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1915 -- 1916 -- 1917 -- 1918

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1920 -- 1921 -- 1922 -- 1923

Notable 1919 films

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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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• @@ {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.

• @ {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.

• @ {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> --

• @ {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> --
• @ {en} True Heart Susie (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> --

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• {en} Anne of Green Gables (USA 1919 Taylor) <lost>

• {en} Back to God's Country (CAN 1919 Hartford) <YouTube> --

• {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] End of the Game (USA 1919 Hampton) <YouTube> --
• {en} Eyes of Youth (USA 1919 Parker) <YouTube> --

• {en} [The] False Faces (USA 1919 Willat) <YouTube> --
• {en} Feline Follies (Felix the Cat) (USA 1919 Sullivan) <short> <animated> <YouTube> --
• {en} [The] Girl Who Stayed at Home (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> --

• {en} Heart o' the Hills (USA 1919 De Grasse) <YouTube> --
• {en} Human Desire (USA 1919 North) <YouTube> --

• {en} [The] Lost Battalion (USA 1919 King) <YouTube> --

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

• {de} [The] Plague in Florence / Pest in Florenz (DEU 1919 Rippert) <YouTube> --

• {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> --
• {en} [A] Romance of Happy Valley (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> --

• {en} Scarlet Days (USA 1919 Griffith) <YouTube> --
• {en} [The] Solitary Sin / aka The Naked Truth (USA 1919) <no>
• {no} [The] Story of a Boy / Historien om en gut (NOR 1919 Lykke-Seest) <YouTube> --

• {en} [The] Wicked Darling (USA 1919 Browning) <YouTube> --

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

-- 300+. Back to God’s Country -- Bumping into Broadway -- The Delicious Little Devil -- From Hand to Mouth -- Just Neighbors -- Love (Arbuckle)

Silent Films Ranked, Best Films

-- #31. Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #32. The President -- #44. When the Clouds Roll By -- #92. Sir Arne’s Treasure

Schneider, Best Films

-- Broken Blossoms (Griffith)

External links

• 1919 in film -- Wikipedia