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Best Drama Movies of the 1910s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
73 drama films from the 1910s are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916), at 7.6 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 6.7. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages, 7.6 on IMDb against 99 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages '1916 | Drama | 7.6 | 98% | 99 | 7.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 2 | J'accuse '1919 | War / Drama | 7.7 | 67% | - | 7.4 | Abel Gance |
| 3 | Suspense '1913 | Drama / Thriller / Horror | 7.4 | - | - | 7.0 | Lois Weber |
| 4 | Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl '1919 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 95% | - | 6.9 | D.W. Griffith |
| 5 | The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris '1915 | Drama / Thriller | 7.3 | 95% | - | 7.0 | Louis Feuillade |
| 6 | A Man There Was '1917 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Victor Sjöström |
| 7 | Sir Arne's Treasure '1919 | Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 7.1 | Mauritz Stiller |
| 8 | The Outlaw and His Wife '1918 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Victor Sjöström |
| 9 | Different from the Others '1919 | Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 7.1 | Richard Oswald |
| 10 | True Heart Susie '1919 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 67% | - | 7.0 | D.W. Griffith |
| 11 | Male and Female '1919 | Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 12 | Blind Husbands '1919 | Romance / Drama | 6.9 | 92% | - | 6.4 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 13 | The Dying Swan '1917 | Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.5 | Yevgeni Bauer |
| 14 | Cabiria '1914 | Drama | 7.1 | 93% | - | 7.2 | Giovanni Pastrone |
| 15 | Ingeborg Holm '1913 | Drama | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Victor Sjöström |
| 16 | Shoes '1916 | Drama | 6.9 | 91% | - | 6.0 | Lois Weber |
| 17 | Stella Maris '1918 | Drama / Romance | 6.9 | 90% | - | 6.9 | Marshall Neilan |
| 18 | The Cigarette '1919 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.8 | Germaine Dulac |
| 19 | The Dragon Painter '1919 | Romance / Drama | 6.6 | 91% | - | 6.5 | William Worthington |
| 20 | Madame DuBarry '1919 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.5 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 21 | The President '1919 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 22 | The Poor Little Rich Girl '1917 | Drama / Comedy / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 5.7 | Maurice Tourneur |
| 23 | The Blue Bird '1918 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Maurice Tourneur |
| 24 | Satan's Rhapsody '1917 | Mystery / Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Romance | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Nino Oxilia |
| 25 | The Land Beyond the Sunset '1912 | Fantasy / Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.3 | Harold M. Shaw |
| 26 | The Girl and Her Trust '1912 | Crime / Thriller / Drama / Western | 6.8 | - | - | 6.3 | D.W. Griffith |
| 27 | The End of the World '1916 | Sci-Fi / Action / Drama | 6.5 | - | - | 6.3 | August Blom |
| 28 | The Sinking of the Lusitania '1918 | War / Animation / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Winsor McCay |
| 29 | Joan the Woman '1916 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 5.7 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 30 | The Right of Youth '1911 | Drama | - | - | - | 6.6 | August Blom |
| 31 | Where Are My Children? '1916 | Drama | 6.3 | - | - | 5.9 | Lois Weber |
| 32 | The Musketeers of Pig Alley '1912 | Crime / Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 33 | Fantômas '1913 | Drama / Thriller | - | - | - | 7.0 | Louis Feuillade |
| 34 | Falling Leaves '1912 | Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.6 | Alice Guy-Blaché |
| 35 | Hearts of the World '1918 | Drama / War | 6.6 | 95% | - | 6.1 | D.W. Griffith |
| 36 | The Regeneration '1915 | Romance / Crime / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.8 | Raoul Walsh |
| 37 | Take a Chance '1918 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 6.5 | - | - | 6.2 | Alfred J. Goulding |
| 38 | The Lonedale Operator '1911 | Thriller / Drama / Western | 6.5 | - | - | 6.0 | D.W. Griffith |
| 39 | The Mystery of the Rocks of Kador '1912 | Crime / Drama | 6.6 | - | - | 6.2 | Léonce Perret |
| 40 | An Unseen Enemy '1912 | Drama / Thriller | 6.5 | - | - | 5.6 | D.W. Griffith |
| 41 | After Death '1915 | Drama / Horror | 6.8 | - | - | 6.0 | Yevgeni Bauer |
| 42 | The Student of Prague '1913 | Drama / Fantasy | 6.4 | - | - | 6.1 | Stellan Rye |
| 43 | The Mothering Heart '1913 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 5.6 | D.W. Griffith |
| 44 | Twilight of a Woman's Soul '1913 | Drama | 6.4 | - | - | 5.9 | Yevgeni Bauer |
| 45 | The Cheat '1915 | Drama | 6.5 | 90% | - | 6.0 | Cecil B. DeMille |
| 46 | 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea '1916 | Drama / Action / Sci-Fi | 6.1 | 100% | - | 6.1 | Stuart Paton |
| 47 | The New York Hat '1912 | Drama | 6.3 | - | - | 5.6 | D.W. Griffith |
| 48 | Quo Vadis? '1913 | Drama | 6.2 | 88% | - | 5.7 | Enrico Guazzoni |
| 49 | Harakiri '1919 | Drama | 5.6 | - | - | 5.7 | Fritz Lang |
| 50 | Hypocrites '1915 | Drama | 6.5 | 100% | - | 5.6 | Lois Weber |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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Directors on this list
D.W. Griffith Abel Gance Lois Weber Victor Sjöström Cecil B. DeMille Erich von Stroheim Yevgeni Bauer Ernst Lubitsch Carl Theodor Dreyer Maurice Tourneur Winsor McCay Alice Guy-Blaché
Actors on this list
Lillian Gish Conrad Veidt Robert Harron Erich von Stroheim Mary Pickford Emil Jannings Harold Lloyd Bebe Daniels Lionel Barrymore