Crate Digger Film Canon: All Films of the 20s
by DonRaoul | created - 18 Feb 2021 | updated - 25 Jan 2022 | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. Algol: Tragedy of Power (1920)
99 min | Fantasy, Sci-Fi
An alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
Director: Hans Werckmeister | Stars: Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hanna Ralph
Votes: 273
*Algol
2. 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: 788
*Anna Boleyn
3. April Folly (1920)
50 min | Drama, Crime
Novelist April Poole reads her new book to Kerry Sarle, her publisher and sweetheart, and to Ronald Kenna, her editor. The story begins at a masked ball, where April meets Kerry and ... See full summary »
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Conway Tearle, J. Herbert Frank, Spencer Charters
Votes: 173
4. 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: 70,070
5. Convict 13 (1920)
Not Rated | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Crime
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Votes: 3,558
6. The Copperhead (1920)
Passed | 70 min | Drama
Milt Shanks lives a shamed life, hated by his neighbors for having been a traitor to the North in the American Civil War. But Shanks carries with him a secret, one he promised Abraham Lincoln to tell no one.
Director: Charles Maigne | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, William P. Carleton, Francis Joyner, Richard Carlyle
Votes: 32
7. 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
8. Drag Harlan (1920)
Not Rated | 64 min | Action, Romance, Western
William Farnum is Drag Harlan, a tough cowboy vigilante. After learning about a gold mine from a dying man, he seeks his daughter (Jackie Saunders) as well as the gold. He falls in love ... See full summary »
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Jackie Saunders, Arthur Millett, G. Raymond Nye
Votes: 20
9. 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: 1,047
10. Excuse My Dust (1920)
50 min | Comedy, Drama
A top race-car driver leaves the sport to get married and settle down, because his new wife doesn't want him to race anymore. However, not long afterwards his wife takes their infant son ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Wallace Reid, Wallace Reid Jr., Ann Little, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 72
11. The Flapper (1920)
88 min | Comedy, Romance
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: 430
12. 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
13. 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
14. The Golem (1920)
Unrated | 91 min | Fantasy, Horror
In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
Directors: Paul Wegener, Carl Boese | Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova
Votes: 8,543
15. 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: 114
16. Humoresque (1920)
60 min | Drama, Music, War
The matriarch of a poor Jewish family nurtures her talented son's dream of being a great violinist, but as an adult, global events call for him to postpone his dream.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Gaston Glass, Vera Gordon, Alma Rubens, Dore Davidson
Votes: 226
17. If I Were King (1920)
Passed | 80 min | Drama
The famed poet and vagabond rogue François Villon is by odd circumstances given the opportunity to rule France for a week. Adventure and intrigue ensue.
Director: J. Gordon Edwards | Stars: William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke, Fritz Leiber, Walter Law
Votes: 19
18. The Jack-Knife Man (1920)
Approved | 60 min | Drama
A lonely old riverboat man is left a child by a dying mother. The old man and the boy grow to love each other. The village snoop feels that the boy would be better off in an orphanage, and the sheriff is sent to try to take him away.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: F.A. Turner, Harry Todd, Bobby Kelso, Willis Marks
Votes: 193
19. Kohlhiesel's Daughters (1920)
64 min | Comedy, Romance
In Southern Bavaria, Xaver wants to marry Gretel, but her father Kohlhiesel insists his elder daughter Liesel marry first. Liesel is shunned as too brutal. Seppel suggests marrying Liesel first, ridding her, then wedding Gretel.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Jakob Tiedtke, Gustav von Wangenheim
Votes: 404
20. The Last of the Mohicans (1920)
Not Rated | 73 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
In the midst of the French and Indian War, the eldest daughter of a British officer develops an attraction towards an Indian ally who is the last living warrior of his tribe, the Mohicans.
Directors: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur | Stars: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall
Votes: 1,443
21. 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
22. The Love Flower (1920)
Not Rated | 95 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: 185
23. The Lure of Crooning Water (1920)
105 min | Romance
A London actress collapses on stage and is sent by her doctor to stay in the country with a farmer and his wife. But when she starts an affair with the farmer, the idyllic life at "Crooning Water" is threatened with tragedy.
Director: Arthur Rooke | Stars: Guy Newall, Ivy Duke, Hugh Buckler, Douglas Munro
Votes: 56
24. 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, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes
Votes: 2,785
25. The Mollycoddle (1920)
Not Rated | 86 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns
Votes: 214
26. Klostret i Sendomir (1920)
54 min | Drama
Two weary travelers come upon a monastery. While staying the night, they learn of its mysterious founding.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Tore Svennberg, Tora Teje, Richard Lund, Renée Björling
Votes: 476
*Monastery of Sendomir
27. Neighbors (1920)
18 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
A young couple who live next to each other in tenement apartments do everything they can to be together despite of their feuding families.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jack Duffy, The Flying Escalantes
Votes: 4,686
28. Nomads of the North (1920)
109 min | Drama
A Canadian Mountie allows an innocent fugitive to escape with the women he loves.
Director: David Hartford | Stars: Lon Chaney, Lewis Stone, Melbourne MacDowell, Spottiswoode Aitken
Votes: 293
29. 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: 822
*One Arabian Night
30. One Week (1920)
TV-G | 25 min | Short, Comedy
A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Votes: 9,238
31. 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: 741
32. Over the Hill to the Poorhouse (1920)
Passed | 110 min | Drama, Crime
The mother of a large family is abandoned by her children and faces consignment to the poorhouse. But one of her offspring, the one no one had faith in, returns to rescue her.
Director: Harry F. Millarde | Stars: Mary Carr, William Welsh, James Sheridan, Noel Tearle
Votes: 26 | Gross: $3.00M
33. 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
34. The Penalty (1920)
Passed | 90 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney
Votes: 2,632
35. 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: 510
36. The Prince and the Pauper (1920)
75 min | Drama
A poor boy named Tom Canty and Edward, the Prince of Wales exchange identities but events force the pair to experience each other's lives as well.
Director: Alexander Korda | Stars: Tibor Lubinszky, Alfred Schreiber, Adolf Weisse, Franz Herterich
Votes: 23
37. The Restless Sex (1920)
85 min | Drama
A young woman is torn between two men: her childhood sweetheart and a handsome art student.
Directors: Leon D'Usseau, Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, Ralph Kellard, Carlyle Blackwell, Charles Lane
Votes: 196
38. Romeo and Juliet in the Snow (1920)
45 min | Comedy
Comical variation on the Shakespeare play, featuring two feuding farmers families.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Lotte Neumann, Julius Falkenstein, Gustav von Wangenheim, Jakob Tiedtke
Votes: 235
39. 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: 206
40. The Saphead (1920)
Not Rated | 77 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
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: 1,762
41. The Scarecrow (1920)
Not Rated | 19 min | Comedy, Short, Family
Two inventive farmhands compete for the hand of the same girl.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Luke the Dog, Joe Keaton
Votes: 4,745
42. 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: 346
43. Something New (1920)
Unrated | 57 min | Adventure, Drama, Western
A young woman visiting Mexico is kidnapped by a gang of bandits who drag her through the rugged wilderness to their hideout. She manages to leave word for her friend Bill, who knows the ... See full summary »
Directors: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle | Stars: Nell Shipman, Bert Van Tuyle, L.M. Wells, Merrill McCormick
Votes: 361
44. Something to Think About (1920)
78 min | Drama
Wealthy cripple Markley finances the education of blacksmith's daughter Ruth. When she returns to their small town he asks to marry her, but she runs off with city worker Jim Dirk who is ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Monte Blue, Theodore Roberts
Votes: 658 | Gross: $9.16M
45. 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, doesn't know of its existence....
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Georg John, Rudolf Lettinger
Votes: 1,090
46. Stolen Moments (1920)
TV-G | 60 min | Drama, Romance
A novelist blackmails his now married ex-girlfriend into having an affair with him.
Director: James Vincent | Stars: Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Votes: 230
47. Suds (1920)
75 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A London laundress attempts to rise above her station in order to capture the love of a wealthy young man, thus missing out on the truer love of one of her own class.
Director: John Francis Dillon | Stars: Mary Pickford, Albert Austin, Harold Goodwin, Rose Dione
Votes: 290
48. The Symbol of the Unconquered (1920)
TV-PG | 54 min | Drama, Romance
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: 572
49. 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: 584
50. 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: 5,899 | Gross: $4.50M
51. 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: 1,496
52. 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: 3,630
53. The Ace of Hearts (1921)
Passed | 75 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A romantic rivalry among members of a secret society becomes even tenser when one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination.
Director: Wallace Worsley | Stars: Leatrice Joy, John Bowers, Lon Chaney, Hardee Kirkland
Votes: 1,327
54. Adventures of Tarzan (1921)
Passed | 73 min | Action, Adventure
When Jane is abducted by Arab slave traders, Tarzan comes to her rescue, only to see her kidnapped again by Queen La of Opar. To save Jane, Tarzan must battle both the queen's minions and William Clayton, who seeks Tarzan's family title.
Directors: Robert F. Hill, Scott Sidney | Stars: Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine, Scott Pembroke, Frank Whitson
Votes: 170
55. The Affairs of Anatol (1921)
Unrated | 117 min | Comedy, Drama
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation than he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment and she two-times him; he comforts near-suicidal Annie and she robs him.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Elliott Dexter, Bebe Daniels
Votes: 1,358
56. Among Those Present (1921)
Passed | 34 min | Comedy, Short
An ambitious coat-room checker impersonates an English nobleman.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Aggie Herring, James T. Kelley
Votes: 833
57. Appearances (1921)
50 min | Drama
A Lord gives his beloved a blank cheque and her husband fills it in for £500.
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: David Powell, Mary Glynne, Langhorn Burton, Mary Dibley
Votes: 41
58. Hintertreppe (1921)
50 min | Drama
A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods. She, however, is in love with a wealthy, handsome young man. ... See full summary »
Directors: Leopold Jessner, Paul Leni | Stars: Henny Porten, Fritz Kortner, William Dieterle, Eugene Dieterle
Votes: 308
*Backstairs
59. Be My Wife (1921)
Not Rated | 55 min | Comedy
Max is determined to woo Mary, despite her Aunt Agatha's disapproval.
Director: Max Linder | Stars: Max Linder, Alta Allen, Caroline Rankin, Lincoln Stedman
Votes: 472
60. The Blot (1921)
Passed | 91 min | Drama, Romance
The Professor dispenses the wisdom of the ages and does not make a living wage. The sons of the rich and powerful are students lacking any motivation. The next door neighbor of the ... See full summary »
Director: Lois Weber | Stars: Philip Hubbard, Margaret McWade, Claire Windsor, Louis Calhern
Votes: 698
61. The Boat (1921)
Not Rated | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Family
Buster and his family go on a voyage on his homemade boat that proves to be one disaster after another.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Sybil Seely
Votes: 3,640
62. The Bonnie Brier Bush (1921)
50 min | Drama
A Lord's son is engaged to his rich ward, but prefers a peasant.
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: Donald Crisp, Mary Glynne, Alec Fraser, Dorothy Fane
Votes: 43
63. Buried Treasure (1921)
Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Romance
Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.
Director: George D. Baker | Stars: Marion Davies, Norman Kerry, Anders Randolf, Edith Shayne
Votes: 197
64. Camille (1921)
Passed | 72 min | Drama, Romance
A courtesan and an idealistic young man fall in love, only for her to give up the relationship at his status-conscious father's request.
Director: Ray C. Smallwood | Stars: Alla Nazimova, Rudolph Valentino, Rex Cherryman, Arthur Hoyt
Votes: 1,066
65. The Conquering Power (1921)
TV-G | 89 min | Drama, Romance
After losing his father, a playboy moves in with his miserly uncle, who seeks to cheat him out of his inheritance.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Alice Terry, Rudolph Valentino, Eric Mayne, Ralph Lewis
Votes: 539
66. Destiny (1921)
Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
When a woman's fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Hans Sternberg
Votes: 6,692 | Gross: $0.01M
67. Dream Street (1921)
Passed | 102 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Carol Dempster, Ralph Graves, Charles Emmett Mack, Edward Peil Sr.
Votes: 211
68. Eldorado (1921)
100 min | Drama
Sibilla is a single mother, working as a gypsy dancer in a lousy cafe in the south of Spain. Unable to keep with the costs of his son's medical bills, she asks for help to Estiria, her ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Ève Francis, Jaque Catelain, Marcelle Pradot, Philippe Hériat
Votes: 493
69. Enchantment (1921)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme.
Director: Robert G. Vignola | Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Edith Shayne, Tom Lewis
Votes: 319
70. Fool's Paradise (1921)
90 min | Romance
In a Mexican border town Arthur befriends cantina girl Poll. She falls for him but he still loves the dancer Rosa. When the cigar Poll gives him explodes and blinds him, Arthur is duped ... See full summary »
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: Dorothy Dalton, Conrad Nagel, Mildred Harris, Theodore Kosloff
Votes: 85
71. Four Around the Woman (1921)
Not Rated | 52 min | Drama
Harry Yquem, a wealthy broker, remains obsessed with delusions of his devout wife's infidelity.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Hermann Böttcher, Carola Toelle, Lilli Lohrer, Ludwig Hartau
Votes: 590
*Four Around a Woman
72. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921)
Passed | 150 min | Drama, Romance, War
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Director: Rex Ingram | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard
Votes: 3,549 | Gross: $9.20M
73. The Goat (1921)
Not Rated | 23 min | Comedy, Short
A series of adventures begins when an accident during photographing causes Buster to be mistaken for Dead Shot Dan, the local bad guy.
Directors: Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Malcolm St. Clair
Votes: 4,953
74. Hail the Woman (1921)
80 min | Drama
Oliver Beresford is a stern, Puritanical, uncompromisingly rigid father. When shameful stories about his daughter Judith surface, he instantly bans her from his home rather than determine ... See full summary »
Director: John Griffith Wray | Stars: Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire
Votes: 55
75. Hamlet (1921)
131 min | Drama
Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's ... See full summary »
Directors: Svend Gade, Heinz Schall | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt, Eduard von Winterstein
Votes: 521
76. Hard Luck (1921)
22 min | Short, Comedy
Strange things ensue after a young man attempts to take his own life.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Bull Montana
Votes: 2,634
77. The Haunted Castle (1921)
Not Rated | 69 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
In the castle Vogeloed, a few aristocrats are awaiting baroness Safferstätt. But first count Oetsch invites himself.. Everyone thinks he murdered his brother, baroness Safferstat's first ... See full summary »
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Arnold Korff, Lulu Kyser-Korff, Lothar Mehnert, Paul Hartmann
Votes: 2,064
78. The Haunted House (1921)
Unrated | 21 min | Short, Comedy, Horror
A bank clerk ends up in a seemingly haunted house that is actually a thieves' hideout.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline
Votes: 3,651
79. Headin' Home (1920)
Not Rated | 71 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
The "true story" of baseball great Babe Ruth; Ruth plays himself.
Director: Lawrence C. Windom | Stars: Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon
Votes: 334
80. The 'High Sign' (1921)
Not Rated | 20 min | Short, Action, Comedy
A drifter at an amusement park finds himself both the bodyguard and hit man of a man targeted by a criminal gang.
Directors: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Bartine Burkett, Charles Dorety, Ingram B. Pickett
Votes: 3,568
81. The Idle Class (1921)
TV-G | 32 min | Short, Comedy
A tramp sneaks into a upper class golf resort. The tramp meets a rich woman who is having an argument with her drunken husband. Complications arise when she mistakes the tramp for her husband.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Charles Aber, Joe Anderson
Votes: 4,162
82. Jánosík (1921)
68 min | History
The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.
Director: Jaroslav Siakel | Stars: Theodor Pistek, Karel Schleichert, Maria Fabryova, Miloslav Schmidt
Votes: 107
83. Johan (1921)
84 min | Drama
On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.
Director: Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Jenny Hasselqvist, Mathias Taube, Hildegard Harring, Urho Somersalmi
Votes: 276
84. Journey into the Night (1921)
81 min | Drama
Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. At Hélène's birthday celebration, Eigil invites her to a cabaret, where he meets his other love, Lily, a passionate, fiery and funny dancer.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Erna Morena, Conrad Veidt, Gudrun Bruun Stephensen
Votes: 499
85. The Kid (1921)
Passed | 68 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put their relationship in jeopardy.
Director: Charles Chaplin | Stars: Charles Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Carl Miller
Votes: 134,853 | Gross: $5.45M
86. Little Lord Fauntleroy (1921)
Passed | 112 min | Drama
An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.
Directors: Alfred E. Green, Jack Pickford | Stars: Mary Pickford, Claude Gillingwater, Joseph J. Dowling, James A. Marcus
Votes: 370 | Gross: $0.90M
87. The Lost Romance (1921)
70 min | Drama
Dr. Allen Erskine's maiden aunt Elizabeth attempts to save her nephew's floundering marriage by staging the kidnaping of her nephew's son, in the hope that the married couple will be drawn closer together by the experience.
Director: William C. de Mille | Stars: Jack Holt, Lois Wilson, Fontaine La Rue, Conrad Nagel
88. The Love Light (1921)
Unrated | 89 min | Drama
Angela maintains a coastal lighthouse in Italy, where she awaits the return of her brothers from the war. She learns they are casualties and takes solace in the arms of an American sailor washed ashore
Director: Frances Marion | Stars: Mary Pickford, Evelyn Dumo, Fred Thomson, Eddie Phillips
Votes: 412 | Gross: $0.69M
89. Love Never Dies (1921)
64 min | Drama
John and Tilly's happy marriage is ruined when Tilly's father finds out about the scandalous past of John's mother. John, unaware of his father-in-law's meddling, thinks Tilly has left him,... See full summary »
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton
Votes: 128
90. The Lucky Dog (1921)
17 min | Comedy, Short
In their first screen appearance together, Stan plays a penniless dog lover and Oliver plays a crook who tries to rob him and his new paramour.
Director: Jess Robbins | Stars: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert, Jack Lloyd
Votes: 850
91. Missing Husbands (1921)
Not Rated | 172 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery
Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe, Stacia Napierkowska
Votes: 426
92. 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
93. My Boy (1921)
55 min | Comedy, Drama
An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.
Directors: Albert Austin, Victor Heerman | Stars: Mathilde Brundage, Claude Gillingwater, Jackie Coogan, Frank Hayes
Votes: 304
94. Mysteries of India, Part I: Truth (1921)
120 min | Adventure, Fantasy
The unfaithful wife of a cruel Indian prince attempts to escape from his domination.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 392
95. Mysteries of India, Part II: Above All Law (1921)
100 min | Adventure, Fantasy
Irene saves Herbert and the two help Princess Savitri flee the palace.
Director: Joe May | Stars: Olaf Fønss, Mia May, Conrad Veidt, Erna Morena
Votes: 427
96. Never Weaken (1921)
Passed | 19 min | Short, Comedy, Thriller
A man hits the streets with a scheme to keep his fiancé from losing her job, however, things quickly go from bad to worse.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Mark Jones
Votes: 2,094
97. The Nut (I) (1921)
Not Rated | 74 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
Eccentric inventor Charlie Jackson tries to interest wealthy investors in his girlfriend's plan to help children from poor neighborhoods.
Director: Theodore Reed | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, William Lowery, Gerald Pring
Votes: 299
98. Orphans of the Storm (1921)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, History, Romance
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Director: D.W. Griffith | Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut, Frank Losee
Votes: 5,480 | Gross: $0.79M
99. Peck's Bad Boy (1921)
51 min | Comedy
Trouble and havoc seem to trail Little Henry Peck wherever he goes and only his dear mother understands him. But when young Henry's pranks get his big sister's boyfriend, Dr. Martin, arrested, dad decides that the boy must be punished.
Director: Sam Wood | Stars: Jackie Coogan, Wheeler Oakman, Doris May, Raymond Hatton
Votes: 105
100. 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: 14,091
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