Lillian Gish
16 titles
Filmography
16 results

The Wind
(1928)A frail young woman from the East moves in with her cousin in the West, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.

Way Down East
(1920)An innocent country girl, conned into a fake marriage by a wealthy playboy, is cast aside and must keep her past secret in order to build a new life.

Orphans of the Storm
(1921)Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.

Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
(1916)An epic like nothing that came before it or has been seen since, Griffith's monumental masterpiece remains as powerful today as it was almost a century ago.

Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl
(1919)A romantic tragedy starring Lillian Gish as an abused woman who is comforted by a kind and sensitive Chinese immigrant.
True Heart Susie
(1919)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 knowledge.

Hearts of the World
(1918)At the start of WWI, an American boy living in a small French village falls in love with a young girl but as the battle nears and they become separated, he is forced to go behind German enemy lines in order to rescue the woman he loves.

Romola
(1924)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.

The Whales of August
(1987)Libby and Sarah are two elderly widowed siblings who have arrived at an impasse. Can they rediscover the powerful bonds of memory, family, and love?

The Night of the Hunter
(1955)A stolen fortune left behind by their dead father pits two young children against a psychopathic preacher after he marries their naive mother.

Follow Me, Boys!
(1966)A 1930s saxophonist (Fred MacMurray) finds happiness with his bride (Vera Miles) and as the leader of a Boy Scout troop.

Commandos Strike at Dawn
(1942)Dynamic performances by Paul Muni and Anna Lee highlight this action drama set in WWII Norway. Muniis a Norwegian fisherman whose taken on the extremely dangerous job of helping British commandos attack occupying Nazis.

Warning Shot
(1967)Pounded by the press for shooting a doctor, an ousted Los Angeles policeman works his own case to clear his name.
The Cobweb
(1955)Step inside "the Castle," a large private psychiatric facility. Here, Dr. Stewart McIver (Richard Widmark) devotes night and day to his profession while neglecting his pining, voluptuous wife (Gloria Grahame). A colleague (Charles Boyer) with a fondness for booze and a pretty face seeks to comfort the wife. Now add Lauren Bacall, Lillian Gish, John Kerr, Susan Strasberg, Oscar Levant and subplots of love, life and derangement and you have the entanglements of The Cobweb. Some critics gleefully skewered the film's labored storyline about patient involvement in the choice of library draperies, but pay no heed. With its top cast and Vincente Minnelli's command of color and melodrama, this film is popcorn for fans of soaps.
Langlois
(1970)
The Unforgiven
(1960)After a rumor spreads that their daughter is from the Kiowa tribe, a family is haunted by a deranged ex-soldier wielding the "sword of God."