The Passionate Quest is a 1926 American drama film directed by J. Stuart Blackton and written by Marian Constance Blackton. It is based on the 1924 novel The Passionate Quest by E. Phillips Oppenheim. The film stars May McAvoy, Willard Louis, Louise Fazenda, Gardner James, Jane Winton, and Holmes Herbert.

When Arthur Gilpin, a black night watchman, finds young Myrtle Gunsaulus mysteriously murdered in th...

Myrtle Downing, an African-American woman, is coerced into marrying a corrupt would-be politician na...
Deceit (sometimes referred to as The Deceit) is a 1923 American silent black-and-white film. It is a...

A young black Harvard graduate fights against a variety of obstacles, including racist opposition, i...

A movie star helps a young singer-actress find fame, even as age and alcoholism send his own career ...

Margot Sperry, who keeps house for her guardian, a professor who wants to revert to primitive modes ...

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven wit...
Nell Bradley, the daughter of a wealthy bootlegger, who is encouraged to improve herself through edu...

Lili, an unfortunate foster child, has a series of near misses and falls in love.

Young peasant Paul's life is one of poverty and hardship from an early age. His lifelong struggle as...

A multimillionaire is murdered, and his will leaves all his money to a beautiful young blonde. The m...

A schoolteacher in the Yukon promises her hand in marriage to a rich prospector, but instead she mar...

This film combines four short films under the title Bits Of Life. The Bad Samaritan is taken from a ...

This obscure silent melodrama, directed by the veteran Harry J. Revier, was filmed entirely in San F...

Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial an...

Paul is a fearless French Foreign Legion officer. Ordered to quell a native uprising at a far-away o...

The Morning Sun Shines is a fiction-documentary film by Kenji Mizoguchi and Seiichi Ina. The film is...

After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing ...

Incidents depicted in the life of Joseph of Canaan include: the conspiracy of his brothers to sell h...