All Films

Should a Mother Tell

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Faced with the tragic responsibility of choosing between the happiness of her 16-year-old daughter Pamela or saving the life of an innocent man, Marie Baudin's first impulse is to sacrifice all for her own. But she has second thoughts that bring complications to all.

Christmas Eve

1915 • 17 min • United Kingdom

A child stops a sacked thief from shooting her father.

The Oyster Dredger

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Vera, an heiress, while on a trip to the seaside, sees and admires Jack, an oyster dredger. She takes a fancy to his mode of living and through her lawyer proposes to change places and life with him for a time, placing all her property in trust with her lawyer. Jack finally agrees to the proposition and is installed in the wealthy girl's home

Monaco

1915 • 5 min

Short travelogue about - among other subjects - the palace of Monaco, the visit to a village (Corbio) and the Italian border, with shots of the sea.

The Avenging Hand

1915 • 18 min • United Kingdom

The ghost of an Egyptian princess curses the archaeologist who stole her mummified hand.

The Vagabonds

1915 • 13 min • United States of America

A series of flashbacks where a penniless, friendless tramp and his dog relates the story of his downfall due to drink.

The Clemenceau Case

1915 • 60 min • United States of America

This was Theda Bara's third starring film, and the first which she carried all on her own, with no other name actors in the cast. Based on the Alexander Dumas story, The Clemenceau Case involves Iza, a vampire-wife (Bara), whose wicked ways scandalize her husband, Pierre (William E. Shay).

The Voice of the Violin

1915 • 30 min

The Voice of the Violin: A Drama (1915) is a half-hour tragic romance of Marjorie (Helen Fulton) & Jack (Pat O'Malley). Marjorie's at the piano. Jack's shaving & giving some affection to the terrier when he hears Marjorie's music. Herbert McClean Sr (Robert Brower) is Jack's father & Marjorie's legal guardian; he is likewise moved by her playing.

A Lucky Strike

1915 • 13 min • United States of America

Bill is a rich miner but wants a wife. He advertises in an Eastern paper and receives a response from Nellie and Eleanor, but doesn't know it was sent as a joke. When he travels East to meet them, they have the cook pose as the writer of the response.

Stolen Magic

1915 • 22 min • United States of America

A Keystone comedy short starring Mabel Normand

The Midnight Mail

1915 • 15 min • United Kingdom

A working knowledge of Morse code and the foresight to pick a train driver for a sweetheart come in handy in this ‘race to the rescue’ thriller. When the wealthy Mr Harvey has to go away on a train journey, a couple of sharp-eyed crooks take the opportunity to burgle his home. Only the live-in maid stands between them and Harvey’s safe. Can our plucky heroine save the day?

A Lover's Lost Control

1915 • 22 min • United States of America

Mr. and Mrs. Gussle get up to some hijinks in this Keystone comedy.

From Italy's Shores

1915 • 20 min • United States of America

Tony Gardella and his pretty wife, Angelica, sailed from Italy in the steerage of a Mediterranean liner for New York. They had a small sum saved up to give them a start in the new world. The ordeal of Ellis Island over and the trip to Battery Park on board the municipal ferry boat completed, Tony and Angelica found themselves in a little park in the shadows of the downtown scrapers

The Little Patriot from Padua

1915 • 20 min

On a ship bound for Genoa there is a boy in rags is a small Padua, who was sold by his parents to a company of acrobats and had been forced, in order to feed themselves, to do all the work in the circus. Now, escaped during a stopover in Barcelona, ​​the Italian consul had returned. Pity and even curious, some foreign travelers have the boy, who retired in his bunk, he dreams of a decent meal, a new jacket and bring the rest of the money to parents so poor that it had to sell. But when by chance he feels that those travelers, chatting with each other, gossiping about Italy and the Italians, do not hesitate to throw my money in my face, shouting not to accept alms from those who insults my country.

Via Wireless

1915 • 40 min • United States of America

Crime drama about the rivalry over a new invention and a nice girl.

Koningin Elisabeth's Dochter

1915 • 13 min • Netherlands

Garden of Lies

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

An American girl marries the prince of a small European country. On their wedding day, the couple is involved in a car accident, the result of which is that the new bride suffers amnesia and can't remember who she is or anything about herself. While her new husband is off tending to his ailing father, the king, the woman's doctor hires a man to pose as her husband, hoping to jar her memory. She falls in love with her new "husband"; complications ensue.

The Little Dutch Girl

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

The old gardener, attracted by the ducks' antics, goes to the lake to find a basket with a baby in it. He becomes her guardian but passes away when she is fourteen, leaving her the house and garden. Beloved by the woodsman Jean, one day Lionel, a famous painter, approaches her to be his model, and she accepts. Eventually she finds herself torn between the two men.

A Case of Eugenics

1915 • 11 min

Mrs. Drew is so enamored with children that Mr. Drew decides to regress into infantilism so she'll pay more attention to him.

Lady Audley's Secret

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Florid melodrama of misunderstandings, betrayal and desperation as Theda schemes to keep the title secret.

Salving a Steamer

1915 • 1 min • United Kingdom

“Chicago’s Titanic” the S.S. Eastland, a Great Lakes passenger ship in which 844 people lost their lives, is brought up from the seabed.

Bella Donna

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Bella Donna ( Pauline Frederick ) a seductive woman snares Nigel Armine ( Thomas Holding ) into marriage and he takes her to Egypt to live. Tired of her simple husband, Bella becomes involved with brutish Baroudi. To get rid of Nigel, she begins slowly poisoning him. However, Nigel's friend Dr. Isaacson arrives in time to save him. Now Baroudi wants nothing to do with Bella, and neither does her husband. Totally alone now, the distraught Bella wanders off into the desert.

A Girl of Yesterday

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

A lost film. A girl with old-fashioned values becomes a modern sophisticate.

The Clue

1915 • 50 min • United States of America

Russian brothers Count Boris and Alexis Rabourdin obtain a Japanese coastline defense map and plan to sell it to German agents in London. In America, Alexis schemes to marry wealthy Eve Bertram, who loves him. Boris, meanwhile, falls in love with Christine Lesley, Eve's neighbor whom Eve's brother Guy, an amateur inventor experimenting with explosives, also loves.