Best Movies of 1924 by Rank

Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
5 Stars
152
1
Buster Keaton
Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Comedy / Short / Family / Romance / Fantasy / Cult
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
246
2
Erich von Stroheim
Zasu Pitts, Gibson Gowland
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
5 Stars
491
3
Raoul Walsh
Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston, Sojin
Action / Adventure / Family / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
4.5 Stars
560
4
F.W. Murnau
Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
4 Stars
1016
5
Buster Keaton, Donald Crisp
Buster Keaton, Frederick Vroom, Kathryn McGuire
Comedy / Adventure / Family
USA
English (Silent)
4 Stars
1221
6
Fritz Lang
Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller
Drama / Adventure / Fantasy / War / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
4 Stars
1407
7
Fritz Lang
Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Paul Richter, Theodor Loos
Fantasy / Drama / Adventure / Epic
Germany
German (Silent)
4 Stars
1421
8
John Ford
George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick, Will Walling
Western / Epic / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
3.5 Stars
1762
9
Victor Sjöström
Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall
Drama / Thriller
USA
English (Silent)
3 Stars
2021
10
Herbert Brenon
Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence
Adventure / Fantasy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
Rating
Rank
No
Starring
Genre
Country
Language
2.5 Stars
2241
11
Harry Beaumont
John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Willard Louis, Carmel Myers, Irene Rich
Action / Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2436
12
Frank Lloyd
Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace MacDonald, Marc McDermott
Adventure / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2441
13
Sidney Olcott
Rudolph Valentino, Bebe Daniels, Lois Wilson, Doris Kenyon, Lowell Sherman
Drama / Romance / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2454
14
Ernst Lubitsch
Florence Vidor, Monte Blue, Marie Prevost, Creighton Hale, Adolphe Menjou
Comedy / Detective
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2460
15
Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Action / Comedy / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2465
16
Phil Rosen
George A. Billings, Danny Hoy, Ruth Clifford, Nell Craig, Irene Hunt
Drama / Biography / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2501
17
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Walter Slezak, Max Auzinger, Nora Gregor, Robert Garrison
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2541
18
King Vidor
Frank Mayo, Virginia Valli, Ford Sterling, Nigel De Brulier, Charles A. Post
Drama / Romance / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Leo Birinsky, Paul Leni
Emil Jannings, Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, William Dieterle, Olga Belajeff
Drama / Fantasy / Horror / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Herbert Wilcox
Lionel Barrymore, Ivy Duke, Werner Krauss, Bernhard Goetzke, Randle Ayrton
Drama / Romance
UK / Germany
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
René Clair
Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Lev Kuleshov
Porfiri Podobed, Boris Barnet, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Vsevolod Pudovkin
Comedy
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Daisuke Itô
Action
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Henry King
Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, William Powell, Ronald Colman, Charles Lane
Drama / History
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Mauritz Stiller
Lars Hanson, Sven Scholander, Ellen Hartman-Cederström, Mona Mårtenson
Drama / Romance / Religion
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2628
19
Minoru Murata
Kumeko Urabe
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2661
20
Lewis H. Moomaw
William Dills, Albert Van Antwerp, Eva Gordon
Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2712
21
Frank Borzage
Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Patterson Dial, Emily Fitzroy, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
Serge Nadejdine
Suzanne Bianchetti, Nicolas Rimsky, Pierre Labry, René Maupré
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
Harry A. Pollard
Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace, William Austin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2719
22
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2735
23
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2751
24
Fernand Léger, Dudley Murphy
Kiki of Montparnasse
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2751
24
Marcel L'Herbier
Georgette Leblanc, Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte
Adventure / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2.5 Stars
2776
25
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
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