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1. The Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, History
This short film, one of the first to use camera tricks, depicts the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
Director: Alfred Clark | Stars: Robert Thomae, Mrs. Robert L. Thomas
Votes: 2,554
- korai attrakciós / trükk film -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
- egytekercses film
2. The House of the Devil (1896)
Not Rated | 3 min | Short, Horror
With the help of a magic cauldron, Mephistopheles conjures up a variety of supernatural characters.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Jehanne d'Alcy, Jules-Eugène Legris, Georges Méliès
Votes: 3,978
- korai attrakciós / trükk film -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
3. Leaving the Factory (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
Workers leaving the Lumière factory for lunch in Lyon, France in 1895; a place of great photographic innovation and one of the birth places of cinema.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 7,550
- aktuálfilm / attrakciós film -> dokumentarista film kialkulása (szemben a fikciós filmmel)
- egytekercses film
4. The Waterer Watered (1895)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Comedy
An impudent child plays a prank on a gardener innocently watering his plants.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: François Clerc, Benoît Duval
Votes: 5,841
- aktuálfilm / attrakciós film -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
- egytekercses film
5. Baby's Meal (1895)
1 min | Documentary, Short
As part of a maiden public film screening at the Salon Indien, on December 28, in Paris, Auguste Lumière pivots the centre of attention around his baby daughter, as he tries to feed her from a spoon.
Director: Louis Lumière | Stars: Auguste Lumière, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Andrée Lumière
Votes: 3,512
- első családi felvétel -> dokumentarista film kialkulása (szemben a fikciós filmmel)
6. Dickson Experimental Sound Film (1894)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Music
The earliest extant sound film. William K.L. Dickson stands in the background next to a huge sound pickup horn connected to a Thomas Edison phonograph recorder. As he plays a violin, two ... See full summary »
Director: William K.L. Dickson | Star: William K.L. Dickson
Votes: 2,562
7. Quai de l'Archevêché (1896)
1 min | Documentary, Short
The floods of the Saône river during the first week of November, 1896.
Director: Louis Lumière
Votes: 439
- aktuálfilm / attrakciós film -> dokumentarista film kialkulása (szemben a fikciós filmmel)
- egytekercses film
8. The Kiss (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Short, Romance
In a medium close-up shot of the first kiss ever recorded on screen, two fervent lovers cuddle and talk passionately at hair's breadth, just before the love-smitten gentleman decides to give his chosen one an innocent peck.
Director: William Heise | Stars: May Irwin, John C. Rice
Votes: 3,672
- Az emberek az ember arcának bűvöletében, mert olyan részleteket is megmutat a kamera, amit rajta kívül más művészeti forma nem tud olyan pontosan és látványosan visszaadni -> dokumentarista film kialkulása (szemben a fikciós filmmel)
- egytekercses film
9. The Arrival of a Train (1896)
Not Rated | 1 min | Documentary, Short
A train arrives at La Ciotat station.
Directors: Auguste Lumière, Louis Lumière | Stars: Madeleine Koehler, Marcel Koehler, Mrs. Auguste Lumiere, Jeanne-Joséphine Lumière
Votes: 12,867
- aktuálfilm / attrakciós film -> dokumentarista film kialkulása (szemben a fikciós filmmel)
10. A Photographic Contortion (1901)
1 min | Comedy, Short
A man, objecting to being filmed, comes closer and closer to the camera lens until his mouth is all we see. Then he opens wide and swallows camera and cinematographer. He steps back, chews, and grins.
Director: James Williamson | Star: Sam Dalton
Votes: 2,091
- korai attrakciós trükkfilm -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
11. Four Heads Are Better Than One (1898)
TV-PG | 1 min | Short, Comedy
Much to our amazement, an elegant and masterful illusionist detaches his own head effortlessly from his shoulders for a once-in-a-lifetime performance.
Director: Georges Méliès | Star: Georges Méliès
Votes: 4,015
- korai attrakciós / trükkfilm -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
12. A Trip to the Moon (1902)
TV-G | 13 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
Director: Georges Méliès | Stars: Georges Méliès, Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet
Votes: 55,756
- korai attrakciós trükkfilm -> fikciós film kialakulása (szemben a dokumentarista filmmel)
13. Life of an American Fireman (1903)
Not Rated | 6 min | Short, Action
A fireman rushes into a carriage to rescue a woman from a house fire. He breaks the windowpanes and carries the woman to safety; after dangerous and uncertain moments he also saves the woman's son.
Directors: George S. Fleming, Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Edwin S. Porter, Vivian Vaughan, Arthur White, James H. White
Votes: 2,706
- átmeneti időszak aktuál / attrakciós és narratív film között:
- Párhuzamos montázs (keresztvágás) egyik korai megjelenése attrakciós filmben
- építkező (párhuzamos) montázs: az elbeszélés elemei bizonyos logikai rend szerint, valós tér - és időfolyamatoknak megfelelően követik egymást
- osztott képernyő
- szovjetek tanulmányozzák Griffith munkáját
14. The Great Train Robbery (1903)
TV-G | 11 min | Short, Action, Adventure
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.
Director: Edwin S. Porter | Stars: Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes, Justus D. Barnes
Votes: 20,989
- átmeneti időszak aktuál / attrakciós és narratív film között
- a film végén elidegenítő hatás: a rabló kinéz a nézőre és rá is lő
15. The Runaway Match, or Marriage by Motor (1903)
4 min | Short, Drama
Mansion; father's car seen from lover's car; vice versa; church, ring; father arrives too late.
Director: Alf Collins
Votes: 51
- átmeneti időszak aktuál / attrakciós és narratív film között
- üldözős film
- építkező (párhuzamos) montázs: az elbeszélés elemei bizonyos logikai rend szerint, valós tér - és időfolyamatoknak megfelelően követik egymást
- korai kísérlet a film virtuális terének modellezésére
16. The Elopement (1907)
Short, Comedy, Drama
The gallant lover, whose proposal of marriage is accepted by his sweetheart, meets with a storm of disapproval from her father, on account of her youth. Tearful and disconsolate, they ... See full summary »
- átmeneti időszak aktuál / attrakciós és narratív film között
- üldözős film
17. The Lonely Villa (1909)
8 min | Short, Crime, Drama
A gang of thieves lure a man out of his home so that they can rob it and threaten his wife and children. The family barricade themselves in an interior room, but the criminals are ... See full summary »
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: David Miles, Marion Leonard, Mary Pickford, Gladys Egan
Votes: 1,092
- átmeneti időszak aktuál és narratív film között
- építkező (párhuzamos) montázs: az elbeszélés elemei bizonyos logikai rend szerint, valós tér - és időfolyamatoknak megfelelően követik egymást
- a nézőre gyakorlot hatékony drámai hatást az idő hosszának rövidítése vagy elnyújtásával lehet befolyásolni > ebből következik:
- a filmnek ritmusa van!
- szovjetek tanulmányozzák Griffith munkáját
18. Frankenstein (1910)
Unrated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
The first filmed version of Frankenstein. The young doctor discovers the secret of life, which he uses to create a perfect human. Things do not go according to plan.
Director: J. Searle Dawley | Stars: Mary Fuller, Charles Ogle, Augustus Phillips
Votes: 4,737
- korai narratív film
- a nemzetek nagy irodalmi műveiket kezdik el megfilmesíteni az 1910-es években
19. Dante's Inferno (1911)
71 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Loosely adapted from Dante's Divine Comedy and inspired by the illustrations of Gustav Doré the original silent film has been restored and has a new score by Tangerine Dream.
Directors: Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Stars: Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro, Pier Delle Vigne
Votes: 3,454
- korai narratív film
- a nemzetek nagy irodalmi műveiket kezdik el megfilmesíteni az 1910-es években
20. The Girl and Her Trust (1912)
17 min | Short, Drama, Thriller
Some tramps assault the telegraph office trying to rob $2000 delivered by train. The telegraphist girl, trying to help, telegraphs the next station and then the men are captured.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Alfred Paget, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 1,298
- átmeneti időszak aktuál és narratív film között:
- Párhuzamos montázs (keresztvágás) egyik korai megjelenése attrakciós filmben
- építkező (párhuzamos) montázs: az elbeszélés elemei bizonyos logikai rend szerint, valós tér - és időfolyamatoknak megfelelően követik egymást
- szovjetek tanulmányozzák Griffith munkáját
21. Suspense (1913)
Not Rated | 10 min | Short, Drama, Horror
Abandoned by her maidservant in an isolated country house, a mother must protect herself and her baby from an invading tramp while her husband races home in a stolen car to save them.
Directors: Phillips Smalley, Lois Weber | Stars: Lois Weber, Val Paul, Douglas Gerrard, Sam Kaufman
Votes: 2,184
- osztott képernyő
22. The Birth of a Nation (1915)
TV-PG | 195 min | Drama, History, War
The Stoneman family finds its friendship with the Camerons affected by the Civil War, both fighting in opposite armies. The development of the war in their lives plays through to Lincoln's assassination and the birth of the Ku Klux Klan.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Henry B. Walthall, Miriam Cooper
Votes: 26,337 | Gross: $10.00M
- korai narratív film
- Griffith használ keresztvágást, amit irodalmi hagyományból kölcsönöz
- Griffith a dráma miatt szabadítja fel a kamerát statikus helyzetéből:
- szovjetek tanulmányozzák Griffith munkáját
23. Intolerance (1916)
Passed | 163 min | Drama, History
The story of a poor young woman separated by prejudice from her husband and baby is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Robert Harron, Mae Marsh, F.A. Turner
Votes: 16,719 | Gross: $2.18M
- korai narratív film
- Peplum (ókori szín)
- szovjetek tanulmányozzák Griffith munkáját (Eizenstein átveszi a sztrájkot leverő jelenetet 2 filmjébe is: Sztrájk, Patyomkin páncélos)
24. Thais (II) (1917)
70 min | Short, Sci-Fi
A silent film about a women who seduces a married man which in turn leads to deadly consequences.
Director: Anton Giulio Bragaglia | Stars: Augusto Bandini, Alberto Casanova, Thaïs Galitzky, Ileana Leonidoff
Votes: 209
- futurista film
- kinesztézis
25. The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918)
Not Rated | 16 min | Animation, Short, Fantasy
In a dream Uncle Jack looks through a magic telescope owned by the ghost of a hermit and sees what life was like millions of years ago, including a battle between prehistoric monsters.
Director: Willis H. O'Brien | Stars: Alan V. Day, Chauncey A. Day, Herbert M. Dawley, Willis H. O'Brien
Votes: 366 | Gross: $0.10M
- Willis O'Brien stop-motion csodái a King Kong előtt
26. Proekt inzhenera Prayta (1918)
30 min | Short
A young and dynamic engineer, Mack Prite, whose talents have helped him rise above humble origins, struggles against an old entrenched capitalist whose oil company's profits are threatened ... See full summary »
Director: Lev Kuleshov | Stars: Boris Kuleshov, Leonid Polevoy, Eduard Kulganek, N. Gardi
Votes: 140
- erősen ideologizált
- erős amerikai melodráma (Griffith) hatás
- montázs: virtuális tér
- párhuzamos montázs
- Kuleshov teremti meg a filmes tér fogalmát
27. The Tantalizing Fly (1919)
4 min | Animation, Short, Comedy
As a cartoonist draws a clown, a housefly harasses both the man and his pen-and-ink creation.
Director: Max Fleischer | Stars: Roland Crandall, Max Fleischer
Votes: 372
- technikai áttörés: rotoszkóp feltalálása (Fleischer fivérek)
28. 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: 5,898 | Gross: $4.50M
- korai narratív film
29. 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: 70,047
- korai narratív film
- német expresszionizmus egyik ékköve
- hat rá az olasz futurizmus irányzat
30. Manhatta (1921)
Not Rated | 11 min | Documentary, Short
This groundbreaking silent documentary captures the beauty and majesty of the New York City in its streets, skyscrapers, bridges, rail yards and harbors.
Directors: Charles Sheeler, Paul Strand
Votes: 1,638
- lírai városfilm - Walt Witman verse inspirálta
- tone poem
31. 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: 14,083
- korai narratív film
32. The Great White Silence (1922)
80 min | Documentary
In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
Director: Herbert G. Ponting | Stars: Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting, Henry R. Bowers, Edgar Evans
Votes: 1,680
33. 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: 16,721
- korai ál-dokumentum film
34. 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: 105,414
- német expresszionizmus
35. Return to Reason (1923)
3 min | Short
Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, a light-striped torso, a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.
Director: Man Ray | Star: Kiki of Montparnasse
Votes: 2,202
- avantgárd film: dadaista
- tisztafilm (pure cinema): a vásznonra és az azon megjelenő formák, fény-árnyékok változására hívja fel a film a figyelmet
36. The Last Laugh (1924)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz
Votes: 15,203 | Gross: $0.09M
- korai szerzői filmes kinyialtkozás (F.W. Murnau): a film végi inzert
37. He Who Gets Slapped (1924)
95 min | Drama, Romance, Thriller
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King
Votes: 4,288 | Gross: $0.19M
- technikai kísérletezés: hang rögzítése részben sikerül
38. The Thief of Bagdad (1924)
Not Rated | 155 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher
Votes: 6,969 | Gross: $4.36M
- technikai áttörés:
39. Strike (1925)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
Director: Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Maksim Shtraukh, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Votes: 8,622
- attrakciós - strukturalista film: asszociatív montázs, képek ütköztetése
- Griffith hatás: Türelmetlenség (1916) > sztájkolók leverése
- párhizam montázs: film végi sztrájk leverése párhuzamban a vágóhídi marhák leölésével
40. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Not Rated | 143 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A Jewish prince seeks to find his family and revenge himself upon his childhood friend who had him wrongly imprisoned.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Charles Brabin, Christy Cabanne, J.J. Cohn, Rex Ingram | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson
Votes: 7,975 | Gross: $12.45M
- technikai áttörés: átalakulás - optikai trükk: vörös / zöld lencse cserélése, míg a színészen piros smink van
41. 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: 61,437 | Gross: $0.05M
- Szovjet avantgárd attrakciós - strukturalista film: montázs
- Griffith hatás (Türelmetlenség > sztájkoló jelenet) > Odessza lépcsősor jelenet
- Eizenstein montázs technikáinak kicsúcsosodása
- színházi örökség: 6 felvonás
42. The General (1926)
Passed | 78 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After being rejected by the Confederate military, not realizing it was due to his crucial civilian role, an engineer must single-handedly recapture his beloved locomotive after it is seized by Union spies and return it through enemy lines.
Directors: Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley
Votes: 98,127 | Gross: $1.03M
43. Filmstudie (1926)
Not Rated | 7 min | Short
Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.
Director: Hans Richter | Star: Stella F. Simon
Votes: 839
- avantgárd: szürrealista (?) film
- kinesztézis
- tisztafilm (fény -, árnyjáték)
44. 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: 53,839 | Gross: $0.54M
- Vorkapich szerint tudatosan használ dinamikus (kinesztetikus?) kamerát Murnau
45. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Star: Paul von Hindenburg
Votes: 4,794
- városfilm
- tone poem
46. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,068
- Pudovkin teremti meg a filmes idő fogalmát
- Pudovkin más felfogást vall Eizenstein asszociatív montázzsával (képek ütköztetése) szemben
- Filmszerű színészkedés tisztafilmes (vizuális) módon elérve: a (Kuleshov féle) asszociációs (láncolat) montázs segítségével jeleníti meg a rab örömét a börtönben
47. Napoleon (1927)
330 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky
Votes: 8,795
- Osztott panoráma képek
- osztott képernyő
48. 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: 185,499 | Gross: $1.24M
- a német expresszionizmus egyik ékköve
- technika: miniatűrök (Eugen Schüfftan)
- Bemutatáskor óriási bukás a film > az UFA filmstúdió csődbe megy
- futurista tematika: ember és gép kapcsolata
- Coruscant, THX 1138 utópisztikus világának és Tarkin nagy moff ihletője
49. Wings (1927)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 14,534 | Gross: $6.59M
50. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,446
- Szovjet avantgárd attrakciós - strukturalista film: montázs
- Eizenstein montázs technikáinak kicsúcsosodása > viszont a közönség nem tud mit kezdeni ezzel
51. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,858
- Pudovkin asszociációs montázsa nem sikerül a lovasszoborral - túl zavaros, mert több mentális képzet is megjelenhet a nézőben
52. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,072 | Gross: $7.63M
- attrakciós film: első hangosfilm
- a hollywoodi aranykor kezdete
53. The Last Command (1928)
Not Rated | 88 min | Drama, History, Romance
A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Votes: 4,517
- önrelfexív posztmodern film
54. The Man Who Laughs (1928)
Not Rated | 110 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar, Olga Baclanova
Votes: 8,069
- az antiszemitizmus miatt a német expresszionizmus Amerikába megy
55. The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra (1928)
Not Rated | 11 min | Short, Drama, Horror
A wannabe movie star experiences the surreal horrors of dehumanization at the bottom of Hollywood's social ladder as his hopes for success vanish and his identity is reduced to a number.
Directors: Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich | Stars: Jules Raucourt, Voya George, Robert Florey, Adriane Marsh
Votes: 1,426
- Slavko Vorkapich expresszionista montázsfilmje a hollywoodi stúdiórendszer embertelenségéről
56. 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: 11,853 | Gross: $0.01M
57. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,981
- Avantgárd futurista és strukturalista szovjet dokumentum / montázsfilm, ami (jelentősen) külső beavatkozástól mentesen készült:
- az olasz realizmus és a későbbi cinema direct / verité elődje
- színházi örökség: 6 felvonás struktúra
- asszociatív montázs
- építkező montázs: metrikus montázs
- posztmodern film: film a filmről szól
- futurista film - mozgás és futurista tematika: ember és gép kapcsolata
- technikai újítások:
- tone poem?
58. Un chien andalou (1929)
Not Rated | 16 min | Short, Fantasy, Horror
Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
Director: Luis Buñuel | Stars: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Pancho Cossío
Votes: 53,796
- szürrealista film
59. All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
Passed | 152 min | Drama, War
A German youth eagerly enters World War I, but his enthusiasm wanes as he gets a firsthand view of the horror.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim, John Wray, Arnold Lucy
Votes: 67,677 | Gross: $3.27M
60. M (1931)
Passed | 99 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
When the police in a German city are unable to catch a child-murderer, other criminals join in the manhunt.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Peter Lorre, Ellen Widmann, Inge Landgut, Otto Wernicke
Votes: 168,440 | Gross: $0.03M
- német expresszionizmus
- párhuzamos montázs (keresztvágás), amikor keresik Peter Lorre-t a rendőrség és a maffia is egyszerre
61. Dracula (1931)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Transylvanian vampire Count Dracula bends a naive real estate agent to his will, then takes up residence at a London estate where he sleeps in his coffin by day and searches for potential victims by night.
Directors: Tod Browning, Karl Freund | Stars: Bela Lugosi, Helen Chandler, David Manners, Dwight Frye
Votes: 58,626
- A szörnyfilmekre specializálódott Universal stúdió egyik meghatározó alkotása
- az antiszemitizmus miatt a német expresszionizmus Amerikába megy
- sikere arra ösztönözte a stúdiót, hogy még abban az évben leforgasság a Frankensteint
- Lugosi Béla életének alakítása, mint Drakula gróf
- ekkoriban a horror fő irányvonala a szörnyfilmek
62. Frankenstein (1931)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr Henry Frankenstein is obsessed with assembling a living being from parts of several exhumed corpses.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Colin Clive, Mae Clarke, Boris Karloff, John Boles
Votes: 79,698
- az antiszemitizmus miatt a német expresszionizmus Amerikába megy
- Boris Karloff felejthetetlen szerepe, ami sztárrá tette őt
- Jack Pierce ikonikus maszkja
- a film elején elidegenítő hatás (?): Edward Van Sloan kiszól a nézőkhöz ("It may even horrify you") > innentől kezdődik az illúziórealizmus
- a szörnyet játszó Karlofot kérdőjellel jelölik a film elején> illúziórealizmus
- Darth Vader operációjának az ihletője
63. The Public Enemy (1931)
Passed | 83 min | Crime, Drama
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell
Votes: 23,015 | Gross: $1.01M
- gengszterfilm (Warner Bros.)
64. Little Caesar (1931)
Not Rated | 79 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A small-time criminal moves to a big city to seek bigger fortune.
Director: Mervyn LeRoy | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell, William Collier Jr.
Votes: 14,524
- gengszterfilm (Warner Bros.)
- Edward G. Robinson alakítása felejthetetlen
65. Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
TV-PG | 86 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Anne Chevalier, Matahi, Hitu, Bill Bambridge
Votes: 6,382
- Kolonizáció kritika
66. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
Passed | 98 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
Dr. Jekyll faces horrible consequences when he lets his dark side run wild with a potion that transforms him into the animalistic Mr. Hyde.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Fredric March, Miriam Hopkins, Rose Hobart, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 15,807 | Gross: $2.79M
- technikai áttörés: átalakulás - optikai trükk: vörös / zöld lencse cserélése, míg a színészen piros smink van
67. The Mummy (1932)
Approved | 73 min | Fantasy, Horror
A resurrected Egyptian mummy searches Cairo for the girl he believes to be his long-lost princess.
Director: Karl Freund | Stars: Boris Karloff, Zita Johann, David Manners, Arthur Byron
Votes: 30,128
- a múmia (Boris Karloff) többezer éves megjelenését szintén Jack Pierce-nek köszönheti
68. The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932)
G | 68 min | Adventure, Horror, Sci-Fi
Englishmen race to find the tomb of Genghis Khan before the sinister Fu Manchu does.
Directors: Charles Brabin, Charles Vidor | Stars: Boris Karloff, Lewis Stone, Karen Morley, Charles Starrett
Votes: 3,714 | Gross: $0.82M
- tipikus kalandfilm, amiből a Star Wars és az Indiana Jones is táplálkozik
69. Scarface (1932)
PG | 93 min | Action, Crime, Drama
An ambitious and nearly insane violent gangster climbs the ladder of success in the mob, but his weaknesses prove to be his downfall.
Directors: Howard Hawks, Richard Rosson | Stars: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley, Osgood Perkins
Votes: 30,309
- gengszterfilm (Warner Bros.)
70. 42nd Street (1933)
Passed | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Musical
When the leading lady of a Broadway musical breaks her ankle, she is replaced by a young unknown actress, who becomes the star of the show.
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Warner Baxter, Bebe Daniels, George Brent, Ruby Keeler
Votes: 13,036 | Gross: $2.30M
- korai musical
71. King Kong (1933)
Passed | 100 min | Adventure, Horror
A film crew goes to a tropical island for a location shoot, where they capture a colossal ape who takes a shine to their blonde starlet, and bring him back to New York City.
Directors: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Stars: Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher
Votes: 90,949 | Gross: $10.00M
- A blockbusterök protoípusa (a kor Star Wars-a)
- technikai áttörés: stop motion (Willis O'Brien), mat festés, animált takarólapok (Linwood G. Dunn)
- egész film alatt szóló és expresszív zenei hangsáv
- rengeteg mindent köszönhetünk a King Kongnak!
72. The Invisible Man (1933)
TV-PG | 71 min | Horror, Sci-Fi
A scientist finds a way of becoming invisible, but in doing so, he becomes murderously insane.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Claude Rains, Gloria Stuart, William Harrigan, Henry Travers
Votes: 39,931
- technikai áttörés: fekete háttér és báb a láthatatlan ember szimulálásához
73. It Happened One Night (1934)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Romance
A rogue reporter trailing a runaway heiress for a big story joins her on a bus heading from Florida to New York and they end up stuck with each other when the bus leaves them behind at one of the stops along the way.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly, Roscoe Karns
Votes: 112,251 | Gross: $4.36M
- Screwball vígjáték
74. Crime Without Passion (1934)
Approved | 70 min | Crime, Drama
Prominent lawyer shoots unfaithful girlfriend during quarrel, has to establish alibi.
Directors: Lee Garmes, Ben Hecht, Charles MacArthur | Stars: Claude Rains, Margo, Whitney Bourne, Stanley Ridges
Votes: 598
- A Crime Without Passion tömegfilmhez készült avantgárd montázst Slavko Vorkapich készítette
- Amerikai (hollywoodi) tömegfilmben avantgárd filmes betét
75. The 39 Steps (1935)
Approved | 86 min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller
A man in London tries to help a counter-espionage agent, but when the agent is killed and the man stands accused, he must go on the run to save himself and stop a spy ring that is trying to steal top-secret information.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim, Godfrey Tearle
Votes: 61,530
- Alfred Hitchcock látszik, hogy ismeri a szovjet montázsspecialisták munkásságát:
- narratív filmben attrakciós - strukturalista betét: párhuzamoság vágás (Pudovkin)
76. Werewolf of London (1935)
Passed | 75 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
After botanist Wilfred Glendon travels to Tibet in search of a rare flower, the Mariphasa, he returns to a London haunted by murders that can only be the work of bloodthirsty werewolves.
Director: Stuart Walker | Stars: Henry Hull, Warner Oland, Valerie Hobson, Lester Matthews
Votes: 6,502
- technikai áttörés: Jack Pierce farkasember maszkja
77. Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Not Rated | 75 min | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Mary Shelley reveals the main characters of her novel survived: Baron Henry Frankenstein, goaded by an even madder scientist, builds his monster a mate.
Director: James Whale | Stars: Boris Karloff, Elsa Lanchester, Colin Clive, Valerie Hobson
Votes: 53,246 | Gross: $4.36M
- techikai áttörés: miniatűrizált emberek
78. Triumph of the Will (1935)
Not Rated | 110 min | Documentary, History
The infamous propaganda film of the 1934 Nazi Party rally in Nuremberg, Germany.
Director: Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Max Amann, Martin Bormann
Votes: 18,319
- Vorkapich szerint cinematic
79. Sabotage (1936)
Not Rated | 76 min | Crime, Thriller
A Scotland Yard undercover detective is on the trail of a saboteur who is part of a plot to set off a bomb in London. But when the detective's cover is blown, the plot begins to unravel.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Sylvia Sidney, Oscar Homolka, Desmond Tester, John Loder
Votes: 18,737
- párhuzamos montázs a suspense szolgálatában
80. San Francisco (1936)
Passed | 115 min | Drama, Music, Romance
A Barbary Coast saloonkeeper and a Nob Hill impresario are rivals for the affections of a beautiful singer, both personally and professionally, in 1906 San Francisco.
Director: W.S. Van Dyke | Stars: Clark Gable, Jeanette MacDonald, Spencer Tracy, Jack Holt
Votes: 6,103
- Amerikai (hollywoodi) tömegfilmben avantgárd filmes betét (Vorkapich)
81. Lost Horizon (1937)
Approved | 132 min | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
When a revered diplomat's plane is diverted and crashes in the peaks of Tibet, he and the other survivors are guided to an isolated monastery at Shangri-La, where they wrestle with the invitation to stay.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Ronald Colman, Jane Wyatt, Edward Everett Horton, John Howard
Votes: 14,452
- Yoda halálának ihletője
82. Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
Passed | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A priest tries to stop a gangster from corrupting a group of street kids.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan
Votes: 23,197
83. Alexander Nevsky (1938)
Not Rated | 112 min | Action, Biography, Drama
The story of how a great Russian prince led a ragtag army to battle an invading force of Teutonic Knights.
Directors: Sergei Eisenstein, Dmitriy Vasilev | Stars: Nikolay Cherkasov, Nikolai Okhlopkov, Andrei Abrikosov, Dmitriy Orlov
Votes: 12,262
84. The Wizard of Oz (1939)
PG | 102 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Young Dorothy Gale and her dog Toto are swept away by a tornado from their Kansas farm to the magical Land of Oz, and embark on a quest with three new friends to see the Wizard, who can return her to her home and fulfill the others' wishes.
Directors: Victor Fleming, King Vidor | Stars: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr
Votes: 428,575 | Gross: $2.08M
- technikai áttörés:
85. Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Passed | 129 min | Comedy, Drama
A naive youth leader is appointed to fill a vacancy in the U.S. Senate. His idealistic plans promptly collide with corruption at home and subterfuge from his hero in Washington, but he tries to forge ahead despite attacks on his character.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains, Edward Arnold
Votes: 121,374 | Gross: $9.60M
- a montázst és speciális effekteket Slavko Vorkapich készítette
86. Stagecoach (1939)
Passed | 96 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A group of people traveling on a stagecoach find their journey complicated by the threat of Geronimo and learn something about each other in the process.
Director: John Ford | Stars: John Wayne, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine
Votes: 53,754
87. Gone with the Wind (1939)
Passed | 238 min | Drama, Romance, War
A sheltered and manipulative Southern belle and a roguish profiteer face off in a turbulent romance as the society around them crumbles with the end of slavery and is rebuilt during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor, Sam Wood | Stars: Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Thomas Mitchell, Barbara O'Neil
Votes: 334,239 | Gross: $198.68M
- a (nyugati) világ legtöbb bevételt hozó filmje > bluckbuster prototípus
- A birodalom visszavág poszterének ihletője
88. The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Not Rated | 106 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
After being tricked and cast out of Bagdad by the evil Jaffar, King Ahmad joins forces with a thief named Abu to reclaim his throne, the city, and the Princess he loves.
Directors: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan, Alexander Korda, Zoltan Korda, William Cameron Menzies | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin
Votes: 14,496 | Gross: $0.27M
- technikai áttörés: első színes film kék-háttér effekttel
89. Rebecca (1940)
Approved | 130 min | Drama, Mystery, Romance
A self-conscious woman juggles adjusting to her new role as an aristocrat's wife and avoiding being intimidated by his first wife's spectral presence.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, George Sanders, Judith Anderson
Votes: 146,694 | Gross: $4.36M
90. The Great Dictator (1940)
G | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, War
Dictator Adenoid Hynkel tries to expand his empire while a poor Jewish barber tries to avoid persecution from Hynkel's regime.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner
Votes: 237,321 | Gross: $0.29M
- második világháborús film
91. High Sierra (1940)
Passed | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
After being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis, Arthur Kennedy
Votes: 19,234
92. Abstract Experiment in Kodachrome (1940)
3 min | Animation, Short
Director: Slavko Vorkapich
Votes: 55
- Kinesztézis
- tisztafilm (nincs értelmezési kényszer)
93. Citizen Kane (1941)
PG | 119 min | Drama, Mystery
Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
Director: Orson Welles | Stars: Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Dorothy Comingore, Agnes Moorehead
Votes: 465,909 | Gross: $1.59M
- formanyelvi elemek tudatos és újító szintetizálása
- narratív filmben attrakciós betét - strukturalista film: idősűrítő építkező montázs
- technikai áttörés: korabeli matt festés, miniatűrök
94. The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Passed | 100 min | Crime, Film-Noir, Mystery
San Francisco private detective Sam Spade takes on a case that involves him with three eccentric criminals, a gorgeous liar and their quest for a priceless statuette, with the stakes rising after his partner is murdered.
Director: John Huston | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George, Peter Lorre
Votes: 166,557 | Gross: $2.11M
- Ezeréves sólyom
95. Superman: The Mad Scientist (1941)
G | 10 min | Animation, Short, Action
The Man of Steel fights a mad scientist who is destroying Metropolis with an energy cannon.
Directors: Dave Fleischer, Steve Muffati | Stars: Bud Collyer, Joan Alexander, Jackson Beck, Jack Mercer
Votes: 3,505
- technikai áttörés: rotoszkóp (Fleischer fivérek)
96. The Wolf Man (1941)
Passed | 70 min | Horror, Mystery, Romance
Larry Talbot returns to his father's castle in Wales and meets a beautiful woman. One fateful night, Talbot escorts her to a local carnival where they meet a mysterious gypsy fortune teller.
Director: George Waggner | Stars: Claude Rains, Warren William, Lon Chaney Jr., Ralph Bellamy
Votes: 30,700
- technikai áttörés: Jack Pierce maszkja
97. Casablanca (1942)
PG | 102 min | Drama, Romance, War
A cynical expatriate American cafe owner struggles to decide whether or not to help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape the Nazis in French Morocco.
Director: Michael Curtiz | Stars: Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Votes: 605,926 | Gross: $1.02M
- második világháborús propaganda film
- a film eleji montázst Don Siegel montázsspecialista készítette, aki szabad kezet kapott a munkájában
- Siegel montázsai a rendező elképzeléseihez illeszkednek, valamint stílusosabbak és nem trehányak, mint előtte más összefércelt montázsok
- Mos Eisley Cantina = Rick bárja
- Rick = Han Solo
98. Moods of the Sea (1942)
Unrated | 10 min | Short, Musical
A recently unearthed experimental documentary of the crashing sea set to Mendelssohn's "Fingal's Cave." An example of the filmmakers' "new cinema" theory which held that film should be more... See full summary »
Directors: John Hoffman, Slavko Vorkapich
Votes: 270
- strukturalista film
- tisztafilm (pure cinema)
- Slavko Vorkapich kinesztetikus avantgárd filmverse (tone poem): a filmnek olyannak kell lennie, mint a zenének. A képeknek ritmusa kell, hogy legyen
- George Lucasra hat Vorkapich vizuálisan dinamikus stílusa
99. Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Passed | 74 min | Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
The resurrected Wolf Man, seeking a cure for his malady, enlists the aid of a mad scientist, who claims he will not only rid the Wolf Man of his nocturnal metamorphosis, but also revive the frozen body of Frankenstein's inhuman creation.
Director: Roy William Neill | Stars: Lon Chaney Jr., Ilona Massey, Patric Knowles, Lionel Atwill
Votes: 9,957
- korai filmes univerzum építés (Universal stúdió)
100. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Not Rated | 14 min | Short, Fantasy, Mystery
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Directors: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid | Stars: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid
Votes: 15,201
- első amerikai avantgárd filmek egyike
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