1913 Movies
Take a nostalgic look back at the top movies of 1913, celebrating the films, directors and actors that defined the year and left a lasting legacy in the world of entertainment.
Traffic in Souls
Directed by: George Loane Tucker
Starring: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore
Country: United States of America
Outline: A woman, with the aid of her police officer sweetheart, endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister, and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Atlantis
Directed by: August Blom
Starring: Olaf Fønss, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen
Country: United States of America
Outline: After Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.
A Winter's Tale
Directed by: Jane Howell
Claudine
Directed by: John Berry
Atlantide
Directed by: Yuri Ancarani
Starring: Maila Dabalà, Jacopo Torcellan, Daniele Barison, Bianka Berenyi
Country: Italy
Outline: La strada per diventare adulti
Directed by: Victor Sjöström
Starring: Hilda Borgström, Aron Lindgren, Erik Lindholm, Georg Grönroos, William Larsson, Richard Lund, Carl Barcklind, Hugo Björne, Axel Janse, Bertil Malmstedt
Country: Sweden
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Starring: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl, Jane Faber, Volbert
Country: France
Directed by: Jewgeni Bauer
Starring: Vera Chernova, V. Demert, A. Ugrjumov
Country: Russian Federation
Directed by: Stellan Rye,Paul Wegener
Starring: Paul Wegener, John Gottowt, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova, Lothar Körner, Fritz Weidemann, Alexander Moissi
Country: Germany
An American Citizen
Directed by: J. Searle Dawley
Starring: John Barrymore, Evelyn Moore, Peter Lang, Hal Clarendon
Outline: Berresford Cruger, junior partner of the New York brokerage firm of Barbury, Brown and Cruger, is left a fortune of 60,000 pounds, by an English uncle, Carew, on the condition that he ...
Sodoms Ende
Directed by: Alfred Abel
Starring: Paul Davidson, Erika De Planque, Wilhelm Diegelmann
Country: United States of America
L'enfant de Paris
Directed by: Léonce Perret
Starring: Léonce Perret, Louis Leubas, Maurice Lagrenée, Émile Keppens
Country: United States of America
Outline: The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Ingeborg Holm
Directed by: Victor Sjöström
Starring: Hilda Borgström, Aron Lindgren, Erik Lindholm, Georg Grönroos
Country: United States of America
Outline: Single mother is separated from her children due to financial struggles.
Caprice
Directed by: J. Searle Dawley
Starring: Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Ernest Truex, Ogden Crane
Outline: A wealthy young man's marriage to a mountain girl he meets while hunting is disastrous until she abandons him and later reappears incognito as a tutored and sophisticated woman.
The Adventures of Kathlyn
Directed by: Francis J. Grandon
Starring: Kathlyn Williams, Charles Clary, Horace B. Carpenter, Lafe McKee
Outline: The daughter of an adventurer in India is kidnapped by a native king, whom she is forced to marry. She has several adventures battling natives and wild animals.
Germinal; or, The Toll of Labor
Directed by: Albert Capellani
Starring: Mévisto, Jean Jacquinet, Henry Krauss, Sylvie
Outline: The mechanic Etienne Lantier is a competent workman out of a job, whose tempestuous disposition is more than atoned for by a good heart. With bundle in hand he looks for work from town to ...
Fantomas
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Starring: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Country: United States of America
Outline: Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
The Dead Man Who Killed
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Starring: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, André Luguet
Country: United States of America
Outline: After a body disappears from inside the prison, a series of crimes take place, all seemingly by the dead man. With Juve presumed dead, Fandor must investigate alone. Will Fantomas finally be brought to justice?
Dick Whittington and his Cat
Directed by: Alice Guy
Starring: Vinnie Burns, Audrey Berry
Juve Against Fantomas
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Starring: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Country: United States of America
Outline: In Part Two of Louis Feuillade's 5 1/2-hour epic follows FantÃ'mas, the criminal lord of Paris, master of disguise, the creeping assassin in black, as he is pursued by the equally resourceful Inspector Juve.
Twilight of a Woman's Soul
Directed by: Yevgeni Bauer
Starring: Nina Chernova, A. Ugrjumov, V. Demert, V. Brianski
Country: United States of America
Outline: A young, rich woman decides to dedicate her life to helping the poor, but a tragic incident changes her life.
Fantomas Against Fantomas
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Starring: René Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morléas, Renée Carl
Country: United States of America
Outline: The mystery of the drama is the appearance of the finger-print of a dead artist upon the neck of Princess Sonia Danidoff, whom Fantomas, as Nanteuil, relieves of her pearl necklace, and ...
Where Is Coletti?
Directed by: Max Mack
Starring: Hans Junkermann, Madge Lessing, Heinrich Peer, Anna Müller-Lincke
Protéa
Directed by: Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
Starring: Josette Andriot, Lucien Bataille, Charles Krauss, Henri Gouget
Outline: A female spy, Protéa, embarks on a dangerous mission to retrieve a document treaty.
His Neighbor's Wife
Directed by: Edwin S. Porter
Starring: Lily Langtry, Sidney Mason, Mimi Yvonne, Leslie T. Peacocke
Outline: Mr. Norton discovers his wife in the arms of his neighbor, Captain Roberts, a married man. His first maddened impulse is to kill his faithless wife, but on his way for the gun his little ...
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