Statistics: Best silent movie

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city’s mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

The strange Count Orlok invites Thomas Hutter to his isolated Transylvanian castle. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy a house for himself and his wife, Ellen, who is in grave danger.

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery.

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father’s pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Do the Dead Come Back? Can Your Soul Leave Your Body…And Return Again?

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

Lulu seduces respectable publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and shady Schigolch. Their downfall is due to Lulu's charms.

A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl’s benefactor and suitor.

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Kriemhild, thirsty for revenge, marries Etzel, king of the Huns. She invites King Gunther and his court to visit, intending to finally take Etzel's life.

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing his career from school days to flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution, and the Terror, culminating in Italy in 1797.

Francis, a young man, recalls his fiancée Jane and him recently experiencing horror. They and Alan visit an exhibit where Dr. Caligari awakens Cesare from death-like sleep.

Joe Merrill, son of the 5 and 10 cent store owner, poses as Joe Grant to prove he can be successful without his father's influence.

The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.

Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death.

A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives.

A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he is horrified to learn they once belonged to a murderer.

An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.

A producer reopens a theater after its closure during an actor's murder during a performance by staging the same play with the original cast.

When Irmgard becomes pregnant of Georg, a free love disciple, she decides, for the sake of her child, to pretend they are married.

Count Oetsch's announcement to "crash" the aristocratic gathering at Castle Vogelod is causing a stir. Rumors about him and the death of the baroness's husband have circulated.

A doctor’s research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

During America's Civil War, Union spies steal Johnnie Gray's locomotive "The General," with Johnnie's lady love aboard. He must rescue both.

The relationship between a master painter and his longtime model begins to collapse after the former agrees to paint a portrait for a Russian countess.

Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

In 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.

An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.

The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story.

The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.

A tramp cares for a boy after he’s abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I.

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange.

Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant.

Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death.

Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath.

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman - soon the star of the show - and falls in love with the circus owner’s stepdaughter.

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.

“The Freshman” is down on the farm! And there’s a real plot with bashful love-making and everything!

The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.

A man joins an Parisian sideshow circus as a clown, slapped repeatedly, and becomes infatuated with a colleague, whose father intends to marry her off to the baron.

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the gues

The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.

Brandon, a surveyor, dreams of building a railway to the west. He sets off with his son, Davy, to survey a route.

Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.

A 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.

Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite.

Siegfried, son of King Siegmund of Xanten, travels to Worms, capital of the Burgundian kingdom, to ask King Gunther for the hand of his sister, the beautiful Kriemhild.

Pre-Revolution, sisters Henriette and Louise lose their parents to the plague and go to Paris for a cure. They separate when an aristocrat appears.

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as “it.”

After losing his job as a soda jerk, Speedy spends the day with his girlfriend at Coney Island. He becomes a cab driver and delivers a famous baseball player to Yankee Stadium.

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer.

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond.

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty.

A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand.

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

Lamb can't wait to go to college, working to earn spending money, practicing college yells, and learning to introduce himself like in a movie.

A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple’s love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.

After the train station clerk is assaulted and left bound and gagged, then the departing train and its passengers robbed, a posse goes in hot pursuit of the fleeing bandits.

A 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.

The story of a man who turned the other cheek-and got punched in the nose.

A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.

The abolitionist Stonemans and the Southern Camerons are connected. When Ben Cameron is captured, his nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon.

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was a child.

A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.

This pioneering documentary film depicts the lives of the indigenous Inuit people of Canada’s northern Quebec region.

A 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.

Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a wealthy Argentine family whose two descendant branches are half French and half German.

Sheik Ahmed desperately desires feisty British socialite Diana, so he abducts her and carries her off to his luxurious tent-palace in the desert.

Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday – which is today – he’ll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon aboard a rocket propelled by a giant cannon.

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father’s gang of mountebanks.

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is abducted by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall.

The daughter of a Daimyo, one forced to commit harakiri to secure her a future to choose her own destiny, falls in love with and marries a European officer.

A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life - but life on the farm has its own challenges.

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie.

In a poor neighborhood of a big city, a crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in his building.

This silent-era film is a classic about the teenage warrior Jeanne d'Arc, who was ultimately canonized. She is tried for claiming she'd spoken to God and is subjected to inhumane treatment.

A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Making Love, for other bashful young men.

A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keeper’s daughter, but has to marry money.

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O’Brien.

A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.

Sergei M. Eisenstein's documentary film from ten years after the 1917 Russian Revolution features the events celebrating the revolution.

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

The story of a prince without a kingdom

Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.

The Further Adventures of “The Three Musketeers”!

The gloriously intoxicating love story of the Merry Widow and her Prince Charming, is revealed at last in a picture production which will take your breath away!

Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn.

From 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.

In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing.

Kay Hoog, a millionaire adventurer, was last seen escaping an ancient Incan city. He was looking forward to settling down with Naela, an Incan woman he had captured.

Harry Yquem buys his beloved wife some jewelry in a place where underworld middlemen trade in fake and stolen goods. By chance, he spots a man with whom his wife had an affair in the past.

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s play “Tartuffe” in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets the young man’s inheritance.

Party-girl college students neglect their classes. Stella Ames, a party girl, gets into trouble at a bar and is rescued by her professor.

Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.

Thwarted by his despotic uncle from continuing his love affair, a young man’s thoughts turn dark as he dwells on ways to deal with his uncle.

A poet is hired by the owner of a wax museum in a circus to write tales about Harun al Raschid, Ivan the Terrible and Jack the Ripper.

Amidst New York City's bustling crowds and amidst their own personal lives, John, an office worker, and Mary navigate marriage, parenthood, and challenges together.

The story follows a rich young man who joins the Rainbow Division of the US Army in France during World War I.

Hollywood hopeful Peggy Pepper arrives at a major studio, from Georgia, to become a great dramatic star. Things don’t go entirely according to plan.

Vasyl, a member of the Komsomol, with the help of a local party organization, gets a tractor and plows private boundaries “on kulak fields”. However, this enthusiasm will cost him dearly.

Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.

A European immigrant endures a challenging voyage only to get into trouble as soon as he arrives in New York.

Young Cabiria is kidnapped by pirates and sold as a slave in Carthage.

Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.

After losing his job as a soda jerk, Speedy spends the day with his girlfriend at Coney Island. He becomes a cab driver and delivers a famous baseball player to Yankee Stadium.

Sadie could storm any barrack she attacked! Magnetism had never been heard of until she hit town! What a woman! You’ll say so, too!

MARY PICKFORD…with the sunny curls and tawdry tatters, the roguish smile, quaint impudence and splendid faith of the inimitable Tess.

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own.

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

Open any door in Melchior Alley, and you’ll come face to face with naked misery.

Blizzard was born with both legs amputated after an accident and became a vicious criminal and mob leader of San Francisco's underworld.

Stella Maris is a beautiful, crippled girl, who is cared for by a rich family. They shield her from the harsh realities of the world, so that she has no idea of the cruel things that some people do.

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

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.

A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.