Best Movies of 1920 by Rank
422
1
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
1172
2
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Kate Bruce
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1363
3
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch
Fantasy / Horror / Religion
Germany
German (Silent)
1833
4
Oscar Micheaux
Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1890
5
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1975
6
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Claire McDowell
Adventure / Romance / Comic
USA
English (Silent)
2203
7
Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur
Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2222
8
Frank Borzage
Gaston Glass, Vera Gordon, Alma Rubens, Dore Davidson, Bobby Connelly
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2489
9
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Greta Almroth, Einar Röd, Hildur Carlberg
Comedy / Drama / Horror
Sweden / Denmark
Danish (Silent)
2511
10
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2511
10
George Melford
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Julienne Scott, Irving Cummings, Tom Forman, Jean Ac
Comedy / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2525
11
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2553
12
Mauritz Stiller
Gucken Cederborg, Carl Wallin, Vilhelm Bryde, John Lindlöf, Carina Ari
Comedy / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2573
13
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
13
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Joe Keaton
Short / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Cecil M. Hepworth
Leslie Henson, Alma Taylor, Gerald Ames, James Carew, Eileen Dennes, John McAndrews
Comedy
UK
English (Silent)
2689
14
Ernst Lubitsch
Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau, Aud Egede Nissen
Drama / Biography / History / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
14
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George, Leo White, Mae Busch
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
14
John S. Robertson
John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst, Cecil Clovelly, Nita Naldi
Drama / Horror / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Victor Sjöström
Tore Svennberg, Tora Teje, Richard Lund, Renée Björling
Drama
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2689
14
Lucio D'Ambra
Riccardo Bertacchini, Lia Formia, Renato Piacentini, Diomede Procaccini
Drama
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2689
14
Frank Lloyd
Pauline Frederick, William Courtleigh, Casson Ferguson, Maude Louis
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Victor Fleming
Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns, Morris Hughes
Adventure / Comedy / Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
George Pearson
Hugh E. Wright, Moyna MacGill, Betty Balfour, George Keene, Mabel Poulton
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2689
14
Lev Kuleshov
Aleksandra Khokhlova, Lev Kuleshov, Leonid Obolensky, A. Reich
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
14
Paul Powell
Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Helen Jerome Eddy, George Berrell
Family / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Harry Revier, George M. Merrick
Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Armand Cortes, Franklin B. Coates
Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Ernst Lubitsch
Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist, Aud Egede Nissen
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
14
Lambert Hillyer
William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2689
14
Cecil B. DeMille
Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2756
15
Norbert A. Myles
Hunting Horse, Oscar Yellow Wolf, Esther LaBarre, White Parker, Wanada Parker
Romance / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Alan Crosland, Laurence Trimble
Olive Thomas, William Collier Jr., Joseph J. Dowling, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks, William Gillespie
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
16
Emmett J. Flynn
Tom Mix, Pauline Starke, George Siegmann, Philo McCullough, James O. Barrows
Western
USA
English (Silent)
