Feature Film, Released between 1920-01-01 and 1920-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending)
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Votes: 57,776
2. 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: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 6,905
3. 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: 4,944
4. Within Our Gates (1920)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama, Romance
Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault
Votes: 2,652
5. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Not Rated | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil... See full summary »
Directors: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall
Votes: 1,133
6. 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: 5,079 | Gross: $4.50M
7. Sex (1920)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
A broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Louise Glaum, Irving Cummings, Peggy Pearce, Myrtle Stedman
Votes: 272
8. The Flapper (1920)
88 min | Comedy
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.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Olive Thomas, Theodore Westman Jr., William P. Carleton, Warren Cook
Votes: 310
9. The Mark of Zorro (1920)
Passed | 79 min | Adventure, Romance, Western
A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, Noah Beery
Votes: 2,235
10. The Parson's Widow (1920)
TV-14 | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Horror
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is ... See full summary »
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth, Olav Aukrust
Votes: 1,072
11. Erotikon (1920)
Not Rated | 106 min | Comedy, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Anders de Wahl, Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Elin Lagergren
Votes: 770
12. The Penalty (1920)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
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: 2,064
13. Outside the Law (1920)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Romance, Thriller
In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian ... See full summary »
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 490
14. Deception (1920)
Not Rated | 133 min | Biography, Drama, Romance
The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau
Votes: 595
15. The Saphead (1920)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy
The simple-minded son of a rich financier must find his own way in the world.
Directors: Herbert Blaché, Winchell Smith | Stars: Edward Jobson, Beulah Booker, Edward Connelly, Edward Alexander
Votes: 1,451
16. A Woman in Grey (1920)
235 min | Drama
Director: James Vincent | Stars: Arline Pretty, Henry G. Sell, Fred C. Jones, John Heenan
Votes: 39
17. The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
TV-PG | 54 min | Drama
Racists learn that the land a negro owns lies over a vast oil field, and threaten his life when he refuses to sell.
Director: Oscar Micheaux | Stars: Iris Hall, Walker Thompson, Lawrence Chenault, Mattie Wilkes
Votes: 375
18. Pollyanna (1920)
TV-G | 58 min | Family, Comedy, Drama
An orphan's optimistic outlook brings a change to the ill-tempered town in which she resides to her aunt.
Director: Paul Powell | Stars: Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Helen Jerome Eddy
Votes: 372
19. Genuine (1920)
88 min | Horror
Extremely rare work of Robert Wiene. From the director and year of excellent "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" this work was eventually overshadowed by the success of Caligari. It has a dreamy atmosphere, like another world or something.
Director: Robert Wiene | Stars: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen
Votes: 886
20. The Round-Up (1920)
70 min | Comedy, Western
An overweight sheriff does his best to assist a man accused of theft.
Director: George Melford | Stars: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Mabel Julienne Scott, Irving Cummings, Tom Forman
Votes: 127
21. Sumurun (1920)
Not Rated | 85 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
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.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist
Votes: 646
22. The Son of Tarzan (1920)
248 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan's son, Jack, escapes captivity and retreats into the jungle with an ape, where he finds love in unexpected places.
Directors: Arthur J. Flaven, Harry Revier | Stars: Kamuela C. Searle, P. Dempsey Tabler, Nita Martan, Karla Schramm
Votes: 79
23. 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: 1,102
24. 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: 90
25. Shakuntala (I) (1920)
Drama
Raja Dushyanta is out hunting in a nearby forest happens upon an attractive maiden, named Shakuntala, and instantly falls in love with her. He gives Shakuntala his ring as a symbol of his ... See full summary »
Director: Suchet Singh | Stars: Dorothy Kingdon, Goharjaan, Samson, Sutria
Votes: 7
26. Why Change Your Wife? (1920)
Approved | 90 min | Comedy, Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff
Votes: 1,338
27. The Devil's Passkey (1920)
130 min | Drama
The wife of an American playwright in Paris becomes ensnared in the seductive wiles of an American Army officer, but her devotion to her husband convinces the officer to try to extricate ... See full summary »
Director: Erich von Stroheim | Stars: Sam De Grasse, Una Trevelyn, Clyde Fillmore, Maude George
Votes: 9
28. The Spiders - Episode 2: The Diamond Ship (1920)
104 min | Adventure
Kay Hoog wants to stop the organisation "Die Spinnen" to get a certain diamond, that will give the owning woman the crown of Asia, but the man, who should be the owner of that diamond, ... See full summary »
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Rudolf Lettinger
Votes: 793
29. Humoresque (1920)
60 min | Drama
Young Leon Kanter dreams of being a great violinist. His parents scrape up the money for a violin and for lessons, and Leon rewards them by becoming a great player. But as an adult, Leon ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gaston Glass, Vera Gordon, Alma Rubens, Dore Davidson
Votes: 142
30. Huckleberry Finn (1920)
70 min | Comedy, Drama
Huckleberry Finn, a rambuctious boy adventurer chafing under the bonds of civilization, escapes his humdrum world and his selfish, plotting father by sailing a raft down the Mississippi ... See full summary »
Director: William Desmond Taylor | Stars: Lewis Sargent, Katherine Griffith, Martha Mattox, Frank Lanning
Votes: 81
31. From Morn to Midnight (1920)
65 min | Drama, 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: 451
32. The Wandering Image (1920)
Not Rated | 67 min | Romance
Mia May has surrendered herself to a disciple of free love, and, having given birth to a child, marries the twin brother and Doppelgänger of her chosen lover.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Mia May, Hans Marr, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Loni Nest
Votes: 375
33. Billions (1920)
Comedy
Billions is a lost 1920 American silent comedy film produced by and starring Alla Nazimova and distributed by Metro Pictures. Ray Smallwood directed. It is based on a French play, L'Homme riche, by Jean Jose Frappa and Henry Dupuy-Mazuel.
Director: Ray C. Smallwood | Stars: Alla Nazimova, Charles Bryant, William Irving, Victor Potel
Votes: 8
34. Treasure Island (1920)
76 min | Adventure
Young Jim Hawkins is caught up with the pirate Long John Silver in search of the buried treasure of the buccaneer Captain Flint, in this adaptation of the classic novel by Robert Louis ... See full summary »
Director: Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Shirley Mason, Josie Melville, Al W. Filson, Wilton Taylor
Votes: 26
35. The Revenge of Tarzan (1920)
90 min | Action, Adventure
Tarzan and Jane are sailing for France in answer to a call for help from Countess de Coude who is being persecuted by her brother Rokoff.
Directors: Harry Revier, George M. Merrick | Stars: Gene Pollar, Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Armand Cortes
Votes: 34
36. 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: 353
37. The Amateur Wife (1920)
60 min | Drama
Director: Edward Dillon | Stars: Irene Castle, William P. Carleton, Arthur Rankin, S.J. Warrington
38. The Man from Snowy River (1920)
61 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A country boy, Jim Conroy, is living a dissolute life in the city, running around with vamp Helen Ross. When his father cuts him off, he is dumped by Helen and returns to the bush.
Directors: Beaumont Smith, John Wells | Stars: Cyril Mackay, Stella Southern, Tal Ordell, Hedda Barr
Votes: 18
39. Gricka vjestica (1920)
Gricka vjestica (in English "Witch of Gric;" Gric is a part of Croatian capital town Zagreb) is about young countess Nera Keglevic. She is fighting against believing in witches an ... See full summary »
Director: Hinko Nucic | Stars: Melita Bohinec, Bozo Miller, Vera Polak, Stjepan Bojnicic
Votes: 14
40. The Love Flower (1920)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama
A man murders his wife's lovers, escapes with his daughter to the South Pacific. A detective pursues him, joined by a young man who eventually falls in love with the daughter.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Richard Barthelmess, George MacQuarrie, Anders Randolf
Votes: 115
41. Satanas (1920)
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: 49
42. Karin Ingmarsdotter (1920)
115 min | Drama
A young woman can't forgive her fiance for getting drunk and rejects him. In an ironic twist of fate, the man she marries becomes an alcoholic.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Nils Aréhn, Josua Bengtson, Bror Berger, Harriet Bosse
Votes: 106
43. A Modern Robinson (1920)
49 min
The Silfverdahl sisters goes sailing. One of them married, the other one, Brita, not. After a short journey Brita's sweetheart Einar secretly climbs aboard. Agathon, her prospective husband, get seasick and choose to leave the party.
Director: Rune Carlsten | Stars: Erik Lindholm, Lotten Almlöf, Mary Johnson, Carlo Keil-Möller
Votes: 6
44. 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: 48
45. The Soul of Youth (1920)
80 min | Drama
The story of an orphan boy who, due to the cruelty of others, is drawn into a life of sin on the streets prior to the redemption of a caring foster family.
Director: William Desmond Taylor | Stars: Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth Jr., Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse
Votes: 100
46. Passers-By (1920)
60 min | Drama
A young Englishman falls in love with the children's governess in his step-sister's home. His step-sister, however, cannot abide the class differential in the romance and sabotages it. The ... See full summary »
Director: J. Stuart Blackton | Stars: Herbert Rawlinson, Leila Valentine, Ellen Burford, Pauline Coffyn
47. Terror Island (1920)
Not Rated | 55 min | Mystery
An inventor travels to the South Seas, where there is buried treasure belonging to a girl. The girl's father is being held captive by cannibals until she returns a pearl that belongs to one of their idols.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Harry Houdini, Jack Brammall, Lila Lee, Wilton Taylor
Votes: 173
48. She Loves and Lies (1920)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Drama
Director: Chester Withey | Stars: Norma Talmadge, Conway Tearle, Octavia Broske, Phil Tead
49. Skyfire (1920)
50 min | Drama
Canadian Mountie Barr Conroy ( Neal Hart ) heads to the lawless trading post Skyfire in search of the killer of one of his comrades. There he is pursued by a man who believes that Conroy ... See full summary »
Director: Neal Hart | Stars: Neal Hart, William Quinn, Rita Pickering, Hugh Saxon
50. The Daughter of Dawn (1920)
TV-G | 80 min | Western
This restored silent film features a love triangle involving a Kiowa chief's daughter and ensuing conflict between Kiowa and Comanche villages.
Director: Norbert A. Myles | Stars: White Parker, Esther LeBarre, Hunting Horse, Jack Sankeydoty
Votes: 374