List of the best Lillian Gish movies: Intolerance(1916), Way Down East(1920), Orphans of the Storm(1922), La Bohème(1926), Broken Blossoms(1919), True Heart Susie(1919), The White Sister(1923), The Birth of a Nation(1915), Romola(1924), A Romance of Happy Valley(1919), Annie Laurie(1927), The Greatest Question(1919) ... ...
Drama
USA
1916
178 Minutes
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Bessie Love Mae Marsh Howard Gaye Margery Wilson Eugene Pallette Lillian Langdon Fred Turner Sam De Grasse Olga Grey
prince queen jesus mary magdalene worker wife fascinating profound california france judea babylon betrayal pacifism religion murder fall quest wretched excess 1910s
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Drama
USA
1920
145 Minutes
Anna Moore
Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess Lowell Sherman Burr McIntosh Creighton Hale Vivia Ogden Josephine Bernard Patricia Fruen Florence Short Kate Bruce Emily Fitzroy
A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
Drama
USA
1922
125 Minutes
Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Joseph Schildkraut Frank Losee Katherine Emmet Morgan Wallace Lucille LaVerne Sheldon Lewis Frank Puglia Creighton Hale Monte Blue
orphan aristocrat thief nobleman beggar doctor melodramatic tense emotional paris street bastille ballroom french revolution class conflict robespierre sister relationship family social change adventure
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Drama
USA
1926
101 Minutes
Mimi
Lillian Gish John Gilbert Renée Adorée Edward Everett Horton Roy D'Arcy George Hassell David Mir Gene Pouyet Karl Dane Catherine Vidor Valentina Zimina
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
Drama
USA
1919
87 Minutes
Lucy
Lillian Gish Richard Barthelmess Donald Crisp Arthur Howard Edward Piel Sr. George Andre Beranger Norman Selby Wilbur Higby Karla Schramm Ernest Butterworth Fred Hamer
immigrant waif fighter father manager dark emotional disheartening london shop household apartment buddhism immigration discrimination love abuse death forbidden love quest
A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
Comedy, Romance, Drama
USA
1919
87 Minutes
True Heart Susie
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Loyola O'Connor Wilbur Higby Clarine Seymour Kate Bruce Raymond Cannon
farm girl minister student temptress aunt father melodramatic tender passionate touching farm college family home rural community countryside secrets infidelity unrequited love small-town life death
Susie, a plain young country girl, secretly loves a neighbor boy, William. She believes in him and sacrifices much of her own happiness to promote his own ambitions, all without his ... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
USA
1923
143 Minutes
Angela Chiaromonte
Lillian Gish Ronald Colman Gail Kane J. Barney Sherry Charles Lane Juliette La Violette Alfredo Bertone
heiress italian soldier half sister father love interest nun passionate melodramatic uplifting italy family estate convent front lines church middle east inheritance sibling rivalry battle roman catholic church star-crossed lovers
A young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, but things get complicated when he returns alive.
War, Drama, History
USA
1915
190 Minutes
Elsie Stoneman
Lillian Gish Mae Marsh Henry B. Walthall Miriam Cooper Mary Alden Ralph Lewis George Siegmann Walter Long Robert Harron Wallace Reid Joseph Henabery
military officer nurse politician slave brother abraham lincoln creative melodramatic south carolina washington, d.c. mansion hospital battlefield countryside american civil war politics slavery ku klux klan revenge rivalry
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Drama
USA
1924
120 Minutes
Romola
Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish William Powell Ronald Colman Charles Lane Herbert Grimwood Bonaventura Ibáñez Frank Puglia Amelia Summerville Tina Ceccaci Renaldi Eduilio Mucci
In Renaissance Florence, Tito, a no-good young man pretending to be a scholar, wins the admiration of a blind man who has long looked for someone to finish his scholarly work. He has a ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1919
60 Minutes
Jennie Timberlake
Lillian Gish Robert Harron George Fawcett Kate Bruce George Nichols Bertram Grassby
girlfriend mother father inventor son wealthy man melodramatic kentucky family home big city countryside new york city apartment ambition city vs. country homecoming rags to riches family financial troubles quest
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... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1927
80 Minutes
Annie Laurie
Lillian Gish Norman Kerry Creighton Hale Joseph Striker Hobart Bosworth Patricia Avery Russell Simpson Brandon Hurst David Torrence Frank Currier
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Drama
USA
1919
80 Minutes
Nellie Jarvis
Lillian Gish Robert Harron Ralph Graves Eugenie Besserer George Fawcett Tom Wilson George Nichols Josephine Crowell
An orphan girl is given shelter by a farm family, but soon finds herself in the clutches of a murderous farmer and his wife.
Crime, Drama
1912
17 Minutes
The Little Lady
Lillian Gish Elmer Booth
A man recognizes the thief who had previously robbed him as one of the men involved in an unrelated mob shootout.
Crime, Drama
1912
17 Minutes
The Sister - Older
Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Robert Harron Harry Carey Grace Henderson
Drama
USA
1987
90 Minutes
Bette Davis Lillian Gish Vincent Price Ann Sothern Harry Carey Jr. Margaret Ladd Tisha Sterling Mary Steenburgen
sister widow elderly person neighbor fisherman blind person touching mellow heartwarming cliff island, maine summerhouse seaside aging love family vacation sister relationship growing up love sacrifice
Two aged sisters reflect on life and the past during a late summer day in Maine.
Comedy
USA
1933
68 Minutes
Roland Young Lillian Gish Montagu Love Lumsden Hare Lucy Beaumont Charles Richman Oliver Smith Philip Tonge Audrey Ridgewell Regina DeValet
artist valet widow doctor art dealer playful lighthearted amusing london apartment bedroom westminster abbey cottage mistaken identity art world impersonation recluses dilemma marriage discovery
Priam Farrel is a celebrated artist but a social recluse. When his valet dies of a sudden illness, a mix-up leads to the body being identified as Farrel's. The timid artist then assumes the... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1955
92 Minutes
Rachel Cooper
Robert Mitchum Shelley Winters Lillian Gish Evelyn Varden Peter Graves James Gleason Billy Chapin Sally Jane Bruce
boy girl preacher wife murderer chilling brooding creepy dark suspenseful small town west virginia river murder child abuse deception greed escape pursuit discovery
A religious fanatic marries a gullible widow whose young children are reluctant to tell him where their real daddy hid the $10,000 he'd stolen in a robbery.
Comedy, Kids & Family, Drama
USA
1966
131 Minutes
Hetty Seibert
Fred MacMurray Vera Miles Lillian Gish Charles Ruggles Elliott Reid Kurt Russell Luana Patten Ken Murray Donald May Sean McClory Steve Franken
Lem Siddons is part of a traveling band who has a dream of becoming a lawyer. Deciding to settle down, he finds a job as a stockboy in the general store of a small town. Trying to fit in, ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
UK
1958
93 Minutes
Mrs. Summers
Eddie Albert Paul Massie Lillian Gish James Robertson Justice Irene Worth Leslie French John Crawford Lionel Jeffries Sandra Dorne Nicholas Phipps Anne Blake
pilot lawyer traitor assassin double agent husband gripping melodramatic bleak france hospital espionage world war ii moral dilemma french resistance kidnapping murder adventure quest transformation
American agent faces an engrossing moral dilemma when he is parachuted into France to eliminate a suspected traitor in the French Resistance.
Western
USA
1960
125 Minutes
Mattilda Zachary
Burt Lancaster Audrey Hepburn Lillian Gish Audie Murphy John Saxon Charles Bickford Albert Salmi Joseph Wiseman June Walker Kipp Hamilton Arnold Merritt
native american rancher racist brother adopted daughter mother tense gripping thrilling texas ranch racism family feud secret old west rivalry discovery 1860s
The neighbors of a frontier family turn on them when it is suspected that their adopted daughter was stolen from the local Kiowa tribe.
War
USA
1918
117 Minutes
The Little Disturber
Adolph Lestina Josephine Crowell Lillian Gish Robert Harron Jack Cosgrave Kate Bruce Ben Alexander Marion Emmons Frances Marion Dorothy Gish Robert Anderson
american beautiful girl friend german soldier father mother patriotic melodramatic rousing inspiring france village battlefield inn household world war i duty heroism love triangle german occupation
Young lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
Western
USA
1946
130 Minutes
Laura Belle McCanles
Jennifer Jones Gregory Peck Joseph Cotten Lionel Barrymore Lillian Gish Herbert Marshall Walter Huston Butterfly McQueen Charles Bickford Tilly Losch Harry Carey
orphan aunt senator outlaw rancher son passionate tense ranch desert texas love-hate relationship love triangle doomed romance cross-cultural romance family dysfunction love revenge rivalry 19th century
Beautiful half-breed Pearl Chavez becomes the ward of her dead father's first love and finds herself torn between her sons, one good and the other bad.
Drama
USA
1955
124 Minutes
Victoria Inch
Richard Widmark Lauren Bacall Charles Boyer Gloria Grahame Lillian Gish John Kerr Susan Strasberg Oscar Levant Paul Stewart Tommy Rettig
psychiatrist wife activities director medical director patient engaging intense uneasy melodramatic clinic library artist's studio office politics psychiatry mental illness power struggle battle of sexes experiments rivalry
At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.
Western, Action
USA
1913
29 Minutes
Mae Marsh Leslie Loveridge Alfred Paget Robert Harron Lillian Gish Charles Hill Mailes William A. Carroll Frank Opperman Henry B. Walthall
Frank Andrews is a successful businessman. He has always found pride and joy in the company of his wife, son and daughter. He suddenly finds himself enthralled by the advances of a gay ... See full summary »
Drama
USA
1914
59 Minutes
The young mother
Blanche Sweet Henry B. Walthall Robert Harrin Mae Marsh Lillian Gish Dorothy Gish Kate Bruce G. Jiguel Lanoe Harry Carey
widow general mother jew beggar maid melodramatic rousing thrilling bethulia battlefield harem camp judith murder plot siege war seduction starvation quest
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Romance
USA
1948
86 Minutes
Mother Mary of Mercy
Jennifer Jones Joseph Cotten Ethel Barrymore Cecil Kellaway David Wayne Albert Sharpe Florence Bates Lillian Gish Henry Hull Maude Simmons Felix Bressart
painter girl gallery owner cab driver mother superior dreamy brooding creative fascinating new york city cape cod central park convent apartment pub time poverty art storm love
A mysterious girl inspires a struggling artist.
Comedy, Drama
1978
125 Minutes
Nettie Sloan
Carol Burnett Desi Arnaz Jr. Amy Stryker Vittorio Gassman Geraldine Chaplin Mia Farrow Paul Dooley Lillian Gish Lauren Hutton John Cromwell Pat McCormick
Friends and family of the bride (Amy Stryker) and groom (Desi Arnaz Jr.) carry on at a mansion before, during and after the ceremony.