The best movies 1917

"We have only one really tropic state in the good old U.S.A., and that is Florida, and so, just returning from the tropics of the Far East, Mr....

Traveling from the Latin Quarter of Paris to Brittany to seek inspiration for his painting, artist Paul Dachette finds it in the person of Mignon, an...

La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

Part 1 of the Mysteries of Warsaw trilogy. The film’s protagonist, a wealthy man, is poisoned by his valet, who hopes to seize his fortune. No...

Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film. Currently considered a lost film. Argentine...

Adrien Sixte is a reclusive intellectual known for his theories on psychological materialism. Sixte’s orderly, self-enclosed world is violently...

A peace-loving prince and his followers dream of eternal peace – pax aeterna. So far, they have been successful only within the realm. When the...

Count Merlin pursues an alchemical quest requiring the blood of young men to complete his rituals. An early version of the vampire on film.

Harriet Wold and Ragnar Berntzen are engaged, but she falls in love with Lieutenant Wang and he with the priest's daughter Anna. As they confess this...

Early Hungarian silent film from Michael Curtiz

A young girl is trying to live an honest life in a crooked city. Caught up with a crook that might be the son of a millionaire and other crooked...

Italian silent film, an adaptation of La Curée by Émile Zola

Propaganda film about the Dutch Military. Willy Mullens made this film in 1917, when other West-European armies had become numbed by three long years...

To prevent David's widowed mother, Elizabeth, from being influenced by her son against their fake tropical rubber plantation investment, the...

Ester escapes an orphanage and finds employment with Dr. Hoff and later with dramatist Hugo Mayerling. After reading a play of his she succeeds on...

Released in 1917.

A melodrama of high-society life. No copies of the film have survived.

Giuseppe Sterni directs and Italia Vitaliani stars in the Italian Golden Age drama.

When her husband Fred goes bankrupt, Lily Morton is forced to give up the trappings of wealth and move into a humble home while Fred attempts to...

La soñadora ("The Dreamer") is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

Argentine animated film utilizing cutout animation, and the world's first animated feature film. Currently considered a lost film. Argentine...

A man (Arroyo Carrillo) is sent to Europe on a diplomatic mission. The ship in which he travels is sunk by a German submarine. In Mexico, his...

The attractive and rapturous Eva is ready to do anything to be the protagonist of a cruel and painful romance. Determined, the young woman falls in...

Emilia and Villalba (Margarita Xirgu and Ricardo Puga) have had a happy marriage until the murder of the prostitute Lilí casted a shadow over...

One of the longest films ever made

Members of an Afro-Cuban secret society, the ñáñigos, kidnap the daughter of a policeman for revenge.

Barcelona, early twentieth century. While a trio of masked burglars and their minions search for an ancient Moorish treasure that can only be located...

Soul Sacrifice is a 1917 Mexican silent film. It features Sara García as an extra.

A young man from a wealthy family learns mechanics on his own initiative at the School of Arts and Crafts. Unexpectedly, the family falls into...

One of the longest films ever made