The best Mary Pickford’s drama movies

Mary Pickford

Mary Pickford

08/04/1892- 29/05/1979
Today we present the best Mary Pickford’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Mary Pickford’s movies.
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Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
7.8/10
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.

Suds

Suds
6.3/10
Amanda Afflick is a lovesick laundress who daydreams about customer Horace Greensmith and cherishes the shirt he brought in for washing eight months and sixteen days ago. She tells her fellow workers that the garment belongs to her fiancé, a lord. Just wait, Amanda boasts, one day his lordship will return for his wash — and for her.

Little Annie Rooney

Little Annie Rooney
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 18/10/1925
  • Character: Annabelle 'Little Annie' Rooney
A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.

Sparrows

Sparrows
7.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/09/1926
  • Character: Molly
Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like slaves. They are watched over by the eldest, Molly. A gang in league with Mr. Grimes kidnaps Doris, the beautiful little daughter of a rich man, and hides her out on Grimes' farm, awaiting ransom. When the police close in, and Mr. Grimes threatens to throw Doris into the bottomless mire, Molly must lead her little flock out through the alligator-infested swamp.

Coquette

Coquette
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 30/03/1929
  • Character: Norma Besant
A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.

The Lonely Villa

The Lonely Villa
6.2/10
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are well-equipped for breaking in. When the father finds out what is happening, he must race against time to get back home.

Stella Maris

Stella Maris
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/01/1918
  • Character: Miss Stella Maris / Unity Blake
Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do. Unity Blake is a poor orphan all too familiar with the harsh realities of the real world. These two young women both fall in love with John, love which is complicated by the fact that he is still married to (though separated from) a bad wife.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

Little Lord Fauntleroy
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/09/1921
  • Character: Cedric Errol / Widow Errol
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Ramona

Ramona
5.9/10
Ramona, a young girl growing up on her adoptive mother's rancho in California, falls in love with the Indian lad Alessandro. When Ramona is denied permission to marry Alessandro, the two lovers elope, only to find a life of great hardship and unhappiness amidst the bigotry and greed of the white landowners.

The Poor Little Rich Girl

The Poor Little Rich Girl
6.7/10
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.

A Little Princess

A Little Princess
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/11/1917
  • Character: Sara Crewe
Little Sara Crewe is placed in a boarding school by her father when he goes off to war, but he does not understand that the headmistress is a cruel, spiteful woman who makes life miserable for Sara.

The Unchanging Sea

The Unchanging Sea
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/05/1910
  • Character: The Daughter as an Adult
In this story set at a seaside fishing village and inspired by a Charles Kingsley poem, a young couple's happy life is turned about by an accident. The husband, although saved from drowning, loses his memory. A child is on the way, and soon a daughter is born to his wife. We watch the passage of time, as his daughter matures and his wife ages. The daughter becomes a lovely young woman, herself ready for marriage. One day on the beach, the familiarity of the sea and the surroundings triggers a return of her father's memory, and we are reminded that although people age and change, the sea and the ways of the fisherfolk remain eternal.

Cinderella

Cinderella
6/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 28/12/1914
  • Character: Cinderella
Based on Charles Perrault's fairy tale: Cinderella is mistreated by her stepmother and stepsisters, but she is able to go to the Royal Ball with the help of the Fairy Godmother.

The Black Pirate

The Black Pirate
7/10
  • Genre: ActionAdventureDrama
  • Release: 08/03/1926
  • Character: Princess Isobel in Final Embrace - Cameo Appearance (uncredited)
A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father at the hands of pirates. To this end he infiltrates the pirate band. Acting in character he is instrumental in the capture of a ship, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a young woman on board whom he wishes to protect from the threat of rape.

Pollyanna

Pollyanna
6.4/10
When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.

Secrets

Secrets
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaWestern
  • Release: 16/03/1933
  • Character: Mary Marlowe / Mary Carlton
In the 1860s, Mary Marlowe defies her father's wishes to marry a British lord and runs away with clerk John Carlton as he heads West to make his fortune. Mary and John endure the difficult journey and settle into a small cabin, then face the hostilities of a cattle rustling gang, as well as the tragic loss of their only son. With Mary's help, John defeats the gang, which propels him to political power that, over the years, gradually erodes the once-happy marriage.

The New York Hat

The New York Hat
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/12/1912
  • Character: Mary Harding, the Daughter
To fulfill a dying mother's bequest for her daughter, the town pastor purchases the daughter a stylish hat, and gossip spreads through the town.

The Sealed Room

The Sealed Room
6/10
The Count sets out to make a private room for him and his Countess, built in such a way no one can see, hear, and most importantly, disturb them. But unbeknownst to the Count, his wife has set her eyes on the court minstrel. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's “The Cask of Amontillado” and Honoré de Balzac's “La Grande Breteche”.

Wilful Peggy

Wilful Peggy
5.8/10
Peggy is a high-spirited young woman from a poor family. One day she catches the eye of a wealthy lord, who proposes marriage and wants to introduce her into his social circle. But complications arise when the lord's nephew also becomes attracted to Peggy.

Sweet Memories

Sweet Memories
5.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/03/1911
  • Character: Polly Biblett
An elderly woman looks back on the special times in her life, thinking especially about her now-departed husband and the things they did together. Though it is sad that these times are now gone, she is comforted by her memories and by the hope of sharing in the lives of her child and grandchildren.

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