Best Movies of 1924 by Rank
153
1
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English (Silent)
460
3
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
541
4
F.W. Murnau
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
1029
5
Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1141
6
Fritz Lang
Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy / War / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
1343
7
Fritz Lang
Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
1468
8
John Ford
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling
Western / Epic / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1780
9
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
2040
10
Herbert Brenon
Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence
Adventure / Fantasy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2306
11
Harry Beaumont
John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers, Irene Rich
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2491
12
Frank Lloyd
Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace MacDonald, Marc McDermott
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2496
13
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2497
14
Sidney Olcott
Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2514
15
Ernst Lubitsch
Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou
Comedy / Detective
USA
English (Silent)
2525
16
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Action / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2531
17
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2559
18
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2695
19
Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2695
19
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2695
19
René Clair
Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2695
19
Lev Kuleshov
Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2695
19
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2695
19
Mauritz Stiller
Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson
Drama / Romance / Religion
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2761
20
Lewis H. Moomaw
William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp, Eva Gordon
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2797
21
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Kiki of Montparnasse
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2797
21
Marcel L'Herbier
Georgette Leblanc, Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte
Adventure / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2806
22
Frank Borzage
Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Patterson Dial, Emily Fitzroy, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
23
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2812
23
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2812
23
Serge Nadejdine
Suzanne Bianchetti, Nicolas Rimsky, Pierre Labry, René Maupré
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2812
23
Harry A. Pollard
Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace, William Austin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2812
23
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2812
23
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2826
24
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2865
25
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
