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Best Silent Movies of all time

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

- 1
- City Lights
  
  1931
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee, Harry Myers, Allan Garcia ...
- 8.6
  
  33,641
- 2
- Modern Times
  
  1936
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman, Chester Conklin, Stanley Stanford ...
- 8.6
  
  64,304
- 3
- Sunrise
  
  1927
  
  F.W. Murnau
  
  George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing, J. Farrell MacDonald
- 8.4
  
  15,000
- 4
- The Kid
  
  1921
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller, Tom Wilson ...
- 8.4
  
  34,003
- 5
- The Gold Rush
  
  1925
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale, Tom Murray, Malcom Waite ...
- 8.4
  
  28,677
- 6
- The Passion of Joan of Arc
  
  1928
  
  Carl Theodor Dreyer
  
  Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz, Michel Simon, Antonin Artaud, André Berley
- 8.3
  
  10,738
- 7
- The General
  
  1926
  
  Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
  
  Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Jim Farley, Frederick Vroom ...
- 8.3
  
  30,049
- 8
- Metropolis
  
  1927
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp ...
- 8.2
  
  39,805
- 9
- The Last Laugh
  
  1924
  
  F.W. Murnau
  
  Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller, Emilie Kurz, Hans Unterkircher ...
- 8.2
  
  6,508
- 10
- The Crowd
  
  1928
  
  King Vidor
  
  James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark, Lucy Beaumont ...
- 8.1
  
  3,645
- 11
- Greed
  
  1924
  
  Erich von Stroheim
  
  Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt, Chester Conklin, Sylvia Ashton ...
- 8.1
  
  4,164
- 12
- The Wind
  
  1928
  
  Victor Sjöström
  
  Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming, Margaret Mann ...
- 8.1
  
  2,595
- 13
- 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
  
  21,275
- 14
- Faust
  
  1926
  
  F.W. Murnau
  
  Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman, Camilla Horn, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert ...
- 8.1
  
  6,535
- 15
- The Circus
  
  1928
  
  Charles Chaplin
  
  Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Betty Morrisey, Harry Crocker, Allan Garcia ...
- 8.0
  
  8,310
- 16
- Napoleon
  
  1927
  
  Abel Gance
  
  Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële, Antonin Artaud, Alexandre Koubitsky ...
- 8.0
  
  3,056
- 17
- Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I)
  
  1924
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph, Theodor Loos, Georg John ...
- 8.0
  
  2,394
- 18
- Battleship Potemkin
  
  1925
  
  Sergei M. Eisenstein
  
  Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, Ivan Bobrov ...
- 8.0
  
  29,319
- 19
- Nosferatu
  
  1922
  
  F.W. Murnau
  
  Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröeder, Georg H. Schnell ...
- 8.0
  
  31,932
- 20
- The Phantom Carriage
  
  1921
  
  Victor Sjöström
  
  Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Hildur Lithman, Olof Ås ...
- 7.9
  
  3,672
- 21
- The Cameraman
  
  1928
  
  Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
  
  Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey ...
- 7.8
  
  3,071
- 22
- Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
  
  1922
  
  Fritz Lang
  
  Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen, Bernhard Goetzke, Paul Richter, Gertrude Welcker
- 7.8
  
  3,400
- 23
- Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven)
  
  1927
  
  Frank Borzage
  
  Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell, David Butler, Ben Bard ...
- 7.8
  
  1,685
- 24
- 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
  
  1,899
- 25
- Intolerance
  
  1916
  
  D.W. Griffith
  
  Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge, Robert Harron, Miriam Cooper ...
- 7.8
  
  5,044
- 26
- The Big Parade
  
  1925
  
  King Vidor
  
  John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth, Karl Dane, Rosita Marstini ...
- 7.8
  
  1,747
- 27
- I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo)
  
  1932
  
  Yasujirō Ozu
  
  Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Kato, Michio Sato, Zentaro Iijima ...
- 7.8
  
  1,856
- 28
- 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
  
  5,482
- 29
- Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  
  1928
  
  Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
  
  Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron ...
- 7.8
  
  3,328
- 30
- Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
  
  1931
  
  F.W. Murnau
  
  Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge, Hitu, Ah Fong ...
- 7.8
  
  2,466

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