D.W. Griffith — Director (100)
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The Battle (1911) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Battle
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles West / Blanche Sweet …
other title: ザ・バトル
Union soldiers march off to battle amid cheering crowds. After the battle turns against the Union Army, one soldier runs away, hiding in his girlfriend's house. Ashamed of his cowardice, he finds his courage and crosses enemy lines to bring help to his trapped comrades.
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For His Son (1912) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
For His Son
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles Hill Mailes / Charles West …
A father, anxious for his son's financial well being, develops a special soda pop called Dopokoke which is laced with cocaine. Dopokoke is advertised as relief "for that tired feeling." The drink is a success, but the son becomes addicted to it, much to his father's regret. Loosely based on the allegations that the Coca-Cola company and other soft drink manufacturers laced their soda with dope.
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Ramona (1910) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Ramona
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Mary Pickford / Henry B. Walthall …
other title: ラモーナ / 라모나
Ramona, residing on her wealthy Spanish adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the greed and injustice of the white landowners.
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The Sealed Room (1909) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Sealed Room
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: Arthur V. Johnson / Marion Leonard …
other title: 密室
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.
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The Mothering Heart (1913) [Movie] IMDb Douban
The Mothering Heart
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lillian Gish / Walter Miller
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and begins an affair with a beautiful woman. His wife leaves him, returning to her mother's home where she bears a child. When the husband is abandoned by his lady friend, remorse drives him to find his wife.
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After Many Years (1908) [Movie] IMDb Douban
After Many Years
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 弗洛伦丝·劳伦斯
A castaway returns home after years lost at sea, to the wife and child he left behind. Has she waited faithfully or has she moved on?
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Hearts of the World (1918) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Hearts of the World
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Lillian Gish / Robert Harron …
other title: Cœurs du monde / Corazones del mundo …
A group of youngsters grow up and love in a peaceful French village. But war intrudes and peace is shattered. The German army invades and occupies village, bringing both destruction and torture. The young people of the village resist, some successfully, others tragically, until French troops retake the town.
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The Reformers (1913) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
The Reformers
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Charles Hill Mailes / Jennie Lee …
other title: The Reformers; or, The Lost Art of Minding One's Business / The Reformers, or The Lost Art of Minding One's Business …
Behold in this film the Uplifter, a peculiarity of the human species, quite convinced that all that is, is wrong. Forth to the uplift he minds everybody's business but his own, until that business is as clean, pure and spotless as himself. Verily in these later days is there no school of art named, "Minding One's Business."
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The Massacre (1912) [Movie] Douban
The Massacre
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 威尔弗雷德·卢卡斯 / 布兰彻·斯薇特 …
other title: 大屠杀
An army scout, Stephen, asks a young woman to marry him, only to discover that she loves another man. Stephen rejoins the army, while the other two get married and have a child. Two years later, the young family heads west as part of a wagon train, while the scout takes part in a brutal raid on an Indian village that leaves the survivors thirsting for revenge. As the wagon train including the young family heads into dangerous country, Stephen is part of the military escort that is assigned to protect it. Not long afterward, when the wagons stop to make camp, Indians stage a carefully planned attack on the camp.
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The House with Closed Shutters (1916) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The House with Closed Shutters
director: 大卫·格里菲斯 actor: 亨利·B·沃斯奥 / Grace Henderson …
other title: 闭门塞户 / 门窗紧闭的屋子 …
During the Civil War a young soldier loses his nerve in battle and runs away to his home to hide; his sister puts on his uniform, takes her brother's place in the battle, and is killed. Their mother, not wanting the shameful truth to become known, closes all the shutters (hence the film's title) and keeps her son's presence a secret for many years, though two boyhood chums stumble upon the truth...
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The Mended Lute (1909) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
The Mended Lute
director: D.W. Griffith actor: Florence Lawrence / Frank Powell …
other title: 修补过的鲁特琴 / 修補過的魯特琴
Rising Moon loves Little Bear, but her father prefers Standing Rock, a richer suitor. Standing Rock takes her to his teepee under guard, but she escapes and joins Little Bear as they attempt to escape.
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Sally of the Sawdust (1925) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB Douban
Sally of the Sawdust
director: D.W. Griffith actor: 卡罗尔·戴姆斯特 / W.C.菲尔兹 …
other title: 被遗弃的萨莉 / 被遗弃的莎丽 …
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 Judge Foster's friend, falls in love. When Sally is arrested McGargle proves her real parentage.