Underplayed Gems
The whole movie catalogue

Films and series, searchable by what they are

← Back to the shop

The Cloister and the Hearth (1913)

The Cloister and the Hearth poster
Directed by
Cecil Hepworth
Genre
silent film, medieval film
Country
United Kingdom
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

This silent film follows a young man torn between his love for a woman and his desire to become a monk. It shows the struggle of choosing a life path in medieval times.

slowhistoricalromanticearnestpensiveold-fashionedquietmelancholic

What happens

The Cloister and the Hearth is a 1913 British silent historical film directed by Cecil M. Hepworth and starring Alec Worcester, Alma Taylor and Hay Plumb. It is an adaptation of Charles Reade's 1861 novel The Cloister and the Hearth. (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?