1925 Movies

The Merry Widow

Directed by: Erich von Stroheim

Starring: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell

Country: United States of America

Outline: A prince must woo the now wealthy dancer he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.

The Gold Rush

Directed by: Charles Chaplin

Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman

Country: United States of America

Outline: A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.

Seven Chances

Directed by: Buster Keaton

Starring: Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.

Stage Struck

Directed by: Allan Dwan

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor, Oliver Sandys

Outline: A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.

Faces of Children

Directed by: Jacques Feyder

Starring: Jean Forest, Victor Vina, Pierrette Houyez, Jeanne Marie-Laurent

Country: United States of America

Outline: A man whose wife has died remarries, and his new wife has a daughter of her own from a previous marriage. The man's young son, however, who loved his mother deeply and misses her terribly, ...

Lazybones

Directed by: Frank Borzage

Starring: Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones, Zasu Pitts, Leslie Fenton

Country: United States of America

Outline: Steve Tuttle, the titular lazybones, takes on the responsibility of raising a fatherless girl, causing a scandal in his small town. Many years later, having returned from World War I, he ...

Shore Leave

Directed by: John S. Robertson

Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Dorothy Mackaill, Ted McNamara, Nick Long

Outline: While anchored down on a small New England port, on shore leave, Bilge Smith, a sailor, meets Connie Martin, the village dressmaker. Upon leaving, Bilge promises to return to Connie.

Little Annie Rooney

Directed by: William Beaudine

Starring: Mary Pickford, William Haines, Walter James, Gordon Griffith

Country: United States of America

Outline: The tenements are home to an international community, including the friends and family of a tough young ragamuffin named Annie Rooney, but their neighborhood may be threatened by a potentially dangerous street gang.

Lady Windermere's Fan

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell, Ronald Colman

Country: United States of America

Outline: A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

The Joyless Street

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Starring: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy, Werner Krauss

Country: United States of America

Outline: Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid's clients is arrested. He was with her, and ...

Cobra

Directed by: Joseph Henabery

Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead

Outline: A penniless, skirt-chasing Italian nobleman finds love and scandal when he travels to New York City.

The Eagle

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Louise Dresser, Albert Conti

Country: United States of America

Outline: A wanted Russian lieutenant becomes a masked vigilante seeking vengeance upon the man who stole his family's land, only to fall for his charming daughter.

His People

Directed by: Edward Sloman

Starring: Rudolph Schildkraut, Rosa Rosanova, Robert Gordon, George J. Lewis

Outline: The two sons of a poor Russian-Jewish pushcart peddler on New York's Lower East Side are causing their father grief. As Morris and Sammy stray from traditions cherished by their parents, ...

Master of the House

Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Starring: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose, Mathilde Nielsen

Country: United States of America

Outline: When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.

A Woman of the World

Directed by: Malcolm St. Clair

Starring: Pola Negri, Charles Emmett Mack, Holmes Herbert, Blanche Mehaffey

Outline: A sensual European countess arrives at a small American town where she quickly provokes moral outrage from the community. Upon arriving, even before she steps out of her taxi a district ...

The Lost World

Directed by: Harry O. Hoyt

Starring: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Lewis Stone

Country: United States of America

Outline: The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Don Q Son of Zorro

Directed by: Donald Crisp

Starring: Mary Astor, Jack McDonald, Donald Crisp, Stella De Lanti

Country: United States of America

Outline: Don Cesar, son of Zorro, is framed for murder while visiting Spain, and becomes the whip-wielding outlaw Don Q.

Smouldering Fires

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall

Outline: A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.

Paths to Paradise

Directed by: Clarence G. Badger

Starring: Betty Compson, Raymond Griffith, Tom Santschi, Bert Woodruff

Outline: A con-woman has a nice business going in fleecing gullible tourists who want a genuine 'underworld' experience -- but the tables are turned when one of her victims turns out to be less ...

Whirlpool of Fate

Directed by: Jean Renoir

Starring: Catherine Hessling, Charlotte Clasis, Pierre Champagne, Maurice Touzé

Country: United States of America

Outline: After her father's death and her uncle having drunk all the inheritance, Virginia is left alone. She is accepted by a family of bohemians but a quarrel between the bohemians and the ...

Sally of the Sawdust

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Carol Dempster, W.C. Fields, Alfred Lunt, Erville Alderson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Judge Foster throws his daughter out because she married a circus man. She leaves her baby girl with Prof. McGargle before she dies. Years later Sally is a dancer with whom Peyton, a son of...

The Vanishing American

Directed by: George B. Seitz

Starring: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor

Country: United States of America

Outline: History, as portrayed in this film, has been a succession of conquests of stronger races over weaker ones. As played out on the stage of Monument Valley, long ago, tribes of Indians ...

Tumbleweeds

Directed by: King Baggot, William S. Hart

Starring: William S. Hart, Barbara Bedford, Lucien Littlefield, J. Gordon Russell

Country: United States of America

Outline: The government will grant a fringe of terrain for the settlers who want to live and work there. The starting sign will be a gunshot which will iniciate the run for the best fields and ...

Our Heavenly Bodies

Directed by: Hanns Walter Kornblum

Starring: Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion

The Salvation Hunters

Directed by: Josef von Sternberg

Starring: George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A cowardly young man, a bitter young woman and a helpless child live on the docks, spend their days full of ennui watching a dredge dig the same hole day in and day out, chased around by ...