Horror Movies from the 1920s
by Bpquinn07 | created - 23 Mar 2023 | updated - 09 Apr 2023 | PublicList of every horror movie from the 1920s
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1. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph
Votes: 273
2. Anita (1920)
Horror
Depicts a society lady trapped under the spell of an unskilled hypnotist.
Directors: Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck | Stars: Lola Urban-Kneidinger, Wilhelm Klitsch, Julius Strobl, Nora Herbert
3. Die Würghand (1920)
67 min | Drama
A poor youngster who sells flowers to the riches will be torn between the greed of her brother and the love of three wealthy aristocrats.
Director: Cornelius Hintner | Stars: Victor Kutschera, Carmen Cartellieri, Eugen Preiß, Hans Rhoden
Votes: 40
4. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (I) (1920)
Unrated | 69 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane
Votes: 6,047
5. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (II) (1920)
40 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
Director: J. Charles Haydon | Stars: Sheldon Lewis, Alex Shannon, Dora Mills Adams, Gladys Field
Votes: 189
7. Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire (1920)
88 min | Horror
Genuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen
Votes: 1,130
8. Go and Get It (1920)
70 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
An intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.
Directors: Marshall Neilan, Henry Roberts Symonds | Stars: Pat O'Malley, Wesley Barry, Agnes Ayres, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 45
9. Haunted Spooks (1920)
Passed | 25 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (... See full summary »
Directors: Alfred J. Goulding, Hal Roach | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Wally Howe, Marie Benson
Votes: 1,427
10. Le silence (1920)
25 min | Short, Drama
The tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, who contemplates his past in a series of flashbacks.
Director: Louis Delluc | Stars: Gabriel Signoret, Ève Francis, Ginette Darnys, Andrew Brunelle
Votes: 25
11. Leaves From Satan's Book (1920)
TV-14 | 167 min | Drama
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.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere, Hallander Helleman
Votes: 1,356
12. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 70,085
13. The Dark Mirror (1920)
50 min | Drama, Horror
Priscilla Maine, a wealthy young woman, is plagued by visions of menacing people and strange adventures, which she confides to Dr. Philip Fosdick, a young physician. Later, while reading a ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Giblyn | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Huntley Gordon, Walter D. Nealand, Jessie Arnold
Votes: 33
14. The Golem (1920)
Unrated | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror
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.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 8,544
15. The Great London Mystery (1920)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
A magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.
Director: Charles Raymond | Stars: David Devant, Lady Doris Stapleton, Charles Raymond, Robert Clifton
Votes: 18
16. The Head of Janus (1920)
107 min | Horror
Two opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman.Dr.Warren and Janus
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Magnus Stifter, Margarete Schlegel, Willy Kaiser-Heyl
Votes: 166
17. The Hunchback and the Dancer (1920)
50 min | Horror
Wilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine. He romances Gina, who is on the rebound from a ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Sascha Gura, John Gottowt, Paul Biensfeldt, Anna von Palen
Votes: 86
18. The Invisible Ray (1920)
Sci-Fi
A scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Ruth Clifford, Jack Sherrill, Sidney Bracey, Edwards Davis
Votes: 36
19. The Parson's Widow (1920)
TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
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.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth, Olav Aukrust
Votes: 1,518
20. The Penalty (1920)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
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.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Votes: 2,632
21. Black Shadows (1920)
50 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
A victim of hypnotism begins to have compulsions to steal.
Director: Howard M. Mitchell | Stars: Peggy Hyland, Alan Roscoe, Correan Kirkham, Henry Hebert
22. Der Graf von Cagliostro (1920)
105 min | Horror
About a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
Director: Reinhold Schünzel | Stars: Reinhold Schünzel, Anita Berber, Conrad Veidt, Carl Goetz
23. Desire (1920)
Fantasy, Horror
An ass's skin grants an author's wishes and makes him rich, but it is a dream.
Director: George Edwardes-Hall | Stars: Dennis Neilson-Terry, Yvonne Arnaud, Christine Maitland, George W. Anson
25. Love Without Question (1920)
Mystery, Crime, Horror
Old Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his ward Katherine and his butler. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns ... See full summary »
Director: B.A. Rolfe | Stars: Olive Tell, James Morrison, Mario Majeroni, Ivo Dawson
26. Nachtgestalten (1920)
106 min | Horror
Thomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
Director: Richard Oswald | Stars: Paul Wegener, Reinhold Schünzel, Erna Morena, Erik Charell
Votes: 22
27. Sílený lékar (1920)
Crime, Horror
A young clerk loses her account book. It is found by a young unemployed man with whom the clerk falls in love. The young man answers a classified advertisement and starts work at a doctor's... See full summary »
Stars: Karel Zelenský, Jaroslav Hurt, Laura Zelenská, Drahos Zelenský
Votes: 14
28. The Dream Cheater (1920)
50 min | Horror
When young writer Brandon McShane is left penniless by the death of his father, he is forced to rent a room in the tenement district from the Mahon family. Brandon soon becomes infatuated ... See full summary »
Director: Ernest C. Warde | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Wedgwood Nowell, Alice Wilson, Joseph J. Dowling
Votes: 20
29. The House of Whispers (1920)
50 min | Horror, Mystery
Spaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers. Upon undertaking an investigation, he meets neighbor Barbara Bradford... See full summary »
Director: Ernest C. Warde | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Joseph J. Dowling, Fritzi Brunette, Margery Wilson
30. The Ouija Board (1920)
6 min | Animation, Comedy, Short
An animator and a janitor are playing with a Ouija Board and Koko is haunted by a bunch of ghosts.
Director: Max Fleischer | Stars: Roland Crandall, Max Fleischer
Votes: 216
31. Der Hund von Baskerville - 6. Teil: Das Haus ohne Fenster (1920)
157 min | Horror, Mystery
When a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
Director: Willy Zeyn | Stars: Erwin Fichtner, Lu Juergens, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Ludwig Rex
Votes: 34
32. The Man Who Laughs (1921)
87 min | Drama
France in the late 1600s, the son of a widowed lord is kidnapped by gypsies, who carve a permanent grin on the child's face. When the deformed boy grows up, he falls in love with a blind ... See full summary »
Director: Julius Herska | Stars: Franz Höbling, Nora Gregor, Lucienne Delacroix, Anna Kallina
Votes: 20
33. Destiny (1921)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 6,694 | Gross: $0.01M
34. Die Nacht der Toten (1921)
Drama, Horror
Director: John B. Kirsch | Stars: Wini Grabitz, Carl Jädicke, Ida Kattner, Otto Kustermann
35. Dracula's Death (1921)
65 min | Horror, Thriller
A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.
Director: Károly Lajthay | Stars: Paul Askonas, Margit Lux, Lene Myl, Dezsõ Kertész
Votes: 132
36. Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Animation, Short
After eating a rarebit, a man has an odd dream in which his wife takes in a strange-looking animal that eats everything in sight and keeps growing until it threatens the entire city.
Director: Winsor McCay
Votes: 474
37. Gevatter Tod (1921)
Horror
Director: Heinz Hanus | Stars: Armin Seydelmann, Erika Wagner, Fritz Strassny, Kurt Ehrle
38. Hintertreppe (1921)
50 min | Drama
A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. She, however, is in love with a wealthy, handsome young man. ... See full summary »
Directors: Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni | Stars: Henny Porten, Fritz Kortner, William Dieterle, Eugene Dieterle
Votes: 308
39. His Brother's Keeper (1921)
Crime, Horror
Rex Radcliffe, vice president of the Northern Atlantic Railroad, is opposed by company president William Harding in his desire to put over a deal that would jeopardize the stockholders of ... See full summary »
Director: Wilfrid North | Stars: Albert L. Barrett, Martha Mansfield, L. Rogers Lytton, Frazer Coulter
40. Journey into the Night (1921)
81 min | Drama
Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. At Hélène's birthday celebration, Eigil invites her to a cabaret, where he meets his other love, Lily, a passionate, fiery and funny dancer.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Erna Morena, Conrad Veidt, Gudrun Bruun Stephensen
Votes: 499
41. Labyrinth of Horror (1921)
90 min | Drama
Edward Stephenson, the son of a great industrialist, is due to marry the daughter of another prominent business leader. But the boy prefers a modest employee of the latter, Maud Hartley, ... See full summary »
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Lucy Doraine, Alphons Fryland, Max Devrient, Paul Askonas
Votes: 100
42. Grausige Nächte (1921)
83 min
The young Evelyne lives with a man, her fiancee Frank, with whom she has a child. But her fiancee is a rundown drunk constantly hanging over the bottle. Evelyne wants to leave Frank.
Director: Lupu Pick | Stars: Edith Posca, Alfred Abel, Arnold Korff, Adele Sandrock
Votes: 10
43. Pan Twardowski (1921)
Drama, Horror, Mystery
Director: Wiktor Bieganski | Stars: Bronislaw Oranowski, Wanda Jarszewska, Antoni Nowara-Piekarski, Maria Krzyzanowska
44. Shattered (1921)
50 min | Drama
Set during the winter, the story tells the tale of a track checker and his family who live a poverty-stricken life next to a railway line. They receive a telegram announcing the arrival of ... See full summary »
Director: Lupu Pick | Stars: Werner Krauss, Edith Posca, Hermine Straßmann-Witt, Paul Otto
Votes: 284
45. The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even tenser when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Lon Chaney, Hardee Kirkland
Votes: 1,327
46. The Arrival from the Darkness (1921)
60 min | Fantasy, Horror
Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of ... See full summary »
Director: Jan S. Kolár | Stars: Theodor Pistek, Anny Ondra, Josef Sváb-Malostranský, Karel Lamac
Votes: 114
47. Die schwarze Spinne (1921)
Director: Siegfried Philippi | Stars: Olga Engl, Hugo Flink, Charles Willy Kayser, Rudolf Klein-Rhoden
48. The Conquering Power (1921)
TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 539
49. The Haunted Castle (1921)
Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann
Votes: 2,064
50. The Haunted House (1921)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Votes: 3,651
51. The Hound of the Baskervilles (1921)
Crime, Horror, Mystery
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Eille Norwood, Catina Campbell, Rex McDougall, Lewis Gilbert
Votes: 48
52. Mysteries of India, Part I: Truth (1921)
120 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 393
53. Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921)
100 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 427
54. The Island of the Lost (1921)
78 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
A loose and unofficial silent adaptation of H. G. Wells' The Island Of Dr. Moreau.
Director: Urban Gad | Stars: Fritz Beckmann, Hans Behrendt, Loo Bell, Alf Blütecher
Votes: 65
55. The Lost Shadow (1921)
Drama, Fantasy
Director: Rochus Gliese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Wilhelm Bendow, Adele Sandrock, Hedwig Gutzeit
Votes: 11
56. The Mechanical Man (1921)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.
Director: André Deed | Stars: Giulia Costa, André Deed, Valentina Frascaroli, Mathilde Lambert
Votes: 282
57. The Monster of Frankenstein (1921)
39 min | Short, Horror, Sci-Fi
The Italian adaptation of the famous novel about Dr. Frankenstein and his monstrous creation.
Director: Eugenio Testa | Stars: Linda Albertini, Luciano Albertini, Umberto Guarracino, Aldo Mezzanotte
Votes: 44
58. Onder spiritistischen dwang (1921)
74 min | Mystery, Fantasy
A séance proves a ghost compelled a spiritualist to kill his rich father.
Directors: Maurits Binger, B.E. Doxat-Pratt | Stars: Zoe Palmer, Adelqui Migliar, Arthur Pusey, E. Story Gofton
59. The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm
Votes: 14,093
60. Desire (1920)
59 min | Drama, Romance
A young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Gussy Holl, Eugen Klöpfer, Margarete Schlegel
Votes: 80
61. The Closed Door (1921)
44 min | Drama, Short
A professor lecturing his class tells the strange story of a doctor's dead wife who sends her spirit to haunt and torment him and wreck his second marriage.
Director: Robert Saidreau | Stars: Jean Hervé, Maria Rousslana-Doubassoff, Marthe Ferrare, Yves Martel
63. A Blind Bargain (1922)
57 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
In return for money and medical aid for his invalid mother, struggling author Robert Sandell agrees to subject himself to experiments by Dr. Lamb, who claims he is trying to extend the ... See full summary »
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Lon Chaney, Raymond McKee, Virginia True Boardman, Fontaine La Rue
Votes: 72
64. Danse macabre (1922)
8 min | Short, Horror, Music
In Camille Saint-Saëns' Danse Macabre visual symphony, the desperate young lovers, Youth and Love try to evade Death's cold grip, as the terrible Black Plague devastates Spain.
Director: Dudley Murphy | Stars: Adolph Bolm, Ruth Page, Olin Howland
Votes: 288
65. Der Unheimliche (1922)
The good citizens of a small Austrian town are all aquiver; the schoolmaster has published a brochure in which can be read, black on white, the story of the 'dead guest,' in whose embrace ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Wendt | Stars: Bruno Decarli, Margot von Hardt, Eva Brock, Thea Kasten
66. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
Not Rated | 242 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel
Votes: 9,174
67. Faust (II) (1922)
13 min | Short, Drama, Music
Director: Challis Sanderson | Stars: Sylvia Caine, Lawford Davidson, Gordon Hopkirk, Minnie Rayner
Votes: 8
68. From Morning to Midnight (1920)
65 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller
A Cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60, 000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he ... See full summary »
Director: Karl Heinz Martin | Stars: Ernst Deutsch, Erna Morena, Roma Bahn, Adolf E. Licho
Votes: 607
69. Häxan (1922)
Not Rated | 91 min | Documentary, Fantasy, Horror
Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan
Votes: 16,738
70. Mrtví zijí (1922)
Drama, Horror, Thriller
Dissolute Abel Beer, with the help of his debt collector friends - usurers, swindles a Prague Doctor Jakub Hlohovský out of a quiet house in Malá Strana. Jakub, familiar with the secrets ... See full summary »
Director: Jan S. Kolár | Stars: Karel Fiala, Theodor Pistek, Vojtech Záhorík, Ludvík Veverka
71. Nosferatu (1922)
Not Rated | 94 min | Fantasy, Horror
Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Votes: 105,494
72. One Exciting Night (1922)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
A young orphan girl, courted by an unpleasant older wealthy man who has a hold over her adoptive mother, falls in love with a young stranger at a party. Odd noises begin to be heard as a ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Porter Strong, Morgan Wallace
Votes: 187 | Gross: $0.41M
73. Phantom (1922)
Not Rated | 125 min | Drama, Romance
A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Alfred Abel, Frida Richard, Aud Egede-Nissen, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Votes: 1,956
74. Salomé (1922)
Not Rated | 72 min | Biography, Drama, History
Salome, the daughter of Herodias, seduces her step-father/uncle Herod, governor of Judea, with a salacious dance. In return, he promises her the head of the prophet John the Baptist.
Directors: Charles Bryant, Alla Nazimova | Stars: Alla Nazimova, Nigel De Brulier, Mitchell Lewis, Rose Dione
Votes: 1,161
75. The Ghost Breaker (1922)
57 min | Comedy, Horror
A young man and his manservant, escaping from a backwoods family feud, are persuaded by a beautiful young heiress to help her rid her newly-gained Spanish castle of ghosts. The ghostly ... See full summary »
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Walter Hiers, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 33
76. The Haunted House (1922)
20 min | Short, Comedy
A deserted hotel is repopulated by an enterprising couple and better times are in sight until the manufacture of spooks start.
Director: Erle C. Kenton
Votes: 21
77. The Headless Horseman (1922)
Not Rated | 75 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
The village of Sleepy Hollow is getting ready to greet the new schoolteacher, Ichabod Crane, who is coming from New York City. Crane has already heard of the village's legendary ghost, a ... See full summary »
Director: Edward D. Venturini | Stars: Will Rogers, Lois Meredith, Ben Hendricks Jr., Charles E. Graham
Votes: 361
78. Trifling Women (1922)
90 min | Drama, Romance
To teach his fickle daughter, Jacqueline, the dangers of faithlessness, novelist Léon de Séverac reads her his latest story: In maneuvering for the favors of Zareda, a captivating Parisian ... See full summary »
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Barbara La Marr, Ramon Novarro, Pomeroy Cannon, Edward Connelly
Votes: 29
79. One Glorious Day (1922)
50 min | Comedy
Ek is a disembodied spirit, required to wait his turn in the boring cosmos until he is allowed to inhabit an earthly body. Impatient, he sneaks off to earth to find a body and, after ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Will Rogers, Lila Lee, Alan Hale, Johnny Fox
Votes: 15
80. The Dungeon (1922)
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard, J. Kenneth Goodman, William Crowell
81. Crime and Punishment (1923)
135 min | Drama
Student Raskolnikow, who has written an article about laws and crime, proposing the thesis, that un-ordinary people can commit crimes if their actions are necessary for the benefit of ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova, Andrei Zhilinsky
Votes: 361
82. Der steinerne Reiter (1923)
86 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A dreaded master lives in a gloomy castle on top of a mountain, while the villagers in the valley below dread his arrival at every wedding.
Director: Fritz Wendhausen | Stars: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Lucie Mannheim, Gustav von Wangenheim, Georg John
Votes: 103
83. Felix the Ghost Breaker (1923)
7 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
Felix is trying to get some sleep in a graveyard, but keeps getting bothered by a ghost. He follows the ghost to the house of an old farmer, and the ghost proceeds to terrorize the old man,... See full summary »
Director: Otto Messmer
Votes: 126
84. Itching Palms (1923)
60 min | Comedy, Crime
The search is on for a bank robber's hidden stash in a house they all say is haunted.
Director: James W. Horne | Stars: Tom Gallery, Herschel Mayall, Virginia Fox, Tom Wilson
Votes: 17
85. La nuit rouge (1923)
Horror
The red night was set within the space of a few hours and in two locations - the rich madam Lesparre's old castle (where celebrations are underway to mark the marriage of her daughter ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice de Marsan, Maurice Gleize | Stars: Gina Manès, Sylviane de Castillo, Henri Deneyrieu, Léon Bousquet
86. Puritan Passions (1923)
70 min | Drama
Goody Rickby conspires with Satan to avenge herself when Gillead Wingate refuses to acknowledge their illegitimate child. Years pass, and Wingate becomes a powerful figure in his Salem, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Tuttle | Stars: Glenn Hunter, Mary Astor, Osgood Perkins, Maude Hill
Votes: 16
87. Salome (1923)
Drama, Romance
Herodias, spurned by Egyptian prince who is in love with Salome, has him secretly thrown in dungeon next to the Baptist. Herodias threatens to kill her lover if Salome does not ask for death of the Baptist.
Director: Malcolm Strauss | Stars: Diana Allen, Vincent Coleman, Christine Winthrop, Tom Cameron
Votes: 38
88. Warning Shadows (1923)
Unrated | 90 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A wealthy man invites the local wealthy bachelors over for a puppet show about men who covet another man's wife. The puppeteer is actually a witch and gives the men nightmares about what could happen if they date the lady of the house.
Director: Arthur Robison | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Ruth Weyher, Gustav von Wangenheim, Eugen Rex
Votes: 1,126
89. The Drums of Jeopardy (1923)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Mystery
Grand Duke Alexis of Russia possesses two priceless emeralds, known as the Drums of Jeopardy, which allegedly exert a sinister power over their owner. They are willed to the duke's private ... See full summary »
Director: Edward Dillon | Stars: Elaine Hammerstein, Jack Mulhall, Wallace Beery, David Torrence
Votes: 11
90. The Hunchback of Notre Dame (I) (1923)
Passed | 133 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
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.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Lon Chaney, Patsy Ruth Miller, Norman Kerry, Kate Lester
Votes: 6,104 | Gross: $2.22M
91. The Last Moment (1923)
60 min | Drama, Horror
Hercules Napoleon Cameron, who finds his adventure in books, is searching the waterfront with Alice Winthrop for a friend's father when they are shanghaied and taken aboard "The Finn's" ... See full summary »
Director: J. Parker Read Jr. | Stars: Henry Hull, Doris Kenyon, Louis Wolheim, Louis Calhern
Votes: 22
92. The Monkey's Paw (1923)
64 min | Horror, Fantasy
A couple dream that a magic paw returns their dead son.
Director: H. Manning Haynes | Stars: Moore Marriott, Marie Ault, Charles Ashton, Johnny Butt
Votes: 23
93. The Red Inn (1923)
80 min | Drama
Based on the story by Honoré de Balzac. Caught in a storm, two young doctors book into an inn for the night and find themselves sharing a room with a Dutch diamond merchant. During the ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Gina Manès, Marcelle Schmitt, Madame Delaunay, Clairette de Savoye
Votes: 151
94. The Shock (1923)
Passed | 96 min | Drama
A gang of blackmailers sends a cripple to San Francisco to expose a banker they have been blackmailing. However, the cripple meets and falls in love with the banker's daughter.
Director: Lambert Hillyer | Stars: Lon Chaney, Virginia Valli, Jack Mower, William Welsh
Votes: 545
95. The Silent Command (1923)
80 min | Drama
Benedict Hisston is a foreign agent, part of a conspiracy to destroy the Panama Canal and the US Navy's Atlantic Fleet. He attempts to acquire information about mine placement in the Canal ... See full summary »
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: Edmund Lowe, Bela Lugosi, Carl Harbaugh, Martin Faust
Votes: 103
96. The Untameable (1923)
65 min | Drama
Dr. Copin hypnotizes Joy Fielding, and she develops a split personality. She changes from an innocent, beautiful young lady into a cruel vamp, to the distress of her boyfriend.
Director: Herbert Blaché | Stars: Gladys Walton, Malcolm McGregor, John St. Polis, Etta Lee
Votes: 32
97. Trilby (1923)
80 min | Drama
A wild magician with hypnotic power captures a lovely art model from the Latin Quarter and turns her into a concert singer. Her student lover has almost given up finding her when he luckily sees her on stage.
Director: James Young | Stars: Andrée Lafayette, Creighton Hale, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Philo McCullough
98. While Paris Sleeps (1923)
60 min | Drama, Horror
When a sculptor falls in love with his model but finds his love unrequited, he plans to kill his love rival with the help of the owner of a Horror Wax museum.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mildred Manning, John Gilbert, Hardee Kirkland
Votes: 45
99. White Tiger (1923)
Passed | 86 min | Drama
Three crooks pull off a magnificent crime. As they're forced to hide out together they slowly begin to distrust each other.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery
Votes: 253
100. Rautakylän vanha parooni (1923)
79 min | Drama, Horror
In the winter of 1838 surprise guests arrive at the manor house of Rautakylä, inhabited by the elderly Baron Magnus Drakenhjelm and the story takes us back fifty years to the court of Gustav III in Stockholm.
Director: Karl Fager | Stars: Adolf Lindfors, Felix Borg, Einar Rinne, Naimi Kari
Votes: 15
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