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Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Sharps and Flats
1928
unknown
Jimmy Conlin, Myrtle Glass
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Sunshine Gatherers
1921
unknown
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
The Pagan
1929
W.S. Van Dyke
Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars, Top 100
81
6
The Man with a Movie Camera
1929
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Kino-Eye
1924
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Shestaya chast mira
1926
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
5 Stars
410
16
The Crowd
1928
King Vidor
Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
532
19
The Big Parade
1925
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1241
40
Hallelujah
1929
King Vidor
Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
3.5 Stars
1572
61
Show People
1928
King Vidor
Marion Davies, William Haines
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
Rating
Rank
No
Title
Year
Director
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
3 Stars
2068
98
La Boheme
1926
King Vidor
Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell, Roy D'Arcy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
137
The Patsy
1928
King Vidor
Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2556
142
Wild Oranges
1924
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Bardelys the Magnificent
1926
King Vidor
John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Love Never Dies
1921
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2308
119
When Knighthood Was in Flower
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding, Theresa Maxwell Conover
Romance / Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Beauty's Worth
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Drama | Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Stolen Moments
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Casanova
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Edmund Kean: Prince Among Lovers
1924
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
4 Stars
1299
45
The Last Command
1928
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1428
52
The Docks of New York
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1590
62
Underworld
1927
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
137
The Salvation Hunters
1925
Josef von Sternberg
George K. Arthur, Georgia Hale, Bruce Guerin, Otto Matieson, Nellie Bly Baker
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2581
144
The Case of Lena Smith
1929
Josef von Sternberg
Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2748
154
Thunderbolt
1929
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen
Pre-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
The Dragnet
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Francis McDonald
Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Woman of the Sea
1926
Josef von Sternberg
Edna Purviance, Raymond Bloomer, Charles K. French, Eve Southern, Gayne Whitman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
238
13
Greed
1924
Erich von Stroheim
Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1116
36
Foolish Wives
1922
Erich von Stroheim
Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1623
64
Queen Kelly
1929
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1808
76
The Wedding March
1928
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3.5 Stars
1828
77
The Merry Widow
1925
Erich von Stroheim
Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
The Devil's Passkey
1920
Erich von Stroheim
Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George, Leo White, Mae Busch
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Innocents of Paris
1929
Richard Wallace
Maurice Chevalier, Sylvia Beecher, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett, John Miljan
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
164
The Shopworn Angel
1928
Richard Wallace
Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Roscoe Karns, Emmett King
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
5 Stars
461
18
The Thief of Bagdad
1924
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1991
86
What Price Glory?
1926
Raoul Walsh
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
3 Stars
2019
91
Sadie Thompson
1928
Raoul Walsh, William Cameron Menzies
Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Drama / Romance / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2815
166
The Cock-Eyed World
1929
Raoul Walsh
Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Leila Karnelly, El Brendel
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2758
155
With Car and Camera Around the World
1929
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2604
146
Fall of the House of Usher
1928
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber
Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Dorthea House
Short / Horror / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Weak But Willling
1929
William Watson
Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Otto Fries, Natalie Joyce, Will King, Jean Harlow
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2819
167
The Sea Beast
1926
Millard Webb
John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, George O'Hara, Mike Donlin, Sam Baker
Action / Adventure / Fantasy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1364
49
The Golem
1920
Paul Wegener, Carl Boese
Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch
Fantasy / Horror / Religion
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Twenty Dollars a Week
1924
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1521
57
Wings
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2549
141
Beggars of Life
1928
William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2712
152
Alibi
1929
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
5 Stars
422
17
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920
Robert Wiene
Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Drama / Horror / Experimental
Germany
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2794
159
Raskolnikow
1923
Robert Wiene
Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova
Drama / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Dawn
1928
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Decameron Nights
1924
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1096
35
The Kid Brother
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
137
Speedy
1928
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
The Old Family Toothbrush
1925
Sering D. Wilson
Animation / Comedy / Short / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Heading Home
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Beyond the Rocks
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
The Dancin' Fool
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Her Husband's Trademark
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1991
86
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2514
137
The Penalty
1920
Wallace Worsley
Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney, Milton Ross, Ethel Grey Terry
Crime / Drama / Thriller / Horror
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
Hail the Woman!
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2608
147
Hell's Heroes
1929
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2.5 Stars
2809
164
The Shakedown
1929
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2.5 Stars
2809
164
A Pair of Tights
1929
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2692
150
Domestic Agitator
1920
Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky
G. Budzhalov, A. Solovyov, Nikolai Kostromskoy, Ye. Sokolova, M. Kudelko
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
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