Cinematic Era: 1919 Vintage

The Puncher and the Pup

The film addresses the story of a character from the colonial era, inspired by the viceregal legend of Juan Manuel Solórzano, whose madness and jealousy lead to multiple murders.

Thou Shalt Not is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by Charles Brabin and starring Evelyn Nesbit, Ned Burton and Crauford Kent.

Spanish horror movie from 1919.

A precursor short film to the Secrets of Nature shorts.

Bettler GmbH is a 1919 German silent film directed by Alwin Neuß and starring Paul Otto and Lil Dagover

Everybody's Business is a 1919 American silent drama film directed by J. Searle Dawley and starring Charles Richman and Alice Calhoun. It is now considered a lost film and the full cast is unknown. It marked the screen debut of Calhoun. Not to be confused with the 1917 film by Ralph Dewsbury.

"Smash-Up in China" is a very early animated film. The story consists of the Hooligan telling the little hooligans about his supposed adventures in China. He saves the life of the Prime Minister, meets the Emperor and nearly gets himself blown up!

A young woman rejects the advances of a Mexican bandit. He kidnaps her sister, saying he will keep her until the woman changes her mind. The young woman organises a posse to rescue her sister.

Harold and Snub take a trip on a runaway airplane and drop off on a native island. Here they have some amusing adventures with the fierce men and beautiful women of the place.

A young girl returns to her father's country, but her joy is short-lived. She is courted by a neighbouring fisherman, but also by the captain of her father's ship, who has shady intentions towards her.

Based on Maurice Level's novel "L, Angoisse". The final film of Ilse Wilke.

Adele Bleneau is a young nurse who assists her father, a renowned surgeon/. While in Washington, DC, she meets and falls in love with a British army officer, Capt. Fraser. While traveling by ship to France with her father, she meets Count von Schulling, a German diplomat who is an acquaintance of her father. Von Schulling falls for the pretty young Adele. While in France, Adele organizes a rescue party to save Capt. Fraser, who has been on a secret mission behind enemy lines and has been wounded. In a twist of fate, Adele finds the wounded Fraser and takes him to a hospital, but Count von Schuling, who has also been wounded, is placed in the same room as Fraser. When the hospital is overrun by German forces, Adele is placed in a delicate position by von Sculling: either spy for the Germans or Fraser will be shot.

Documents the rule of the Spartakusbund during the period of the Rätepublik in Munich and how it was then suppressed by the Reichswehr.

When government security files entrusted to a Rear Admiral go missing, his daughter aims to track them down.

This short 1919 cartoon, produced by Ford Motor Company, shows a farmer Uncle Sam braining a huge rat branded with "I.W.W." (Industrial Workers of the World) before it can eat the grain.

Inspired by the tango "De vuelta al pago", by the pianist Armando Chimenti.

A beautiful woman of the Latin Quarter, marries a rich cattle owner Pedro Maurez from South America to live in peace and happiness. The arrival of young Parisian Paul Durand wets her interest again in the old haunts of Paris. When her husband is slain in an uprising of laborers, she is again thrown on her own resources.

A drama based on the novel by Mór Jókai.

Slipper hero Ernst Rolf is married to a real Xantippa and also has concerns with the economy, so when the superintendent is shirking his home. In town, he meets his friend Boman and accompanies him to the Opera Terrace. There, he laments that the sweet woman he once married has turned into a bitch. He fantasizes about other women (who dances in his mind in trick photography on the terrace table). Boman decides to help him by writing a letter, in which Rolf called to a meeting in Jönköping. The idea is to Rolf with this pretext to escape from home and be able to amuse themselves on Hasselbackens masquerade next evening.

Boy trying to impress girl, gets chased by her father and the police right into an ongoing marathon.

Tempest goes out on a search for a young man who wronged a girl friend. She captures the wrong fellow, but the real one shows up and marries the girl. Ninth in the Spurs and Saddles series of two-reel Westerns.

Gérard, who grew up without parents, has become a doctor and has made an important medical discovery. But he needs substantial funding. One night he finds a brochure about the life of actress Mariette Ducros, now dead, and her child. Her father, Ledoux, lives in Blois. He is a rich collector. Gérard pretends he is Mariette's child. Mr. et Mrs. Ledoux greet him warmly. Out of shame he confesses the truth to Mrs. Ledoux. When she tells her husband, he decides to go to Gérard's office. He talks to Gérard's patients, mothers who claim his medicine saved their children. Mr. Ledoux realizes he found an adopted son in Gérard.

After her stepfather's death, orphan Marty McKenzie and her companion, teacher Fannie Perkins, find themselves in financial straits. To raise money, they rebuild an old van and travel in it selling antiques. In the process of finding antiques, they discover an old trunk containing information that Marty is the granddaughter of wealthy Mrs. Burgess. Marty and Fannie locate Mrs. Burgess' home, but when Marty finally meets Mrs. Burgess, the welcome is decidedly uncordial.

Knockabout comedy that grabs attention through its setting of the Pwyllgwaun colliery near Pontypridd.

A film on venereal disease made by the United States government.

After George bests a rival suitor for the fire chief's daughter, the rival tries revenge by attempting to burning down their house. Meanwhile, the fire department has been taken over by a gang of bathing beauty chorines.

Robert Wingate, a graft fighting candidate for governor, falls in love with Eleanor Brewster, his opponent's daughter.

Cyril makes wife Violet angry and finds himself trying to win his wife back!

A 1919 film starring Pola Negri.

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Daniel Robin has become mixed up with a band of criminals known as "the 13," and is shot when he refuses to do their bidding. His daughter Ruth, brought home from boarding school, reaches his bedside before he expires. He tells her that she will be given thirteen keys. Instructions will be provided with each key and, if she follows the instructions, she will eventually fully learn of her birthright. Many adventures then follow as Ruth attempts to solve the puzzle of each key and establish her true birthright.

Romantic comedy variation on "The Taming of the Shrew" starring Alice Brady.

The Bank Clerk is a 1919 American short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle. The film is considered to be lost.

Dud is a disappointment to his parents.

In Rhodesia, a woman leaves her cruel husband when their baby dies.

Three-year-old Charles Stuart Wyngate longs to be a Boy Scout, while his seven-year-old sister Violet, who wishes that she was a boy named Bill, desires to help the war effort through Red Cross work. The children play happily after their mother sends for a scout uniform, until they meet another child, Harold, whose father is a pacifist. After Charles punches Harold in the nose, Harold's father comes and explains his beliefs. Mrs. Wyngate tries to convert him by telling of her husband's death in battle in France.

Based on the Happy Hooligan comic strips.

Mr. Landry Smith, a secretive man, lives in Corrèze with his ward Minnie. Two strangers arrive to Smith's country estate-- each of them with a possibly sinister plot in mind.

A rich mixed race woman is abandoned after a mock marriage, has a stillborn baby, and weds the man who helps her.

Animated gags made by Quirino Cristiani, Argentina's foundational animator.

A rich artist has never completed a master painting because he could not find a model for the face, sees the wife of a man in hard luck begging on the street so she can buy milk for her baby, and the artist secures just what he desired.

Based on the fairy tale of the same name by Hans-Christian Andersen. Two fraudulent apprentices undertook to make a new dress for the king, which had a magical property - only a clever man, who rightfully occupied his post, could see it. The king and his cronies, afraid of being accused of ignorance, did not dare to admit that they could not see anything.

Lord Louis Lewis vows not to marry until his crippled fiancée, Sylvane Sheridan, passes away, despite temptations from other women like Jill Hargreaves, highlighting his devotion and the constraints placed on his life by her condition. The film centers on this poignant romance and loyalty, with Lord Louis remaining faithful as he waits for Sylvane, even as other suitors vie for his attention.

"Albertini is the champion of Italian athletic cinema. When he’s around, wrongs are righted by way of bold feats." - Andrea Meneghelli

Ubirajara, chief of the Araguaias, is engaged to Jandyra. One day, however, he falls in love with Aracy, daughter of Itaquê, chief of the Tocantins and sister of Pojucã, his prisoner. He frees Pojucã so he can declare war on Itaquê and retrieve his daughter. Itaquê is wounded by other enemies and goes blind. The two tribes unite and elect Ubirajara as chief.

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 Terence O'Keefe, a playboy polo player from Ireland, to rendezvous with her in the city; they are seen together at the "Midnight Frolic". Because of this, Mrs. Ives convinces Alice's newly-arrived sister Betty to look after Alice.

It tells the adventures of a tailor, played by the comedian Morvello, who believes he has won the lottery. There comes a succession of scenes of the protagonist turned millionaire, who is abruptly frustrated when going to collect his prize when he discovers with surprise that he has got the wrong number (In the book “Chilean Silent Cinema”. Eliana Jara Donoso. Santiago, 1994) Film restored by the National Cinematheque of Chile.

Two guys flirt with women at a hotel.