Movies beginning with C

An early feature melodrama typical of the industry’s taste for foreign settings, romantic danger, and theatrical source material during feature-film expansion.

Cecil B. DeMille’s visually stylised melodrama became internationally influential, especially for its expressive lighting, moral ambiguity, and Sessue Hayakawa’s role.

Thomas H. Ince’s grand antiwar allegory used spectacle and religious symbolism to argue against militarism during the First World War.

An early American literary adaptation that demonstrated cinema’s growing ambition to dramatise famous works of literature.

Cecil B. DeMille’s adaptation of Bixet's opera capitalised on opera star Geraldine Farrar’s prestige and celebrity.

Mary Pickford’s fairy-tale feature demonstrates her star power and the silent era’s transformation of children’s literature into lavish family entertainment.

Helen Gardner’s independently produced historical spectacle was an important woman-led feature production and an early screen treatment of the Egyptian queen.

Thomas H. Ince’s Civil War drama combining action and psychological conflict was an example of his careful planning.