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YEAR 1920: TOP 50 FILMS by CANONMOVIES

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  • One Week (1920)

    1. One Week

    192025mTV-GShort
    8.1 (9.8K)
    A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonSybil SeelyJoe Roberts
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)

    2. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

    19201h 7mNot Rated
    8.0 (74K)
    Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
    DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich Feher
  • Claire Adams and Lon Chaney in The Penalty (1920)

    3. The Penalty

    19201h 30mPassed
    7.3 (2.8K)
    A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
    DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsCharles ClaryDoris PawnJim Mason
  • Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess in Way Down East (1920)

    4. Way Down East

    19202h 25mPassed
    7.3 (6.1K)
    A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.
    DirectorD.W. GriffithStarsLillian GishRichard BarthelmessMrs. David Landau
  • The Golem (1920)

    5. The Golem

    19201h 31mUnrated
    7.2 (9.1K)
    In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
    DirectorsPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst Deutsch
  • Douglas Fairbanks in The Mark of Zorro (1920)

    6. The Mark of Zorro

    19201h 19mPassed
    7.0 (2.9K)
    A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
    DirectorFred NibloStarsDouglas FairbanksMarguerite De La MotteNoah Beery
  • Erotikon (1920)

    7. Erotikon

    19201h 46mNot Rated
    6.4 (1.1K)
    EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be in love with Preben, her husband's best friend. Meanwhile, her husband seems to be getting unusually close with his own niece. Stiller obviously delights in teasing his audience with each scandalous plot twist and every salacious leer, and the result is a deliciously subversive comedy that was very much ahead of its time.
    DirectorMauritz StillerStarsAnders de WahlTora TejeKarin Molander
  • Within Our Gates (1920)

    8. Within Our Gates

    19201h 19mNot Rated
    6.4 (3.9K)
    Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
    DirectorOscar MicheauxStarsEvelyn PreerFlo ClementsJames D. Ruffin
  • The Last of the Mohicans (1920)

    9. The Last of the Mohicans

    19201h 13mNot Rated
    6.7 (1.5K)
    In the midst of the French and Indian War, the eldest daughter of a British officer develops an attraction towards an Indian ally who is the last living warrior of his tribe, the Mohicans.
    DirectorsClarence BrownMaurice TourneurStarsWallace BeeryBarbara BedfordAlan Roscoe
  • Buster Keaton in Neighbors (1920)

    10. Neighbors

    192018mShort
    7.5 (4.9K)
    A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineJack Duffy
  • Buster Keaton in The Scarecrow (1920)

    11. The Scarecrow

    192019mNot RatedShort
    7.8 (5K)
    Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonEdward F. ClineLuke the Dog
  • Hildur Carlberg in The Parson's Widow (1920)

    12. The Parson's Widow

    19201h 34mTV-14
    7.1 (1.6K)
    A newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
    DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHildur CarlbergEinar RödGreta Almroth
  • John Barrymore and Nita Naldi in Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

    13. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

    19201h 9mUnrated
    6.9 (6.4K)
    Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
    DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJohn BarrymoreMartha MansfieldBrandon Hurst
  • Harold Lloyd in Number, Please? (1920)

    14. Number, Please?

    192025mPassedShort
    6.9 (1.3K)
    While at an amusement park, two men try to win the heart of a young lady. They compete with each other while attempting to find her runaway dog, and they race to ask her mother's permission to take her up in a hot air balloon.
    DirectorsHal RoachFred C. NewmeyerStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisRoy Brooks
  • The Love Expert (1920)

    15. The Love Expert

    19201h
    5.9 (186)
    A self-appointed "love expert" tries to play cupid with uneven results.
    DirectorDavid KirklandStarsConstance TalmadgeJohn HallidayArnold Lucy
  • Howard Ralston and Mary Pickford in Pollyanna (1920)

    16. Pollyanna

    192058mTV-G
    6.4 (546)
    An orphan's optimistic outlook brings a change to the ill-tempered town in which she resides to her aunt.
    DirectorPaul PowellStarsMary PickfordWharton JamesKatherine Griffith
  • Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)

    17. Leaves From Satan's Book

    19202h 47mTV-14
    6.6 (1.4K)
    In 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
    DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHelge NissenHalvard HoffJacob Texiere
  • Buster Keaton and Sybil Seely in Convict 13 (1920)

    18. Convict 13

    192019mNot RatedShort
    7.1 (3.8K)
    A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
    DirectorsEdward F. ClineBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonSybil SeelyJoe Roberts
  • Why Change Your Wife? (1920)

    19. Why Change Your Wife?

    19201h 30mApproved
    6.7 (1.5K)
    Robert and Beth Gordon are married but share little. He runs into Sally at a cabaret and the Gordons are soon divorced. Just as he gets bored with Sally's superficiality, Beth strives to improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
    DirectorCecil B. DeMilleStarsThomas MeighanGloria SwansonBebe Daniels
  • Pola Negri in One Arabian Night (1920)

    20. One Arabian Night

    19201h 25mNot Rated
    6.0 (872)
    The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsErnst LubitschPola NegriPaul Wegener
  • The Flapper (1920)

    21. The Flapper

    19201h 28m
    6.4 (465)
    Ginger grows up in a slow town. Because of her wild attitude, her father decides to send her to a strict boarding school. Despite the strictness, the girls have fun getting into flapper lifestyle trouble including flirting.
    DirectorAlan CroslandStarsOlive ThomasTheodore Westman Jr.William P. Carleton
  • William Buckley, Helen Ferguson, Buck Jones, and Georgie Stone in Just Pals (1920)

    22. Just Pals

    192050mNot Rated
    6.5 (546)
    Small-town tramp befriends runaway boy.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsBuck JonesHelen FergusonGeorgie Stone
  • Mästerman (1920)

    23. Mästerman

    19201h 56m
    7.4 (137)
    A pawnbroker, widely despised, called Mästerman is the subject of tales of terror and cruelty. In his profession, he is merciless.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsVictor SjöströmConcordia SelanderGreta Almroth
  • Eric Rohman in Klostret i Sendomir (1920)

    24. Klostret i Sendomir

    192054m
    6.8 (488)
    Two weary travelers come upon a monastery. While staying the night, they learn of its mysterious founding.
    DirectorVictor SjöströmStarsTore SvennbergTora TejeRichard Lund
  • Harold Lloyd in An Eastern Westerner (1920)

    25. An Eastern Westerner

    192023mPassedShort
    6.8 (1.8K)
    A young slacker from the East Coast is shipped off to a ranch in the Wild West by his father where the boy becomes smitten with a local girl and encounters the villainous Tiger Lip Tompkins.
    DirectorHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisNoah Young

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