Best Movies of 1921 by Rank
1076
1
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan
Comedy / Drama / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1287
2
D.W. Griffith
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
1449
3
Henry King
Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis, Ernest Torrence
Drama / Action
USA
English (Silent)
1689
4
Rex Ingram
Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry
Drama / War / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1852
5
Victor Sjöström
Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Drama / Fantasy
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2038
6
Fritz Lang
Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Fantasy / Romance / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2269
7
William C. de Mille
Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2511
8
George Melford
Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, Ruth Miller, George Waggner, Frank Butler
Romance / Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2553
9
Ernst Lubitsch
Pola Negri, Victor Janson, Paul Heidemann, Wilhelm Diegelmann, Hermann Thimig
Comedy / Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Edward F. Cline
Short / Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair
Comedy / Short / Detective / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Short / Comedy / Horror / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Al St. John
Short / Comedy / Gangster / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2573
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Short / Comedy / Fantasy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2605
11
Theodore Reed
Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Romance / Action / Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
12
Cecil B. DeMille
Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley, Theodore Roberts, Elliott Dexter
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2689
12
Dimitri Buchowetzki
Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Ossip Runitsch, Ferdinand von Alten
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2689
12
D.W. Griffith
Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Ralph Graves, Edward Peil Sr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
12
Vladimir Gardin, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Documentary
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2689
12
Harold M. Shaw
George K. Arthur, Edna Flugrath, Christine Rayner, Teddy Arundell, Norman Thorpe
Comedy
UK
English (Silent)
2689
12
Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford
Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J. Dowling, James A. Marcus, Kate Price
Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2689
12
Jacques Feyder
Jean Angelo, Stacia Napierkowska, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe
Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Romance / Adventure
France / Belgium
French (Silent)
2689
12
Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Noah Young, Dick Sutherland, Fred Guiol, Gus Leonard
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2689
12
George Pearson
Betty Balfour, Hugh E. Wright, Fred Groves, Mary Brough, W. Cronin Wilson
Comedy / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2689
12
Fred Niblo
Douglas Fairbanks, Léon Bary, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin
Action / Adventure / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2756
13
Paul Strand, Charles Sheeler
Short / Experimental / Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2756
13
Paul Fenton
Documentary / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2807
14
Charley Chase
'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, George Rowe, Vera White, Noah Young
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
14
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
14
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
14
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert, Oliver Hardy, Jack Lloyd, Owen Evans
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
14
Frank Lloyd
J. Frank Glendon, Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, E. Alyn Warren, Margaret McWade
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
14
Emile Chautard
Lucy Cotton, Charles A. Stevenson, Philip Merivale, Robert Barrat, Mabel Archdale
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
