Films of the '20s, Ranked

A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.

A prospector goes to the Klondike during the 1890s gold rush in hopes of making his fortune, and is smitten with a girl he sees in a dance hall.

The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.

Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.

A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.

The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.

During the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves.

After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.

In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

In 15th-century Paris, the brother of the archdeacon plots with the gypsy king to foment a peasant revolt. Meanwhile, a freakish hunchback falls in love with a gypsy dancer.

A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.

Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.

A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with the remaining members of the original cast.

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.

In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.

A shy young man who can't talk to women ventures out to publish a book full of fictional conquests, but finds true love along the way.

The misadventures of Buster in three separate historical periods.

In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.

Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.