Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

The Miser and the Child (1909)

The Miser and the Child poster
Directed by
Lewin Fitzhamon
Genre
silent film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A miser forces his dead daughter's child to beg on the streets. The boy is rescued when his father returns from the military.

silentmelodramaticsentimentalsomberold-fashionedstark

What happens

The Miser and the Child è un cortometraggio muto del 1909 diretto da Lewin Fitzhamon. Un avaro costringe il bambino della figlia morta a fare l'accattone finché il piccolo non viene salvato dal ritorno del padre militare. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

More like this

This page is from Underplayed Gems. Not quite it? Tell the Catbot what you feel like watching and it picks from the whole catalogue, or browse by genre, country and year.

Lists: Korean thrillers worth the evening · Anime films beyond Studio Ghibli · Slow films for a rainy night · Horror that unsettles instead of startling · Series you can finish in a weekend · Nordic crime worth the subtitles · Good films that end in under 90 minutes · Documentaries that play like thrillers

Loading movies…

What should I watch?