Silent American drama films

Oliver Twist

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1922 IMDB Rating: 6.6

Oliver's mother, a penniless outcast, died giving birth to him. As a young boy Oliver is brought up in a workhouse, later apprenticed to an uncaring undertaker, and eventually is taken in by a gang of...

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The Cheat

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1915 IMDB Rating: 6.5

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.

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Merry-Go-Round

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1923 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.

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Fanchon, the Cricket

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1915 IMDB Rating: 6.5

A young wild girl, Fanchon, lives in a forest with her eccentric grandmother who is suspected by the villagers of being a witch. The unkempt Fanchon suffers from her grandmother's sorceress reputation...

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M'Liss

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1918 IMDB Rating: 6.5

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 lynching.

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Little Women

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1918 IMDB Rating: 6.5

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.

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Cobra

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1925 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Rodrigo, an impoverished Italian nobleman takes a job with a New York antique dealer he met overseas. Swearing off women, Rodrigo focuses on his job. But complications arise when he falls in love with...

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