Movies by Lists - 100 Best Silent Films of the Pre-Dialogue Era (113 [113]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 7th HeavenA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes. | 1927 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (3.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| AsphaltJoe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a sim | 1929 | Joe May | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Battleship Potemkin, TheIn the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre. | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Drama, History, Thriller, War | 8.0 (56.4K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| Beggars of LifeAfter killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of hobos, and steal a car in their attempt to escape the police, | 1928 | William A. Wellman (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.5 (1.1K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Ben-HurA Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned. | 1925 | Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (7.6K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Big BusinessOllie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner. | 1929 | James W. Horne, Leo McCarey | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (3.1K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
| Big Parade, TheA young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War. | 1925 | King Vidor, George W. Hill | Drama, Romance, War | 7.9 (6.6K votes) | 151 | 20211228 |
| Birth of a Nation, TheThe Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux K | 1915 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History, War | 6.2 (24.2K votes) | 195 | 20211228 |
| Black Pirate, TheSeeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death. | 1926 | Albert Parker | Adventure, Action | 7.1 (1.9K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Broken Blossoms or the Yellow Man And GirlA frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences. | 1919 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (10.1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, TheHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders. | 1920 | Robert Wiene (*) | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (61.7K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| CabiriaCabiria is a Roman child when her home is destroyed by a volcano. Sold in Carthage to be sacrificed in a temple, is saved by Fulvio, a Roman spy. But danger lurks, and hatred between Rome and Carthage can only lead to war. | 1914 | Giovanni Pastrone | Adventure, Drama, History, War | 7.1 (3.5K votes) | 148 | 20211228 |
| Cameraman, TheHopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire. | 1928 | Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 8.1 (11.5K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Cat and the Canary, TheRelatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will. | 1927 | Paul Leni | Comedy, Horror, Mystery | 7.1 (2.9K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Cheat, TheA venal, spoiled stockbroker's wife impulsively embezzles $10,000 from the charity she chairs and desperately turns to a Burmese ivory trader to replace the stolen money. | 1915 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (2.5K votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| Circus, TheThe Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus. | 1928 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Family, Romance | 8.1 (32.9K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| City LightsWith the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically. | 1931 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.5 (179.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| CollegeTo reconcile with his girlfriend, a bookish college student tries to become an athlete. | 1927 | James W. Horne, Buster Keaton | Comedy, Drama, Sport | 7.0 (4.8K votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
| CopsA series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force. | 1922 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.6 (6.1K votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
| Crowd, TheThe life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls. | 1928 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (8.2K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Destiny [Der Mude Tod]When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate. | 1921 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller | 7.6 (5.9K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen]After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school. | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama | 7.9 (4.4K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Docks of New York, TheA blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.5 (4.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. HydeDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself. | 1920 | John S. Robertson | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi | 7.0 (5.3K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler [Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler - Ein Bild der Zeit]Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him. | 1922 | Fritz Lang (*) | Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.9 (8.2K votes) | 242 | 20211228 |
| Earth [Zemlya]In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming. | 1930 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama | 7.3 (5.6K votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| FaustThe demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul. | 1926 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 8.1 (14.9K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Flesh and the Devil, TheChildhood friends are torn apart when one of them marries the woman the other fiercely loves. | 1926 | Clarence Brown | Drama | 7.6 (4.3K votes) | 112 | 20211228 |
| Foolish WivesA con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat. | 1922 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (3.5K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| Four Horsement of the Apocalypse, TheAn extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I. | 1921 | Rex Ingram | Drama, Romance, War | 7.2 (3.3K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Freshman, TheA nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus. | 1925 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport | 7.6 (5.4K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| General, TheAfter being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy | 1926 | Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War | 8.1 (88.5K votes) | 67 | 20211228 |
| Girl ShyA shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way. | 1924 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (3.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Go WestWith little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast. | 1925 | Buster Keaton (*) | Comedy, Western | 7.2 (4.2K votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
| Gold Rush, TheA prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall. | 1925 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western | 8.2 (108.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Golem, TheIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution. | 1920 | Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Fantasy, Horror | 7.2 (7.5K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| GreedThe sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved. | 1924 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (9.7K votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
| HäxanFictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe. | 1922 | Benjamin Christensen | Documentary, Fantasy, History, Horror | 7.7 (13.8K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| He Who Gets SlappedA bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him. | 1924 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (3.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Hunchback of Notre Dame, TheIn 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with the gypsy queen. | 1923 | Wallace Worsley | Drama, Horror, Romance | 7.2 (5.3K votes) | 133 | 20211228 |
| Immigrant, TheCharlie is an immigrant who endures a challenging voyage and gets into trouble as soon as he arrives in America. | 1917 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (8.2K votes) | 30 | 20211228 |
| Intolerance - Love's Struggle Through The AgesThe story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history. | 1916 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History | 7.7 (15.2K votes) | 197 | 20211228 |
| ItA salesgirl with plenty of "it" (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy. | 1927 | Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Comedy, Romance | 7.3 (3.2K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Joyless Street, The [Die freudlose Gasse]In post-WWI Vienna, Greta (Greta Garbo), her kid sister, and retired dad try to make it through tough times. | 1925 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Kid Brother, TheA sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town. | 1927 | Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone, J.A. Howe | Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 7.6 (4.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Kid, TheThe Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy. | 1921 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy, Drama, Family | 8.3 (122.7K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Kriemhild's Revenge [Die Nibelungen Kriemhilds Rache]After Siegfried's death Kriemhild marries Etzel (Atilla), the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a feast. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, to kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfrie | 1924 | Fritz Lang (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.0 (4.4K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| La Passion de Jeanne d'ArcIn 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions. | 1928 | Carl Theodor Dreyer (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 8.1 (52.6K votes) | 114 | 20211228 |
| Lady Windermere's FanA society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved. | 1925 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (1.1K votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Last Command, TheA former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary. | 1928 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Drama, History, Romance, War | 8.0 (3.8K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Last Laugh, The [Der Letzte Mann]An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel. | 1924 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama | 8.1 (13.7K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Laugh, Clown, LaughA professional clown and a self-indulgent count learn to help each other with their problems, but then become romantic rivals. | 1928 | Herbert Brenon | Drama | 7.6 (2K votes) | 73 | 20220531 |
| Les VampiresAn intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires. | 1915 | Louis Feuillade (*) | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (4.7K votes) | 421 | 20211228 |
| Lodger, TheA landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London. | 1927 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (11.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Lost WorldThe first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam. | 1925 | Harry O. Hoyt | Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 7.0 (5.1K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Male and FemaleLady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person. | 1919 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Adventure, Drama | 7.0 (1.8K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Cheated Life, The [Der Student von Prag]For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a penniless student, ever dare looking up to any woman | 1926 | Henrik Galeen | Drama, Horror | 6.9 (669 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Laughs, TheWhen a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured. | 1928 | Paul Leni | Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (6.7K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Mark of Zorro, TheA seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed. | 1920 | Fred Niblo | Adventure, Romance, Western | 7.1 (2.5K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
| Merry Widow, TheA prince must woo the now wealthy dancer he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically. | 1925 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.3 (2.4K votes) | 137 | 20211228 |
| MetropolisIn a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences. | 1927 | Fritz Lang (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 8.3 (169.6K votes) | 153 | 20211228 |
| Mother [Mat]A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike. | 1926 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama | 7.5 (2.7K votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
| Mysterious Lady, TheAn attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation. | 1928 | Fred Niblo | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.3K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
| Nanook of the NorthIn this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle. | 1922 | Robert J. Flaherty (*) | Documentary | 7.6 (11.8K votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
| NapoleonA film about the French general's youth and early military career. | 1927 | Abel Gance (*) | Biography, Drama, History, War | 8.2 (7.7K votes) | 330 | 20211228 |
| Navigator, TheTwo spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship. | 1924 | Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Action, Comedy, Romance | 7.7 (9.7K votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
| NoseratuVampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife. | 1922 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Fantasy, Horror | 7.9 (93.9K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| October - Ten Days that Shook the World [Oktyabr]A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown. | 1927 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein | Drama, History | 7.5 (7.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Orphans of the StormTwo orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way. | 1921 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, History, Romance | 7.3 (5.1K votes) | 150 | 20211228 |
| Our HospitalityA man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family. | 1923 | John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton | Comedy, Romance, Thriller | 7.8 (11K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Pandora's BoxThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (10.5K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Carriage, TheOn New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life. | 1921 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Horror | 8.1 (12K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Phantom Of The Opera, TheA mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer. | 1925 | Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Horror | 7.6 (18K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Pilgrim, TheDisguised as a priest, an escaped convict makes his way to Texas. He ends up in a small rural town where the townsfolk mistake him for their new church minister. | 1923 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Comedy | 7.3 (4.9K votes) | 47 | 20211228 |
| Queen KellyA convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa. | 1932 | Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski | Drama | 7.1 (3.2K votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
| RegenerationA boy surrounded by violence grows up to become an infamous gangster. | 1915 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.9 (1.3K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Robin HoodA nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John. | 1922 | Allan Dwan | Adventure, Family, Romance | 7.1 (2.2K votes) | 143 | 20211228 |
| Sadie ThompsonA prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist. | 1928 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Drama | 7.2 (2.7K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Safety Last!A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures. | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Action, Comedy, Thriller | 8.1 (20K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Scarlet Letter, TheAfter having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover. | 1926 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama | 7.6 (1.8K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Seven ChancesA man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day. | 1925 | Buster Keaton (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.9 (10K votes) | 56 | 20211228 |
| Seventh HeavenA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes. | 1927 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.7 (3.5K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Sheik, TheA charming Arabian sheik becomes infatuated with an adventurous, modern-thinking Englishwoman and abducts her to his home in the Saharan desert. | 1921 | George Melford | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.3 (3.4K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Sherlock JrA film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch. | 1924 | Buster Keaton (*) | Action, Comedy, Romance | 8.2 (47.4K votes) | 45 | 20211228 |
| Shoulder ArmsCharlie is a boot camp private who has a dream of being a hero who goes on a daring mission behind enemy lines. | 1918 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Short, Comedy, War | 7.3 (6.7K votes) | 36 | 20211228 |
| Show PeopleA young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress. | 1928 | King Vidor (*) | Comedy, Romance | 7.6 (3.7K votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
| Siegfroed [Die Nibelungen -.Siegfried]Bold, fearless Siegfried travels to King Gunther's castle. On the way he kills a dragon, and an evil dwarf king, thus gaining a treasure and a magic helmet of invisibility and illusion. In return for permission to marry Gunther's sis | 1924 | Fritz Lang (*) | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy | 8.1 (5.7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Spies [Spione]The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government's secret service. | 1928 | Fritz Lang (*) | Romance, Thriller | 7.6 (3.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Spite MarriageAn unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous. | 1929 | Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton | Comedy | 7.0 (2.1K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Steamboat Bill JrThe effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew. | 1928 | Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton | Action, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance | 7.9 (14.3K votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Storm Over Asia [Potomok Chingis-Khana]After a run-in with the law, a Mongolian man becomes a fugitive and joins the Russian Civil War. | 1928 | Vsevolod Pudovkin | Drama, War | 7.1 (2.1K votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
| Strike [Stachka]A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia. | 1925 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Drama | 7.6 (7.8K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| Strong Man, TheA meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her. | 1926 | Frank Capra (*) | Comedy | 6.7 (866 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
| Student Prince in Old Heidelberg, TheA cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale." | 1927 | Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl | Drama, Romance | 7.6 (1.5K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| SunriseA sophisticated urban woman seduces a farmer in the hopes that he will murder his neglected wife and join her in the city, but he soon finds himself rekindling his romance with the latter when she discovers their scheme. | 1927 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Drama, Romance | 8.1 (50.2K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Tabu A Story of the South SeasOn the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin. | 1931 | F.W. Murnau (*) | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (5.7K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Ten Commandments, TheAfter hearing the story of Moses, the sons of a devout Christian mother go their own ways, while the atheist brother's breaking of the Ten Commandments leads to tragedy. | 1923 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Biography, Drama, Fantasy, History | 6.8 (2.2K votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Tess of the Storm CountryWealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill; a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on young Tess, and one of them, Ben Letts, frames Tes... | 1922 | John S. Robertson | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (500 votes) | 137 | 20231013 |
| Thief of Bagdad, TheA recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess. | 1924 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Romance | 7.7 (6K votes) | 155 | 20211228 |
| Tol'able DavidWhen three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance. | 1921 | Henry King | Drama | 6.9 (1.9K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Trip to the Moon, AA group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon. | 1902 | Georges Méliès | Short, Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi | 8.2 (47.7K votes) | 13 | 20211228 |
| Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
| UnderworldBoisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend. | 1927 | Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Romance | 7.6 (2.9K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Unholy Three, TheA sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" and commit a series of robberies. | 1925 | Tod Browning (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (1.9K votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Unknown, TheA criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost. | 1927 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller | 7.7 (7.9K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| VarietePrologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. | 1925 | Ewald André Dupont | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.5 (1.2K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| Variety [Varieté]Prologue: The murderer "Boss" Huller - after having spent ten years in prison - breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. "Boss", a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ''erotic sensations''. | 1925 | Ewald André Dupont | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.2K votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
| WaxworksA wax museum hires a writer to give the sculptures stories. The writer imagines himself and the museum owner's daughter in the stories. | 1924 | Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni | Fantasy, Horror | 6.6 (2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Way Down EastA naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock. | 1920 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (5.4K votes) | 145 | 20211228 |
| Wedding March, TheA young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money. | 1928 | Erich von Stroheim (*) | Drama | 7.4 (1.7K votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| West Of ZanzibarA magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife. | 1928 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (1.8K votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
| Wind, TheA frail young woman from the east moves in with her cousin in the west, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad. | 1928 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western | 8.1 (6.5K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| WingsTwo young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I. | 1927 | William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Drama, Romance, War, Action | 7.5 (12.5K votes) | 144 | 20211228 |