The Best Movies Of 1919

Newsreel located during the Dawson City film find.

A woman in Canada is abused by her aunt and falls in love with a foreign composer, who comes to find inspiration in her and the star-crossed romance that develops between them.

Charlie Chaplin, in animated cartoon form, visits the beach, has some fun at the expense of a female bather and gets into trouble with Mike the candy cane-loving cop.

A terrible toothache causes Jack Robin to stop his automobile in front of the home of Dorothy Mason. Noticing a flat tire, Jack attaches his automatic pump and forgets about it as he listens enthralle...

Secret Serviceman Allen takes a job at Bart Stevens' mine in order to find evidence proving that Stevens is a mail robber named Smoke Gublen. He does - but by then, he is in love with the man's sister...

Prohibition has just gone into effect, and Judge Rummy's wife eagerly throws away all of the Judge's liquor. She also plans to have a temperance lecturer use him as an example of the evils of drink. W...

Larry working behind the scenes at a vaudeville show and mess things up.

In a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live, there was a love story between an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist.

Oscar Krug is looked upon by his neighbors with suspicion because he has a German name. When the US is involved in the war with Germany, he enlisted and traveled with his wife, Alice. Alice was snatch...

The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.

Gaston finally succeeds as a dramatist and decides to leave his wife and child for another woman. When the child dies, the finger is pointed at him and he winds up as a destitute before all is reveale...

A man leaves his wife alone every evening to gamble and enjoy the nightlife. But one night, when he arrives home, he finds her drinking and smoking languorously next to the butler.

A poor hat-check girl loses her job and is forced to get a job as a dancer at a roadhouse. She fell in love with the son of a rich businessman there. The boy's father decided to humiliate her and show...

About a deceptive bourgeois couple that blends their acquaintances into their dubious business.

When anarchist bombs disrupt the engagement ball of Princess Marie Pavlovna, her fiancé, Prince Michail Koloyar, helps her to escape in a carriage. Then Theo Kameneff, secretly in the pay of a foreign...

Melodrama with the theme of class difference between a Count and the daughter of a ringmaster. They marry but their environment work against them in all kinds of fronts.

John Stonehouse (William Russell) checks into a hotel, intending to commit suicide. But instead he winds up helping a girl, Gilberte Bonheur (Fritzi Brunette), out of a jam. He finds her bending over ...

After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, w...

A rich half-caste is abandoned after a mock marriage, has a stillborn baby, and weds the man who helps her.

Delirium in the East.

Helen Rowland is indifferent towards her wealthy husband Henry and spends most of her time at social events. Henry agrees to give financial assistance to young clergyman John Sterling if Helen can bec...

A man searches for a cursed emerald belonging to his ancestor.

A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must b...

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.

Harold Lloyd! This time, he's the skinny sap who married the hottie, and he doesn't quite have the spine to tell her ex-beaus to blow. The honeymoon finds him mistaken for a boiler worker and yeah wel...

Alice Chesterton is described as a "Baby Vamp" by the social set and engaged to boring Tom Carey. She flirts with many of the male guests idling at the Ives' Long Island house party, then encourages T...

The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer. The officer returns to Europe but promises ...

Sally Meyer, a young Berliner, persuades his Doctor to convince his wife that he is ill, so that he is able to take a holiday in the Austrian Alps in order to pursue women. Meyer dresses up in what he...

"Fatty", a poor good hearted farm boy is deeply in love with Winifred, a farmer's daughter. A rich neighbor offers the farmer a large plot of land if Winifred marries his slow witted son Al. "Fatty" h...

While working as a dishwasher in a fashionable New York hotel, Elsie MacFarland often sneaks upstairs to enviously peek at the people dancing to jazz music. Seeing the attractive Elsie dressed in a bo...

The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actuall...

While blindfolded and playing pin the tail on the donkey with some lady friends, our hero is mistaken for an escaped initiate of a kooky fraternal order.

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.

From workers opening bales of cotton, this film follows the processes that turn the raw resource into a product ready for the shops. Cleaning, straightening, carding, spinning and weaving - all these ...

A pastor's daughter falls into the depths of a spy plot concerning war plans and fortifications when she is involved in the theft of a jewel known as the 'Dark Star'.