The best Mary Pickford’s romance 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.

Rosita

Rosita
6.4/10
The King tosses Rosita in jail and when Don Diego, who Rosita loves, tries to defend her, he too is thrown in jail. While Don Diego is sentenced to be executed, the King lusts after Rosita and decides to put her up in a luxurious villa. To give her a title, he marries her to a masked nobleman, who turns out to be Don Diego.

Johanna Enlists

Johanna Enlists
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 14/09/1918
  • Character: Johanna Renssaller
A young girl, stifling on her father's backwoods farm, is reinvigorated by the arrival of an army regiment, come to train in the area.

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.

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.

Friends

Friends
5.5/10
  • Genre: RomanceWestern
  • Release: 22/09/1912
  • Character: Dora - the Orphan
The orphan Dora is courted by two different gold miners.

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley

Amarilly of Clothes-Line Alley
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 10/03/1918
  • Character: Amarilly Jenkins
Amarilly 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.

The Little American

The Little American
6.3/10
A young American has her ship torpedoed by a German U-boat but makes it back to her ancestral home in France, where she witnesses German brutality firsthand.

Tess of the Storm Country

Tess of the Storm Country
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 12/11/1922
  • Character: Tessibel 'Tess' Skinner
Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tess's father for murder. While maintaining her father's innocence, Tess must keep her love for Graves' son a secret, while caring for Elias' daughter's illegitamate child.

Heart o' the Hills

Heart o' the Hills
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 30/11/1919
  • Character: Mavis Hawn
Family tensions in the Kentucky hills are inflamed by an outsider's dishonest scheme to exploit the area for its coal.

So Near, Yet So Far

So Near, Yet So Far
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1912
  • Character: The Young Woman
It's love at first sight for the Boy, but obstacles-- namely shyness, and the temerity of other suitors-- place themselves in the way of his love. Unknowingly, the Boy and the young woman of his fancy both stay at the home of mutual friends-- But all is not well, as robbers lurk outside the house.

The Pride of the Clan

The Pride of the Clan
6.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 07/01/1917
  • Character: Marget MacTavish
Donald MacTavish, the last chieftain of his clan on an island off the coast of Scotland, dies at sea. This leaves his only daughter, Marget, to assume the responsibilities of leadership. Marget's burden is partially eased by her blossoming romance with Jamie Campbell. But there is a secret from Jamie's past that neither of them know about.

Iola's Promise

Iola's Promise
5.9/10
Iola, the little Indian girl, is held captive by a gang of cutthroats but is soon rescued by Jack Harper, a prospector. She is truly grateful to Jack, and regards him as something different from other white people. Jack's sweetheart and her father are travellers in a wagon-train headed for this place, and, not having much luck so far, he is somewhat gloomy. Iola learns the reason, and promises to help him find gold. "Will you?" he says, "Yes." "Cross your heart?" This cross-your-heart action mystifies Iola. She thinks it is a sort of tribe insignia and tells her people that "Crossheart" people are all right. Iola surely pays her debt of gratitude, not only in finding gold, but in giving her life to protect Jack's sweetheart from her own people.

A Romance of the Redwoods

A Romance of the Redwoods
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 14/05/1917
  • Character: Jenny Lawrence
A young girl travels west to live with her uncle during the California Gold Rush only to find that he has been killed by Indians and his identity assumed by an outlaw.

My Best Girl

My Best Girl
7.5/10
Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, poses as Joe Grant, and takes a job in the stockroom of one of his father's stores, to prove that he can be a success without his father's influence. There he meets stockroom girl Maggie Johnson, and they fall in love. This causes problems, because Mrs. Merrill had planned for her son to marry Millicent Rogers, a high society girl.

The Thread of Destiny

The Thread of Destiny
4.6/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 07/03/1910
  • Character: Myrtle
The orphan girl of San Gabriel meets and is attracted by a Spanish stranger. The Spaniard is accused of cheating and set to be lynched, but is saved by the girl's ruse, who later becomes his bride.

The Mender of Nets

The Mender of Nets
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/02/1912
  • Character: The Little Net-Mender
A young woman who works mending fishermen's nets is engaged to be married. But her fiancé has an old love who refuses to let him go. Further, his former girlfriend has a brother who is willing to use violence to protect his sister's honor.

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