Lois Weber Movies

  • 1916
    The Dumb Girl of Portici

    The Dumb Girl of Portici

    The Dumb Girl of Portici

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    Fenella, a poor Italian girl, falls in love with a Spanish nobleman, but their affair triggers a revolution and national catastrophe.

    The Dumb Girl of Portici
  • 1914
    The Spider and Her Web

    The Spider and Her Web

    The Spider and Her Web

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    The story concerns the reformation of a fast woman who runs a gambling establishment. Her one fear is of death and her regeneration is brought about.

    The Spider and Her Web
  • 1916
    Idle Wives

    Idle Wives

    Idle Wives

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    Characters in the film attend a movie titled 'Life’s Mirror', where they see parallel, cautionary versions of their own lives. Only the first...

    Idle Wives
  • 1917
    The Price of a Good Time

    The Price of a Good Time

    The Price of a Good Time

    01917HD

    A poor shopgirl is offered a "good time" for a week by the son of her employer. She accepts, but the offer is misunderstood by her brother, who...

    The Price of a Good Time
  • 1917
    Even as You and I

    Even as You and I

    Even as You and I

    01917HD

    Carillo and his wife Selma are devoted to each other. As a sculptor, Carillo has achieved the qualities of honor and love until the Devil seeks to...

    Even as You and I
  • 1927
    The Angel of Broadway

    The Angel of Broadway

    The Angel of Broadway

    01927HD

    Babe Scott, a cabaret dancer who is constantly searching for sensational material to shock her customers, conceives of burlesquing a Salvation Army...

    The Angel of Broadway
  • 1921
    What's Worth While?

    What's Worth While?

    What's Worth While?

    01921HD

    A rich woman and a poor man fall in love, but they face the opposition of her family.

    What's Worth While?
  • 1916
    John Needham's Double

    John Needham's Double

    John Needham's Double

    01916HD

    Although he has been appointed to guard the fortune of young Thomas Creighton, the unscrupulous Lord John Needham decides to spend all of it after...

    John Needham's Double
  • 1912
    Fine Feathers

    Fine Feathers

    Fine Feathers

    01912HD

    The Fine Feathers is a 1912 silent film dramatic short directed by and starring Lois Weber.

    Fine Feathers
  • 1915
    Betty in Search of a Thrill

    Betty in Search of a Thrill

    Betty in Search of a Thrill

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    After graduating from a convent school, Betty travels to New York to visit her relatives, the Hastings. She quickly catches the eye of Jim Denning, a...

    Betty in Search of a Thrill
  • 1918
    The Doctor and the Woman

    The Doctor and the Woman

    The Doctor and the Woman

    01918HD

    The mysterious "K" takes a humble job and falls in love with his landlady's daughter, Sidney Page. Sidney discourages her boyish admirer, Joe...

    The Doctor and the Woman
  • 1911
    Fate

    Fate

    Fate

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    Jack Norton had traveled the downgrade, had transgressed the laws of man, had trespassed the forbidden, and paid the penalty.

    Fate
  • 1917
    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle

    01917HD

    A doctor's wife is arrested for educating impoverished women about birth control.

    The Hand That Rocks the Cradle
  • 1934
    White Heat

    White Heat

    White Heat

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    In this melodrama filmed on location in Hawaii, a sugar plantation manager finds himself falling in love with a native girl, but instead of...

    White Heat
  • 1916
    The Eye of God

    The Eye of God

    The Eye of God

    01916HD

    Olaf writes his memoirs, before his execution. He tells of his life as a struggling farmer when Renie, stranded in the village, stays one night in...

    The Eye of God
  • 1920
    To Please One Woman

    To Please One Woman

    To Please One Woman

    01920HD

    A woman, having lost interest in her soon to be bankrupt husband, decides to seduce a doctor.

    To Please One Woman
  • 1913
    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    The Picture of Dorian Gray

    01913HD

    Alleged silent short adaptation of Oscar Wilde's novel, first mentioned in a 1966 copy of Films In Review. Recent scholarship argues this film never...

    The Picture of Dorian Gray
  • 2009
    Early Directors on Directing

    Early Directors on Directing

    Early Directors on Directing

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    There were more women directors before 1920 than at any other time in history. The first director to put a narrative story on celluloid was, Alice...

    Early Directors on Directing
  • 1919
    A Midnight Romance

    A Midnight Romance

    A Midnight Romance

    01919HD

    Marie, a hotel maid, falls in love with millionaire's son Roger, but Roger cannot marry her because of her inferior station and his unwillingness to...

    A Midnight Romance
  • 1919
    Mary Regan

    Mary Regan

    Mary Regan

    01919HD

    Mary Regan is the daughter of a gentleman crook and an heiress. Although she has received a good upbringing, she refuses to marry Robert Clifford for...

    Mary Regan