Movies released in 1917

A Mormon Maid

63/100

This silent melodrama is set against the 1840s westward migration of the Mormons. Dora, a young woman, and her family are saved from an Indian attack by a Mormon community traveling to Utah... See full summary »

The Heart of Texas Ryan

55/100

Colonel William Ryan, a ranch owner, in the Lone Star State, has named his only daughter Texas. Jack Parker, a devil-may-care cowpuncher, loves only two things, one is his horse and the ... See full summary »

Reaching for the Moon

63/100

A factory worker has always dreamed that he was meant for better things, to be rich and famous and in "the company of kings". One day he discovers that he is indeed the only heir to the ... See full summary »

The Silent Man

66/100

A gold prospector strikes it rich, but the crooks who run a frontier town take it away from him. He determines to get it back and clean up the town.

The Pride of the Clan

66/100

Among the simple fisher-folk of a little island off the west coast of Scotland lives MacTavish, head of a clan...

The Narrow Trail

71/100

Ice Harding, outlaw, tames a wild horse and names it King. Ice and his gang hold up a stagecoach and encounter San Francisco vice king Bates and his innocent niece Betty Werdin. Ice is ... See full summary »

Il Fauno

70/100

The Scarlet Car

52/100

The Woman God Forgot

65/100

Cortez sends Alvarado to Montezuma who throws him into a dungeon from which he is rescued by Tecza who loves him. He is recaptured when her lover Guatemoco finds Alvarado hiding in her ... See full summary »

Until They Get Me

69/100

Kirby kills a man in self-defense and becomes a fugitive from the police.

Betsy Ross

49/100

Revolutionary War heroine Betsy Ross finds herself in competition with her sister for the affections of a British soldier.

The Cinderella Man

69/100

El apóstol

69/100

Argentinian President Yrigoyen burns Buenos Aires using Jupiter's thunderbolts.

The Secret Man

53/100

A Marked Man

45/100

On Dangerous Ground

86/100

Bradford Stewart, a young American surgeon studying in Germany, is dining in Cologne with a German friend, Ritter Bloem, a philosopher and a patriotic German. The latter is called away by ... See full summary »

Polly of the Circus

79/100

When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hartley...

The Golem and the Dancing Girl

66/100

As a practical joke, an actor impersonates the screen monster he made famous. Complications ensue.

One Touch of Nature

59/100

A hot young rookie pitcher on the New York Giants baseball team is having personal problems that are affecting his game. His father disapproves of both his career choice and the woman he recently married and has basically disowned him.

The Whip

59/100

The story of the training of a racehorse, the Whip, of the amnesiac nobleman who loves the horse, and...

Mothers of France

60/100

A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.

Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray

71/100

A variation of the famous Oscar Wilde tale in which Dorian Gray's soul is manifested in a painting instead of his own body.

Le coupable

63/100

A prosecuting attorney commences his summing-up : the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder ; he left his mother he got pregnant and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world .

Patria

60/100

Serial about Japanese spies trying to invade the US but whose plans are foiled by a rich heiress and a Secret Service agent.

The Fighting Gringo

49/100