YEAR 1918: TOP 50 FILMS by CANONMOVIES
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- DirectorMaurice TourneurStarsTula BelleRobin MacdougallEdwin E. ReedWith the aid and guidance of a magical fairy, two peasant children set out in search of the elusive "Blue Bird of Happiness".
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceSyd ChaplinCharlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines.
- DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinEdna PurvianceDave AndersonThe Little Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.
- DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmEdith ErastoffJohn EkmanA stranger comes to work at widow Halla's farm.
- DirectorF. Richard JonesJames YoungStarsMabel NormandGeorge NicholsLaura La VarnieMickey, an orphan who has been brought up in a mining settlement, is sent to New York to live with her aunt.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordIda WatermanHerbert StandingTwo young women - a paraplegic girl sheltered by her wealthy guardians and a more experienced orphan - fall in love with a man separated from his violent wife.
- DirectorMauritz StillerStarsVictor SjöströmKarin MolanderJosef FischerIn this sequel to Wanted - A Film Actress (1917), comedic situations follow Thomas and Bessie - beginning with the preparations of wedding ceremony, to the daily married life.
- DirectorWinsor McCayStarsWinsor McCayAn animated dramatization of the notorious World War I German torpedoing of the ocean liner, Lusitania.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsRaymond HattonKathlyn WilliamsEdythe ChapmanJohn Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying from shock, asks him to keep his identity secret since his wife is now married to the Governor and expecting a child.
- DirectorErnst LubitschStarsOssi OswaldaCurt GoetzFerry SiklaA teenaged tomboy, tired of being bossed around by her strict guardian, impersonates a man so she can have more fun, but discovers that being the opposite sex isn't as easy as she had hoped.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsMary HaraldRené CrestéGeorges BiscotJacques d'Athys, a French adventurer, returns to his home in Nice after an expedition to Indochina where he has picked up a Eurasian fiancée and a book that, unbeknownst to him, contains a coded message revealing the whereabouts of both secret treasures and sensitive government intelligence. This makes him the target of foreign spies, including a Marquise of mysterious Latin origin, a Hindu hypnotist and an evil German doctor, who will stop at nothing to obtain the book.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnChaos reigns at an upscale restaurant as a cook and a waiter juggle their responsibilities.
- DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishDorothy GishRobert HarronYoung lovers in a French village are torn apart with the coming of the Great War.
- DirectorAlbert ParkerStarsGloria SwansonJoe KingHarvey ClarkMarcia Grey is wrongly convicted on trumped-up evidence of a German. After serving her term, she rebuilds her life and marries well. The German then attempts to blackmail her into helping the German cause during WWI.
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnAfter escaping from a marauding group of Indians, a wandering bartender teams up with a saloon owner, only to find themselves up against a ruthless outlaw who is after an unprotected Salvation Army girl. Can they beat him at his own game?
- DirectorRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleStarsRoscoe 'Fatty' ArbuckleBuster KeatonAl St. JohnAt the Elk's Head Hotel bellhops torment the lobby, each other and guests. The elevator is powered by a stubborn horse. A sham robbery turns into a real one. And there is a chase on a runaway trolley.
- DirectorSidney FranklinStarsNorma TalmadgeEugene O'BrienAnders RandolfPuck is a music-hall dancer married to an abusive husband. One night the music hall catches fire. Puck is rescued by an Army officer and her husband perishes. Puck marries the officer and they begin a new life in India, until a man from her past finds her and makes demands.
- DirectorLouis FeuilladeStarsRené CrestéÉdouard MathéLouis LeubasMovie serial "Vendemiaire" depicts a registering nationalist and regionalism concerns about the effects of the First World War.
- DirectorHolger-MadsenStarsGunnar TolnæsZanny PetersenNicolai NeiiendamA group of researchers from Earth travel in a spaceship to Mars, where, to big surprise, they find a peaceful vegetarian and pacifist civilization.
- DirectorWilliam Desmond TaylorStarsMary PickfordAnne SchaeferFred HuntleyA young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordTheodore RobertsThomas MeighanM'liss, a feisty young girl in a mining camp, falls for Charles Gray, the school teacher. Charles is implicated in a murder of which he is innocent, and the two must fight to save him from a lynching.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanStarsMary PickfordWilliam ScottKate PriceAmarilly comes from a large family in a working-class neighborhood. She is happy with her family and her boyfriend Terry, a bartender in a cafe. But one day she meets Gordon, a sculptor who comes from a rich family, and she begins to be drawn into the world of the upper class.
- DirectorDell HendersonStarsCarlyle BlackwellWilliam T. CarletonIsabel BerwinThe spoiled, somewhat "mama's boy" young son of a railroad magnate and the pretty young daughter of the magnate's partner set out to stop their respective fathers' incessant quarreling. In the process, they realize that they are falling in love with each other.
- DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsElliott DexterFlorence VidorSylvia AshtonCharles Murdock neglects his fat and lazy wife in favor of Juliet Raeburn, but when Juliet's name is involved in murder, he manages to clear her of any charge. After his divorce, Charles marries Juliet.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingStarsHarold Lloyd'Snub' PollardBebe DanielsA man tries to sneak into a motion picture studio to give back the letter of the beautiful woman who dropped it at a sidewalk.