The Best Movies of 1917
List of the best movies of 1917, with movie trailers when available. These top movies of 1917 are listed by popularity, so the movies with the most votes are at the top. This list consists of all different movie genres, but each film was released in 1917. You can filter this list of films that came out in 1917 for various bits of information, such as who directed the movie and what genre it is. Think the best 1917 movie isn't as high as it should be? Vote up your favorite so it will rise to the top.
This list is made up of many different movies, including The Cure and The Immigrant.
This list answers the questions, "What are the best movies from 1917?" and "What are the most popular movies of 1917?"
1917 was a great year for movies, since a lot of classic films were released in 1917. This is a crowd sourced list that has been voted on by many people, so these top films of 1917 aren't just one persons opinion.Ranked by
- 1Charlie Chaplin, William Gillespie, Eric Campbell
- 2Charlie Chaplin, Eric Campbell, Edna Purviance
- Released: 1917
- Directed by: Charlie Chaplin, Edward Brewer
Easy Street is a 1917 short action-comedy film by Charlie Chaplin. - 3Mary Pickford, Marcia Harris, Frank McGlynn
- Released: 1917
- Directed by: Maurice Tourneur
The Poor Little Rich Girl is a 1917 American comedy-drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur. Adapted by Frances Marion from the 1913 play by Eleanor Gates. The Broadway play actually starred future ...more - 4Theda Bara, Art Acord, Thurston Hall
- Released: 1917
- Directed by: J. Gordon Edwards
Cleopatra was an American silent historical drama film based on H. Rider Haggard's 1889 novel Cleopatra and the plays Cleopatre by Émile Moreau and Victorien Sardou and William Shakespeare's Antony ...more - 5Buster Keaton, Roscoe Arbuckle, Al St. John
- Released: 1917
- Directed by: Roscoe Arbuckle
The Butcher Boy is a 1917 American short comedy film starring Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle and Buster Keaton. This was the first in Arbuckle's series of films with the Comique Film Corporation, and ...more - 6Rudolph Valentino, Wallace Beery, Warner Oland
- Released: 1917
- Directed by: Leopold Wharton, Theodore Wharton, Jacques Jaccard
Patria is a 1917 15-chapter serial film starring Irene Castle, Milton Sills, and Warner Oland based on the novel The Last of the Fighting Channings by Louis Joseph Vance. Patria was an independent ...more