Lillian Gish Movies

Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

In Depression-era West Virginia, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Billy Chapin

The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their beloved adopted daughter was stolen from the Kiowa tribe.

Genre: Western

Cast: Burt Lancaster

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other...

Genre: Western

Cast: Jennifer Jones

A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jennifer Jones

A grounded American fighter pilot is switched to espionage on a special job in which he must kill a small-time Paris lawyer suspected of...

Genre: War

Cast: Eddie Albert

Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fred MacMurray

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

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

France, on the eve of the French Revolution. Henriette and Louise have been raised together as sisters. When the plague that takes their parents'...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Elmer Booth

Muffin's wedding to Dino Corelli is to be a big affair. Except the ageing priest isn't too sure of the ceremony, only the families actually turn up...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Desi Arnaz Jr.

Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alan Alda

Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Bette Davis

Angela Chiaromonte is the daughter of a wealthy Italian prince who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Angela stands to inherit half of a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

In Renaissance Florence, a Florentine trader meets a shipwrecked stranger, who introduces himself as Tito Melema, a young Italianate-Greek scholar....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Patients and staff at a posh psychiatric clinic clash over who chooses the clinic’s new drapes - but drapes are the least of their problems.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Widmark

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Hounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case.

Genre: Crime

Cast: David Janssen

A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The physician's death orphans his two adolescent daughters. Their older brother is able to convert some of the doctor's small estate to cash. But it...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Griffith adapts the story of the Apocryphal Book of Judith to the screen. During the siege of the Jewish city of Bethulia by the Assyrian tyrant...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

A gentle widower, enraged at Nazi atrocities against his peaceful Norwegian fishing village, escapes to Britain and returns leading a commando force...

Genre: War

Cast: Paul Muni

Seamen Enoch Arden returns home after a long absence marooned on a desert island. At home he finds his wife married to another, and though he loves...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Alfred Paget

Two young girls are sent away to live with their uncle, which sets off a chain of events resulting in an Indian attack on the town.

Genre: Action

Cast: Mae Marsh

It is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lillian Gish

To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

An elderly woman searches for her lost dog. Director Roy Watts' 1984 drama stars Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O. J. Simpson, Alan Hale...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lillian Gish

Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Roland Young

John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lillian Gish

It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love....

Genre: Romance

Cast: Walter Miller

In this latter day Cain and Abel story, a jealous brother strikes down his sibling just as a young burglar is about to enter the house. The jealous...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

John Howard Payne leaves home and begins a career in the theater. Despite encouragement from his mother and his sweetheart, Payne begins to lead a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years later, "Little Miss Yes'm", as...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

To the dismay of Allison Edwards, her bookworm, adoring neighbor, Mary Randolph, falls in love with and marries Jack Van Norman, a rich and handsome...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

In this WW II musical, a young man suddenly finds himself in charge of his family when his father is called to war. To help the flagging spirits of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Donald O'Connor

A student nurse falls in love with a young intern in 1910 Baltimore, but tragedy ensues when he contracts a fatal disease.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Veronica Lake

Philip de Mornay, a courtier in the French royal court of the 18th century, falls in love with Daphne La Tour, the daughter of a nobleman. Knowing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

American and British tourists get caught up in political unrest in Haiti.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Burton

A princess is forced to choose between a charming tutor and a rakish prince.

Genre: Romance

Cast: Lillian Gish

What will become of the Children in a home divided....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Evelyn Dare is a butterfly of fashion. David Westebrooke, her fiancé, is an altruist interested in sociology. He has made his home in the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lillian Gish

Phillips Christy an amateur sociologist from a wealthy family, subscribes to the theory that people are shaped by their environment. When he falls in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lillian Gish

When Dorothy's Southern, aristocratic father Colonel Raleigh refuses to let her marry Forbes Stewart, a Northern gambler, the couple elopes. When...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Jim Young of Youngstown, Pennsylvania, reads of the German war atrocities and decides to enlist in the British army, thus becoming a forerunner of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A lost film. Leo Peret has a small quiet tobacco shop in Greenwich Village. Edward Livingston, a wealthy young clubman and man-about-town, comes in...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The unwilling dupe of her step-father, she became the decoy of the wealthy young man, but at the crucial moment she saved both herself and the young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Suspected of theft, the Indian was discharged on the ranch-hand's accusation, but the foreman's suspicions against the hand were confirmed in time to...

Genre: Western

Cast: Lillian Gish

A lonely young woman lives with her strict father who forbids her to wear make-up. One day at an ice cream social, she meets a young man you seems...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

This documentary traces the life and work of the legendary "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford, silent film star, movie pioneer and keen...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michael York

Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Henri Langlois

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...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Two part biography of Greta Garbo - 1. The Temptress 2. The Clown. Reminiscences of her early life in Stockholm, with excerpts from her films....

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Greta Garbo

Lillian Vale is the naïve and unworldly daughter of minister Josiah Vale. Swept off her feet by handsome Robert Powers, Lillian marries him,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Intimate views of the movie stars of the Silent Era, at work and play; featuring Sessue Hayakawa, Lillian Gish and others.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roscoe Arbuckle

Instead of buying bonds, Lillian buys new clothes. Then she has a dream that her home has been invaded by German soldiers, and her family has been...

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Cast: Lillian Gish

Behind the scenes short documentary about the cast and crew during the filming of The Comedians.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Elizabeth Taylor

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Ramon Novarro

In the span of five years, pioneering director D.W. Griffith delivered some 450 films for the Biograph Company at a rate of two or three films per...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Elmer Booth

From its simple beginnings in 1939 in a sleepy beach town in the south of France, the prestigious Cannes Film Festival has become the must-attend red...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Clint Eastwood

The supposition was that she was born a tease, for from her first teeth to the time she was almost grown, she vented her witcheries on her...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mae Marsh

Short documentary about Charles Laughton's 1995 film "The Night of the Hunter," with interviews with the cast and crew.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Robert Mitchum

A drama critic learns on his wedding day that his beloved maiden aunts are homicidal maniacs, and that insanity runs in his family.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Helen Hayes

The careers of D.W. Griffith, Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, and Charlie Chaplin are chronicled culminating in the formation of United Artists and...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Roddy McDowall

Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Donald Crisp

The story of Swedish silent film actress Sigrid Holmquist's life (1899-1970), by using the silent film medium. It consists of already existing film...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Sigrid Holmquist

Daughter of the owner of a shoe store rebels against her father by marrying one of his employees.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Richard Thomas

A farmer has saved all his life to pay for his daughter's wedding, but when his brother is fired from his job on the oil rig, the wedding must be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: W. Chrystie Miller

This insightful documentary features some of the major and most beautiful actresses to grace the silver screen. It shows how the movie industry...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Carl King

The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Anjelica Huston

The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more than 300 films over 10 years. Frances...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Paula Wagner

Ossie Davis narrates a history of "race films," films made before 1950 which catered to a primarily black audience.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ossie Davis

Documentary about the life and legend of Sarah L. Winchester, heiress to the Winchester Repeating Arms Company who, after the death of her husband...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Gish

A teacher falls in love with a student, and deals with the reactions of the people around her.

Genre: TV Movie

Cast: Kate Jackson

The question is, would the young tramp really have fallen in love with the groceryman's daughter if he had not caught her in the heart struggle? Be...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A nostalgic look at film clips from the Silent era.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Ward Wilson

Jim Miller lives in a cheap tenement with his wife and his sister. They had been in a better position in other days, but Jim has developed into a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

A widower and his two daughters live in the wilds of the north woods. They form the acquaintance of two trappers, Bob Cole and Jim Watson, who hunt...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Kitty, the pretty young wife of a Texas businessman, feels neglected and unwanted as her husband pays more attention to his business interests than...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The Tear That Burned is a silent movie drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Set in London (but filmed in New Jersey), the story endeavors to prove that man's greatest enemy is liquor. When elderly tosspot John Warriner is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A picture from the short story of Ellen Farley in "The Cavalier," and screened by John O'Brian. The story is of a girl who tries to be an author and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Everything he did seemed to be misconstrued, except by the little lady he loved. The town roisters made fun of her and his love. That made trouble...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The bored clubman sought the excitement of the street. The husband, believing himself neglected for his child, left his home. There in the back...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Nettie is beloved by all the boys in the mining camp. Magoon, a big, jovial miner, loves her most of all, however, and asks her to become his wife....

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Captain Lanning and Lieutenant Osborne are stationed at an army post in the Philippines. Lanning conceives a deadly hatred toward Osborne when the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

After Gasper La Sage and his cohort, Blink Blunk, are released from prison, they make plans for another robbery. The scheme, which requires La Sage...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Identical twin brothers who own a detective agency hatch a plan to expose a phony group of psychics, but soon find themselves involved in a murder.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jim Hager

Before his niece and ward, Dosia Dale, comes of age, her uncle, who has spent her entire fortune, must think of a way to account for his actions. He...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

A potentially violent patient in an insane asylum is calmed when he hears a nurse playing the piano. But shortly afterwards he breaks free, eludes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

A woman has to live with a daughter in law who hates her and a son who does not dare take her side. While the unhappy family lives in a Houston...

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Cast: Lillian Gish

May and her younger sister, Carol, live in a small town. May is the more lovely of the two, but Carol is wooed by Frank, a country boy. George, a...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

Royal Macklin, a cadet at WEst Point, is discharged for a misdemeanor, and the father of Beatrice, Macklin's sweetheart, order her to break the...

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Cast: Lillian Gish

A girl tends a garden planted with symbolic flowers: red roses for lust and white roses for love. Daddy Wisdom encourages the girl to cultivate the...

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Cast: Lillian Gish

When the double wedding takes two daughters away from the old man at once, the youngest, now the only one left, in outraged spirit promises never to...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

It was Christmas Eve in the south, but the spirit of peace and love did not pervade the northern girl's heart. The gallantry of the young southern...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Robert Harron

Roy Norris, a young author, proposes to pretty Mary Ford and is accepted. The first year or more of their married life is one of bliss, made all the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

A stage dancer (Sweet) and a serious-type homebody (Walthall) discover, after marriage, that their individual styles don't mesh. The movie includes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Blanche Sweet

The young lover leaving home at the opening of the war to join the Confederate Army, tells his brother to take care of his fatherless sweetheart...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Miller

Just before she dies, an elderly married woman stashes the horde of money she's secretly accumulated beneath the false bottom of an old shipping...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Mary Pickford

The Stolen Bride is a 1913 short drama.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Harry Carey

An abusive father and husband attends a play one night and sees that the "villain" in the piece does to his family exactly what he is doing to his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Miller

The buoyant energy of a modern woman who bobs her hair and dances to jazz is too often objectified and repressed by a figure like that of Robert...

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Cast: Robert Mitchum

New York, summer 1983. Jeanne Moreau goes to meet Lillian Gish to film a portrait of her. The star of American silent films invites her to her...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Gish

The most glittering, expensive, and exhausting videotaping session in television history took place Friday February 19, 1982 at New York's Radio City...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jane Alexander

Called "the first lady of the silent screen," Lillian Gish was the archetypal silent film heroine — the delicate damsel in distress, stranded...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Lillian Gish

A documentary of Hollywood's first great Latin Lover, the contradictions in his personal life, and his premature death.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Frank Gallop

Calumny is one of the most despicable crimes against our neighbor, and while the wife in this story acted conventionally, she nevertheless maligned...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

As the husband leaves for the lumber regions, his wife gives him a memory message to be opened after his arrival. Attracted by a maid, cherished by...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Elmer Booth

Knocked down by an automobile, the intoxicated tramp is taken to the doctor's house, received and treated to a square meal. The husband of a patient...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

The thief was clever and he forged around the girl's sweetheart a chain of circumstantial evidence that seemingly had no flaw. The girl's faith was...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lillian Gish

The brothers choose between love and gold. The three brothers sought the gold regions. The fourth chose to be a stay-at-home. He sought just love,...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Lionel Barrymore

Called away on a deal, the ranchero left the foreman in full charge of the round-up. That was the opportunity the stranger and his accomplice were...

Genre: Western

Cast: Frank Opperman

It is house cleaning time. Mother-in-law leaves, but insists that husband must be put to work, but husband hires a man, while he goes fishing. Our...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Walter Miller

The young wife only reflected her aspiring mother's teaching. Her one ambition seemed to be for display and to keep her reputation as a woman of...

Genre: Drama

Cast: James Cooley

From the dungeon where the lean beasts prowled, Hassan Bey summoned from her young lover's arms the old rug maker's daughter. Still she was obdurate....

Genre: Drama

Cast: William Welsh

"The Hunchback" earns a scanty living as a tinker, traveling from house to house, but on account of his deformity, there is no one who cares for him....

Genre: Drama

Cast: F.A. Turner

A two-reel comedy featuring Corliss Palmer, First Prize Winner of the 1920 Fame and Fortune Contest, and over 1000 other girls. Also showing the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Corliss Palmer

Based on the screenplay by Mel Dinelli, this story revolves around Helen Warren, a beautiful mute girl, who becomes the target of a mysterious killer...

Genre: Thriller

Cast: Elizabeth Montgomery

A Duel for Love is a 1914 dramatic short.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Dorothy Gish

This shows the regeneration of a gang leader, who remains true to his first sweetheart after his change of fortune.

Genre: Drama

Cast: George Siegmann

Adventurous Huck Finn prefers rafting on the Mississippi River rather than being a part of civilization.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Patrick Day

This special is the second "Night of 100 Stars" to benefit The Actors Fund of America. Edited from a seven-hour live entertainment marathon that was...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Debbie Allen

There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice...

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Cast: Lillian Gish

A parody of D. W. Griffith's "The Birth of a Nation", "I Am Not a Racist" rearranges the scenes of the classic movie and recreates its dialogues to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Henry B. Walthall

In this handmade film, composed of more than four thousand collages, the actress Lillian Gish is seamlessly appropriated from silent-era cinema and...

Genre: Animation

Cast: Lillian Gish

TCM host Ben Mankiewicz hosts this 50th anniversary special, with archival footage from 50 years of tributes to various legends in film by the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Ben Mankiewicz

An assembled compilation of footage from rushes, outtakes, and behind-the-scenes moments featuring Charles Laughton directing The Night of the...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Charles Laughton