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1. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
A French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine.
Director: Stuart Paton | Stars: Allen Holubar, Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton
Votes: 1,987 | Gross: $8.00M
2. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,725 | Gross: $2.18M
3. Behind the Screen (1916)
TV-G | 30 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Charlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 3,029
4. One A.M. (1916)
TV-G | 26 min | Comedy, Family, Short
A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Albert Austin
Votes: 3,616
5. The Rink (1916)
TV-G | 30 min | Comedy, Short
After causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, James T. Kelley, Eric Campbell
Votes: 4,282
6. The Pawnshop (1916)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Henry Bergman, Edna Purviance, John Rand
Votes: 3,699
7. The Vagabond (1916)
24 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Charlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so easily?
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Charlotte Mineau
Votes: 3,200
8. The Fireman (1916)
TV-G | 24 min | Short, Comedy
Charlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon, Eric Campbell
Votes: 2,882
9. The Floorwalker (1916)
TV-G | 29 min | Short, Comedy
The Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance, Lloyd Bacon
Votes: 2,692
10. The Count (1916)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy
The fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Eric Campbell, Albert Austin
Votes: 2,486
11. Police (1916)
34 min | Comedy, Short
Charles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Wesley Ruggles, John Rand
Votes: 2,002
12. Judex (1916)
Not Rated | 300 min | Adventure, Crime
A twelve-part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: René Cresté, Musidora, René Poyen, Édouard Mathé
Votes: 1,127
13. Hell's Hinges (1916)
Unrated | 64 min | Romance, Western
In the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman.
Directors: Charles Swickard, William S. Hart, Clifford Smith | Stars: William S. Hart, Clara Williams, Jack Standing, Alfred Hollingsworth
Votes: 1,079
14. Hoodoo Ann (1916)
65 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An orphan girl, believing herself cursed with the hoodoo until she gets married, is adopted by a childless couple after the orphanage burns down. Boy-next-door meets girl-next-door, and all looks great until she finds a loaded gun.
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, William H. Brown, Wilbur Higby
Votes: 938
15. The Mystery of the Leaping Fish (1916)
Not Rated | 25 min | Comedy, Short
A bumbling detective comes to the rescue of a damsel in distress when a drug smuggler wants to force her to marry him.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Allan Sears, Tom Wilson
Votes: 1,005
16. Queen of Spades (1916)
63 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Yakov Protazanov | Stars: Tamara Duvan, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Vera Orlova, Nikolai Panov
Votes: 848
17. Where Are My Children? (1916)
Approved | 62 min | Drama
A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion lands him in trouble with the local community.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Tyrone Power Sr., Mrs. Tyrone Power, Marie Walcamp, Cora Drew
Votes: 871
18. Going Straight (1916)
60 min | Crime, Drama
A man and his wife both have criminal pasts, but have quit crime and are now respectable citizens. One day a member of their old gang shows up and threatens to expose them if they don't help him pull a heist.
Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Ralph Lewis, Ninon Fovieri, Francis Carpenter
Votes: 665
19. The Matrimaniac (1916)
Not Rated | 46 min | Comedy, Romance
Jimmy Conroy plans to marry Marna, stepdaughter of the wealthy Theodore Lewis, who disapproves of Jimmy as a son-in-law. His idea of a husband is Wally Henderson. Jimmy and Marna decide to ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Constance Talmadge, Wilbur Higby, Fred Warren
Votes: 642
20. Reggie Mixes In (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Reginald Morton is a wealthy idler of athletic tendencies. He has become bored with the shallow social set in which he moves, although he is engaged to marry Dorothy Fleming, a member of it... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Bessie Love, Joseph Singleton, William Lowery
Votes: 615
21. The Children in the House (1916)
50 min | Drama
Roy Somerville has turned out an interesting story that will hold the interest of the majority of audiences as produced by the Triangle-Fine Arts Company. It is a five-reel feature produced... See full summary »
Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Alice Wilson, Jewel Carmen, William Hinckley
Votes: 602
22. The Social Secretary (1916)
52 min | Comedy, Drama
To avoid unwanted attention at her next job, a young professional disguises herself, leading to some unintended consequences.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Kate Lester, Helen Weir, Gladden James
Votes: 561
23. Shoes (1916)
TV-PG | 60 min | Drama
A young woman grows tired of providing for her family.
Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Mary MacLaren, Harry Griffith, Mattie Witting, Jessie Arnold
Votes: 764
24. Sherlock Holmes (1916)
Not Rated | 116 min | Crime, Mystery
When a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case.
Director: Arthur Berthelet | Stars: William Gillette, Marjorie Kay, Ernest Maupain, Edward Fielding
Votes: 474
25. Blind Justice (1916)
100 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A criminal escapes from prison, however a betrayal leads to his second arrest.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Karen Caspersen, Peter Fjelstrup, Charles Wilken
Votes: 413
26. Where is My Treasure? (1916)
35 min | Short, Comedy
Husband is hounded by his nagging mother-in-law who lives with him and his wife. After coming home drunk one night he is kicked out by the mother-in-law. He disguises himself as a servant and gets a job at his own house.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Louise Schenrich, Helene Voß, Julius Falkenstein
Votes: 392
27. Luke's Movie Muddle (1916)
7 min | Comedy, Short
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.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Charles Stevenson
Votes: 349
28. Kiss of Death (1916)
65 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Dr Monro is found dead in his home. Three people are testifying before the police about what happened.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Albin Lavén, Mathias Taube, Wanda Rothgardt
Votes: 271
29. Shoe Palace Pinkus (1916)
45 min | Comedy
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Else Kentner, Guido Herzfeld, Ossi Oswalda
Votes: 296
30. The Good Bad-Man (1916)
50 min | Romance, Western
An outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Pomeroy Cannon, Joseph Singleton
Votes: 280
31. The Curse of Quon Gwon: When the Far East Mingles with the West (1916)
35 min | Short
The members of a Chinese family living in the US have a curse put upon them for becoming too "westernized".
Director: Marian E. Wong | Stars: Violet Wong, Harvey Soo Hoo, Marian E. Wong
Votes: 280
32. Gretchen the Greenhorn (1916)
Not Rated | 58 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A kind Dutch immigrant and her bumbling father are blackmailed by a gang of counterfeiters.
Directors: Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Stars: Dorothy Gish, Ralph Lewis, Eugene Pallette, Elmo Lincoln
Votes: 537
33. American Aristocracy (1916)
Passed | 52 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter.
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, C.A. de Lima, Albert Parker
Votes: 126
34. The End of the World (1916)
77 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
A comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world.
Director: August Blom | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Carl Lauritzen, Ebba Thomsen, Johanne Fritz-Petersen
Votes: 418
35. Joan the Woman (1916)
Passed | 138 min | Adventure, Drama, History
A WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Geraldine Farrar, Raymond Hatton, Hobart Bosworth, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 652 | Gross: $1.32M
36. Fatty and Mabel Adrift (1916)
Not Rated | 34 min | Comedy, Short
The beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, Al St. John, Frank Hayes
Votes: 481
37. Her Sister's Rival (1916)
66 min | Drama
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. When Zhurov ... See full summary »
Director: Yevgeny Bauer | Stars: Olga Rakhmanova, Lidiya Koreneva, Vera Kholodnaya, Vitold Polonsky
Votes: 469
38. The Ocean Waif (1916)
Unrated | 40 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
An abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist.
Director: Alice Guy | Stars: Carlyle Blackwell, Doris Kenyon, Edgar Norton, Fraunie Fraunholz
Votes: 480
39. Kitchener's Great Army in the Battle of the Somme (1916)
74 min | Documentary, War
Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army's participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
Director: Geoffrey Malins | Star: Beauvoir De Lisle
Votes: 458
40. Out Ag'in, in Ag'in (1916)
10 min | Short, Comedy
Some mix-up, and all because father had to have his darly bracer. When father tries to escape to Dinty's, the corner saloon, mother makes him remove his clothes and go to bed, where she ... See full summary »
Director: Larry Semon | Stars: Hughie Mack, John T. Kelly, Kate Price, Jewell Hunt
Votes: 424
41. Snow White (I) (1916)
Unrated | 63 min | Fantasy, Romance
Snow White, a beautiful girl, is despised by a wicked queen who tries to destroy her. With the aid of dwarves in the woods, Snow White overcomes the queen.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Dorothy Cumming, Creighton Hale, Lionel Braham, Alice Washburn
Votes: 441
42. He Did and He Didn't (1916)
TV-G | 20 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
A doctor irrationally suspects his wife is carrying on an affair with her childhood friend.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Normand, William Jefferson, Al St. John
Votes: 312
43. The Dumb Girl of Portici (1916)
112 min | Drama, History, Romance
Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Anna Pavlova, Rupert Julian, Laura Oakley, William Wolbert
Votes: 262
44. Krazy Kat Goes A-Wooing (1916)
3 min | Animation, Short
Krazy Kat, carrying his banjo, leaves home and flies his plane "Kazook" to the house of Ignatz Mouse, whom he loves. Outside Ignatz's window, Krazy starts his serenade. Meanwhile, Ignatz ... See full summary »
Votes: 247
45. The Vampires: Hypnotic Eyes (1916)
58 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
'Les vampires' Episode Six 'The Eyes that Mesmerise'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 249
46. The Vampires: Satanas (1916)
46 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
After Phil Guard and Normandin capture two Vampires, Irma Vep and Moreno, the latter is guillotined and the woman is condemned to life imprisonment. The authorities as well as Philip, good ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Louis Leubas, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 240
47. The Vampires: The Thunder Master (1916)
55 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Satanas, disguised as bishop goes to visit Irma Vep in prison to announce its issuance. The ship that takes Irma is cast in prison by Satanas. Irma Vep returns to Paris. Captured in turn Satanas commits suicide in prison.
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Louis Leubas, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, René Poyen
Votes: 241
48. The Vampires: The Poisoner (1916)
53 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
Satanas, having committed suicide in prison, Venenos becomes the head of the Vampires. He learns that Philip is engaged to be married and orders Irma Vep to take an apartment in the same ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Frédéric Moriss, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora
Votes: 236
49. The Vampires: The Terrible Wedding (1916)
60 min | Action, Crime, Mystery
The Vampires do not give up their attempts on the life of Philip Guard even after he is married. The wife of the janitor who was accidentally poisoned by wine meant for Philip's wedding is ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Frédéric Moriss, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Musidora
Votes: 229
50. The Vampires: The Spectre (1916)
32 min | Short, Action, Crime
'Les Vampires' Episode Four 'The Spectre'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 232
51. Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse at the Circus (1916)
3 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Krazy Kat and Ignatz Mouse go to the circus and end up harassing a lovely lady.
Votes: 221
52. The Half-Breed (1916)
73 min | Western
An outcast named Lo Dorman encounters a young woman lost in the woods. He defends her from danger in the forest and from Sheriff Dunn.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson
Votes: 223
53. The Waiters' Ball (1916)
TV-G | 16 min | Comedy, Short
Fatty and Al are competing to take the same girl to the Waiters' Ball, but the formal dress requirement presents a problem: Fatty owns a tuxedo, but Al does not.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Al St. John, Corinne Parquet, Joe Bordeaux
Votes: 212
54. The Vampires: Dead Man's Escape (1916)
37 min | Short, Action, Crime
'Les Vampires' episode five, 'The Corpse's Escape'
Director: Louis Feuillade | Stars: Jean Aymé, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Fernand Herrmann
Votes: 227
55. Flirting with Fate (1916)
Not Rated | 50 min | Adventure, Comedy
In the midst of an emotional depression, a man hires a murderer to kill him. But the despair soon passes, and the man must now escape the killer he's hired to end his life.
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, Howard Gaye, W.E. Lawrence
Votes: 213
56. The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
"Draw" Egan, a notorious bandit of New Mexico, has come to the end of his tether. His gang has been dispersed, many slain, and more in jail, and there is a reward of $1,000 offered for Egan... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, Louise Glaum
Votes: 212
57. The Danger Girl (1916)
Not Rated | 18 min | Comedy, Short
Madcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie.
Director: Clarence G. Badger | Stars: Bobby Vernon, Gloria Swanson, Helen Bray, Reggie Morris
Votes: 195
58. His Picture in the Papers (1916)
Not Rated | 62 min | Comedy
Pete Prindle wins the affections of Christine Cadwalader, but the father of the girl demands that Pete shall get a half interest in his father's food product company before he is allowed to... See full summary »
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Clarence Handyside, Rene Boucicault, Jean Temple
Votes: 188
59. I'm Insured (1916)
Unrated | 3 min | Animation, Short
A hungry man tries to get in an accident to collect on his insurance.
Director: Harry Palmer
Votes: 176
60. The Devil's Needle (1916)
59 min | Drama
Wynne Mortimer, a pampered society girl and daughter of William Mortimer, a prominent business man, chances to meet David White, a young artist whose fame is already assured, at an art ... See full summary »
Director: Chester Withey | Stars: Tully Marshall, Norma Talmadge, Marguerite Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 184
61. Il fuoco (la favilla - la vampa - la cenere) (1916)
45 min | Drama
Mario, an unknown painter, remains struck and obsessed with meeting a famous poet, already married, who will be able to charm him, so that he will no longer have the talent created to be able to paint.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Pina Menichelli, Febo Mari
Votes: 152
62. The Call of the Cumberlands (1916)
Passed | 62 min | Drama
A family feud erupts in the mountains of Kentucky.
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Winifred Kingston, Herbert Standing, Page Peters
Votes: 141
63. Tigre reale (1916)
80 min | Drama
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.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Pina Menichelli, Alberto Nepoti, Febo Mari, Valentina Frascaroli
Votes: 132
64. Eleanor's Catch (1916)
Unrated | 15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama
Eleanor, who earns her living working with her mother as a laundress, is courted by a bad man who will try to induct her into crime. Surprising finale. One of the few Cleo Madison surviving films.
Director: Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Lule Warrenton, William V. Mong, Edward Hearn
Votes: 128
65. A Movie Star (1916)
24 min | Comedy, Short
Just as the local movie theater is about to begin showing a picture, the star of the film arrives to see the movie himself. On screen, the star must rescue his girl from danger. In the ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Hibbard | Stars: Mack Swain, Louella Maxam, Mai Wells, Ray Grey
Votes: 120
66. Sold for Marriage (1916)
Passed | 50 min | Drama, Romance
A poor Russian girl's beauty leads her unscrupulous uncle to bring her to the United States. There he is going to sell her into a marriage with a rich old man she has never met. But her ... See full summary »
Director: Christy Cabanne | Stars: Lillian Gish, Frank Bennett, Walter Long, Allan Sears
Votes: 118
67. The Warrior (1916)
95 min | Action, Drama, War
A soldier of near-superhuman strength fights battles in the First World War and wages a private war to rescue a young woman from the castle where she is imprisoned.
Director: Giovanni Pastrone | Stars: Bartolomeo Pagano, Fido Schirru, Valentina Frascaroli, Enrico Gemelli
Votes: 123
68. Her Defiance (1916)
21 min | Short, Drama
Adeline falls in love with Frank, but her brother Theron wants her to marry rich Old Scapin, though she is carrying Frank's baby.
Directors: Joe King, Cleo Madison | Stars: Cleo Madison, Taylor N. Duncan, Edward Hearn, Willis Marks
Votes: 111
69. Homunculus, 1. Teil (1916)
69 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Foenss, a Danish star, is the perfect creature manufactured in a laboratory by Kuehne. Having discovered his origins, that he has no 'soul' and is incapable of love, he revenges himself on ... See full summary »
Director: Otto Rippert | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Ernst Ludwig, Adolf Paul, Albert Paul
Votes: 118
70. Manhattan Madness (1916)
50 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Steve O'Dare, a rich young man who has lived on his Nevada ranch for some years, returns to New York for a visit. He goes to the University Club, of which he is a member, for a week of New ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Jewel Carmen, John Richmond, Eugene Ormonde
Votes: 108
71. Mirazhi (1916)
37 min | Short, Drama
Director: Pyotr Chardynin | Stars: Arsenii Bibikov, Tamara Gedevanova, Andrey Gromov, Aleksandr Kheruvimov
Votes: 106
72. Farmer Al Falfa Sees New York (1916)
6 min | Animation, Short
Farmer Al Falfa goes to New York, money bag in hand. He is immediately spotted by a crook who dispatches a fetching lady to shake him down. At a restaurant, she gets him drunk and lays him ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Terry
Votes: 96
73. The Americano (1916)
61 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Doug is an American mining engineer. Pres. Valdez of Paragonia (Aitken) wants him to reopen the country's mines. Doug is not interested ... until he sees the President's beautiful daughter,... See full summary »
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Spottiswoode Aitken, Carl Stockdale
Votes: 94
74. Discontent (1916)
25 min | Short, Drama
An aging veteran, tired of his life in the veterans' home, decides to move in with his wealthy uncle.
Directors: Allen G. Siegler, Lois Weber | Stars: J. Edwin Brown, Charles Hammond, Katherine Griffith, Marie Walcamp
Votes: 125
75. The Cossack Whip (1916)
61 min | Drama
Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Grace Williams, Robert Walker, Frank Farrington
Votes: 95
76. Poor Little Peppina (1916)
48 min | Drama
A little girl is kidnapped by the Mafia in revenge for her father's help in capturing one of the mobsters. She is presumed dead, but in reality is spirited away to Italy, where she is ... See full summary »
Director: Sidney Olcott | Stars: Mary Pickford, Eugene O'Brien, Antonio Maiori, Ernest Torti
Votes: 89
77. Domestic Difficulties (1916)
8 min | Animation, Short
When Mrs. Mutt goes out for the evening, Mutt and Jeff arrange a visit to the local bar.
Director: Bud Fisher
Votes: 96
78. Christus (1916)
88 min | Drama
The story of the life of Christ.
Director: Giulio Antamoro | Stars: Alberto Pasquali, Amleto Novelli, Leda Gys, Augusto Mastripietri
Votes: 83
79. The Pilgrim (1916)
28 min | Short, Western
A wandering cowboy is hired by a ranch owner. When the other cowboys show the newcomer their refusal he turns to his donkey pal and his usual loneliness. Then his boss'daughter comes home ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Ann Little, Jack Richardson, Dick La Reno
Votes: 85
80. Beatrice Fairfax (1916)
300 min | Action, Adventure
Serial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter.
Directors: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Stars: Harry Fox, Grace Darling, Allan Murnane, Nigel Barrie
Votes: 77
81. Nugget Jim's Pardner (1916)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Western
Hal, the rich and good-for-nothing son of a rich man, is thrown out by his father after another night out. He ends up in the West and living with a gold digger. He'll help him with his daughter and they all will become fond of each other.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Frank Borzage, Jack Farrell, Ann Little, Dick La Reno
Votes: 75
82. East Is East (1916)
80 min | Drama, Romance
In the East London tenements lives one Alexandra Vickers, better known as "Viccy." She is rough-tongued, quick-tempered, and generous as far as her slender means allow. Her parents died ... See full summary »
Director: Henry Edwards | Stars: Florence Turner, Henry Edwards, Ruth Mackay, W.G. Saunders
Votes: 76
83. A Daughter of the Gods (1916)
Passed | 180 min | Drama
A sultan agrees to help a wicked witch destroy a mysterious young lady if the witch will bring his young son back from the dead with magic.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Annette Kellerman, William E. Shay, Hal De Forest, Marcelle Hontabat
Votes: 69
84. Bobby Bumps Helps a Book Agent (1916)
6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
A little boy and his beloved puppy find themselves in and out of mischief.
Director: Earl Hurd
Votes: 67
85. Lady Windermere's Fan (1916)
66 min | Comedy, Drama
A Lady mistakes her husband's mother for his mistress and takes a lover.
Director: Fred Paul | Stars: Milton Rosmer, Netta Westcott, Nigel Playfair, Irene Rooke
Votes: 66
86. The World and the Woman (1916)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama
A gay dinner party took place in one of Broadway's showiest restaurants. The host was a bachelor of wealth, and his guests included men of his own station in life, and young girls caught in... See full summary »
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Eugene Moore | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Boyd Marshall, Thomas A. Curran, Grace DeCarlton
Votes: 60
87. Homunculus (1916)
360 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love.
Director: Otto Rippert | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Ernst Ludwig, Albert Paul, Lore Rückert
Votes: 81
88. Hoffmanns Erzählungen (1916)
67 min | Fantasy
Characteristic for Hoffmann's work is his life-long fight against rationalism and for the revelation of nature morte, culminating mostly in carnival-like scenes anticipating literary techniques
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Kurt Wolowsky, Erich Kaiser-Titz, Max Ruhbeck, Paula Ronay
Votes: 58
89. An Innocent Magdalene (1916)
50 min | Drama
Dorothy Raleigh is a high-spirited Southern beauty who has been brought up by her father, Col. Raleigh, an unreconstructed Kentuckian, to have nothing to do with the townspeople of the ... See full synopsis »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Lillian Gish, Spottiswoode Aitken, Sam De Grasse, Mary Alden
Votes: 56
90. The Essanay-Chaplin Revue of 1916 (1916)
Comedy
Compilation of several Chaplin shorts made for the Essanay Company during 1915, including The Tramp, His New Job, and A Night Out.
Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Ben Turpin, Leo White
Votes: 55
91. The Aryan (1916)
50 min | Western
Denton rides into Yellow Ridge with a money-belt filled after years of toil in the mines beyond the desert. The local gamblers covet the fortune but fail to get Steve to try the roulette ... See full summary »
Directors: Reginald Barker, William S. Hart, Clifford Smith | Stars: William S. Hart, Gertrude Claire, Charles K. French, Louise Glaum
Votes: 64
92. Little Mary Sunshine (1916)
46 min | Drama
Just after Bob's fiancée breaks off their engagement, he meets young Mary, whose mother has just died, and the two of them comfort each other.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Marie Osborne, Henry King, Marguerite Nichols, Andrew Arbuckle
Votes: 58
93. His Wife's Mistakes (1916)
Comedy, Short
Roscoe Arbuckle is hired as an office building janitor. He fills in as barber, soda jerk and is mistaken for an important customer, pursued by a jealous husband.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Al St. John, Minta Durfee, Betty Gray
Votes: 62
94. Snow White (II) (1916)
116 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
"Mirror, mirror on the wall who's the fairest of them all?" The Wicked Queen knows that the looking glass will always answer, "you are." But one day, the magic mirror has something new to ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Weston | Stars: Aimee Ehrlich, Ruth Richie, Eleanor Assmus, Patsy Grace Lichtenburg
Votes: 58
95. The Children Pay (1916)
50 min | Drama
As part of a divorce settlement, Theodore Ainsley gets custody of his older daughter Millicent, and his wife Elinor gets their younger daughter Jean. The two girls, normally inseparable, ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Lillian Gish, Violet Wilkey, Keith Armour, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 52
96. Fighting the War (1916)
Not Rated | 23 min | Documentary, Short, War
A documentary showing numerous scenes of combat on the Western Front during the First World War.
Director: Donald C. Thompson
Votes: 50
97. The House Built Upon Sand (1916)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the factory town of Oreville, where he works among his ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Morrissey | Stars: Lillian Gish, Roy Stewart, William H. Brown, Bessie Buskirk
Votes: 47
98. The ABC of Love (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Comedy about Lis and boring fiancée Philip. Luring him to Paris she dresses up in men's clothing to go about town. Lis' arriving father discovers her plot and after trial and tribulation Lis finally marries Philip.
Director: Magnus Stifter | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Ludwig Trautmann, Magnus Stifter
Votes: 50
99. Das Phantom der Oper (1916)
76 min | Drama
In Paris in the 1880s, the beautiful opera singer, Christine, is captured and held against her will by the infamous "phantom of the opera".
Director: Ernst Matray | Stars: Aräschu, Nils Olaf Chrisander, Aud Egede-Nissen, Ernst Matray
Votes: 42
100. The Three Musketeers (1916)
63 min | Adventure
D'Artagnan goes to Paris and becomes a member of the famous King's Musketeers. The Queen sends him on a dangerous mission to England. His three companions are either captured or put out of ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: Orrin Johnson, Dorothy Dalton, Louise Glaum, Harvey Clark
Votes: 45
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