Anna Moore, eine junge Frau aus Neuengland, verfällt in Boston dem Charme des reichen Lennox Sanderson. Dieser bringt sie mit einer vorgetäuschten Hochzeit dazu, mit ihm zu schlafen. Als Anna schwanger wird, gesteht Lennox ihr, dass die Trauungszeremonie ein Schwindel war und verlässt sie…
Gebrochene Blüten ist ein US-amerikanischer Stummfilm des Regisseurs D. W. Griffith aus dem Jahre 1919, der als einer der ersten Filme von United Artists verliehen wurde. Das Melodrama erzählt die Liebesgeschichte einer misshandelten Engländerin und eines buddhistischen Chinesen in der brutalen Realität Londons.
A biopic dramatizing Abraham Lincoln's life through a series of vignettes depicting its defining chapters: his romance with Ann Rutledge; his early years as a country lawyer; his marriage to Mary Todd; his debates with Stephen A. Douglas; the election of 1860; his presidency during the Civil War; and his assassination in Ford’s Theater in 1865.
Rosie Nell, a woman of disreputable dance halls in early lawless California, is wrongly charged with the murder of one of her fellow entertainers. Because her daughter, who knows nothing of her mother's station in life, is to return the next day from her school in the east, Rosie is granted three days of grace to be spent in company with her daughter at a nearby cabin. The three days begin happily enough, thanks to the serenades of heroic bandit Alvarez and the poetry of romantic Randolph. But Bagley, the dance hall manager, has seen the daughter and has determined to make her his own.
Frankreich, am Vorabend der Französischen Revolution. Henriette und Louise sind als Schwestern zusammen aufgewachsen. Als die Pest, der ihre Eltern zum Opfer fielen, Louise erblinden lässt, beschließen sie, auf der Suche nach einem Heilmittel nach Paris zu reisen, werden aber getrennt, als ein lüsterner Aristokrat ihren Weg kreuzt.
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The second of these was 'The Mother and the Law', which demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans.
Susie (Lillian Gish) hat ein Herz aus Gold. Nur einer merkt das nicht: der Nachbarsjunge William (Robert Harron), den Susie heimlich liebt. Um Williams Studium zu finanzieren, verkauft Susie ihren einzigen Besitz, ihre Kuh Daisy. Doch der nichtsahnende William heiratet später die verdorbene Bettina…Erst jetzt wird Susie klar, dass sie sich eine Zukunft mit William durch ihr Opfer verbaut hat. Der soziale Aufsteiger ist unerreichbar für sie, das einfache Mädchen vom Lande, geworden. Da hilft es nichts, dass Susie weiß, dass Bettina William gar nicht liebt und sich heimlich mit ihrem Liebhaber trifft. Allein, weil sie so friedliebend und uneigennützig ist, schweigt Susie. Doch eines Tages macht Bettina einen Fehler und die Wahrheit kommt ans Licht.
A family from Poland has been left homeless in the wake of World War I. They move to Germany and struggle to survive the conditions there, during the Great Inflation. Inga is a Polish war orphan who has only accumulated a small amount of money from the rubble and hopes to marry Paul. Weakened by poison gas, Paul begins to invest in Inga's future and he serves as their symbol of optimism.
A young couple's marriage is jeopardized by the husband's descent into alcoholism.
The story of a family caught up in the American Revolutionary War.
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.
Ralph visits France with his father, a shipbuilder, and falls in love with Blossom, the granddaughter of his father's friend, a Civil war veteran not reconciled with the Union. Blossom, however, is engaged to a French nobleman. When the war breaks out, Ralph enlists, while his brother Jim, a heartbreaker, is drafted.
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older suitor who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with Fairfax, a young stranger at a party. A group of bootleggers try to get away with the loot stashed previously within Fairfax's mansion; Mysterious faces peer into the windows and shadowy figures stalk the hall. One of the bootleggers is killed and the young stranger becomes the prime suspect.
A religious zealot and his nephew are thrown together on a South Seas Island with an alcoholic beach comber and a native dancer. A battle to see who will "civilize" whom ensues.
John Logan leaves his parents and sweetheart in bucolic Happy Valley to make his fortune in the city. Those he left behind become miserable and beleaguered in his absence, but after several years he returns, a wealthy man. But his embittered father, not recognizing him for who he is, plans to murder the newly-arrived "stranger" for his money.
A man murders his wife's lover and escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
After the relatively low box office takings of 'Intolerance', D. W. Griffith would revisit his epic film three years later by releasing two of the film's interlocking stories as standalone features, with some new additional footage. The first of the two was 'The Fall of Babylon', which depicts the conflict between Prince Belshazzar of Babylon and Cyrus the Great of Persia.
A wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself attracted to a poor, unsophisticated orphan girl, Bessie. One thing leads to another, and before long Bessie finds that she is pregnant with Joseph's child.
Geoffrey is desperately in love with Mavis, who lives at his boardinghouse and is also pursuing a writing career. Unable to marry her because of his poverty, in his anger he curses God for abandoning him. Soon Geoffrey meets Prince Lucio de Rimanez, a wealthy, urbane gentleman who informs Geoffrey that he has inherited a fortune, but that he must place himself in the Prince's hands in order to enjoy the fruits of his inheritance. What Geoffrey doesn't know is that Prince Lucio is actually Satan.