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The finest way to explore a decade in film history, is through watching its best movies. Be sure to check out a fine selection of 100 inspirational pictures in the roaring ‘20s below. The collection is based on references of various movie reviews, the Oscars winning awards and nominations, the IMDB ratings, popularity, and number of votes.
The 1920s saw a vast expansion of Hollywood film making and worldwide film attendance. Throughout the decade, film production increasingly focused on the feature film rather than the "short" or " two-reeler ."
- Das Cabinet Des Dr. Caligari
- Norrtullsligan
- Prästänkan
- Mighty Like A Moose
- The Boat
- The Lodger: A Story of London Fog
- The Docks of New York
- Dans La Nuit
- Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ
- The Battleship Potemkin
Director:Robert Wiene The Cabinet of Dr. Caligaribrought German Expressionist film to full view with art direction that’s every bit as dark and twisted as the story it tells. Set in an environment full of askew streets, warped roofs and staircases that travel at impossible angles, no film has the same spooky feel as this tale of a mysterious doctor...
Director:Per Lindberg Whether in 1923 or today, it’s rare to see a film about a strong-willed, independent woman and her likeminded friends. There are no flappers or scandals, just discussion of what life is like for these Swedish women, including workplace harassment, judgmental family members and wage disputes. The film even gets away with some p...
Director:Carl Theodor Dreyer Lots of superlatives can be use to describe Carl Theodor Dreyer’s films, but “charming” doesn’t often end up on the top of the list. That changes when you watch this sweet folk comedy about a new priest who is obligated, by the rules of a small village, to marry his predecessor’s widow. There are two problems: 1. The pr...
Director:Leo McCarey In the wrong hands, Charley Chase’s schtick can get old pretty quick, but the short Mighty Like a Mooseshows just how funny the actor could be. Chase and Vivien Oakland play Mr. and Mrs. Moose, a married couple who were perhaps drawn together by mutual unattractiveness. She has a gigantic nose, and he has ridiculous teeth. But ...
Directors:Buster Keaton, Eddie Cline There’s a gag in The Boat in which the hero launches his boat, and it immediately sinks. It seems simple enough, but Buster Keaton actually went through several attempts and engineering adjustments before getting the shot right. If it had sank any other way, it wouldn’t have been funny, he said. That level of co...
Director:Alfred Hitchcock Alfred Hitchcock’s films before The Lodgerhad plenty of his characteristic inventive camerawork and playfulness, but this is the one where he overtly hits the themes that he’d explore throughout his career: Suspicion of people close to you, public mania, fear of the police. Telling the story of a sexy-but-dangerous lodger,...
Director:Josef von Sternberg Josef von Sternberg is best known for his seven sound films with Marlene Dietrich, but his visual prowess was most at home in the silent medium, allowing him to find warmth and humanity in his actors’ faces. The way he photographs Betty Compson’s suicidal prostitute in The Docks of New Yorkis remarkable. Each crack of h...
Director:Charles Vanel Starting with documentary-like realism at a coal mine before transforming into a noir-ish tale of murder and betrayal, Charles Vanel’s Dans La Nuituses those shifting forms to illustrate just how quickly our lives can change in spirit and meaning. Vanel cast himself as both a betrayed husband and the lover who cuckolds him, a...
Director:Fred Niblo We’re all now well familiar with stories of epic movies with prolonged productions and out-of-control spending, but Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christset a high bar early on. The movie brought in more money than any film before it, but still couldn’t recoup its expenses. Yet somehow, after going through multiple directors and lead ac...
Director:Sergei Eisenstein It’s hard to say what Sergei Eisenstein’s most famous film influenced more: The Soviet spirit or film course syllabi. While the novelty of the film’s montage may be a bit overstated (Abel Gance—and he’s not the only one—played gleefully with rapid editing in La rouéa couple years beforehand, and many U.S. films were cutti...
1. Metropolis. 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. 2.
30 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The General. 1926 1h 18m Passed. 8.1 (99K) Rate. 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.
Apr 5, 2021 · The 1920's is the earliest decade that seemed right to rank, given the amount of classics and innovative productions from this roaring time. Andreas Babiolakis has selected the one hundred greatest pictures of this time: from silent epics to the greatest early talkies.
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Dec 28, 2020 · The 1920s was an interesting decade, a giant leap for the medium. Feature-length films became standard, normal fair, the business of filmmaking was developing quickly, ideas had just begun and weren’t tired out yet, and censorship boards were minimal.
