Movies by Year - 1923 (78)| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| Ashes of VengeanceWhen Empress Catherine of France launches an attack on French Protestants known as Huguenots, the Comte de la Roche saves the life of his enemy, the Huguenot Rupert de Vrieac, by making him an indentured servant in his castle. Rupert | 1923 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.7 (53 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Balloonatic, TheA hapless amusement park attendant finds his run away balloon ride has left him in a strange predicament. | 1923 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Short, Comedy | 6.6 (2.9K votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
| Black OxenA Manhattan playboy falls in love with a mysterious European woman whom he notices as an exact double for a famous socialite who disappeared at the turn of the century. At first, he thinks it's just pure coincidence, as the beauti... | 1923 | Frank Lloyd | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 5.8 (240 votes) | 80 | 20240313 |
| Broken Hearts of BroadwayThe story of a young actress trying to attain stardom on Broadway. | 1923 | Irving Cummings | Drama | 6.1 (87 votes) | 81 | 20240511 |
| Buddenbrooks, DieSaga of the Buddenbrook family and their business, set in 19th century Germany. | 1923 | Gerhard Lamprecht | Drama | 6.6 (19 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Burning Brazier, The [Le brasier ardent]A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on the other hand, torments himse | 1923 | Ivan Mozzhukhin | Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 7.1 (277 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
| Cameo KirbyWrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man's daughter. | 1923 | John Ford (*) | Drama | 5.4 (355 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
| Carmen, Jr.A spoof of Bizet's Carmen. Somewhere in Spain, a young girl gets the better of the neighborhood boys, then, dressed as a fashionable senorita, visits a club where a boy is demonstrating a tango. She joins him to the enjoyment of t... | 1923 | Alfred J. Goulding | Comedy, Short | 6.1 (72 votes) | 11 | 20230328 |
| Chechahcos, TheFollowing a shipwreck, a family of prospectors become separated from their infant daughter in the Klondike. Years later, the grown-up daughter begins to unravel the truth about her heritage. | 1923 | Lewis H. Moomaw | Adventure, Drama, Western | 6.6 (275 votes) | 87 | 20240715 |
| Covered Wagon, TheTwo wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and indian attack. To complicate matters further, a | 1923 | James Cruze | Adventure, Romance, Western | 6.6 (617 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Crime and Punishment [Raskolnikow]Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benifit of mankind, murders an old woman, who operates a cro | 1923 | Robert Wiene (*) | Drama | 6.7 (308 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
| Crown of Thorns [I.N.R.I.]By the director of Cabinet of Dr.Caligari, this is the Passion embedded in a contemporary story. An anarchist jailed for an attempted assassination is told the Passion story by the prison chaplain, who seeks to convince him that it i | 1923 | Robert Wiene (*) | Drama | 6.1 (71 votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| Cyrano de Bergerac [Cirano di Bergerac]Cyrano de Bergerac is a joyous and witty poet filled with plenty of charisma and bravado in 17th-century France. He has only one flaw: an unusually long nose which makes him unattractive to any woman. | 1923 | Augusto Genina | Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (312 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
| The Dare-DevilThe movie makers are filming the next installment of the western serial, "Get Your Man". The movie's leading man wants his stunt double to do the next dangerous stunt. Purely by accident, a hapless, cross-eyed aspiring actor named Jo | 1923 | Del Lord | Short, Comedy | 6.2 (146 votes) | 20 | 20220423 |
| Der Verlorene SchuhOne of the first movies made about the fairy tale Cinderella. The film is part of the current German expressionism. Because of that the film ends up being darker than the fairy tale itself. | 1923 | Ludwig Berger | Fantasy | 6.3 (41 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
| Derby DayAfter the gang goes to the horse races, they decide to have a derby of their own. | 1923 | Robert F. McGowan | Short, Comedy, Family, Sport | 6.8 (103 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| Dnevnik GlumovaFilmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acroba | 1923 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.6 (803 votes) | 5 | 20211228 |
| Dogs Of WarThe gang wages war using old vegetables as munitions. Later, they ruin a movie in progress when they double-expose the film. | 1923 | Robert F. McGowan | Short, Comedy, Family | 6.2 (231 votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
| Explosion [Schlagende Wetter]After the revelation that Georg has seduced her, Maria is driven away by her father. Georg, fearing the wrath of Maria's father, has swiftly abandoned the girl and left for the mining town of Sankt Anton, where he expects to hide ... | 1923 | Karl Grune | Action, Drama | 6.5 (79 votes) | 65 | 20240614 |
| Extra Girl, TheSue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and | 1923 | F. Richard Jones | Comedy, Romance | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
| Faithful Heart, TheMarie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Mari | 1923 | Jean Epstein | Drama, Romance | 7.5 (1.3K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Flame, The [Die Flamme]In 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him. | 1923 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Short, Drama | 6.2 (56 votes) | 43 | 20240630 |
| Friedrich Schiller - Eine DichterjugendDespite his wish to become a pastor, Friedrich Schiller is ordered to join a military school. There, he begins to write poetry... | 1923 | Curt Goetz | Biography, Comedy, Drama | 5.9 (63 votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
| Fuga di Socrate, LaSocrate, a weird parrot, one day flies away through an open window. | 1923 | Guido Brignone | Comedy | 5.5 (16 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
| Glumov's Diary [Dnevnik Glumova]Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acroba | 1923 | Sergei M. Eisenstein (*) | Short, Comedy, Fantasy | 5.6 (801 votes) | 5 | 20211228 |
| Headwind, The [Vent debout]nan | 1923 | René Leprince | Drama | 6.7 (10 votes) | 0 | 20240622 |
| Hell Ship, The [Eld ombord]Jan Steen is the owner of a ship that returns home and found her hife's ex-lover in the house. He forces Ann-Britt Steen, the wife, to go on board with him. Dick, the ex-lover, get a new job in a ship, Jan Steen's ship. | 1923 | Victor Sjöström (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (131 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
| Hello BillA boy returns to his home town after having been away for years seeking fame and fortune elsewhere. He receives a royal, though disastrous welcome from enthusiastically friendly cronies. | 1923 | Billy West | Short, Comedy | 5.8 (11 votes) | 0 | 20240522 |
| Hill Park Mystery, The [Nedbrudte nerver]The reporter Jimmie Brand at the ""Daily Wire"" solves the case of the Vibeleje murder. However, this put Brand in a terrible stressed condition and for this reason his boss decides to give him two weeks of vacation. But it will be ... | 1923 | A.W. Sandberg | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 6.6 (63 votes) | 75 | 20240511 |
| 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 |
| Jew of Mestri, The [Der Kaufmann von Venedig]The Venetian merchant Antonio is in a difficult financial situation. To help his friend Bassanio, who is campaigning for the heiress Portia, he goes, although in mutual disgust, to the Jewish money lender Shylock to borrow money f... | 1923 | Peter Paul Felner | Drama | 5.7 (36 votes) | 128 | 20231112 |
| Junge Medardus, DerAs Napoleon approaches Vienna in 1809, the Valois claimant to the French throne waits there. Valois' daughter urges a patriotic Austrian student Medarus to assassinate the French emperor. | 1923 | Michael Curtiz (*) | History | 4.7 (63 votes) | 136 | 20211228 |
| Little Old New YorkAn Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died. | 1923 | Sidney Olcott | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (980 votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Love Nest, TheIn an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at sea where he boards a whaling ship with a strict captain. | 1923 | Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline | Short, Comedy | 6.9 (2.2K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
| MaytimeOttilie Van Zandt, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy colonel, loves the gardener's son, Richard Wayne, but her family forces her to marry her cousin Claude. Richard leaves before the wedding, vowing to return wealthy and marry O... | 1923 | Louis J. Gasnier | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (55 votes) | 80 | 20240313 |
| Merry-Go-RoundA nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister. | 1923 | Rupert Julian, Erich von Stroheim | Drama | 6.5 (363 votes) | 110 | 20220414 |
| Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop, The [Mysterien eines Frisiersalons]Karl Valentin plays a journeyman in a barber shop who prefers to stay in bed than to take care of his (already heavily bearded) customers. When he's at work, he removes boils with hammer, chisel and pincers, turns long-haired men int | 1923 | Bertolt Brecht, Erich Engel | Short | 6.2 (203 votes) | 32 | 20211228 |
| Mystery of Dr. Fu ManchuA killer kitty with poison-tipped claws, giant noxious mushrooms and aphonia-inducing flowers are just some of the challenges faced by Sir Denis Nayland Smith and Dr Petrie in their battles against arch-villain Fu Manchu. | 1923 | A.E. Coleby | Crime, Drama | 6.3 (8 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
| Nurtull Gang, The [Norrtullsligan]About a group of office girls hardships in the male world set in 1907. A collective fighting for female solidarity, civil rights and the conflict between love and work. | 1923 | Per Lindberg | Comedy | 6.6 (110 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| Oranges And LemonsAfter getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits | 1923 | George Jeske | Comedy, Short | 5.7 (454 votes) | 12 | 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 |
| PasteurIn honor of the centenary of the birth of France's great scientist, this film about him was commissioned. | 1923 | Jean Benoît-Lévy, Jean Epstein | Biography, Drama | 5.6 (43 votes) | 52 | 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 |
| Post No BillsPaul, a press agent for the Bijou Theatre, loses no opportunity to inform the public of the attractions at his house. He mounts his placards everywhere, his favorite place being the back of an unsuspecting passer-by. But his overzeal | 1923 | Ralph Ceder | Short, Comedy | 5.6 (58 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Red Imps, The [Krasnye dyavolyata]Adventures of three Red Army soldiers - Misha, Dunyasha, and Tom Jackson (an African-American boy) - who fight against Ukrainian anarchist Nestor Makhno and his forces during the Russian Civil War. | 1923 | Ivane Perestiani | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.1 (106 votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
| Red Inn, The [L'Augerge Rouge]Based on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the night Prosper steals from the merchant, but when | 1923 | Jean Epstein | Drama | 6.7 (122 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| RomeThe misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods. | 1923 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Comedy | 7.1 (4.3K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| RositaRosita, a peasant singer in Seville, captures the attention of the King. | 1923 | Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh | Romance, Comedy | 6.4 (479 votes) | 90 | 20240630 |
| Roughest AfricaTwo explorers travel to Africa to capture and photograph various wildlife. | 1923 | Ralph Ceder | Comedy, Short | 5.7 (214 votes) | 29 | 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 |
| ScaramoucheWhen a nobleman murders his best friend, a lawyer becomes a revolutionary with his heart set on vengeance. | 1923 | Rex Ingram | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (615 votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Scorching SandsStan Laurel engages with P.C. Wren in this film about the French Foreign Legion in north Africa. As a book, 'Beau Geste' was quite dull. Stan Laurel demonstrates in 'Scorching Sands' that it can be taken to another level in comedy. When he teams up with Oliver Hardy in 'Beau Hunks', that level is fully realized. | 1923 | George Jeske, Hal Roach, Robin Williamson, Ward Hayes | Short, Comedy | 5.0 (76 votes) | 10 | 20211228 |
| Secret Spring, The [Koenigsmark]Grand Duchess Aurora if forced into an unhappy marriage with Grand Duke Rudolph. Rudolph prepares to leave for the Congo but he is murdered by his brother. Aurora goes to Paris be with her father and enters the gay revelries there... | 1923 | Léonce Perret | Romance, War | 6.7 (24 votes) | 180 | 20240116 |
| Shock, TheA gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter. | 1923 | Lambert Hillyer | Drama, Horror | 6.4 (560 votes) | 96 | 20241012 |
| Sign of Four, TheA convict seeks revenge on the partners who cheated him of his treasure share. | 1923 | Maurice Elvey | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (88 votes) | 83 | 20240313 |
| Smiling Madame Beudet, The [La souriante Madame Beudet]An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband. | 1923 | Germaine Dulac | Short, Drama | 6.7 (2.5K votes) | 26 | 20211228 |
| Soilers, TheDuring the Alaska gold rush, a miner hits the mother lode, but a corrupt sheriff jumps his claim, leading to a tremendous fight. | 1923 | Ralph Ceder | Comedy, Short | 5.5 (268 votes) | 24 | 20211228 |
| Sold at Auction!Snub gets a job helping an auctioneer. He's instructed to sell off a household estate, but goes to the wrong house. After everything is sold, the real owner returns, and forces Snub to track down all the buyers to restore the propert | 1923 | Charley Chase | Short, Comedy | 7.2 (45 votes) | 22 | 20211228 |
| Souls for SaleA young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star. | 1923 | Rupert Hughes | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.0 (922 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Spanish Dancer, TheA love story between Don Cesar de Bazan and a beautiful Gypsy dancer. | 1923 | Herbert Brenon | Drama, History, Romance | 6.7 (95 votes) | 103 | 20240105 |
| Specter Haunts Europe, A [Prizrak brodit po Evrope]Set in an imaginary land where the threat of revolution spurs the Emperor to seek exile in one of the most distant parts of his realm. There he meets Elka, the daughter of a revolutionary who has been banished here due to his conf... | 1923 | Vladimir Gardin | Unknown | 6.2 (17 votes) | 0 | 20240709 |
| Stone Age, TheThe misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods. | 1923 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Comedy | 7.1 (4.3K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Street, The [Die Straße]Presents two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, w... | 1923 | Karl Grune | Drama | 6.8 (432 votes) | 74 | 20230728 |
| Taonan | 1923 | Gaston Ravel | Unknown | nan | 219 | 20240329 |
| 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 |
| This Ancient Law [Das alte Gesetz]Baruch Mayr, son of an orthodox rabbi from a poor shtetl in Galizia, decides to break with the family tradition and leave the shtetl to become an actor. Due to this behaviour his father bans him from his family. Baruch, who joined a | 1923 | Ewald André Dupont | Drama | 7.0 (175 votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Three AgesThe misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods. | 1923 | Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Comedy | 7.1 (4.4K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Treasure, The [Der Schatz]In and around a bell maker near Marburg (today Slovenia) people tell the story of a treasure that was hidden during the Turki invasion of 1683, the year the Turkish Army was besieging Vienna. Everybody think it's nonsense except f... | 1923 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (343 votes) | 80 | 20240614 |
| Virginian, TheMolly Wood arrives in a small Western town to be the new schoolmarm. The Virginian, foreman on a local ranch, takes a shine to her, and vows that he will make her love him. The Virginian's best friend Steve falls in with bad guys ... | 1923 | Tom Forman | Western | 6.0 (54 votes) | 84 | 20221228 |
| Warning Shadows [Schatten - Eine nächtliche Halluzination]A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the hous | 1923 | Arthur Robison | Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.8 (989 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
| Wheel, The [La roue]A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage. | 1923 | Abel Gance (*) | Drama | 7.5 (2.2K votes) | 417 | 20211228 |
| Where the North BeginsA German Shepherd puppy is ""adopted"" by a wolf pack in the snowy and frozen Great North and raised by them as one of their own. A few years later he comes upon a fur trapper and saves the man from certain death, and begins to feel... | 1923 | Chester M. Franklin | Action, Adventure, Drama, Family | 6.9 (103 votes) | 75 | 20230715 |
| White Rose, TheA wealthy young Southern aristocrat, Joseph, graduates from a seminary and, before he takes charge of his assigned parish, decides to go out and see what "the real world" is all about. He winds up in New Orleans and finds himself att | 1923 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (191 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| White Sister, TheA young woman becomes a nun when she believes her sweetheart has been killed, then things get complicated when he returns alive. | 1923 | Henry King | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (477 votes) | 143 | 20221212 |
| Why WorryA hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead. | 1923 | Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance | 7.4 (1.8K votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
| Within the LawWhen Mary Turner is sent to prison for a crime she did not commit, she vows upon her release to take vengeance on those who wronged her, always staying however within the letter of the law. | 1923 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.5 (120 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Woman of Paris, A - A Drama of FateA kept woman runs into her former fiancé and finds herself torn between love and comfort. | 1923 | Charles Chaplin (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (5.3K votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
| ZazaZaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice. | 1923 | Allan Dwan | Romance, Drama | 6.3 (854 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |