Movies by Year - 1916 (63)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 20,000 Leagues Under The SeaA French professor and his daughter accompany Captain Nemo on an adventure aboard a submarine. | 1916 | Stuart Paton | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | 6.2 (1.7K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| American AristocracyA young man fights to overcome a piratical arms smuggler and to win the heart of a rich man's daughter. | 1916 | Lloyd Ingraham | Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 6.5 (98 votes) | 52 | 20211228 |
| Beatrice FairfaxSerial in 15 parts about a female crime-fighting reporter. | 1916 | Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Action, Adventure | 7.2 (77 votes) | 300 | 20240530 |
| Beggar Woman, The [Nishchaya]nan | 1916 | Yakov Protazanov | Short | 5.8 (51 votes) | 41 | 20240622 |
| Behind the ScreenCharlie is an overworked labourer at a film studio who helps a young woman find work even while his coworkers strike against his tyrannical boss. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy, Romance | 7.0 (2.7K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
| Blind Justice [Hævnens Nat]A criminal escapes from prison, however a betrayal leads to his second arrest. | 1916 | Benjamin Christensen | Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.7 (351 votes) | 100 | 20220731 |
| Chantecoq [L'espionne de Guillaume]nan | 1916 | Henri Pouctal | War | 5.2 (13 votes) | 0 | 20240803 |
| ChristusThe story of the life of Christ. | 1916 | Giulio Antamoro | Drama | 6.2 (74 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Count, TheThe fifth film in the Mutual series Charlie Chaplin impersonates a man of means in order to underscore the contrast between rich and poor. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (2.2K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
| Danger Girl, TheMadcap Gloria disguises herself as a man, in order to lure a "dangerous" vamp away from her beau, Bobbie. | 1916 | Clarence G. Badger | Comedy, Short | 5.9 (171 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| Dernier amournan | 1916 | Léonce Perret | Unknown | 6.8 (19 votes) | 55 | 20240228 |
| Devil's Needle, TheWynne Mortimer, a pampered society girl and daughter of William Mortimer, a prominent business man, chances to meet David White, a young artist whose fame is already assured, at an art exhibit. Despite the fact that she is engaged to | 1916 | Chester Withey | Drama | 6.7 (160 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Dumb Girl of Portici, TheFenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe. | 1916 | Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Drama, History, Romance | 6.5 (226 votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Dummy, TheMen have a race to win a girl and get involved with crooks posing as a beautifying machine. | 1916 | W.P. Kellino | Comedy, Short | 5.9 (11 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| East LynneMiscasting of everybody's favorite vamp as the long-suffering Lady Isabel cast in a modern setting. | 1916 | Bertram Bracken | Drama | 5.7 (36 votes) | 50 | 20230126 |
| End of the World, TheA comet, passing by Earth, causes rioting, social unrest, and major disasters that destroy the world. | 1916 | August Blom | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.5 (340 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| Fatty and Mabel AdriftThe beach front house, where Fatty and Mabel live, has been "launched" out to sea by the villains. When Fatty and Mabel arise, they find the beds floating in a sea of water. | 1916 | Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (441 votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Fire, The [Cenere]Mario, an unknown painter, remains struck and obsessed with meeting a famous poet, already married, who will be able to charm him, so that he will no longer have the talent created to be able to paint. | 1916 | Giovanni Pastrone | Drama | 6.9 (128 votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
| Fireman, TheCharlie is a fireman who always does everything wrong. A man talks the Fire Chief into ignoring his burning home (he wants the insurance money) unaware that his daughter (the love of the Chief) is upstairs in the house. When the hous | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.5 (2.6K votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
| Flirting With Fate"Augy" Ainsworth, a young artist, is long on art and short on funds. He sees Gladys Kingsley, a girl of wealth and social position, in the park one day and immediately falls in love with her. He manages to get an invitation to an aff | 1916 | Christy Cabanne | Adventure, Comedy | 6.4 (182 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Floorwalker, TheThe Tramp is tricked into impersonating an embezzling floorwalker in a department store. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (2.4K votes) | 29 | 20211228 |
| Fuoco, Il [la favilla - la vampa - la cenere]Mario, an unknown painter, remains struck and obsessed with meeting a famous poet, already married, who will be able to charm him, so that he will no longer have the talent created to be able to paint. | 1916 | Giovanni Pastrone | Drama | 7.0 (137 votes) | 45 | 20230126 |
| Gaz mortels, LesA scientist develops a powder that he believes will have the effect of distorting reality for those who take it. To test its effect tries it out on his assistant, a dog, himself and two young couples. | 1916 | Abel Gance (*) | Unknown | 6.1 (29 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
| Going StraightJohn Remington, a respectable real estate man, goes down into the slums to negotiate the purchase of a warehouse for a client, and there meets Jimmie Briggs, a gangster. Briggs recognizes Remington as his former partner in crime, Hig | 1916 | Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin | Crime, Drama | 5.4 (644 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Good Bad Man, TheAn outlaw calling himself Passin' Through halts his "evil" ways long enough to help out some children in difficulty. | 1916 | Allan Dwan | Romance, Western | 6.6 (227 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Half-Breed, TheAn outcast named Lo Dorman encounters a young woman lost in the woods. He defends her from danger in the forest and from Sheriff Dunn. | 1916 | Allan Dwan | Western | 6.7 (187 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
| Hell's HingesIn the wayward western town known as Hell's Hinges, a local tough guy is reformed by the faith of a good woman. | 1916 | Charles Swickard, William S. Hart, Clifford Smith | Romance, Western | 6.8 (955 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| His Bitter PillJim, the apple of his mother's eyes, is the big-hearted galoot of a man and is sheriff of his small town. He is sweet on Nell, who he has known all his life. Just as he is about to propose to her, he finds out that he has missed his | 1916 | Fred Hibbard | Short, Comedy, Western | 5.4 (176 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
| His Picture in the PapersPete Prindle wins the affections of Christine Cadwalader, but the father of the girl demands that Pete shall get a half interest in his father's food product company before he is allowed to marry her. Pete accepts the ultimatum. Prot | 1916 | John Emerson | Comedy | 5.9 (162 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| HomunculusA group of scientists, led by a Professor Ortmann, produce a living human child using scientific processes - a "homunculus." This creature is human in every way, except that he cannot experience love. | 1916 | Otto Rippert | Horror, Sci-Fi | 6.8 (48 votes) | 360 | 20211228 |
| Hoodoo AnnIn all her young life Hoodoo Ann has lived up to her nickname. Nothing has ever gone right for her and from the 13th of the month, when she is left at the Meadowdale orphanage, her troubles increase. Little Goldie, pet of Miss Pruden | 1916 | Lloyd Ingraham | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.6 (892 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Intolerance - Love's Struggle Through The AgesThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. | 1916 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| Joan the WomanA WWI English officer is inspired the night before a dangerous mission by a vision of Joan of Arc, whose story he relives. | 1916 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Adventure, Drama, History, Mystery, War | 6.5 (582 votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| JudexA twelve part serial following the adventures of the masked vigilante Judex as he fights against criminals led by the corrupt banker Favrauxom. | 1916 | Louis Feuillade (*) | Adventure, Crime | 7.4 (974 votes) | 300 | 20211228 |
| King LearLear is an old man blind to his weaknesses. He decides to divide his kingdom among his three daughters according to who recites the best declaration of love. Goneril and Regan pretend to love him but treat him cruelly. Cordelia is lo | 1916 | Ernest C. Warde | Drama | 5.7 (86 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Lottery Man, TheA young man proposes a lottery with himself as the prize in marriage. However he finds himself very much in love with a woman other than the winner. | 1916 | Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton | Comedy | 5.6 (40 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Luke Joins the Navynan | 1916 | Hal Roach | Comedy, Short | 4.3 (78 votes) | 10 | 20240224 |
| Luke's Movie MuddleLonesome Luke has a movie theater and also works the box office and as an usher. He has to put up with, among other things, an incompetent projectionist who falls asleep all the time. Complications ensue. | 1916 | Hal Roach | Comedy, Short | 5.2 (344 votes) | 7 | 20240224 |
| L'x noirA mysterious evildoer terrifies the French Riviera. That mysterious character, which is hidden under the personality of James Pearce, a diamond-maker, calls himself The Black X. | 1916 | Léonce Perret | Short, Mystery | 6.1 (11 votes) | 40 | 20240501 |
| Madcap AmbroseRomantic complications ensue at a boarding house when a maid inherits a fortune. | 1916 | Fred Hibbard | Short, Comedy | 5.7 (83 votes) | 22 | 20220423 |
| Manhattan MadnessSteve O'Dare, a young New Yorker who has gone off to Nevada to be a cowboy, returns to New York to sell some horses. He bores his friends with tales of the exciting Western life, so they plot to trick him with a mock abduction. But a | 1916 | Allan Dwan | Comedy | 6.4 (90 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Matrimaniac, TheA young couple attempts to elope, with the bride's irate father in hot pursuit. The train stops briefly and the young man dashes off to find a minister, but before he can get himself and the minister onto the train, it leaves, carryi | 1916 | Paul Powell | Comedy, Romance | 6.0 (620 votes) | 46 | 20211228 |
| Mirages, The [Mirazhi]nan | 1916 | Pyotr Chardynin | Short, Drama | 6.3 (87 votes) | 37 | 20220414 |
| Mystery of the Leaping Fish, TheCoke Ennyday, the scientific detective, divides his own time in periods for "Sleep", "Eat", "Dope" and "Drink". In fact he's used to overcome every situation with drugs: consuming it to increase his energies or injecting it in his op | 1916 | John Emerson | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (906 votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
| Ocean Waif, TheAn abused woman finds love in the arms of a famous novelist. | 1916 | Alice Guy | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.4 (400 votes) | 40 | 20211228 |
| One A.M.A drunken homeowner has a difficult time getting about in his home after arriving home late at night. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Family, Short | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
| Pawnshop, TheCharlie competes with his fellow shop assistant. He is fired by the pawnbroker and rehired. He nearly destroys everything in the shop and himself. He helps capture a burglar. He destroys a client's clock while examining it in detail. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (3.4K votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
| PoliceCharles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a f | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Short | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Police, TheCharles Chaplin, a convict, is given $5.00 and released from prison after having served his term. He meets a man of the church who makes him weep for his sins and while he is weeping takes the $5.00 away from him. Chaplin goes to a f | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Short | 6.5 (1.8K votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Reggie Mixes InReginald Morton is a wealthy idler of athletic tendencies. He has become bored with the shallow social set in which he moves, although he is engaged to marry Dorothy Fleming, a member of it. Dorothy is engaged to Reggie mainly becaus | 1916 | Christy Cabanne | Action, Comedy, Drama | 5.0 (603 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Return of Draw Egan, TheOutlaw leader "Draw" Egan, believed dead, turns up in the town of Yellow Dog. The townsfolk believe him to be William Blake, a strong and law-abiding man. They appoint him sheriff to rid the town of the hoodlums who have nearly taken | 1916 | William S. Hart | Action, Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.4 (175 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Rink, TheAfter causing restaurant chaos at work, a bumbling waiter tears up the local roller rink with his skating. | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (3.7K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
| Sea Vultures, The [Havsgamar]A man and his adult son are caught smuggling by a customs officer, who dies in the ensuing struggle. The arrival of the dead officer's son sets a whole new chain of events in motion. | 1916 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Crime, Drama | 5.9 (93 votes) | 51 | 20240820 |
| Secret of the Pavillions [Pavilionens hemmelighed]nan | 1916 | Karl Mantzius | Crime | 5.6 (12 votes) | 47 | 20240820 |
| Sherlock HolmesWhen a couple of swindlers hold young Alice Faulkner against her will in order to discover the whereabouts of letters which could spell scandal for the royal family, Sherlock Holmes is on the case. | 1916 | Arthur Berthelet | Mystery | 6.3 (396 votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Shoe Palace Pinkus [Schuhpalast Pinkus]Sally Pinkus is an German-Jewish boy who takes a job as a shoe store clerk after being expelled from school for goofing around. Soon fired for trying to court the owner's daughter, Pinkus lands another job in a more 'upmarket' sho... | 1916 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy | 5.6 (272 votes) | 45 | 20230728 |
| ShoesA young woman grows tired of providing for her family. | 1916 | Lois Weber | Drama | 6.9 (546 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
| Snow WhiteSnow White is a motherless princess, who arouses the jealousy and hatred of Mary Jane, her mother's former lady-in-waiting, who is the ugliest woman in the kingdom, but aspires to the throne. She gives her heart to the witch, Hex, in | 1916 | J. Searle Dawley | Fantasy, Romance | 6.3 (398 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Social Secretary, TheTo avoid unwanted attention at her next job, a young professional disguises herself, leading to some unintended consequences. | 1916 | John Emerson | Comedy, Drama | 5.8 (553 votes) | 52 | 20221116 |
| Spider's Prey, The [Rovedderkoppen]nan | 1916 | August Blom | Crime | nan | 0 | 20240826 |
| Vagabond, TheCharlie, the emotional violinist, flees to a gipsy camp, only to find himself playing for an abducted girl. Soon, a unique birthmark will pave the way for an unexpected rescue and a marvellous new life. But, will she forget him so ea | 1916 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy, Romance | 6.9 (2.8K votes) | 34 | 20211228 |
| Where Are My Children?A District Attorney's outspoken stand on abortion gets him in trouble with the local community. | 1916 | Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Drama | 6.3 (713 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
| Where Is My TreasureHusband is hounded by his nagging mother-in-law who lives with him and his wife. After coming home drunk one night he is kicked out by the mother-in-law. He disguises himself as a servant and gets a job at his own house. | 1916 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Short, Comedy | 5.9 (315 votes) | 35 | 20211228 |