swap_horiz The Chess Player Alternatives

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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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Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried is a 1924 German epic directed by Fritz Lang, notable for its stylized adaptation of the medie...

Fantasy German Feature 1920S

8.3 Great

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Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge is a 1924 German epic by Fritz Lang, completing his two-part Nibelungen cycle with K...

Fantasy German Feature 1920S

8.3 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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Page of Madness

A Page of Madness is a 1926 Japanese avant-garde silent film by Teinosuke Kinugasa, notable for its mental-hospital sett...

Japanese Feature Avantgarde 1920S

8.2 Great

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Ménilmontant

Ménilmontant is a 1926 French silent film by Dimitri Kirsanoff, notable for its Paris setting, no intertitles, and force...

French Avantgarde 1920S Short

8.2 Great

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La Roue

La Roue is Abel Gance's 1923 French silent epic, famous for railway melodrama, rapid cutting, and unusually ambitious vi...

French Drama Feature 1920S

8.2 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 Italian Straw Hat

The Italian Straw Hat is René Clair's 1928 French silent comedy, adapting Eugène Labiche's farce into a fast visual sati...

French Comedy Feature 1920S

7.8 Good

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A Throw of Dice

A Throw of Dice is a 1929 Indo-German silent epic by Franz Osten, notable for its Mahabharata source and large Rajasthan...

Indian Feature Historical Romance

7.5 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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Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent is King Vidor's 1926 MGM swashbuckler with John Gilbert, long considered lost until a near-comp...

Adventure American Feature 1920S

7.2 Good

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The Beloved Rogue

The Beloved Rogue is Alan Crosland's 1927 American silent romantic adventure, with John Barrymore playing the French poe...

Adventure American Historical 1920S

7.2 Good

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The Gaucho

The Gaucho is a 1927 American silent adventure starring Douglas Fairbanks and Lupe Velez, notable for its Argentina sett...

Adventure American Feature 1920S

7.1 Good

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The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask is a 1929 Allan Dwan adventure film starring Douglas Fairbanks, notable as a late silent-era Dumas adaptat...

Adventure American Feature 1920S

7.1 Good

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The Trail of '98

The Trail of '98 is a 1928 MGM Klondike adventure by Clarence Brown, notable for synchronized music and the Fantom Scree...

Adventure American Feature 1920S

6.8 Fair

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The Mysterious Island

The Mysterious Island is a 1929 MGM Jules Verne science fiction film, notable for two-color Technicolor sequences and pa...

Adventure American Feature 1920S

6.2 Fair