Director: F.W. Murnau
Stars: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière’s Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man’s hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Stars: Irene Rich, May McAvoy, Bert Lytell
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.
Director: Ewald André Dupont
Stars: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Lya De Putti
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Prologue: The murderer “Boss” Huller – after having spent ten years in prison – breaks his silence to tell the warden his story. “Boss”, a former trapeze artist, and his wife own a cheap side-show that displays ”erotic sensations”. But he longs for his former glamorous life in the circus. When he meets the orphan Berta-Marie, he falls under her spell and leaves his wife and young son behind. He makes Berta-Marie his partner in a new trapeze number. One day, the famous trapeze artist Artinelli takes note of them and engages them for his trapeze show in Berlin. Their salto mortale becomes an immediate sensation. Calculatedly and cold, Artinelli seduces Berta-Marie and destroys “Boss'” happiness.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Lawrence Gray, Gertrude Astor
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A young woman dreams of becoming a great actress. When her boyfriend starts to flirt with an actual actress, she becomes jealous and decides to fight with her rival.
Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mae Busch, Matt Moore
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A sideshow ventriloquist, midget, and strongman form a conspiracy known as “The Unholy Three” and commit a series of robberies.
Director: Buster Keaton
Stars: Buster Keaton, Howard Truesdale, Kathleen Myers
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Johannes Meyer, Astrid Holm, Karin Nellemose
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Stars: Asta Nielsen, Greta Garbo, Ágnes Eszterházy
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Vienna in the biggest depression, directly after WW1. In a slum, Lila Leid, the wife of lawyer Leid is murdered, Egon, secretary of one of Leid’s clients is arrested. He was with her, and had her necklace, because he needed some money for his own stock exchange deals. The same deal brings poverty to ex-government official Rumfort, his daughter Greta, who also has lost her job, tries to get some money to get food. She rents a room of the flat she, her young sister and her father are living in to an American Red Cross official, who pays $60 rent, but the money is taken by some of her father’s creditors. But their neighbour, shop owner Mrs Greifer knows how to “help”, she and Mrs. Merkel are running a nightclub with a brothel…
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Stars: Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D’Arcy
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A prince must woo the now wealthy dancer he once abandoned in order to keep her money in the country in order to keep it from crashing economically.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK | Germany
Two couples’ romances are fancifully intertwined.
Director: Henry King
Stars: Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett, Alice Joyce
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Stella, a small town girl, marries socialite Stephen Dallas, a man with whom she has nothing in common. The whole thing is a failure; after the birth of their daughter, Laurel, the Dallases separate, and Stephen returns to New York. As Laurel grows into a young woman, Stella realizes that she can?t provide for her properly and sends her to live with Stephen and his new family. Laurel later marries a pleasant upper class boy as Stella stands in the rain, watching the ceremony through a window.
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Stars: Wallace Beery, Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
Director: King Vidor, George W. Hill
Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
Director: Rupert Julian, Lon Chaney, Ernst Laemmle, Edward Sedgwick
Stars: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Brooks Benedict
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
A nerdy college student will do anything to become popular on campus.
Director: Frank Borzage
Stars: Norma Talmadge, Eugene O’Brien, Patterson Dial
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
After 40 years of struggle on the Wyoming frontier, a woman reflects on her hardscrabble life with her unfaithful husband.
Director: E. Mason Hopper
Stars: Marion Davies, Holbrook Blinn, Harrison Ford
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
It is 1774, the eve of the American War of Independence. Janice comes from a Tory household. She cavorts with American and British alike, is pursued by Charles Fownes, patriot and friend of General Washington. Fields is a comic, drunken British sergeant.
Director: King Vidor
Stars: Eleanor Boardman, James Morrison, Johnnie Walker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Unlike earlier generations of Marys who used every trickery to secure husbands, Mary the Third questions the validity of marriage in her search for adventure. Unable to decide between quiet, polite Lynn and aggressive Hal, she follows her suitors, along with sweethearts Max and Tish, on an outing, but an attempted seduction sends her home, where she becomes disillusioned by the quarreling of her parents. When they are reconciled, however, she regains her ideals and accepts Lynn.
Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A crippled World War I veteran retracts to a small cottage in the countryside to escape from his nosy family and to hide from the outside world. There he meets a plain but also a very kind young woman. She reveals to him that the house he is staying in is in fact a very old honeymoon cottage. Spirits of newlyweds from the past, who are still swirling through the cottage, soon cast a love spell upon them.
Director: Fred Niblo
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Enid Bennett, Frank Currier
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Two young lovers escape their past lives to Paris until fate separates them.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A shy, young man, who is completely incapable of talking to women, decides to write a book that details to other bachelors how to find a girlfriend.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Walter Slezak, Benjamin Christensen, Nora Gregor
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Triangle story: painter, his young male model, unscrupulous princess.
Director: Marcel L’Herbier
Stars: Jaque Catelain, Léonid Walter de Malte, Philippe Hériat
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Claire Lescot is a famous first lady. All men want to be loved by her and among them is the young scientist Einar Norsen. When she mocks at him, he leaves her house with the declared intention to kill himself.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Tom Moore, Lilyan Tashman
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Gloria Swanson plays Tessie McGuire, a shopgirl who, when her boyfriend breaks their date one evening, goes to a party with a louche crowd of artists and hangers-on. She wows them with some zesty mimicry, and so gains an introduction to a better-paying job, impersonating a high-toned Russian countess to attract snobby customers into a dressmaker’s establishment.
Director: Robert Wiene
Stars: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Strassny
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: Austria | Germany
A world-famous pianist loses both hands in an accident. When new hands are grafted on, he doesn’t know they once belonged to a murderer.
Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
A bitter clown endeavors to rescue the young woman he loves from the lecherous count who once betrayed him.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
After Siegfried’s dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Theodor Loos
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to win Krimhild, a mask that makes him invisible proves to be very useful. But because Brunhild is cursing Kriemhild, she tells her what really happened. Now Brunhild wants Siegfried’s head. Is Gunther going to do her that favor?
Director: René Clair
Stars: Jean Börlin, Inge Frïss, Francis Picabia
Genre: Short
Country: France
An absolute dada movie. Somebody gets killed, his coffin gets out of control and after a chase it stops. The person gets out of it and let everybody who followed the coffin dissapear.
Director: Raoul Walsh
Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Julanne Johnston, Snitz Edwards
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
Director: John Ford
Stars: John Gilbert, Gertrude Olmstead, Alan Hale
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Wrongfully blamed for the death of Col. John Randall, Cameo Kirby (Gilbert) must find the true villain and clear his name before he can declare his love for Adele (Olmstead), the dead man’s daughter.
Director: Sidney Olcott
Stars: Marion Davies, Stephen Carr, J.M. Kerrigan
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
An Irish girl comes to America disguised as a boy to claim a fortune left to her brother who has died.
Director: Hugh Croise, Seymour Hicks, Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Seymour Hicks, Stanley Logan, Gertrude McCoy
Genre: Short, Comedy
Country: UK
Two couples, the Hawkes and the Chessons, engage in an affair.
Director: F. Richard Jones
Stars: Mabel Normand, Ralph Graves, George Nichols
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very pretty girl is sent to a studio instead of her picture. When she arrives in Hollywood, the mistake is discovered and she starts working in the props department of the studio instead. Her parents then come out to California and invest some money with a very shifty individual.
Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Léon Mathot, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two occasions, but Paul retains a hold over her. Marie has a baby who falls ill and as time goes on Jean and a crippled neighbor try to help the child. Paul nearly causes the death of the child whilst in a drunken stupor and in a final struggle that occurs, the crippled woman seizes Paul’s gun and shoots him dead.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Gloria Swanson, H.B. Warner, Ferdinand Gottschalk
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But when Zaza is badly injured, he has no choice.
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer (as Fred Neymeyer), Sam Taylor
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
A boy leaves his small country town and heads to the big city to get a job. As soon as he makes it big his sweetheart will join him and marry him. His enthusiasm to get ahead leads to some interesting adventures.
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, Lyn Harding
Genre: Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Director: Robert G. Vignola
Stars: Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Prudence Cole is an unsophisticated Quaker girl being raised by her two aunts. Prudence is flirted with by snobbish Henry Garrison, who actually disdains the girl for her lack of worldliness and savoir faire. When Henry and his friends try to embarrass her at a posh resort, Prudence turns the tables on them.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Wallace Reid, Gloria Swanson, Wanda Hawley
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Socialite Anatol Spencer seeks a better relation that he has with his wife. He sets up the friend of his youth Emilie in an apartment only to have her two-time him. He comforts the near suicide Annie only to have her rob him of his wallet. “Satan” Synne, the “wickedest woman in New York,” looks promising but she’s only plying her trade to help raise funds for her husband’s surgery. He decides to return to his wife, with all her faults, only to find her carousing with his best friend Max.
Director: Henry King
Stars: Richard Barthelmess, Gladys Hulette, Walter P. Lewis
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
When three thuggish men are responsible for the death of his father and the crippling of his brother, young David must choose between supporting his family or risking his life and exacting vengeance.
Director: Rex Ingram
Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Terry, Pomeroy Cannon
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
An extended family split up in France and Germany find themselves on opposing sides of the battlefield during World War I.
Director: Fritz Lang
Stars: Bernhard Goetzke, Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: Germany
When a woman’s fiancé disappears, Death gives her three chances to save him from his fate.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Two orphaned sisters are caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Sweden
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: Tore Svennberg, Tora Teje, Richard Lund
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Two weary travelers come upon a monastery. While staying the night, they learn of its mysterious founding.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Hildur Carlberg, Einar Röd, Greta Almroth
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: Sweden
A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems–first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Thomas Meighan, Gloria Swanson, Bebe Daniels
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
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 improve her looks. The original couple falls in love again at a summer resort.
Director: Wallace Worsley
Stars: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
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: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
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: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Stars: Helge Nissen, Halvard Hoff, Jacob Texiere
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark
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 Boese, Paul Wegener
Stars: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch
Genre: Fantasy, Horror
Country: Germany
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.
Director: Allan Dwan
Stars: Marion Davies, Norman Kerry, Matt Moore
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
A young woman must resist the charms of a handsome stranger and stay single if she wants to inherit a fortune.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Elliott Dexter, Gloria Swanson, Lew Cody
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Stars: Thomas Meighan, Theodore Roberts, Raymond Hatton
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Lady Mary Lasenby is a spoiled maiden who always gets her way until shipwrecked with her butler, then learns which qualities are really admirable in a person.
Director: Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, August Falck, Edith Erastoff
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Sweden
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy’s family finds itself dependent on Terje’s beneficence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
Director: Geoffrey Malins
Stars: Beauvoir De Lisle
Genre: Documentary, War
Country: UK
Documentary (with some re-enacted footage) of the British army’s participation in the Battle of the Somme in France during World War I.
Director: W.W. Young
Stars: Viola Savoy, Herbert Rice, Harry Marks
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Alice goes with her sister to a picnic and then she falls asleep and starts dreaming about a wonderland full of talking animals and walking playing cards.
Director: Louis Feuillade
Stars: René Navarre, Edmund Breon, Georges Melchior, Renée Carl
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Inspector Juve is tasked to investigate and capture an infamous criminal Fantomas.
Director: D.W. Griffith
Stars: Frank Powell, Grace Henderson, James Kirkwood, Linda Arvidson
Genre: Short, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
An unscrupulous and greedy capitalist speculator decides to corner the wheat market for his own profit, establishing complete control over the markets.
Director: Segundo de Chomón
Stars: n/a
Genre: Short, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France | Spain
Three friends go on a trip and decided to rest at an abandoned house. Everything seems pretty normal until really weird things start to happen.
Director: Cecil M. Hepworth, Percy Stow
Stars: May Clark, Cecil M. Hepworth
Genre: Short, Family, Fantasy, Silent
Country: UK
Alice dozes in a garden, awakened by a dithering white rabbit in waistcoat with pocket watch. She follows him down a hole and finds herself in a hall of many doors. A key opens a small door: eventually, she’s through into a garden where a dog awaits. Later, in the rabbit’s home, her size is again a problem. She tries to help a nanny with a howling baby, then a Cheshire cat directs her to a tea party where the Mad Hatter and March Hare dunk a dormouse. Expelled from the party, Alice happens on a royal processional: all the cards in the deck precede the Queen of Hearts, who welcomes then turns on Alice and calls on the royal executioner. Alice must run for her life.
Director: Edwin S. Porter (uncredited)
Stars: Gilbert M. ‘Broncho Billy’ Anderson, A.C. Abadie, George Barnes
Genre: Crime, Short, Action, Silent
Country: USA
A group of bandits stage a brazen train hold-up, only to find a determined posse hot on their heels.