Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
817
1
Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone
Buster Keaton, Joe Keaton
Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
942
2
Abel Gance
Severin-Mars, Ivy Close, Gabriel de Gravone, Pierre Magnier
Drama
France
French (Silent)
970
3
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke
Action / Comedy / Family / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1965
4
James Cruze
J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence
Adventure / Romance / Western / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
1991
5
Wallace Worsley
Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester, Winifred Bryson
Drama / Horror / Period Film / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2005
6
Cecil B. DeMille
Theodore Roberts, Charles de Rochefort, Estelle Taylor, Julia Faye, James Neill
Drama / Religion / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2055
7
Rupert Hughes
Eleanor Boardman, Frank Mayo, Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Barbara La Marr, Lew Cody
Comedy / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2103
8
Germaine Dulac
Alexandre Arquillière, Germaine Dermoz, Jean d'Yd
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2139
9
Charles Chaplin
Edna Purviance, Clarence Geldart, Carl Miller, Lydia Knott, Charles K. French
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2175
10
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Margaret Leahy, Wallace Beery, Lillian Lawrence
Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2230
11
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White
Adventure / Comedy / Family / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2324
12
Ernst Lubitsch, Raoul Walsh
Mary Pickford, Holbrook Blinn, Irene Rich, George Walsh, Charles Belcher
Romance / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2336
13
Sidney Olcott
Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan, Harrison Ford, Courtenay Foote
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2505
14
Sidney Olcott
George Arliss, Alice Joyce, David Powell, Harry T. Morey, Jetta Goudal
Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2576
15
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Short / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2576
15
Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Virginia Fox
Short / Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Kenji Mizoguchi
Kaoichi Katsuragi, Yoshisuke Koizumi, Haruko Sawamura, Kaichi Yamamoto
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2692
16
Maurice Tourneur
Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver, Cyril Chadwick
Drama / Romance / Religion / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
John Francis Dillon
Colleen Moore, Milton Sills, Elliott Dexter, Sylvia Breamer, Myrtle Stedman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Louis Feuillade
Sandra Milovanoff, René Poyen, Berthe Jalabert, Jean Devalde, Bouboule
Comedy / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2692
16
Vladimir Gardin
Zoya Barantsevich, Vladimir Gardin, Ivan Khudoleyev, Vladimir Maksimov
War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2692
16
John Ford
Tom Mix, Kathleen Key, Jennie Lee, Frank Campeau, Eugene Pallette, Will Walling
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
George B. Seitz
Pearl White, Warren William, Harry Semels, Tom McIntyre, William Nally
Serial / Action / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
James Cruze
Edward Everett Horton, Ernest Torrence, Lois Wilson, Fritzi Ridgeway, Charles Ogle
Comedy / Western / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Lambert Hillyer
Milton Sills, Anna Q. Nilsson, Barbara Bedford, Robert Edeson, Ford Sterling
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Chester M. Franklin
Claire Adams, Rin Tin Tin, Walter McGrail, Pat Hartigan, Myrtle Owen
Adventure / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Clifford Smith
William S. Hart, Ethel Grey Terry, Kathleen O'Connor, Jim Farley, Jack Gardner
History / Western / Biography
USA
English (Silent)
2692
16
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Josephine Earle, Marie Ault, Myrtle Peter
Drama / Romance / War
UK
English (Silent)
2758
17
Charles Bryant
Alla Nazimova, Rose Dione, Mitchell Lewis
Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2792
18
Rupert Julian, Erich von Stroheim
Norman Kerry, Mary Philbin, Cesare Gravina, Edith Yorke, George Hackathorne
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
2794
19
Robert Wiene
Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova
Drama / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
20
Rex Ingram
Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Julia Swayne Gordon, Lloyd Ingraham
Drama / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, J. Farrell MacDonald, Rose Dione
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Robert Z. Leonard
Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Robert Frazer, Edmund Burns, Jean Hersholt
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Gregory La Cava
Charles Murray, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery, Alfred Allen
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
21
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2860
22
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
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