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| 1 |  | Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) |  3.7687 39 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Romance |
$18.82
| A gorgeous big city woman vacations in a small farming community where she begins a relationship ...more about Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans starring George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor |
| 2 |  | Letzte Mann, Der (1924) |  3.5747 18 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$22.90
| The experienced doorman at the Atlantic Hotel is quite proud of his position, his responsibilities, ...more about Letzte Mann starring Emil Jannings and Maly Delschaft |
| 3 |  | Nibelungen: Siegfried, Die (1924) | 3.5087 9 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Fantasy |
$27.95
| Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. ...more about Nibelungen: Siegfried starring Paul Richter and Georg August Koch |
| 4 |  | Wind, The (1928) | 3.4894 10 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Letty (Lillian Gish) moves from the East to West Texas, where it seems the wind is always blowing ...more about Wind starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson |
| 5 |  | Napoleon (1927) | 3.4279 8 reviews | G | Drama, War, Biography | N/A | A massive six-hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball ...more about Napoleon starring Albert Dieudonné and Vladimir Roudenko |
| 6 |  | Pandora's Box (1929) | 3.2650 31 reviews | NA | Drama |
$24.99
| G.W. Pabst's film that catapulted Louise Brooks to international acclaim and made her 'the' icon of ...more about Pandora's Box starring Louise Brooks and Carl Goetz |
| 7 |  | Piccadilly (1929) |  3.1929 23 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime |
$21.09
| The star attraction of the Piccadilly Club is the dancing team of Mabel and Vic. Victor is ...more about Piccadilly starring Gilda Gray and Anna May Wong |
| 8 |  | Unknown, The (1927) | 3.1526 22 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Romance |
$28.74
| Alonzo is an apparently armless knife thrower who uses his feet to encircle Estrellita with blades. ...more about Unknown starring Lon Chaney and Norman Kerry |
| 9 |  | Stachka (1925) | 3.1049 8 reviews | NA | Drama |
$14.99
| In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among ...more about Stachka |
| 10 |  | Phantom of the Opera, The (1925) | 3.1003 27 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror |
$5.00
| At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus ...more about Phantom of the Opera starring Lon Chaney and Mary Philbin |
| 11 |  | Crowd, The (1928) | 3.0991 19 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | Born on the fourth of July, 1900, the future holds unlimited potential for newborn John Sims. But ...more about Crowd starring Eleanor Boardman and Bert Roach |
| 12 |  | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | 3.0569 11 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, Romance |
$19.33
| Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman ...more about Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ starring Francis X. Bushman and Nigel De Brulier |
| 13 |  | Kid, The (1921) | 3.0136 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy, Family |
$8.99
| The opening title reads: "A comedy with a smile--and perhaps a tear". As she leaves the charity ...more about Kid starring Charles Chaplin and Edna Purviance |
| 14 |  | Wings (1927) | 3.0035 25 reviews | NA | Action, Drama, War, Romance | N/A | Two young men fall in love for the same same girl. After US enters WWi, both join the Air Corps and ...more about Wings starring Clara Bow and Charles 'Buddy' Rogers |
| 15 |  | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | 2.9848 29 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Horror | N/A | A man named Francis relates a story about his best friend Alan and his fiancée Jane. Alan takes him ...more about The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari starring Werner Krauss and Conrad Veidt |
| 16 |  | Beloved Rogue, The (1927) | 2.9679 3 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance |
$21.99
| In 1432, while François Villon is still an infant, his father dies as a martyr to his devotion to ...more about Beloved Rogue starring John Barrymore and Conrad Veidt |
| 17 |  | Bleak House (1922) | 2.9679 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime | N/A | ...more about Bleak House starring Sybil Thorndike and Betty Doyle |
| 18 |  | Sparrows (1926) | 2.9515 5 reviews | NA | Drama |
$23.99
| Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces ...more about Sparrows starring Mary Pickford and Roy Stewart |
| 19 |  | Cameraman, The (1928) | 2.9245 19 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$29.50
| After becoming infatuated with a pretty office worker for MGM Newsreels, Buster trades in his ...more about Cameraman starring Harry Gribbon and Buster Keaton |
| 20 |  | Blackmail (1929) | 2.9210 27 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller |
$6.99
| Alice White is the daughter of a shopkeeper in 1920's London. Her boyfriend, Frank Webber is a ...more about Blackmail starring Anny Ondra and Sara Allgood |
| 21 |  | Ace of Hearts, The (1921) | 2.9195 5 reviews | NA | Drama, Crime, Romance |
$28.74
| A secret society holds a meeting to determine what to do about a powerful and dangerous man whom ...more about Ace of Hearts starring Lon Chaney and Leatrice Joy |
| 22 |  | Greed (1924) | 2.9120 14 reviews | NA | Drama | N/A | John McTeague was a simple slow man who became a dentist after working at the Big Dipper Gold Mine. ...more about Greed starring Zasu Pitts and Gibson Gowland |
| 23 |  | Jazz Singer, The (1927) | 2.8875 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Music | N/A | Cantor Rabinowitz is concerned and upset because his son Jakie shows so little interest in carrying ...more about Jazz Singer starring Al Jolson and May McAvoy |
| 24 |  | Bronenosets Potyomkin (1925) | 2.8837 25 reviews | NA | Drama, History, War |
$14.99
| Based on the historical events the movie tells the story of a riot at the battleship Potemkin. What ...more about Bronenosets Potyomkin starring Aleksandr Antonov and Vladimir Barsky |
| 25 |  | Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) | 2.8811 3 reviews | NA | Drama |
$28.74
| As professional clowns Tito and Simon are traveling, they happen upon an abandoned child, whom they ...more about Laugh starring Lon Chaney and Bernard Siegel |
| 26 |  | Lodger, The (1927) | 2.8792 12 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$6.49
| A serial killer known as "The Avenger" is on the loose in London, murdering blonde women. A ...more about Lodger starring Marie Ault and Arthur Chesney |
| 27 |  | King of Kings, The (1927) | 2.8661 11 reviews | NA | Drama, History |
$27.95
| Mary Magdalene becomes angry when Judas, now a follower of Jesus, won't come to her feast. She goes ...more about King of Kings starring H.B. Warner and Dorothy Cumming |
| 28 |  | Foolish Wives (1922) | 2.8603 12 reviews | NA | Drama |
$3.61
| "Count" Karanzim, a Don Juan is with his cousins in Monte Carlo, living from faked money and the ...more about Foolish Wives starring Rudolph Christians and Miss DuPont |
| 29 |  | Circus, The (1928) | 2.8578 25 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Comedy, Family |
$24.24
| Charlie's Tramp character finds himself at a circus where he is promptly gets chased around by the ...more about Circus starring Merna Kennedy and Harry Crocker |
| 30 |  | Beyond the Rocks (1922) | 2.8291 21 reviews | NA | Drama |
$20.95
| ...more about Beyond the Rocks starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino |
| 31 |  | Last Command, The (1928) | 2.8286 7 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama | N/A | A decorated, aristocratic Czarist General is reduced to penury after the collapse of Imperial ...more about Last Command starring Emil Jannings and Evelyn Brent |
| 32 |  | Son of the Sheik, The (1926) | 2.8233 12 reviews | NA | Adventure, Drama |
$18.43
| Men and women, fathers and children. Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love ...more about Son of the Sheik starring Rudolph Valentino and George Fawcett |
| 33 |  | Blood and Sand (1922) | 2.7996 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance, Sports |
$5.00
| Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as ...more about Blood and Sand starring Leo White and George Field |
| 34 |  | College (1927) | 2.7929 13 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy, Sports |
$19.96
| Ronald's high school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary ...more about College starring Buster Keaton and Anne Cornwall |
| 35 | | Mikaël (1924) | 2.7929 9 reviews | NA | Drama |
$20.95
| Mikaël is an artist who rises as his teacher, the aging Zoret, falls. Zoret gives Mikaël his start, ...more about Mikaël starring Walter Slezak and Max Auzinger |
| 36 |  | Hallelujah! (1929) | 2.7579 10 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical |
$6.99
| In a juke joint, sharecropper Zeke falls for a beautiful dancer, Chick, but she's only setting him ...more about Hallelujah! starring Daniel L. Haynes and Nina Mae McKinney |
| 37 | | Garden of Eden, The (1928) | 2.7566 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$17.16
| Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte ...more about Garden of Eden starring Corinne Griffith and Louise Dresser |
| 38 |  | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) |  2.7437 15 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi |
$3.00
| Based on the Robert Louis Stevenson story: Doctor Henry Jekyll's enthusiasm for science and his ...more about Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore and Brandon Hurst |
| 39 |  | Flesh and the Devil (1926) | 2.7314 14 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance |
$22.49
| Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the ...more about Flesh and the Devil starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo |
| 40 |  | Applause (1929) | 2.7112 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Musical |
$20.95
| This early example of the "backstage" musical genre tells the story of Kitty Darling, a fading ...more about Applause starring Joan Peers |
| 41 | | Blade af Satans bog (1921) | 2.6887 9 reviews | NA | Drama |
$14.99
| ...more about Blade af Satans bog starring Halvard Hoff |
| 42 | | Seventh Heaven (1927) | 2.6452 7 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | ...more about Seventh Heaven starring Janet Gaynor and Gladys Brockwell |
| 43 |  | America (1924) | 2.5798 2 reviews | NA | Drama, History |
$16.15
| ...more about America starring Neil Hamilton and Erville Alderson |
| 44 | | Penalty, The (1920/I) | 2.5798 11 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller, Crime |
$14.95
| Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were perhaps needlessly ...more about Penalty starring Charles Clary and Doris Pawn |
| 45 | | Man Who Laughs, The (1928) | 2.5707 14 reviews | NA | Drama, Horror |
$20.95
| Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in ...more about Man Who Laughs starring Mary Philbin and Conrad Veidt |
| 46 |  | Cobra (1925) | 2.5570 7 reviews | NA | Drama |
$20.72
| ...more about Cobra starring Rudolph Valentino and Casson Ferguson |
| 47 | | Oktyabr (1927) | 2.5296 7 reviews | NA | Drama |
$18.89
| In documentary style, events in Petrograd are re-enacted from the end of the monarchy in February ...more about Oktyabr starring Vladimir Popov |
| 48 | | Young Rajah, The (1922) | 2.5113 1 reviews | NA | Drama, Romance | N/A | ...more about Young Rajah starring Rudolph Valentino and Wanda Hawley |
| 49 | | Little Annie Rooney (1925) | 2.5113 4 reviews | NA | Drama, Comedy |
$10.59
| Tough slum girl (Mary Pickford) faces a crisis of the heart when the boy she loves (William Haines) ...more about Little Annie Rooney starring Mary Pickford and William Haines |
| 50 | | He Who Gets Slapped (1924) | 2.5058 8 reviews | NA | Drama, Thriller | N/A | Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown ...more about He Who Gets Slapped starring Lon Chaney and Clyde Cook |
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