swap_horiz Haxan Alternatives

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The Man with a Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov’s *The Man with a Movie Camera* (1929) is a groundbreaking Soviet silent film. It presents an urban landsca...

Documentary Soviet 1920S City Symphony

9.5 Brilliant

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Sherlock Jr.

Sherlock Jr. is a 1920s American silent comedy featuring Buster Keaton. The film’s innovative “dream sequence” where Kea...

American Comedy Feature 1920S

9.3 Excellent

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The Man with the Movie Camera

Dziga Vertov’s *The Man with the Movie Camera* (1929) is a pioneering Soviet silent film. It's notable for its radical e...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

9.2 Excellent

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is an American silent comedy film from 1928 starring Buster Keaton. The movie’s most notable scene i...

American Comedy Feature 1920S

8.8 Great

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed

Lotte Reiniger’s *The Adventures of Prince Achmed* represents a landmark achievement in early animation. This 1926 Germa...

German Animation Feature 1920S

8.6 Great

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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City is a 1927 German silent city-symphony film by Walter Ruttmann, portraying one day in We...

German Documentary Feature City

8.3 Great

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The Fall of the House of Usher

The Fall of the House of Usher is a 1928 French silent horror film by Jean Epstein, notable for its experimental Poe ada...

French Horror Feature 1920S

8.0 Great

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The Parson's Widow

The Parson's Widow is a 1920 Swedish comedy-drama by Carl Theodor Dreyer, notable for its mix of rural folklore, humor,...

Comedy Feature Swedish 1920S

7.9 Good

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The Saga of Gösta Berling

The Saga of Gösta Berling is Mauritz Stiller's 1924 Swedish silent epic, adapted from Selma Lagerlöf and marking Greta G...

Drama Feature Swedish 1920S

7.9 Good

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The Hands of Orlac

The Hands of Orlac is a 1924 Austrian horror film starring Conrad Veidt, notable for its tale of a pianist who receives...

Austrian Horror Feature 1920S

7.8 Good

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A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness is a 1926 Japanese avant-garde film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, set in an asylum and rediscovered after dec...

Avant Garde Japanese Horror Feature

7.8 Good

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Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life

Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life is a 1925 silent documentary by Cooper and Schoedsack, following the Bakhtiari migrati...

Travel American Documentary Feature

7.7 Good

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The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty

The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty is Esfir Shub's 1927 Soviet compilation documentary, assembled from archive footage of R...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

7.7 Good

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Erotikon

Erotikon is Mauritz Stiller's 1920 Swedish silent romantic comedy, a sophisticated marriage farce that became a major ex...

Comedy Feature Swedish 1920S

7.7 Good

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The Epic of Everest

The Epic of Everest is a 1924 documentary by John Noel, recording the Mallory and Irvine Everest expedition and its Tibe...

Mountaineering Documentary Feature British

7.6 Good

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The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year is a 1928 Soviet documentary by Dziga Vertov, made in Ukraine after A Sixth Part of the World and befo...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

7.5 Good

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A Sixth Part of the World

A Sixth Part of the World is Dziga Vertov's 1926 Soviet travelogue documentary, showing the USSR's peoples and economy t...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

7.4 Good

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Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness

Chang: A Drama of the Wilderness is a 1927 silent docudrama by Cooper and Schoedsack, filmed in northern Thailand and Os...

Adventure American Documentary Feature

7.3 Good

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Kino-Eye

Kino-Eye is a 1924 Soviet documentary by Dziga Vertov, embodying his non-acted cinema theory of filming life unawares th...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

7.3 Good

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Alraune

Alraune is Henrik Galeen's 1928 German silent science-fiction horror film, starring Brigitte Helm in an adaptation of Ha...

German Horror Feature 1920S

6.7 Fair