Every Horror Movie from 1920
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1. Satanas (1919)
60 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
A three-part historical film, with episode one taking place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel, and the third episode takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Fritz Kortner, Sadjah Gezza, Ernst Hofmann, Margit Barnay
Votes: 106
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
8. 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
9. 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
10. 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
11. 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
12. 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
13. 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: 70,096
14. 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
15. 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
16. 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
17. 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
18. 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
19. 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
20. 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
21. 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
22. 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
23. 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
24. 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
26. 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
27. 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
28. 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
29. 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
30. 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
31. 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
32. 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
33. 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
34. 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
35. Der Vampyr (1920)
60 min | Horror
Director: Fred Stranz | Stars: Uschi Elleot, Hella Moja, Else Berna, Esther Carena
Votes: 22
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