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HIGHEST RATED EVERY YEAR

by louiemacdonald • Created 1 year ago • Modified 2 months ago
Highest imbd rated 1920 - 1989, 1990 -present, most popular
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  • 105 titles
  • The Star Rover (1920)

    1. The Star Rover

    19201h
    7.3 (19)
    A prisoner copes with being in a strait jacket by projecting his mind throughout time and space.
    DirectorEdward SlomanStarsCourtenay FooteThelma PercyPomeroy Cannon
  • 2. The Birth of an Iceberg

    1921
    8.9 (17)
    A documentary centering on the formation of icebergs from the fragmentation of Alaskan glaciers.
  • The Greek Interpreter (1922)

    3. The Greek Interpreter

    1922Short
    8.9 (12)
    An unsavory gang kidnaps a Greek interpreter and forces him to relate their demands to an abductee who knows only the Greek tongue.
    DirectorGeorge RidgwellStarsEille NorwoodHubert WillisJoseph R. Tozer
  • Jamestown (1923)

    4. Jamestown

    192340mShort
    9.6 (13)
    The founding of the first English colony at Jamestown, Virginia, in 1612 and the many problems that confronted the struggling colonists are depicted.
    DirectorEdwin L. HollywoodStarsRobert GaillardDolores CassinelliHarry Kendall
  • 5. Chhatrapati Sambhaji

    1924
    9.3 (18)
    DirectorNarayanrao Sarpotder D.StarsParshwanath Yeshwant AltekarVediZillu
  • Balto in Balto's Race to Nome (1925)

    6. Balto's Race to Nome

    192520mShort
    9.2 (18)
    In the 1920s in Alaska, an epidemic threatens the town of Nome. Balto, a rejected wolf-dog, sees an opportunity to prove his worth. A race against time begins across snowy landscapes to bring the antitoxin. Balto will have to overcome obstacles and prejudices to become a hero.
    DirectorColin CampbellStarBalto
  • Harry Carey in Satan Town (1926)

    7. Satan Town

    19261h 3mPassed
    8.8 (12)
    "The Wickedest Place in the World - Tourists Welcome", so says the banner across main street. Bill Scott rides into the city looking for adventure. At the Palace Hotel, the wickedest place in Satan Town, Sue of the Salvation Army strives to reach one or two of the drunks, gamblers, and prostitutes that throng the saloon. Malamute, the bouncer at the bar, never shies from a fight, and what's more, he's never lost one. Sue, to her misfortune, has gotten on his nerves. Bill enters just in time to get between Malamute and Sue. After a brief but spirited battle, Malamute is bested.
    DirectorEdmund MortimerStarsHarry CareyKathleen CollinsCharles Clary
  • Jean Arthur and Charley Chase in Bigger and Better Blondes (1927)

    8. Bigger and Better Blondes

    192720mShort
    8.3 (21)
    DirectorJames ParrottStarsCharley ChaseJean ArthurMay Wallace
  • Mickey in School (1928)

    9. Mickey in School

    1928Short
    8.6 (11)
    DirectorAlbert HermanStarsMickey RooneyMonty Banks Jr.Billy Barty
  • The Desert Rider (1929)

    10. The Desert Rider

    192955mPassed
    Jack Hoxie promises a dying prospector to protect his son and find his killer, who has stolen gold and is also being pursued by a woman seeking her own justice.
    DirectorNick GrindeStarsTim McCoyRaquel TorresBert Roach
  • Ita Rina in Die Galgentonitonischka (1930)

    11. Die Galgentonitonischka

    1930
    8.0 (15)
    A woman returns from the countryside to her home in Prague and works as a prostitute. When she accepts the plight of a convicted murderer to spend one night with a woman before his death, she garners the criticisms of everyone around her.
    DirectorKarl AntonStarsIta RinaVera BaranovskayaJohn Mylong
  • The Soaring Maiden (1931)

    12. The Soaring Maiden

    19311h 28m
    9.5 (13)
    In this theatrical adaptation, a well meaning eccentric ( a good role for the popular actor later known as S Z Sakall) tries to patch up a rift between his niece and her fiance.
    DirectorCarl BoeseStarsLissy ArnaS.Z. SakallDina Gralla
  • Adele Sandrock in Liebe, Scherz und Ernst (1932)

    13. Liebe, Scherz und Ernst

    19321h 32m
    8.4 (11)
    The earliest filmed version of Oscar Wilde's play "The Importance of Being Earnest".
    DirectorFranz WenzlerStarsCharlotte AnderGeorg AlexanderHarald Paulsen
  • Leon Janney, Bobby Jordan, Ray Mayer, Bill Robinson, Ann Seymour, Louis Williams, Rae Samuels, The Mullen Sisters, Albert Whitman, and Edith Evans in The Big Benefit (1933)

    14. The Big Benefit

    193320mShort
    8.6 (6)
    A bunch of talented kids stage a benefit.
    DirectorLynn ShoresStarsRae SamuelsBill RobinsonAnn Seymour
  • Gerda Maurus in Ein Mädchen mit Prokura (1934)

    15. Ein Mädchen mit Prokura

    1934
    9.0 (12)
    A Prokurist in a bank is suspected of murdering her boss and refuses to take the stand in her defense, because she believes she has to cover for the boss' nephew.
    DirectorArzén von CserépyStarsGerda MaurusErnst DumckeRolf von Goth
  • It's a Great Life (1935)

    16. It's a Great Life

    19351h 4mApproved
    8.4 (19)
    Desperate for work, Johnny Barclay leaves Ma and Grandpop to join the newly formed Civilian Conversation Corps. On the way he meets cynical young hobo Roscoe "Rockie" Johnson, and, although Rockie believes that hopping freight trains is a great life, Johnny convinces him to join the Corps. At first the hardship of the Corps induces Rockie to quit, but he returns with a recruit, Lazy Bones. Since Rockie has no family, Johnny induces him to send twenty-five dollars of his thirty-dollar paycheck to Johnny's neighbor, Mary Jennings, who has been raising her little brothers and sisters since her parents died. On a two-week vacation, Johnny brings Rockie home to meet the family, and Rockie is surprised to find Mary to be a beautiful and independent woman. Mary and Rockie fall in love, but when Johnny proposes marriage to Mary, she does not give a definite yes or no. Back at camp, Rockie throws himself into his work, but Johnny becomes jealous when he sees that Rockie is receiving letters from Mary and he is not, and accuses Rockie of stealing his girl. Mary comes for visitors' day, and Rockie avoids her to give Johnny time with her. Mary is mystified by Rockie's disappearance during the camp's informal stage show, during which she plays accompaniment to Johnny's song. When a forest fire erupts in the forest and entraps the trucks carrying the visitors home, Johnny grabs dynamite to explode the dam, so that their powder house will not be threatened by the fire, but Rockie knocks him out and does the job himself. Water from the broken dam extinguishes the fire, and Rockie recuperates in the hospital, and later, at Mary's house. After Rockie recovers, Johnny gladly acts as witness at Rockie and Mary's wedding, and then happily returns to the Corps.
    DirectorEdward F. ClineStarsJoe MorrisonPaul KellyRosalind Keith
  • 17. Reichsparteitag der Ehre

    19369mShort
    9.9 (13)
    StarsJoseph GoebbelsRudolf HessAdolf Hitler
  • The Coronation of King George VI (1937)

    18. The Coronation of King George VI

    1937Short
    9.0 (11)
    Early film of the preparation for the coronation and of the coronation itself. The coronation of King George VI was a highlight of Technicolor's early success in England.
    StarKing George VI
  • Screen Snapshots Series 15, No. 12 (1936)

    19. Screen Snapshots Series 17, No. 5

    193810mApprovedShort
    9.3 (125)
    This entry in Columbia's long-running Screen Snapshots' series opens in Hollywood with numerous movie stars playing a goofy new game that is the (then) current rage of the film capitol. It moves on to Toluca Lake and further out to Palm Springs with shots of the stars playing golf, tennis, swimming and horseback riding, before heading back to Hollywood for the grand opening of a new Hawaiian-theme nightclub.
    DirectorRalph StaubStarsRalph StaubGeorge MurphyNan Grey
  • 20. El organillero

    1939Short
    9.5 (6)
    DirectorJosé Benavides hijoStarPedro Infante
  • Herzensfreud - Herzensleid (1940)

    21. Herzensfreud - Herzensleid

    19401h 38m
    8.6 (11)
    DirectorHubert MarischkaStarsHans LeibeltErika von ThellmannPaul Klinger
  • 22. Heroic Greece!

    1941Short
    DirectorFrank NortonStarsMilton CrossKing Georgios IIIoannis Metaxas
  • Nandanar (1942)

    23. Nandanar

    19422h 22m
    8.9 (52)
    Based on Nandan, a low caste farmer's deep devotion towards Shiva.
    DirectorMurugadasaStarsDandapani DesikarSerukalathun Sama
  • Rabdare Tanase! (1943)

    24. Rabdare Tanase!

    1943Short
    9.2 (9)
    DirectorConstantin TanaseStarsStefan DominikowskyConstantin Tanase
  • Bruno Jaddatz in Ein Blick zurück (1944)

    25. Ein Blick zurück

    19441h 27m
    8.2 (17)
    Overworked lawyer Eugen is busy mending other people's marriages and business problems. Though he is aware that his wife Valentine plans to leave him for a pianist he can't help it. The crisis escalates when their son falls seriously ill.
    DirectorGerhard MenzelStarsRudolf ForsterHilde WeissnerThea Weis

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