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Best Silent Movies of all time

All Rankings

Top rated Silent Movies, Silent Short Movies and Silent Documentaries on Filmaffinity

1

City Lights City Lights

1931

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Allan Garcia ...

8.6

33,782
2

Modern Times Modern Times

1936

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Stanley Stanford ...

8.6

64,438
3

Sunrise Sunrise

1927

F.W. Murnau

George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald

8.4

15,087
4

The Kid The Kid

1921

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson ...

8.4

34,141
5

The Gold Rush The Gold Rush

1925

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray, Malcom Waite ...

8.4

28,777
6

The General The General

1926

Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman

Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom ...

8.3

30,183
7

The Passion of Joan of Arc The Passion of Joan of Arc

1928

Carl Theodor Dreyer

Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon, Antonin Artaud, André Berley

8.2

10,825
8

Metropolis Metropolis

1927

Fritz Lang

Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp ...

8.2

39,921
9

The Last Laugh The Last Laugh

1924

F.W. Murnau

Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher ...

8.2

6,551
10

Greed Greed

1924

Erich von Stroheim

Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton ...

8.1

4,189
11

The Crowd The Crowd

1928

King Vidor

James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Lucy Beaumont ...

8.1

3,665
12

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920

Robert Wiene

Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

8.1

21,371
13

The Wind The Wind

1928

Victor Sjöström

Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Margaret Mann ...

8.1

2,619
14

Faust Faust

1926

F.W. Murnau

Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman, Camilla Horn, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert ...

8.1

6,592
15

The Circus The Circus

1928

Charles Chaplin

Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Betty Morrisey, Harry Crocker, Allan Garcia ...

8.0

8,368
16

Napoleon Napoleon

1927

Abel Gance

Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële, Antonin Artaud, Alexandre Koubitsky ...

8.0

3,084
17

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I) Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I)

1924

Fritz Lang

Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Georg John ...

8.0

2,426
18

Battleship Potemkin Battleship Potemkin

1925

Sergei M. Eisenstein

Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Ivan Bobrov ...

8.0

29,398
19

Nosferatu Nosferatu

1922

F.W. Murnau

Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröeder, Georg H. Schnell ...

8.0

32,188
20

The Phantom Carriage The Phantom Carriage

1921

Victor Sjöström

Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Hildur Lithman, Olof Ås ...

7.9

3,723
21

The Cameraman The Cameraman

1928

Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton

Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey ...

7.8

3,114
22

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler

1922

Fritz Lang

Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter, Gertrude Welcker

7.8

3,425
23

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Die Nibelungen - Part II) Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Die Nibelungen - Part II)

1924

Fritz Lang

Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Bernhard Goetzke ...

7.8

1,929
24

Intolerance Intolerance

1916

D.W. Griffith

Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper ...

7.8

5,070
25

Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven) Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)

1927

Frank Borzage

Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell, David Butler, Ben Bard ...

7.8

1,705
26

The Big Parade The Big Parade

1925

King Vidor

John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Karl Dane, Rosita Marstini ...

7.8

1,778
27

I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo) I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo)

1932

Yasujirō Ozu

Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Kato, Michio Sato, Zentaro Iijima ...

7.8

1,879
28

October (Ten Days that Shook the World) October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1927

Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov

Vassilli Nikandrov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tissé, Nikolai Podvoisky, Nikolay Popov

7.8

5,514
29

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas Tabu: A Story of the South Seas

1931

F.W. Murnau

Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu, Ah Fong ...

7.8

2,496
30

Destiny Destiny

1921

Fritz Lang

Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Erich Pabst, Karl Rückert ...

7.8

3,162

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User history

The Man Who Cheated Life (The Student of Prague)

1926

Henrik Galeen

6.6

(185)

The Melody Haunts My Memory

1981

Rajko Grlic

Overlord: The Sacred Kingdom

2024

Naoyuki Itou

6.4

(65)

2016

Oliver Stone

6.4

(11,243)

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