The Best of 1919
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1. Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man and the Girl (1919)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Donald Crisp, Arthur Howard
Votes: 11,058
2. J'accuse! (1919)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Horror, War
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.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Votes: 2,048
3. The Doll (1919)
Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ossi Oswalda, Hermann Thimig, Victor Janson, Max Kronert
Votes: 2,362
4. Behind the Door (1919)
70 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A German-American naval officer takes revenge against the German submarine commander who brutalized his wife.
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, James Gordon, J.P. Lockney
Votes: 378
5. Sir Arne's Treasure (1919)
Not Rated | 122 min | Drama, History
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.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Erik Stocklassa, Bror Berger, Richard Lund, Axel Nilsson
Votes: 1,555
6. Jön az öcsém (1919)
8 min | Drama, Short
The family waits for the returning brother. The young revolutionary emerges from behind the brow of the hill holding a fluttering flag. The enemies fight a bloody battle. The hero and his ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Oscar Beregi Sr., József Kürthy, Lucy Doraine, Ferenc Szécsi
Votes: 105
7. True Heart Susie (1919)
Not Rated | 87 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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 ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Wilbur Higby, Loyola O'Connor
Votes: 1,991
8. Male and Female (1919)
Not Rated | 116 min | Adventure, Drama
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.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton, Robert Cain
Votes: 1,975
9. Blind Husbands (1919)
Not Rated | 102 min | Drama, Romance
An Austrian officer sets out to seduce a neglected young wife.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Francelia Billington, Erich von Stroheim, Gibson Gowland
Votes: 1,691
10. Different from the Others (1919)
Not Rated | 50 min | Crime, Drama, History
Two male musicians fall in love, but blackmail and scandal makes the affair take a tragic turn.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Leo Connard, Ilse von Tasso-Lind, Alexandra Willegh
Votes: 1,488
11. The Clown's Pups (1919)
3 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
The Inkwell Clown draws a crude bulldog. Max draws his own bulldog, and the two dogs start fighting each other, with the clown caught in the middle.
Director: Dave Fleischer | Star: Max Fleischer
Votes: 111
12. The Tantalizing Fly (1919)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
Director: Max Fleischer | Stars: Roland Crandall, Max Fleischer
Votes: 372
13. Young Mr. Jazz (1919)
10 min | Comedy, Short
While running away from his girl's father, their car breaks down in front of a dance hall run by crooks. Harold has to not only stay one step ahead of the girl's father, but also those trying to rob them of everything they have.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 663
14. Ask Father (1919)
Passed | 13 min | Comedy, Short
The young couple have decided to marry and it is time to ask the father for the hand of his daughter. Problem is, the father does not want to give the daughter away. So every time he goes ... See full summary »
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, 'Snub' Pollard, Bebe Daniels, Sammy Brooks
Votes: 1,232
15. Captain Kidd's Kids (1919)
Passed | 20 min | Comedy, Short
After a wild bachelor party, our hero finds himself aboard a sailing vessel where he encounters numerous adventures. In a dream sequence, he fantasizes that the ship is seized by a band of female pirates.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Fred C. Newmeyer
Votes: 538
16. A Day's Pleasure (1919)
TV-G | 18 min | Short, Comedy
A father takes his family for an outing, which turns out to be a ridiculous trial.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, C. Allen, Naomi Bailey
Votes: 3,637
17. Ingmarssönerna (1919)
207 min | Drama
Lill-Ingmar is having a troublesome love life with his bride to be Brita.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Harriet Bosse, Tore Svennberg, Hildur Carlberg
Votes: 178
18. The Mother and the Law (1919)
Not Rated | 95 min | Drama
A re-edited version of the 'modern' story from Intolerance (1916).
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Mae Marsh, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper, Vera Lewis
Votes: 242
19. From Hand to Mouth (1919)
TV-G | 22 min | Comedy, Short, Action
A penniless young man tries to save an heiress from kidnappers and help her secure her inheritance.
Directors: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, 'Snub' Pollard, Peggy Cartwright
Votes: 1,163
20. Bumping Into Broadway (1919)
TV-G | 25 min | Comedy, Short
Young playwright spends his last cent to pay the rent of struggling actress in a theatrical boarding house. Pursuing her, he winds up at a gambling club, where he wins big, just before a police raid.
Director: Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Bebe Daniels, 'Snub' Pollard, Helen Gilmore
Votes: 1,388
21. When the Clouds Roll by (1919)
85 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Psychiatrist Dr. Ulrich Metz attempts to drive Daniel Brown to suicide.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Albert MacQuarrie, Kathleen Clifford, Frank Campeau
Votes: 980
22. Love (1919)
TV-G | 23 min | Short, Comedy
A farm boy must rescue his sweetheart from being married off to someone she does not love.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Monty Banks, Frank Hayes, Kate Price
Votes: 338
23. Back Stage (1919)
Not Rated | 26 min | Short, Comedy
Working their fingers to the bone to prepare the set for an upcoming performance, the enthusiastic stagehands, Roscoe and Buster, find themselves on stage when the cast quits. However, is will alone enough to earn a big round of applause?
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Charles A. Post
Votes: 1,407
24. Sunnyside (1919)
34 min | Comedy, Short
Charlie works on a farm from 4am to late at night. He gets his food on the run (milking a cow into his coffee, holding an chicken over the frying pan to get fried eggs). He loves the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Olive Ann Alcorn, Albert Austin
Votes: 3,307
25. The Oyster Princess (1919)
Not Rated | 60 min | Comedy
An American heiress seeks the hand of an impoverished German prince.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein
Votes: 2,162
26. The Dragon Painter (1919)
TV-PG | 53 min | Drama, Romance
A wild man and genius becomes a master painter's disciple, but loses his divine gift when he finds love.
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Edward Peil Sr., Toyo Fujita
Votes: 665
27. The Cigarette (1919)
TV-PG | 51 min | Drama
A Parisian museum director believes his wife has lost interest in him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk - thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Andrée Brabant, Gabriel Signoret, Jules Raucourt, Genevieve Williams
Votes: 379
28. The Broken Butterfly (1919)
58 min | Drama
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.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Lew Cody, Mary Alden, Pauline Starke, Peaches Jackson
Votes: 214
29. The Wicked Darling (1919)
59 min | Drama, Crime
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.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wellington A. Playter, Lon Chaney, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 480
30. The Girl Who Stayed at Home (1919)
Passed | 60 min | Drama, War
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.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Adolph Lestina, Carol Dempster, Frances Parks, Richard Barthelmess
Votes: 141
31. Victory (1919)
Not Rated | 62 min | Drama, Romance
Axel Heyst, an uncommitted wanderer, has settled on an island in the South Seas. He takes pity on a troubled young woman, Lena, and gives her refuge on her island. But the piratical Mr. ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Jack Holt, Seena Owen, Wallace Beery, Ben Deeley
Votes: 464
32. Die Teufelskirche (1919)
47 min | Horror
The Devil takes a trip disguised as a tinker. He meets Frau Ane, farmer Asmus' wife, who yearns to have a baby but in vain. So the devil takes advantage of Frau Ane's motherly inner desire by making a deal with her.
Director: Hans Mierendorff | Stars: Hans Mierendorff, Otto Werther, Agnes Straub, Paul Rehkopf
Votes: 66
33. The Man Beneath (I) (1919)
58 min | Crime, Drama
The renown Hindu scientist, Dr. Chindi Ashutor, who has conquered plague in India, visits Scotland and falls in love with Kate Erskine, whose sister Mary is engaged to Ashutor's college ... See full summary »
Director: William Worthington | Stars: Sessue Hayakawa, Helen Jerome Eddy, Pauline Curley, John Gilbert
Votes: 57
34. Don't Change Your Husband (1919)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody, Sylvia Ashton
Votes: 1,272
35. Passion (1919)
Not Rated | 113 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Pola Negri, Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 1,003
36. The President (1919)
75 min | Drama
A judge sees his illegitimate daughter facing a trial for the murder of her newborn child, also out of wedlock. He is certain that she will be sentenced to death.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Richard Christensen, Christian Engelstoft, Hallander Helleman, Halvard Hoff
Votes: 1,057
37. The Hoodlum (1919)
Not Rated | 78 min | Comedy
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Mary Pickford, Ralph Lewis, Kenneth Harlan, T.D. Crittenden
Votes: 1,039
38. Daddy-Long-Legs (1919)
Unrated | 85 min | Comedy, Drama
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.
Director: Marshall Neilan | Stars: Mary Pickford, Milla Davenport, Percy Haswell, Fay Lemport
Votes: 1,474
39. The Witness for the Defense (1919)
50 min | Crime, Drama
Stella Derrick is tried for the murder of her vicious husband. She is saved, apparently, by the false testimony of Henry Thresk. But Thresk has motives and malevolent plans of his own.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Elsie Ferguson, Vernon Steele, Warner Oland, Wyndham Standing
Votes: 57
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