Destiny: or, the Soul of a Woman (1915)
• September 6th, 1915 • 0h 50min
Drama
Overview
Artist Standish using his wife Mary as his model finishes a painting of the Madonna. When the Connoisseur and the Parishioner inspect the picture, the Connoisseur tells Standish that the model was a one-time paramour. Buying the painting they depart. Standish confronts Mary, who tells him that she believed herself legally married to the Connoisseur. Unbelieving he ejects her and their baby son. Penniless Mary leaves her boy on the steps of a monastery. Years later before becoming a monk the boy is sent to see the world. Wandering into a café he is seduced by Beauty as the other inmates of the place, Lust, Rum, Avarice and Passion dance around him. The proprietor enters; it is Mary. Recognizing the crucifix, she left with him as a baby she persuades him to go back without revealing her identity. After he becomes a priest Mary, now a bedraggled old woman enters his church. She recognizes him and just before she dies her son gives her absolution.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
War and Peace: 1918
Released on: 1918-10-25
Drama
Ducrot and Ninette accuse Mario and Anny of owing their wealth to the murderous effects of Mario's b...
The Pit and the Pendulum
Released on: 1913-07-09
Horror, Drama
Alice Guy's version of Edgar Allan Poe's The Pit and the Pendulum. This film is partially lost.
A Star Is Born
Released on: 1954-10-01
Drama, Music, Romance
A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...
Tyrol in Arms
Released on: 1914-08-08
Drama
On 2 December 1805 Napoleon Bonaparte succeed in the glorious "Three Emperors" at Austerlitz, the A...
Our Mutual Friend
Released on: 1921-06-05
Drama
After his father's will stipulates he must marry Bella Wilfer to inherit his fortune, John Harmon fa...
The Awakening
Released on: 1917-12-03
Drama
Abandoned on the church steps at birth Jacques Revilly is a pariah in his small hamlet finally headi...
The Recoil
Released on: 1917-05-13
Drama
When Richard Cameron, a secret service agent tracking down international spies, is kidnapped by the ...
Under the Rouge
Released on: 1925-10-18
Drama
War buddies Whitey and Skeeter have become safecrackers. On a job, Skeeter is surprised by the polic...
The Lost Mail Sack
Released on: 1914-10-07
Drama
A piece of lumber projecting from the side of a freight car picks up the mail sack hanging from the ...
Threads of Fate
Released on: 1917-01-22
Drama
Abandoned as an infant on a stranger’s doorstep by her faithless mother, Marcella, Dorothea is taken...
Intolerance: Love's Struggle Throughout the Ages
Released on: 1916-09-04
Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Greed
Released on: 1924-12-04
Drama, Crime
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
The Wings
Released on: 1916-09-04
Drama
The story is that of a conniving countess coming between a gay sculptor, Claude Zoret, and his bisex...
Polly of the Circus
Released on: 1917-09-08
Drama
When circus aerialist Polly Fisher is injured, she is taken to the nearby home of minister John Hart...
A Fortune Hunter
Released on: 1921-03-14
Drama, History
Historical drama which features Gösta Ekman as the dashing rogue who steals the heart of the etherea...
A Scarlet Angel
Released on: 1922-10-02
Crime, Romance, Drama
The criminal couple Louise Kent and Charles Zukor stages a coup in the luxury restaurant Oriental. I...
A Mother's Atonement
Released on: 1915-10-17
Drama
A man recalls his earlier days when he was married and his wife cheated on him.
If My Country Should Call
Released on: 1916-09-25
Drama, War
A doctor is called to the home of a young man who wants to enlist in the Army.