swap_horiz The Death Ray 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 1924 American Buster Keaton feature about a projectionist entering a film, noted for its dream logic a...

American Comedy Feature 1920S

9.3 Excellent

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The Man with the Movie Camera

The Man with the Movie Camera is Dziga Vertov's 1929 Soviet documentary, famous for rapid montage, no intertitles, and r...

Documentary Feature Soviet 1920S

9.2 Excellent

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Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr. is a 1928 American Buster Keaton feature, famous for the falling house-front stunt and its Mississip...

American Comedy Feature 1920S

8.8 Great

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The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Adventures of Prince Achmed is a 1926 German silhouette animated feature by Lotte Reiniger, often cited as the oldes...

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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Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl is a 1929 German silent drama by G. W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks in her second and final film w...

German Drama Feature 1920S

8.2 Great

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The New Babylon

The New Babylon is a 1929 Soviet drama by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, set during the Paris Commune with Shost...

Drama Feature Soviet 1920S

8.0 Great

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The House on Trubnaya

The House on Trubnaya is a 1928 Soviet comedy by Boris Barnet, starring Vera Maretskaya as a country housemaid elected t...

Comedy Feature Soviet 1920S

7.9 Good

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By the Law

By the Law is a 1926 Soviet silent drama by Lev Kuleshov, notable as a stark Jack London adaptation set among Yukon gold...

Drama Feature Soviet 1920S

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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The Girl with a Hatbox

The Girl with a Hatbox is a 1927 Soviet romantic comedy by Boris Barnet, commissioned to promote government bonds and st...

Comedy Feature Soviet 1920S

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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The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom

The Cigarette Girl of Mosselprom is a 1924 Soviet comedy by Yuri Zhelyabuzhsky, centered on a Moscow cigarette seller dr...

Comedy Feature Soviet 1920S

7.4 Good

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The Devil's Wheel

The Devil's Wheel is a 1926 Soviet crime action film by Grigori Kozintsev and Leonid Trauberg, their first feature-lengt...

Drama Feature Soviet 1920S

6.4 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