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1. Madame la Presidente (1916)
50 min | Comedy
The story tells of the troubles started by the fondness for gaiety of three mature French judges. With an eye to securing his good graces, they enjoy losing an occasional game of whist to ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Lloyd | Stars: Anna Held, Forrest Stanley, Herbert Standing, Page Peters
Votes: 16
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: 16,718 | Gross: $2.18M
3. 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
4. A Child of the Paris Streets (1916)
50 min | Drama
When the son of a leader of a Paris underworld family known as The Apaches is arrested and tried in court, the boy's mother asks the judge for mercy, but he refuses. In retaliation, the ... See full summary »
Director: Lloyd Ingraham | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Jennie Lee, Carl Stockdale
Votes: 25
5. The Isle of Life (1916)
50 min | Adventure, Romance
Sebastian Maure has never known the influence of a good woman's love. He is the type of man who takes a keen delight in knowing that he is held in awe and extends that feeling still further... See full summary »
Director: Burton George | Stars: Frank Whitson, Roberta Wilson, Hayward Mack, T.D. Crittenden
Votes: 21
6. Nearly a King (1916)
50 min | Romance, Comedy
A crown prince doesn't want to marry a foreign princess, so he asks an actor to take his place.
Director: Frederick A. Thomson | Stars: John Barrymore, Katherine Corri Harris, Russell Bassett, Beatrice Prentice
Votes: 44
7. 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
8. The Eternal Grind (1916)
Drama
Owen and Ernest Wharton, sons of sweatshop owner James Wharton, become interested in two of their father's employees. Owen, a settlement worker, falls in love with Mary, while Ernest, a ... See full summary »
Director: John B. O'Brien | Stars: Mary Pickford, Loretta Blake, Dorothy West, John Bowers
Votes: 20
9. 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
10. The Hypocrites (1916)
Drama
A squire tries to make his son deny he fathered a villager's child, and wed an heiress.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Elisabeth Risdon, Charles Rock, Cyril Raymond, Douglas Munro
Votes: 39
11. 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: 240
13. 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
14. Mágnás Miska (1917)
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Victor Varconi, Amália Jákó, Alajos Mészáros, Lili Berky
Votes: 19
15. 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: 239
16. The Patriot (1916)
50 min | Western
Bob Wiley had staked out a homestead in New Mexico, five miles from the border town of Lawton's Ridge. Wiley was a pioneer, a veteran of the Spanish-American War, and a devout believer in ... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Georgie Stone, Francis Carpenter, Joe Goodboy
Votes: 21
17. 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: 228
18. La vie de Bohème (1916)
Not Rated | 50 min | Romance
Orphaned Mimi (Alice Brady) is taken in by a drunken innkeeper and becomes a maid. She meets Rudolphe (Paul Capellani), heir of a upper-class family, who rescues her from the unwanted ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Capellani | Stars: Alice Brady, Paul Capellani, June Elvidge, Leslie Stowe
Votes: 33
19. Tot, kto poluchaet poshchechiny (1916)
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Directors: Aleksandr Ivanov-Gai, I. Schmidt | Stars: Illarion Pevtsov, Olga Baclanova, I. Vronsky, A. Nekrasov
Votes: 18
20. The Mutiny of the Bounty (1916)
55 min | Drama, Thriller
A disgruntled crew mutinies against their captain.
Director: Raymond Longford | Stars: George Cross, John Storm, D.L. Dalziel, Wilton Power
Votes: 35
21. 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
22. Arsene Lupin (1916)
74 min | Crime, Drama
An inspector tries to catch a gentleman thief.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Gerald Ames, Manora Thew, Kenelm Foss, Douglas Munro
Votes: 33
23. Oliver Twist (1916)
50 min | Drama
An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
Director: James Young | Stars: Marie Doro, Edythe Chapman, Tully Marshall, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 36
24. The Lost Bridegroom (1916)
50 min | Comedy
Suffering from aphasia after being conked on the head, a man is coerced into robbing his fiancée's home.
Director: James Kirkwood | Stars: John Barrymore, Katherine Corri Harris, Ida Darling, June Dale
Votes: 25
25. 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
26. The Scarlet Runner (1916)
Passed | Action
A series of 12 2-reel episodes, each a separate and unrelated story, relating the adventures of Christopher Race and his high-powered automobile, The Scarlet Runner. Each episode has a ... See full summary »
Director: Wally Van | Stars: Earle Williams, Marguerite Blake, L. Rogers Lytton, Charles Kent
27. War Brides (1916)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance, War
Joan is loved by a young man of the village and they are married. In a few weeks the husband, a soldier, is sent to the war-front along with his three brothers. Word is received that her ... See full summary »
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Alla Nazimova, Charles Hutchison, Charles Bryant, William Bailey
Votes: 30
28. 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: 57
29. The Three Godfathers (1916)
60 min | Western
Three outlaws fleeing a posse through the desert come upon a dying woman and her baby in a wagon. Before she passes away, she makes the men promise to take care of her baby and get it safely through the desert.
Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Harry Carey, Stella Razeto, George Berrell, Joe Rickson
Votes: 54
30. 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
31. 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: 235
32. 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: 248
33. 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
34. Maria Rosa (1916)
50 min | Drama
Ramon loves Catalonian peasant Maria Rosa. He uses a knife belonging to her love Andreas to kill fisherman Pedro, so Andreas goes to jail for ten years. Maria will wait for him, but Ramon ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, James Neill
Votes: 28 | Gross: $0.10M
35. The Foolish Virgin (1916)
50 min | Drama
When young schoolteacher Mary Adams is out of the classroom, she dreams of the days when the world was peopled by knights and beautiful ladies in distress. She is so imbued with the spirit ... See full summary »
Director: Albert Capellani | Stars: Clara Kimball Young, Conway Tearle, Paul Capellani, Catherine Proctor
Votes: 19
36. 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: 151
37. The Blacklist (1916)
50 min | Drama
Based on the 1915 Colorado miners strike. Warren Harcourt, the coal company manager, comes to the scene. This causes a chain of events that will change the current status quo.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Charles Clary, Ernest Joy, William Elmer
Votes: 30
38. 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
39. 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: 763
40. 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
41. Romeo and Juliet (II) (1916)
80 min | Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's tragedy of two young people who fall desperately in love despite the ancient feud between their two families, and how the sins of the fathers bring disaster to their children.
Directors: Francis X. Bushman, John W. Noble | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Beverly Bayne, Horace Vinton, John Davidson
Votes: 32
42. De Voortrekkers (1916)
54 min | Drama, History
This feature film from 1916 tells the story of South Africa's Boer pioneers in their epic trek across southern Africa in search of new land. It concentrates on the struggle against Zulu ... See full summary »
Director: Harold M. Shaw | Stars: Dick Cruikshanks, Caroline Frances Cooke, Jackie Turnbull, Bobby Rowson
Votes: 52
43. 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
44. Avatar (1916)
50 min | Drama, Fantasy
Based on Théophile Gautier's novel of the same name, the film tells of the tragic love affair of Ottavio de Saville. He falls madly in love with Madame Prascovie Labinska, a woman very ... See full summary »
Director: Carmine Gallone | Stars: Soava Gallone, Andrea Habay, Augusto Mastripietri, Amleto Novelli
Votes: 28
45. Ramona (1916)
Drama
On the estate of Senora Moreno in Southern California, the senora's adopted daughter Ramona lives. She falls in love with Alessandro, an Indian of noble heritage. When her adoptive mother ... See full summary »
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Adda Gleason, Mabel Van Buren, Ann Dvorak, Monroe Salisbury
Votes: 22
46. 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: 847
47. Romeo and Juliet (I) (1916)
70 min | Drama
Shakespeare's classic tale of ill-fated lovers whose deaths bring peace to their warring families.
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Theda Bara, Harry Hilliard, Glen White, Walter Law
Votes: 21
48. 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
49. 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
50. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine (1916)
50 min | Drama
Jack Hale, a revenue agent, is sent into the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia to track down illegal alcohol producers - "moonshiners." His task is complicated when he falls in love with June Tolliver, daughter of one his intended quarry.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Charlotte Walker, Thomas Meighan, Earle Foxe, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 34
51. 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: 1,126
52. 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
53. Vice Versa (1916)
Comedy, Fantasy
A pompous father magically changes places with his schoolboy son.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Charles Rock, Douglas Munro, Edward O'Neill, Guy Newall
Votes: 20
54. 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
55. 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
56. 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
57. 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
58. 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
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