Category:1919, Top Films

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Notable 1919 Films (My Ranking)

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{en} Broken Blossoms (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.

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{en} Daddy-Long-Legs (USA 1919 Neilan) <YouTube> -- An orphan discovers that she has an anonymous benefactor who is willing to pay her college tuition, unaware he's the same man who has been romantically pursuing her.

{fr} J'accuse! (FRA 1919 Gance) <YouTube> -- The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.

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{en} Blind Husbands (USA 1919 Stroheim) <YouTube> -- An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.

@ {de} Different from the Others / Anders als die Andern (DEU 1919 Oswald) <YouTube> -- Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.

@ {de} [The] Doll / Die Puppe (DEU 1919 Lubitsch) <YouTube> -- Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.

@ {en} Don't Change Your Husband (USA 1919 DeMille) <YouTube> -- Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.

@ {en} [The] Greatest Question (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.

@ {en} Male and Female (USA 1919 DeMille) <YouTube> -- Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.

@ {de} [The] Oyster Princess / Die Austernprinzessin (DEU 1919 Lubitsch) <YouTube> -- An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.

@ {de} Passion / Madame DuBarry (DEU 1919 Lubitsch) <YouTube> -- The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

@ {sw} Sir Arne’s Treasure / Herr Arnes pengar (SWE 1919 Stiller) <YouTube> -- In 16th century Sweden, the lives of three Scottish mercenaries and a vicar's family intersect after a crime forever alters a small coastal town. As the three try to escape, they find themselves trapped when all ships are frozen in ice.

@ {en} True Heart Susie (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his knowledge.

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{en} Anne of Green Gables (USA 1919 Taylor) <lost> -- Anne Shirley, an orphan, is taken into the lives of a generous farmer and his sister. She grows from an adventuresome young lass into a charming and much sought-after young lady.

{en} Back to God's Country (CAN 1919 Hartford) <YouTube> -- A woman finds herself all alone in a remote harbor with the man responsible for the murder of her father. With seemingly nobody around to protect her, she has to be resourceful.

{en} Behind the Door (USA 1919 Willat) <YouTube> -- A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife.

{en} The Broken Butterfly (USA 1919 Tourneur) <YouTube> -- Before she parts from him for a while, a woman falls in love with a composer, working on a symphony, who she encounters in the forests of Canada.

{en} [The] End of the Game (USA 1919 Hampton) <YouTube> -- Frank Miller, arriving in a California gold rush town in the days of '49, gets fleeced of all his assets in a crooked card game by a gang while his sister Mary waits in their hotel.

{en} Eyes of Youth (USA 1919 Parker) <YouTube> -- A young woman at a crossroads is shown what her future would be like for each choice.

{en} [The] False Faces (USA 1919 Willat) <YouTube> -- During World War I, a professional thief known as The Lone Wolf is assigned to steal a cylinder with important information from behind the German lines and bring it to Allied intelligence headquarters.

{en} Feline Follies (Felix the Cat) (USA 1919 Sullivan) <short> <animated> <YouTube> --

{en} [The] Girl Who Stayed at Home (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Story of two brothers who go off to France to fight in World War I, the women who love them and an American expatriate living in France who rallies behind his former country.

{en} Heart o' the Hills (USA 1919 De Grasse) <YouTube> -- Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

{en} Human Desire (USA 1919 North) <YouTube> -- Inspired by a statue of the infant Christ in the hands of the Madonna, Bernice who lives in a convent in Naples, Italy conceives of a deep passion for babies and is determines to come to their aid.

{en} [The] Lost Battalion (USA 1919 King) <YouTube> -- A battalion of the U. S. Army's 77th Division penetrates deep into the Argonne Forest of France during the First World War. The battalion becomes surrounded and holds out for six long days, awaiting reinforcement and rescue.

{en} [The] Miracle Man (USA 1919 Tucker) <lost>

{de} [The] Plague in Florence / Pest in Florenz (DEU 1919 Rippert) <YouTube> -- Suddenly appearing in Florence, an evil seductress causes Cesare, the city's ruler, and his son to both fall madly in love with her. The son, killing his father before an order to torture the woman can be carried out, then turns the city's churches into dens of sexual debauchery. Acts of evil and corruption continue unabated until the arrival of Death, who brings with her a horrible plague which she is about to loose upon the city.

{en} [The] Red Lantern (USA 1919 Capellani) <YouTube> -- Mahlee and Blanche Sackville are half-sisters, Blanche the daughter of an Englishman and his wife, Mahlee of the Englishman and his Chinese mistress. Mahlee rejects her people and attempts to find a life for herself among the Europeans. But she finds the color line impossible to pass and returns to lead her Chinese people in rebellion.

{it} Redemption / Redenzione (ITA 1919 Gallone) <no>

{en} [The] Roaring Road (USA 1919 Cruze) <YouTube> -- A young man pursues a young lady with the same energy he applies to his other obsession in life, auto racing.

{en} [A] Romance of Happy Valley (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man.

{en} Scarlet Days (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> -- A romantic bandit named Alvarez, wanted for raids on the mining camps of the California gold rush in 1849, is reformed by the love of a good woman.

{en} [The] Solitary Sin / aka The Naked Truth (USA 1919) <no> -- Bob, John, and Edward--three young boys growing up in the same neighborhood--have vastly-different experiences with sex.

{no} [The] Story of a Boy / Historien om en gut (NOR 1919 Lykke-Seest) <YouTube> -- When a 13-year-old boy is falsely accused of stealing his teacher's watch he runs away, embarking on a ship and experiencing many dangerous situations, fearful of the consequences of returning home.

{en} [The] Wicked Darling (USA 1919 Browning) <YouTube> -- A slum girl is forced to steal for a living. After she swipes a rich society's matron's necklace, she hides out at the home of a man who turns out to be the socialite's former fiance.

Critical Reception

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #21. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

-- #101. Male and Female -- #137. True Heart Susie -- #144. Blind Husbands -- #164. Daddy-Long-Legs -- #188. The Oyster Princess -- #222. Sir Arne’s Treasure / Herr Arnes pengar -- #225. The Doll -- #233. Passion / Madame Du Barry -- #262. Don’t Change Your Husband

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