Silent Film

Silent films, especially from the first two decades from the beginning of cinema (talking movies began in 1927) are characterized by their use of intertitles to narrate the story. Originally without music, many of them now have music added in new editions for today's market

Total number of movies with this topic: 1678

Recent/Upcoming movies with this topic: 1

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8.64 22,015 votes

City Lights

(1931)

(Charles Chaplin) Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill

8.58 45,532 votes

Modern Times

(1936)

(Charles Chaplin) Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard

8.47 9,118 votes

Sunrise

(1927)

(F.W. Murnau) George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor

8.46 21,059 votes

The Kid

(1921)

(Charles Chaplin) Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan

8.45 19,893 votes

The Gold Rush

(1925)

(Charles Chaplin) Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain

8.33 5,419 votes

The Passion of Joan of Arc

(1928)

(Carl Theodor Dreyer) Renée Jeanne Falconetti, Eugene Silvain

8.31 21,331 votes

The General

(1926)

(Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman) Buster Keaton, Marion Mack

8.29 2,264 votes

Greed

(1924)

(Erich von Stroheim) Gibson Gowland, Zasu Pitts

8.29 3,556 votes

The Last Laugh

(1924)

(F.W. Murnau) Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft

8.24 27,246 votes

Metropolis

(1927)

(Fritz Lang) Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm

8.22 2,126 votes

The Crowd

(1928)

(King Vidor) James Murray, Eleanor Boardman

8.21 1,227 votes

The Wind

(1928)

(Victor Sjöström) Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson

8.17 3,407 votes

Sherlock Jr. (AKA Sherlock Junior)

(1924)

(Buster Keaton) Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire

8.15 3,540 votes

Faust

(1926)

(F.W. Murnau) Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman

8.13 12,708 votes

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

(1920)

(Robert Wiene) Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt

8.13 2,397 votes

Seven Chances

(1925)

(Buster Keaton) Buster Keaton, Ruth Dwyer

8.10 4,516 votes

The Circus

(1928)

(Charles Chaplin) Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy

8.03 260 votes

The Last Command

(1928)

(Josef von Sternberg) Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent

8.02 21,045 votes

Nosferatu

(1922)

(F.W. Murnau) Max Schreck, Alexander Granach

8.02 1,386 votes

Between Two Worlds (AKA Destiny - The Three Lights)

(1921)

(Fritz Lang) Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen

8.02 3,242 votes

The Man with the Movie Camera

(1929)

(Dziga Vertov) Documentary

8.00 1,332 votes

The Cameraman

(1928)

(Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton) Buster Keaton, Marceline Day

7.99 1,821 votes

Napoleon

(1927)

(Abel Gance) Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès

7.98 1,879 votes

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

(1922)

(Fritz Lang) Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel

7.98 21,145 votes

Battleship Potemkin

(1925)

(Sergei M. Eisenstein) Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky

7.95 1,602 votes

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

(1928)

(Charles Reisner (AKA Charles Riesner), Buster Keaton) Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire

7.92 1,074 votes

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I)

(1924)

(Fritz Lang) Paul Richter, Margarete Schön

7.91 635 votes

I Was Born, But…

(1932)

(Yasujiro Ozu) Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa

7.90 1,111 votes

Our Hospitality

(1923)

(Buster Keaton, John G. Blystone) Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts

7.89 3,560 votes

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

(1928)

(Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov) Vassilli Nikandrov, Vladimir Popov

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