1918 Movies

Tarzan of the Apes

Directed by: Scott Sidney

Starring: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, True Boardman, Kathleen Kirkham

Country: United States of America

Outline: The plot follows the novel more closely than does any other Tarzan movie. John and Alice Clayton take ship for Africa. Mutineers maroon them. After his parents die the newborn Tarzan is ...

Le ballon rouge

Stella Maris

Directed by: Marshall Neilan

Starring: Mary Pickford, Ida Waterman, Herbert Standing, Conway Tearle

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.

Shifting Sands

Directed by: Albert Parker

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Harvey Clark, Leone Carton

Country: United States of America

Outline: Marcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well. The German then attempts to blackmail her into helping ...

Little Orphant Annie

Directed by: Colin Campbell

Starring: Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Harry Lonsdale, Eugenie Besserer

Outline: Surrounded by a group of children, poet James Whitcomb Riley narrates the story of Little Orphant Annie, who loses her mother at an early age and is sent to an orphanage. Annie charms the ...

The Blue Bird

Directed by: Maurice Tourneur

Starring: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed, Emma Lowry

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two peasant children, Mytyl and Tyltyl, are led by Berylune, a fairy, to search for the Blue Bird of Happiness. Berylune gives Tyltyl a cap with a diamond setting, and when Tyltyl turns the...

Shoulder Arms

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Edna Purviance, Charles Chaplin, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood

Country: United States of America

Outline: Charlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.

Little Women

Directed by: Harley Knoles

Starring: Isabel Lamon, Dorothy Bernard, Lillian Hall, Florence Flinn

Country: United States of America

Outline: Jo March and her sisters Meg, Beth, and Amy live in a happy family in Concord, Massachusetts. Jo yearns to be a writer, and through the course of the years, finds much within her own family...

Hearts of the World

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Adolph Lestina, Josephine Crowell

Country: United States of America

Outline: Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Directed by: Marshall Neilan

Starring: Mary Pickford, William Scott, Kate Price, Ida Waterman

Country: United States of America

Outline: Amarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who...

M'Liss

Directed by: Marshall Neilan

Starring: Mary Pickford, Theodore Roberts, Thomas Meighan, Tully Marshall

Outline: M'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from ...

A Pair of Silk Stockings

Directed by: Walter Edwards

Starring: Constance Talmadge, Harrison Ford, Wanda Hawley, Vera Doria

Outline: A Pair of Silk Stockings is a 1918 American silent marital comedy film starring Constance Talmadge and Harrison Ford. It was directed by Walter Edwards and produced and distributed by ...

The Unbeliever

Directed by: Alan Crosland

Starring: Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, Erich von Stroheim, Kate Lester

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wealthy young American, bred to class distinction and racial intolerance, enters the Marines during the First World War. In the course of his training and his experiences in the trenches ...

All Night

Directed by: Paul Powell

Starring: Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Charles Dorian, Mary Warren

Country: United States of America

Outline: A married society couple (Dorian and Warren) persuade an unmarried pair (Valentino and Myers) to take their places at a party while they pretend to be the servants.

The Heart of Humanity

Directed by: Allen Holubar

Starring: Dorothy Phillips, William Stowell, Robert Anderson, Walt Whitman

Country: United States of America

Outline: An American woman is terrorized by the ravages of war and a lecherous Prussian lieutenant when she becomes a Red Cross nurse overseas during the Great War.

Missing

Directed by: James Young

Starring: Thomas Meighan, Sylvia Breamer, Robert Gordon, Winter Hall

Outline: When a woman's husband is presumed dead in the war, her sister, for unscrupulous reasons of her own, attempts to get her remarried. But the husband, it seems, is not dead after all.....

Directed by: Victor Sjöström

Starring: Victor Sjöström, Edith Erastoff, John Ekman, Jenny Tschernichin-Larsson, Artur Rolén, Nils Aréhn, William Larsson, Sigurd Wallén

Country: Sweden

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Ossi Oswalda, Curt Goetz, Ferry Sikla, Margarete Kupfer

Country: Germany

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Edythe Chapman, Elliott Dexter, Noah Beery, Guy Oliver, John Burton, Tully Marshall, James Neill, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Joseph Maxwell

Starring: Vera Sisson, Rudolph Valentino, Frank Newburg, Kathleen Kirkham, Edward Jobson, Lillian Leighton

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Maurice Tourneur

Starring: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed, Emma Lowry, William J. Gross, Florence Anderson, Edward Elkas, Katherine Bianchi, Lillian Cook, Gertrude McCoy

Country: United States of America

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Edna Purviance, Charles Chaplin, Syd Chaplin, Loyal Underwood, Henry Bergman, Tom Wilson, Albert Austin, Jack Wilson, Clyde McAtee, Robert McKenzie

Country: United States of America

Old Wives for New

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Elliott Dexter, Florence Vidor, Sylvia Ashton, Wanda Hawley

Country: United States of America

Outline: Charles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn but, when Juliet's name is involved in murder, he marries Viola and takes her to Paris.

The Whispering Chorus

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Edythe Chapman, Elliott Dexter

Outline: John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying...

The Squaw Man

Directed by: Cecil B. DeMille

Starring: Elliott Dexter, Ann Little, Katherine MacDonald, Theodore Roberts

Country: United States of America

Outline: Captain Wynnegate leaves England, accepting the blame for embezzling charity funds though knowing that his cousin Sir Henry is guilty. Out West he and the Indian girl Nat-U-Rich save each ...