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1. The Crimson Skull (1922)
Passed | Action, Adventure, Mystery
To rid the range of a gang of outlaws that are rustling cattle and robbing the banks and stagecoaches, cowhand Bob Calem, working on the gang-leader's superstitions, dons a skeleton-costume to strike fear into the gang.
Director: Richard E. Norman | Stars: Anita Bush, Lawrence Chenault, Bill Pickett, Steve Reynolds
Votes: 25
2. The Covered Wagon (1923)
98 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and ... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence
Votes: 781 | Gross: $7.63M
3. The Vanishing American (1925)
110 min | Drama, Western
History, as portrayed in this film, has been a succession of conquests of stronger races over weaker ones. As played out on the stage of Monument Valley, long ago, tribes of Indians ... See full summary »
Director: George B. Seitz | Stars: Richard Dix, Lois Wilson, Noah Beery, Malcolm McGregor
Votes: 368 | Gross: $0.29M
4. The Invaders (1912)
Not Rated | 41 min | Short, Western
The U.S. Army and the Indians sign a peace treaty. However, a group of surveyors trespass on the Indians' land and violate the treaty. The Army refuses to listen to the Indians' complaints,... See full summary »
Directors: Francis Ford, Thomas H. Ince | Stars: Francis Ford, Ethel Grandin, Ann Little, Ray Myers
Votes: 334
5. The Navigator (1924)
Unrated | 59 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
Directors: Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Frederick Vroom, Clarence Burton
Votes: 11,068 | Gross: $1.48M
6. Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
Not Rated | 70 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
Directors: Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis
Votes: 16,195
7. Grandma's Boy (1922)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy, Family
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson
Votes: 2,054 | Gross: $0.26M
8. Safety Last! (1923)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller
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.
Directors: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young
Votes: 22,929 | Gross: $1.36M
9. The Strong Man (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong
Votes: 963
10. Long Pants (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe, Priscilla Bonner
Votes: 586
11. Big Business (1929)
19 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Ollie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner.
Directors: James W. Horne, Leo McCarey | Stars: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall
Votes: 3,397
12. Keep Moving (1915)
50 min | Comedy
Musty gets a job in a grocery store. A female customer makes him show her everything in the place, then buys a five-cent package of crackers. For revenge, Musty eats the artificial grapes ... See full summary »
Director: Louis Myll | Stars: Harry Watson, George Bickel, Cissy Fitzgerald, Rosa Gore
13. His Wooden Wedding (1925)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Comedy
A few moments before Charley is to marry, a "friend", who is jealous, gives him an anonymous note stating that the bride has a wooden leg. Charley cancels the wedding, but agrees to leave ... See full summary »
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Charley Chase, Katherine Grant, Gale Henry, Fred DeSilva
Votes: 193
15. Flaming Fathers (1927)
25 min | Comedy, Short
Papa Gimplewart, alerted to his daughter's hopes to elope with her current beau, accompanies them both to the beach. Unaccustomed to beach activities, he becomes the center of attention for... See full summary »
Directors: Stan Laurel, Leo McCarey | Stars: Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Eddie Clayton, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 49
16. Cupid's Day Off (1919)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Heretofore running a shoe store has been considered a quiet, respectable business, but Ben and his partner make the interior of their emporium of fashionable footwear look like the finish ... See full summary »
Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: Ben Turpin, Heinie Conklin, Alice Lake, Hughie Mack
17. Summer Saps (1929)
Short, Comedy
A family go on a five-week holiday by the sea - - but it keeps raining all the time.
Director: Lupino Lane | Stars: Lupino Lane, Sybil Grove, Wallace Lupino, Blanche Payson
Votes: 25
18. Broncho Billy and the Baby (1915)
Western, Short
A reward of $500 is offered for the capture of Broncho Billy, a desperate outlaw. One day, while hiding near the home of a rancher, Broncho sees a little girl burying her broken doll. ... See full summary »
Director: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, Lee Willard, Evelyn Selbie, Sally Phipps
19. The Bargain (1914)
70 min | Western
The bandit Jim Stokes, wanting to go straight and settle down with his new bride, strikes a bargain with the sheriff for his freedom.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: William S. Hart, J. Frank Burke, Clara Williams, J. Barney Sherry
Votes: 252
20. The Return of Draw Egan (1916)
50 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
"Draw" Egan, a notorious bandit of New Mexico, has come to the end of his tether. His gang has been dispersed, many slain, and more in jail, and there is a reward of $1,000 offered for Egan... See full summary »
Director: William S. Hart | Stars: William S. Hart, Margery Wilson, Robert McKim, Louise Glaum
Votes: 212
21. Hands Off! (1921)
50 min | Western
Upon riding into a border town, Tex Roberts soon rescues lovely Ramona Wadley from the unwanted attentions of Pete Dinsmore, leader of a gang of rustlers, and later plucks her sister in ... See full summary »
Director: George Marshall | Stars: Tom Mix, Pauline Curley, Charles K. French, Lloyd Bacon
22. The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
53 min | Drama, Western
Disguising as a bandit, a detective infiltrates a group of train robberies while falling in love with the K and A railroad's president's daughter.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Tony the Horse, Will Walling
Votes: 398
23. Sky High (1922)
58 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A government agent infiltrates a gang of Chinese immigrant smugglers and pursues their ringleader throughout the heart of the Southwestern desert.
Director: Lynn Reynolds | Stars: Tom Mix, J. Farrell MacDonald, Eva Novak, Sid Jordan
Votes: 327
24. The Squaw Man (1914)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Drama, Romance
A chivalrous British officer takes the blame for his cousin's embezzlement and journeys to the American West to start a new life on a cattle ranch.
Directors: Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston, Mrs. A.W. Filson
Votes: 1,047 | Gross: $0.53M
25. Redskin (1929)
82 min | Western, Adventure, Drama
Wing Foot (Richard Dix), a Navajo, is educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story, he experiences prejudice from both the whites because of his race and the ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Tully Marshall, George Regas
Votes: 224
26. 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: 6,046
27. 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: 105,500
28. 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: 16,737
29. The Student of Prague (1913)
Approved | 85 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Balduin, a student of Prague, leaves his roystering companions in the beer garden, when he finds he has reached the end of his resources. He is scarcely seated in a quiet corner when a ... See full summary »
Directors: Hanns Heinz Ewers, Stellan Rye | Stars: Paul Wegener, Grete Berger, Lyda Salmonova, John Gottowt
Votes: 2,401
30. The Student of Prague (1926)
110 min | Drama, Horror
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a ... See full summary »
Director: Henrik Galeen | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Ágnes Eszterházy
Votes: 768
31. 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: 8,543
32. The Golem (1914)
60 min | Horror
An antiques dealer finds a golem, a clay statue that had been brought to life four centuries earlier by a Kabbalist rabbi to protect his people from persecution. The dealer resurrects the golem as a servant but it goes on a rampage.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen | Stars: Paul Wegener, Henrik Galeen, Lyda Salmonova, Rudolf Blümner
Votes: 1,242
33. 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: 2,631
34. The Unknown (1927)
Unrated | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz
Votes: 9,169 | Gross: $0.41M
35. The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Passed | 93 min | Horror
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Directors: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick | Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Votes: 20,116 | Gross: $3.75M
36. Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)
PG | 107 min | Drama, Horror
Count Dracula moves from Transylvania to Wismar, spreading the Black Plague across the land. Only a woman pure of heart can bring an end to his reign of horror.
Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Klaus Kinski, Isabelle Adjani, Bruno Ganz, Roland Topor
Votes: 40,563
37. The Bat (1926)
86 min | Mystery, Thriller
A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.
Director: Roland West | Stars: George Beranger, Charles Herzinger, Emily Fitzroy, Louise Fazenda
Votes: 885
38. The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Passed | 108 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall
Votes: 3,373 | Gross: $0.33M
39. The Old Dark House (1932)
Passed | 72 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Seeking shelter from a storm, five travelers are in for a bizarre and terrifying night when they stumble upon the Femm family estate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Melvyn Douglas, Charles Laughton, Gloria Stuart
Votes: 13,108 | Gross: $0.03M
40. London After Midnight (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams
Votes: 1,467 | Gross: $0.52M
41. Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 53,865 | Gross: $0.54M
42. The Docks of New York (1928)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova, Clyde Cook
Votes: 5,034
43. Greed (1924)
Not Rated | 140 min | Drama, Thriller, Western
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller
Votes: 10,766 | Gross: $0.16M
44. A Kiss for Cinderella (1925)
105 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
In London during World War One, a simple-minded slavey awaits her Fairy Godmother and her Prince Charming.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston, Henry Vibart
Votes: 106
45. Isn't Life Wonderful (1924)
115 min | Drama, Romance
A family of Polish refugees tries to survive in post-World War I Germany. For a while it seems that they are making it, but soon the economic and political deterioration in the country begins to take their toll.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Helen Lowell
Votes: 406
46. The Iron Horse (1924)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance
After witnessing the murder of his father by a renegade as a boy, the grown-up Brandon helps to realize his father's dream of a transcontinental railway.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, Charles Edward Bull, Cyril Chadwick
Votes: 2,446 | Gross: $2.06M
47. Four Sons (1928)
Passed | 100 min | Drama, War
A family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
Director: John Ford | Stars: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 920
48. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,167 | Gross: $3.92M
49. Straight Shooting (1917)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Western
Cattleman Flint cuts off farmer Sims' water supply. When Sims' son Ted goes for water, one of Flint's men kills him. Cheyenne is sent to finish off Sims, but finding the family at the newly dug grave, he changes sides.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, George Berrell, Molly Malone
Votes: 718
50. Just Pals (1920)
Not Rated | 50 min | Comedy, Drama, Western
Small-town tramp befriends runaway boy.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson, Georgie Stone, Duke R. Lee
Votes: 503
51. Hangman's House (1928)
Passed | 71 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
"Citizen" Hogan, an exile Irish patriot, risks his life by returning to Ireland and helping a young couple.
Director: John Ford | Stars: June Collyer, Larry Kent, Victor McLaglen, Earle Foxe
Votes: 557
52. The Merry Widow (1925)
Passed | 137 min | Drama, Romance
A prince must woo the now-wealthy dancer he once abandoned, to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, Josephine Crowell
Votes: 2,568 | Gross: $1.92M
53. The Wedding March (1928)
Passed | 113 min | Drama
A young impoverished aristocrat falls in love with an inn-keepers daughter, but has to marry money.
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Zasu Pitts, Matthew Betz
Votes: 1,899
54. Smouldering Fires (1925)
80 min | Drama, Romance
A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Director: Clarence Brown | Stars: Pauline Frederick, Laura La Plante, Malcolm McGregor, Tully Marshall
Votes: 122
55. Skinner's Dress Suit (1926)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
Honey Skinner is proud of her successful husband. When he tells her he's asking for a raise, she knows he'll get it. He asks his boss just as their big client announces he's not renewing ... See full summary »
Director: William A. Seiter | Stars: Reginald Denny, Laura La Plante, Ben Hendricks Jr., E.J. Ratcliffe
Votes: 208
56. Beggar on Horseback (1925)
70 min | Comedy
Impoverished composer Neil McRae loves Cynthia Mason, but fearing poverty, he proposes to wealthy Gladys Cady. One night he dozes in an armchair and has a nightmare of a wedding to and life... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Edward Everett Horton, Esther Ralston, Erwin Connelly, Gertrude Short
Votes: 96
57. White Gold (1927)
73 min | Western
A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns with him to his ranch, where he lives with his elderly father. The father, not used to sharing his son's ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft, George Nichols
Votes: 102
58. The Three Musketeers (1921)
119 min | Action, Adventure, Family
Cardinal Richelieu, engaged in intrigue at the court of Louis XIII, attempts to rule by threatening the queen, who is secretly in love with the Duke of Buckingham. From Gascony comes ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Nigel De Brulier, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 1,143 | Gross: $3.27M
59. J'accuse! (1919)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama, Horror, War
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Romuald Joubé, Maxime Desjardins, Séverin-Mars, Angèle Guys
Votes: 2,054
60. Through the Back Door (1921)
89 min | Comedy, Drama
When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.
Directors: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford | Stars: Mary Pickford, Gertrude Astor, Wilfred Lucas, Helen Raymond
Votes: 212
61. Miss Lulu Bett (1921)
Not Rated | 71 min | Comedy, Drama
A once-timid young woman gains newfound confidence after a failed marriage, much to the chagrin of her miserable family.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Lois Wilson, Milton Sills, Theodore Roberts, Helen Ferguson
Votes: 414
62. Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914)
Not Rated | 82 min | Comedy
A con man from the city dupes a wealthy country girl into marriage.
Directors: Mack Sennett, Charles Bennett | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand, Mack Swain
Votes: 3,726
63. In the Watches of the Night (1909)
11 min | Short, Drama
An honest worker, John Whitney, finds himself unemployed and unable to provide for his family. Desperate, he robs a rich man's home and is arrested. One of the police officers is an old ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Frank Powell, George Nichols, Marion Leonard, Gladys Egan
Votes: 27
64. The Mothering Heart (1913)
Not Rated | 29 min | Short, Drama
A young couple struggle to get ahead, the wife always assuaging the troubles of her melancholy husband. As he climbs the ladder of success, he abandons the homely values and takes up with ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry
Votes: 863
65. The Corporal's Daughter (1915)
Western, Short, Drama
Kate, the corporal's daughter, has been snubbed and humiliated by her sweetheart, Lieutenant Garrison. On the day in question, on the parade ground near Fort Millerton during the period ... See full summary »
Director: Will Louis | Stars: Arthur Housman, Gladys Hulette, Yale Benner, Ben Turbett
66. Judith of Bethulia (1914)
Not Rated | 61 min | Drama
A religious woman seeks to save her people from destruction by seducing and murdering the enemy leader, but her plans get complicated once she falls for him.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Robert Harron
Votes: 1,449
67. The Juggernaut (1915)
62 min | Drama
This silent film presents drama to prevent a train from falling from a damaged railroad bridge.
Director: Ralph Ince | Stars: Anita Stewart, Earle Williams, Julia Swayne Gordon, William R. Dunn
Votes: 34
68. The Second in Command (1915)
50 min | Drama
Director: William Bowman | Stars: Francis X. Bushman, Marguerite Snow, William Clifford, Lester Cuneo
69. David Harum (1915)
50 min | Romance, Comedy, Drama
The story of David Harum, a small-town banker, and how what he does and who he is affects the lives of everyone in his town, whether they--or he--realize it.
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: William H. Crane, Kate Meeks, Hal Clarendon, Harold Lockwood
Votes: 64
70. The Prisoner of Zenda (1913)
55 min | Adventure
King Rudolf of Ruritania is saved from a coup attempt by the help of his lookalike cousin, who falls in love with the king's fiancee.
Directors: Hugh Ford, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: James K. Hackett, Beatrice Beckley, David Torrence, Frazer Coulter
Votes: 51
71. The Count of Monte Cristo (1913)
69 min | Drama, History
A French sailor, imprisoned for years on false charges of conpiring against the king, escapes and exacts revenge on his accusers.
Directors: Joseph A. Golden, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: James O'Neill, Nance O'Neil, Murdock MacQuarrie
Votes: 69
72. The Virginian (1914)
Passed | 55 min | Western
A good-natured but chivalrous cowboy romances the local schoolmarm and leads the posse that brings a gang of rustlers, which includes his best friend, to justice.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dustin Farnum, Jack W. Johnston, Sydney Deane, William Elmer
Votes: 251
73. The Wishing Ring: An Idyll of Old England (1914)
54 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
After being expelled from college, Giles runs away from home and meets and falls for a young lady.
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Vivian Martin, Alec B. Francis, Chester Barnett, Gyp Williams
Votes: 350
74. Traffic in Souls (1913)
TV-PG | 88 min | Crime, Drama
With aid from her police-officer sweetheart, a woman endeavors to uncover the prostitution ring that has kidnapped her sister and the philanthropist who secretly runs it.
Director: George Loane Tucker | Stars: Jane Gail, Ethel Grandin, William H. Turner, Matt Moore
Votes: 731 | Gross: $0.43M
75. Atlantis (1913)
121 min | Drama
After Dr. Friedrich's wife becomes mentally unstable and his research papers are rejected, he leaves the country to respite.
Director: August Blom | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Ida Orloff, Ebba Thomsen, Carl Lauritzen
Votes: 480
76. John Redmond, the Evangelist (1915)
60 min | Drama
After losing his parents, who died from grief over their son's unjust sentence to jail, John Redmond obtains his release and devotes his life to the uplift and betterment of mankind. After ... See full summary »
Director: Holger-Madsen | Stars: Valdemar Psilander, Philip Bech, Augusta Blad, Axel Boesen
Votes: 88
77. Sealed Orders (1914)
84 min | Drama, Mystery
On the brink of war, Lt. van Hauen is summoned to take command of the cruiser, but due to unforeseen events, he is wrongfully convicted as a traitor.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Benjamin Christensen, Karen Caspersen, Otto Reinwald, Fritz Lamprecht
Votes: 688
78. The Great Redeemer (1920)
50 min | Drama, Western
A murderer and a thief, imprisoned together, find their lives changed forever when the thief's drawing of Christ's crucifixion on the cell wall comes to life.
Directors: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur | Stars: House Peters, Marjorie Daw, Jack McDonald, Joseph Singleton
79. The Italian (1915)
Passed | 72 min | Drama
An Italian immigrant and his sweetheart search for a better life in America, but the harsh realities of life in the slums of New York City lay waste to their hopes and dreams.
Director: Reginald Barker | Stars: George Beban, Clara Williams, J. Frank Burke, Leo Willis
Votes: 458
80. The Blue Bird (1918)
Not Rated | 75 min | Family, Fantasy
With the aid and guidance of a magical fairy, two peasant children set out in search of the elusive "Blue Bird of Happiness".
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Tula Belle, Robin Macdougall, Edwin E. Reed, Emma Lowry
Votes: 1,017
81. Way Down East (1920)
Passed | 145 min | Drama, Romance
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.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman
Votes: 5,902 | Gross: $4.50M
82. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
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.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,617 | Gross: $1.24M
83. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,860
84. The Grim Game (1919)
71 min | Adventure, Drama
Jailed unjustly for a murder he did not commit, a young man uses his amazing powers of escape to free himself and pursue the actual killers, who hold his fiancée captive.
Director: Irvin Willat | Stars: Harry Houdini, Thomas Jefferson, Ann Forrest, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 316
85. The Whispering Chorus (1918)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama
John Trimble has embezzled and obtains another identity by having a mutilated body buried in his place. He is later arrested for murdering himself. During the trial his mother, before dying... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Raymond Hatton, Kathlyn Williams, Edythe Chapman, Elliott Dexter
Votes: 356 | Gross: $0.24M
86. Blue Jeans (1917)
84 min | Drama
Perry Bascom comes to the town of Rising Sun, Indiana, to take charge of the sawmills which have for years been managed by his father's best friend, Col. Henry Clay Risener. His father's ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Sally Crute, Clifford Bruce
Votes: 73
87. Children of Eve (1915)
73 min | Drama
Young Henry Clay Madison, a clerk, falls in love with Flossy Wilson, a prostitute from New York's East Side. Although she reforms under his influence, Flossy believes that she is unworthy ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Conness, Tom Blake, Nellie Grant
Votes: 131
88. The Cossack Whip (1916)
61 min | Drama
Feodor Turov, chief of the Russian Czar's secret police, orders his Cossacks to attack a village he believes to be infested with rebels. The Cossacks attack the village and massacre almost ... See full summary »
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Grace Williams, Robert Walker, Frank Farrington
Votes: 95
89. The Girl Without a Soul (1917)
50 min | Drama
The story of two young sisters: one a demure musician in love with a scoundrel who's no good for her; the other a wild free spirit who is the object of a shy young carpenter's affections.
Director: John H. Collins | Stars: Viola Dana, Robert Walker, Fred C. Jones, Henry Hallam
Votes: 29
90. The Social Secretary (1916)
52 min | Comedy, Drama
To avoid unwanted attention at her next job, a young professional disguises herself, leading to some unintended consequences.
Director: John Emerson | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Kate Lester, Helen Weir, Gladden James
Votes: 561
91. The Beggar of Cawnpore (1916)
60 min | Drama
British army doctor Robert Lowndes battles a cholera epidemic at a small fort in Cawnpore, India, in the 1850s. When he catches a fever he begins to take morphine in order to continue ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Swickard | Stars: H.B. Warner, Lola May, Wyndham Standing, Alfred Hollingsworth
92. The Clodhopper (1917)
46 min | Comedy, Drama
Everett Nelson was born on a farm and is an only son. He does all the hard work on the place for his father, who keeps the country bank. Unable to stand the bondage any longer, Everett ... See full summary »
Director: Victor Schertzinger | Stars: Charles Ray, Charles K. French, Margery Wilson, Lydia Knott
Votes: 54
93. Pandora's Box (1929)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz
Votes: 11,861 | Gross: $0.01M
94. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Passed | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
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.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Votes: 60,707 | Gross: $0.02M
95. Battleship Potemkin (1925)
Not Rated | 66 min | Drama, History, Thriller
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.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barskiy, Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Ivan Bobrov
Votes: 61,471 | Gross: $0.05M
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