The best movies 1916

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

Mimi, an orphan, is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a domestic. She meets Rudolphe, scion of a well-to-do family, who rescues her from...

Gretchen Van Houck is just arriving in the USA, on a ship from Holland. She joins her father, who has already spent several years in America, where...

Steve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Wyoming to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some cattle. He bores his friends with tales...

An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.

When Tweedledum's girl is kidnapped by bad men, he springs into action.

After his study tour abroad, Simándy Pál, the Protestant pastor, returns to his homeland, Transylvania. In the church of...

'A tramp steals the clothes from a scarecrow, but when he realises two couples are using its pockets to pass messages, he sees an opportunity.'...

Elderly hidalgo, Alonso Quijano (played by DeWolf Hopper Sr.), becomes obsessed with tales of knights and chivalry to the point of losing his sanity....

Jeanette Arden dies giving birth to her daughter Autumn, and Jeanette's husband George, who had gone for a doctor, receives a head wound. The injury...

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is...

This movie, directed by Richard Oswald, is based on the operetta "Les contes de Hoffmann" by Jacques Offenbach (1819-1880), which is a genial musical...

A woman returning from a trip to Paris must help U.S. customs inspectors find a valuable necklace suspected to be in the possession of a fellow...

At the age of 50, the surgeon Privy Councillor Professor Imhoff marries the young, beautiful but poor orphan Annie von Arenberg. On the wedding day,...

The Toilers is a 1916 American film drama directed by Edgar Lewis.

Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I....

Thea is a sculptor who is diagnosed with tuberculosis before she marries Filippo. After abandoning him, her health begins to decline. She organizes a...

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.

French war propaganda in the form of a family drama in the German government. Nationalist sentiments severely test the young marriage between a...

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

A doctor find himself in front of the corpse of a woman who was the most intense love of his life.

In 1916 the Santiago society shuddered with the crime of a wealthy businessman. Corina Rojas, his young wife, was the first woman sentenced to death...

Carmen, Martin and Lucas, children of the Motherland, are imprisoned for protecting a fugitive indigenous person. Carmen is also really imprisoned...

Rolando, head of the republican party, saves the life to the young queen Alexia when her horse bolts. Both fall in love but his principles do not let...

A Spanish Charlie Chaplin wannabe (Benito Perojo/Peladilla) takes his girl to watch a football match in Madrid. Doesn't take long before Peladilla...

Silvino Santos spent two months filming festivals, ceremonies, native rituals, and scenes of rubber extraction, becoming a pioneer of cinema in the...

A young woman prays with faith in the image of a virgin and such is her devotion that the image offers her crown of jewels so she can turn it into...

A laborer and the town's rich buck vie for the love a of a beautiful peasant lady, resulting in homicide. The first film produced in Puerto Rico, it...