the Countess.

Directed by Yakov Protazanov - With Ivan Mozzhukhin, Vera Georgiyevna Orlova, Elizaveta Shebueva

The End of the World(1916)

2.9/5 (with 7 votes)

Foreman West lives in a small mining town with his daughters Edith and Dina. When entrepreneur and mine owner Frank Stoll comes to town to inspect the work, he falls in love with Dina. Against her father's will, she elopes with the unscrupulous Stoll. News of a meteor approaching the earth causes panic and Stoll exploits the situation to make a killing on the stock market; Collaborating with the press to quell the news of the meteor eases public tensions and guarantees him a fortune. He plans to survive in a secret underground tunnel, with Dina and his wealthy pals in tow. But things don't go as planned.

A Life for a Life(1916)

44min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

Directed by Yevgeni Bauer

Where Is My Treasure?(1916)

35min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Because Ernst feels oppressed by his wife and her mother, he fakes his suicide and hires in his own household disguised as a servant.

Hoodoo Ann(1916)

NR
| 1h 5min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Drama
2.8/5 (with 7 votes)

A teenage orphan (who believes herself to be "hoodooed") is taken in by a childless couple and quickly falls for the boy next door; Her luck seems to have changed. But the idyll is broken up after a trip to the movies-- It seems the 'hoodoo' has returned after she tries to replicate what she'd seen on the screen.

Directed by Lloyd Ingraham - With Mae Marsh

Royal Tiger(1916)

1h 20min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

"Tigre Reale" (1916) was the film that consolidated Frau Menichelli's stardom, a film more than suitable for her performing skills and silent idiosyncrasy that any silent diva would kill to star in… In "Tigre Reale", Frau Menichelli performs the part of Frau Natka, a Russian countess with a troublesome past and an uncertain future. She was married to a revolutionary and the matrimony ended in tragedy. She likes to flirt with men but due to her traumatic sentimental past, she doesn't allow herself attachments. That is until she meets a young diplomat who will help her to make up her mind and exorcize her old sentimental traumas.

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