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Mariute

Mariute

1918 • 9 min • Italy
The actress Francesca Bertini, as every diva worthy of her name, always arrives on the set extremely late. One day, in the studio, she happened to hear a colleague actor who, back from the front, tells about the brutalities suffered by the civilians in the occupied territories. At night, still troubled by that story, Bertini falls asleep and dreams: in her dream she plays the role of Mariute, a young Friulian countrywoman, mother of three kids waiting for her husband homecoming from the frontline. One day, while she is going to the well for water, she is assaulted and molested by three enemy soldiers. Her father-in-law will avenge her. In the meantime Bertini, waking up with a start, will arrive to work on time and she will end the film inviting the public to put their savings into the war bonds.
The Face in the River

The Face in the River

1918 • 53 min • Denmark
The old, rich eccentric James Richard dies and leaves his fortune to his son Walther. But when the deceased’s nephew Philip learns that in the event of Walther’s death, he will inherit the entire fortune, a tragic family drama begins to brew. (Stumfilm.dk)
Wanted, A Mother

Wanted, A Mother

1918 • 50 min • United Kingdom, United States of America
Neglected by her grief-stricken father, a doctor, after the tragic death of his wife, little Eileen Homer changes the wording of her father's ad for a governess to read: "Wanted, a mother." After much melodrama that’s just what she gets.
Rose o' Paradise

Rose o' Paradise

1918 • 60 min • United States of America
Thomas Singleton broke down when his wife died giving birth to their daughter. He eventually recovered, but his half-brother Morse kept him locked up at the asylum. After seventeen years, Singleton escapes and tracks down his daughter, Virginia, who is due to inherit a fortune on her eighteenth birthday. Convinced that his half-brother will try to trick Virginia out of her inheritance, Singleton sends her to live with his former gardener......
The City of Dim Faces

The City of Dim Faces

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
Chinese merchant Wing Lung and Elizabeth Mendall, an American, marry and have a son named Jang Lung. Because Elizabeth wants Jang Lung to be raised as a Christian, Wing Lung locks her in the cellar and she becomes insane. Jang meets Marcell Matthews at an Eastern university, and she returns with him to San Francisco to be married.
The Two-Soul Woman

The Two-Soul Woman

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
Two men, one of them a villainous hypnotist, contend for the same woman, unaware that she suffers from dual personality disorder.
The Still Alarm

The Still Alarm

1918 • 60 min • United States of America
"Bird," a clerk in Fordham's drugstore, agrees to place a large sum of money in the store's safe for a traveler, but when the man requests a bottle of medicine, Bird poisons the remedy, and the visitor is found dead in his hotel. Bird flees with the money, but several years later he returns, the money long since squandered. Unless Fordham's daughter Eleanor marries him, he threatens, he will tell the police that Fordham committed the crime.
She Loved Him Plenty

She Loved Him Plenty

1918 • 10 min • United States of America
“ Polly Moran, known as Becky O'Brien in this picture, conducts a pawn shop with Ben Turpin and Charles Lynn as her appraisers and clerks. Ben is her sweetheart and Polly sure does love him, but Ben is not quite so enthusiastic, excepting when the cash register is made to tingle, then all his love is for Becky. ” - Synopsis from Motion Picture News
Unexpected Places

Unexpected Places

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
The valet of Lord Harold Varden, on a secret mission to our Government, has been murdered. Dick Holloway, a reporter, detailed to the story, calls on Lord Varden just as the latter feels the effects of poison administered to him. He takes the place of the nobleman when his American cousins come for him, and not only saves his lordship's papers, but captures the spies detailed to get them.
Little Orphant Annie

Little Orphant Annie

1918 • 57 min • United States of America
Annie, left orphaned after the death of her mother, goes to live in an orphanage where she tells her fellow orphans stories of ghosts and goblins. The matron of the orphanage finds Annie's closest relative, the abusive Uncle Thomp. Her uncle who puts her to hard work doing hard labor on his farm, belittling her all the while. Big Dave, a neighbor and tough cow-poke sees this and comes to her aid. Dave becomes her protector. Eventually Annie goes to live with Squire Goode and his large family. There, she entertains the children of the household with her stories, but sees her abusive aunt and uncle as her chief tormentors. She tells stories of how the goblins will take away the children if they are not good. Each story she tells is illustrated. War breaks out and Dave, who Annie adores, enlists. Uncle Thomp, hearing that Dave has been killed in action, takes pleasure in telling Annie the news. Broken-hearted, Annie falls ill and dies in bed, surrounded by family.
The Rainbow Trail

The Rainbow Trail

1918 • 60 min • United States of America
Following in his dad's footsteps, Shefford devotes himself to freeing his community from the grip of a particularly despotic Mormon sect. In so doing, he rescues his foster sister Fay Larkin, who is coveted by lecherous Mormon elder Wagoner. As was the case in Riders of the Purple Sage, the Mormons are villains simply because they are Mormons.
The Secret Code

The Secret Code

1918 • 53 min • United States of America
Sally Carter Rand, married to an elderly senator, is accused of espionage, but she is able to clear herself by proving that her mysterious knitting is actually a baby sweater.
The Gentry's Ball

The Gentry's Ball

1918 • 54 min • Russia
The Lure of the Circus

The Lure of the Circus

1918 • 54 min • United States of America
Lure of the Circus is a 1918 American adventure film serial directed by J. P. McGowan.
Mr. Fix-It

Mr. Fix-It

1918 • 54 min • United States of America
A young man impersonates his best friend, and in doing so upsets the decorum at a stuffy family gathering and falls in love. The arrival of a gang of hoodlums further disrupts the formalities, but our hero thwarts them and saves the day.
An Ozark Romance

An Ozark Romance

1918 • 11 min • United States of America
Harold visits the Ozarks, where he has some funny experiences with a mountain girl and her eccentric family.
His Busy Day

His Busy Day

1918 • 20 min • United States of America
A two-reel comic number featuring Toto the clown in his usual knockabout tricks. He is first seen flirting in a park, but later appears at a moving picture studio. He gets in trouble here and escapes dressed as a girl. He then invades the grounds of a dancing school, and later the winter quarters of a circus.
Our Mrs. McChesney

Our Mrs. McChesney

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
Mrs. Emma McChesney is a determined and successful traveling saleswoman for T. A. Buck's Featherbloom Petticoat Company. When Buck dies and his son, T. A. Buck, Jr., takes charge, the company suffers and Emma nearly accepts a job offer from Buck's rival, Abel Fromkin.
Pershing's Crusaders

Pershing's Crusaders

1918 • 37 min • United States of America
Documentary on American troops in France in the First World War.
The Man of Bronze

The Man of Bronze

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
Mary Lawton bids farewell to her father, Mark Lawton, and his business partner, John Adams, to whom she is engaged, leaving Arizona to study art in New York. After a time, John visits Mary unexpectedly and discovers to his sorrow that she has forgotten him in the convivial whirl of her new life.
Camouflage

Camouflage

1918 • 21 min • United States of America
A detective pursues a woman suspected of spying for the Kaiser.
A Broadway Scandal

A Broadway Scandal

1918 • 50 min • United States of America
Having been misinformed that all French girls are morally suspect, American soldier David Kendall (Edwin August) is in for quite a shock when he's shipped Over There. After meeting several "nice" Frenchwomen, David returns to the states with a whole new perspective on things. It isn't long before he falls in love with Nenette (Carmel Myers), the daughter of French-born restaurateur Armande Bisson (Andrew Robson). But when Nenette is implicated in a murder, the disillusioned David instantly repudiates her -- and by extension, all Daughters of France.
The Village Chestnut

The Village Chestnut

1918 • 22 min
Comedy and romantic shenanigans set in a one-classroom school.
The Bride's Awakening

The Bride's Awakening

1918 • 60 min • United States of America
A husband orders his wife to keep their marriage a secret, in order to better continue his affair with a married woman.