Suspense.
1913
star 7.0
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an i...
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Directing
Lois Weber
Lois Weber began film work as an actress, then soon began also writing and directing films. She has been referred to as "the most important female director the American film industry has known". Best known for her hard-hitting films that address social issues, she continued making films into the 1920s until she lost favor with motion picture audiences.
Filmography
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The Eye of God
1916
Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded...
The Women Who Run Hollywood
2016
star 7.1
The first talkie was directed by Alice Guy, the first color film was produced by Lois Weber, who directed more...
From Death to Life
1911
star 6.0
A chemist named Aratus invents a concoction that will turn creatures to stone, but only realizes the dangers of...
Scandal
1915
The lives of a stenographer and her boss are thrown into turmoil by reckless gossip.
Early Directors on Directing
2009
There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narr...
The Picture of Dorian Gray
1913
Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review. Rece...
Fate
1911
star 8.1
Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and pai...
The Spider and Her Web
1914
The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death...
The Price
1911
star 5.7
Pretty Ann, and Joe, the hostler, one day chance to meet. Strong is Joe, and simple, and Ann is shy and sweet....
Idle Wives
1916
star 5.0
Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of t...
The Merchant of Venice
1914
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how...
Hop - The Devil's Brew
1916
Lydia Jansen is happily married to a young customs inspector, but she harbors a dark secret. She is addicted to...
A Heroine of '76
1911
star 9.0
During the American Revolution, an innkeeper's daughter learns of a plot to assassinate George Washington while...
The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
1917
A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.
The Pursuit of Hate
1914
star 8.0
Diana Grave's husband has left her, preferring any life to that of living with a woman who is not congenial to...
False Colors
1914
Famed actor Lloyd Phillips blames his infant daughter Dixie for her mother’s death in childbirth, leaving her i...
The Rosary
1913
star 7.1
Haunting and hypnotic, this artistic gem recounts the lyrics from a popular 1898 song of the same name. Weber’s...
Lost by a Hair
1914
star 7.0
A group of jealous men conspire to defeat a romantic rival who has captured the attention of all of the ladies...
Sunshine Molly
1915
A woman known as Sunshine Molly gets a job in an oil field, and clashes with a belligerent employee named "Bull...
How Men Propose
1913
star 5.5
Three men in succession propose marriage to Grace Darling; she accepts all! Since they are roommates, the three...
The Jew's Christmas
1913
Early Lois Weber film. Isaac and his faithful wife, Rachel, deplore that in America their children are forced t...
Lost Illusions
1911
A marital romance in which a married artist woos the wife of another man.
Sherlock Holmes, Jr.
1911
star 10.0
Little Sherlock Holmes, Jr., reads the doughty doings of his hero-god, and at once determines to become a detec...
Eyes That See Not
1912
star 10.0
A self-centred wealthy woman is transformed after she is confronted with the harsh reality of the living condit...
On the Brink
1911
star 10.0
A 1911 silent drama film written and directed by Edwin S. Porter and Lois Weber. Starring Lois Weber, Phillips...
Alone in the World
1917
star 8.0
Bobby's mother dies and leaves him to care for the baby.
The Twins
1911
star 4.5
The baby daughter of Mrs. Norton, a widowed seamstress, dies. The sorrow-stricken mother gazes at the empty cra...
Fine Feathers
1912
star 7.0
The story of a male painter who rises to fame after completing two portraits of his maid, a woman who later bec...
A Japanese Idyll
1912
star 10.0
A Japanese Idyll is a 1912 silent short drama film directed by and starring Lois Weber. The film was produced b...