1915 Movies

The Birth of a Nation

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper

Country: United States of America

Outline: The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.

The Cheat

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill

Country: United States of America

Outline: A venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money.

Regeneration

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Rockliffe Fellowes, Anna Q. Nilsson, William Sheer, John McCann

Country: United States of America

Outline: A boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster.

Old Heidelberg

Directed by: John Emerson

Starring: Wallace Reid, Dorothy Gish, Karl Formes, Erich von Stroheim

Outline: Karl Heinrich is the heir to the throne of the small European principality of Rutania, but he's a lonely child, not allowed to play with other children and knowing little about life outside...

Les vampires

Directed by: Louis Feuillade

Starring: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé

Country: United States of America

Outline: An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.

The Captive

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Blanche Sweet, House Peters, Gerald Ward, Page Peters

Outline: With her brother killed Sonya is given Turkish captive Mahmud to do the hard work on the farm. After they become fond of each other he strikes a Turkish officer. When peace arrives, his ...

The Italian

Directed by: Reginald Barker

Starring: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke, Leo Willis

Country: United States of America

Outline: An immigrant leaves his sweetheart in Italy to find a better life across the sea in the grimy slums of New York. They are eventually reunited and marry. But life in New York is hard and ...

Filibus

Directed by: Mario Roncoroni

Starring: Mario Mariani, Cristina Ruspoli, Giovanni Spano, Filippo Vallino

Outline: Skypirate Filibus commits robberies from her airship, while a dedicated detective attempts to put a stop to it.

Young Romance

Directed by: George Melford

Starring: Edith Taliaferro, Florence Dagmar, Tom Forman, Frederick Wilson

Outline: Young Romance, released in 1915, is a recent rediscovery that forever silences the claim that refined comedy cannot be conveyed via the screen. This disguise plot, worthy of an Elizabethan ...

A Fool There Was

Directed by: Frank Powell

Starring: Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear, Edward José, May Allison

Country: United States of America

Outline: A married diplomat falls hopelessly under the spell of a predatory woman.

My Best Girl

Directed by: John TerEick

Outline: Dick Vanderfelt, scion of a wealthy family, is a student at the Stamford University. Deeply in love with Dora, daughter of a chemist, he advances large sums of money to her father in order ...

Sweet Alyssum

Directed by: Colin Campbell

Starring: Tyrone Power Sr., Kathlyn Williams, Edith Johnson, Wheeler Oakman

Outline: Roanoke Brooks family is torn apart when his boss, Robert Garlan, begins pursuing his wife Daisy. When the sordid affairs ends in tragedy Roanoke moves to the country to raise his daughter.... See full synopsis »

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper, Mary Alden, Ralph Lewis, Joseph Henabery

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Frank Powell

Starring: Runa Hodges, Mabel Frenyear, Edward José, May Allison, Clifford Bruce, Theda Bara, Victor Benoit, Frank Powell, Minna Gale

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Fannie Ward, Sessue Hayakawa, Jack Dean, James Neill, Yutaka Abe, Dana Ong, Hazel Childers, Arthur H. Williams

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: John McCann, James A. Marcus, Maggie Weston, H. McCoy, Rockliffe Fellowes, William Sheer, Carl Harbaugh, Anna Q. Nilsson, Peggy Barn

Country: United States of America

Carmen

Directed by: Davide Livermore

Starring: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter, William Elmer, Jeanie Macpherson, Anita King, Milton Brown, Tex Driscoll

Country: Italy

Outline: Opera lirica diretta da Battistoni

Carmen

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Geraldine Farrar, Wallace Reid, Pedro de Cordoba, Horace B. Carpenter

Country: United States of America

Outline: In order to help her smuggler kinsmen, a sultry gypsy seduces and corrupts an officer of the Civil Guard turning him into a traitor and murderer.

The Golden Chance

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Cleo Ridgely, Wallace Reid, Horace B. Carpenter, Ernest Joy

Outline: Mary Denby becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer provides her as an escort to accompany millionaire Roger Manning. Her husband tries ...

The Warrens of Virginia

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Blanche Sweet, James Neill, Page Peters, Mabel Van Buren

Country: United States of America

Outline: As the Civil War begins Ned Burton leaves his Southern love Agatha Warren and joins the Union army. He is later protected and saved from death by Agatha in spite of her loyalty to the South.

The Arab

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Edgar Selwyn, Horace B. Carpenter, Milton Brown, William Elmer

Outline: An old sheik punishes his son Jamil for robbing a caravan by giving his horse to the wronged merchant. The horse is sold to a Turkish general then given to a Christian missionary Mary ...

Chimmie Fadden Out West

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Victor Moore, Camille Astor, Raymond Hatton, Mrs. Lewis McCord

Outline: Chimmie is sent to Death Valley CA as part of a railroad scheme. He's to pretend to have discovered gold there, then set a new transcontinental record heading east. It doesn't quite work out that way.

Potop

Directed by: Pyotr Chardynin

Starring: Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Pavel Knorr, Ivan Mozzhukhin, Pyotr Starkovsky

The Wolf Man

Directed by: Paul Powell

Starring: Ralph Lewis, Jack Brammall, Richard Cummings, William Hinckley

Outline: Grinde is a junior partner of a pottery firm. An old chemist, Benjamin Lord, discovers a formula for glazing pottery that is designed to revolutionize the industry. The chemist's grandson, ...

The Dictator

Directed by: Oscar Eagle

Starring: John Barrymore, Charlotte Ives, Ruby Hoffman, Ivan F. Simpson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Brooke Travers, a young society man of a roving disposition and much leisure, gets into a cab with his valet and his trunks, to go to his yacht for a cruise. Arriving at the pier, the ...