Directed by: Erich von Stroheim
Country: USA (1240,54 Pts, 22 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–6–18
Plot: The sudden fortune won from a lottery fans such destructive greed that it ruins the lives of the three people involved.
ICheckMovies: 2630 Checks , 261 Favourites , 20 Official listsList of 22 Voters:
Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Country: Germany (1292,61 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–21
Plot: After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
ICheckMovies: 1042 Checks , 94 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: Georges Méliès
Country: France (1338,51 Pts, 25 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–5–18
Plot: A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the Moon.
ICheckMovies: 17652 Checks , 1023 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 25 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA (1368,15 Pts, 26 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–4–22
Plot: The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
ICheckMovies: 4497 Checks , 380 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 26 Voters:
Directed by: Luis Buñuel
Country: France (1414,2 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–18
Plot: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalì present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.
ICheckMovies: 15290 Checks , 970 Favourites , 22 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: King Vidor
Country: USA (1434,3 Pts, 25 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–7–18
Plot: The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.
ICheckMovies: 2489 Checks , 324 Favourites , 18 Official listsList of 25 Voters:
Directed by: Lev Kuleshov
Country: Soviet Union (1474,64 Pts, 26 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–22
Plot: A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband ...
ICheckMovies: 491 Checks , 57 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 26 Voters:
Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer; Sam Taylor
Country: USA (1547,42 Pts, 26 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–10–21
Plot: 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.
ICheckMovies: 5035 Checks , 528 Favourites , 17 Official listsList of 26 Voters:
Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Country: Soviet Union (1562,88 Pts, 26 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–25
Plot: A group of oppressed factory workers go on strike in pre-revolutionary Russia.
ICheckMovies: 2346 Checks , 171 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 26 Voters:
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Country: Germany (1581,39 Pts, 28 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–5–22
Plot: The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
ICheckMovies: 3824 Checks , 402 Favourites , 14 Official listsList of 28 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA (1603,1 Pts, 28 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–4–23
Plot: A prospector goes to the Klondike in search of gold and finds it and more.
ICheckMovies: 15838 Checks , 1204 Favourites , 29 Official listsList of 28 Voters:
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Country: USA (1626,22 Pts, 29 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–5–25
Plot: The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
ICheckMovies: 4523 Checks , 278 Favourites , 23 Official listsList of 29 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA (1650,08 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–13–20
Plot: The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
ICheckMovies: 28952 Checks , 2587 Favourites , 29 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
Directed by: Abel Gance
Country: France (1769,35 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 4–12–23
Plot: A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
ICheckMovies: 2002 Checks , 212 Favourites , 22 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: Victor Sjöström
Country: USA (1773,14 Pts, 30 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–9–24
Plot: A frail young woman from the east moves in with her cousin in the west, where she causes tension within the family and is slowly driven mad.
ICheckMovies: 1778 Checks , 229 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 30 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA (1800,82 Pts, 30 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–10–25
Plot: The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.
ICheckMovies: 16578 Checks , 1285 Favourites , 14 Official listsList of 30 Voters:
Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Country: Germany (1842,37 Pts, 32 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–5–26
Plot: The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
ICheckMovies: 3153 Checks , 298 Favourites , 16 Official listsList of 32 Voters:
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Country: Germany (1959,52 Pts, 35 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–7–28
Plot: An aging doorman is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbors and society after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious hotel.
ICheckMovies: 3415 Checks , 369 Favourites , 16 Official listsList of 35 Voters:
Damn, I ended up not voting because my list would have been under 9 or 10 titles and pretty obvious ones, but I probably should have if only to avoid Der letzte Mann being kicked out of the top 10.
Directed by: Victor Sjöström
Country: Sweden (2244,73 Pts, 35 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–12–30
Plot: On New Year's Eve, the driver of a ghostly carriage forces a drunken man to reflect on his selfish, wasted life.
ICheckMovies: 3224 Checks , 421 Favourites , 15 Official listsList of 35 Voters:
Directed by: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Country: Soviet Union (2245,94 Pts, 32 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–10–30
Plot: In the midst of the Russian Revolution of 1905, the crew of the battleship Potemkin mutiny against the brutal, tyrannical regime of the vessel's officers. The resulting street demonstration in Odessa brings on a police massacre.
ICheckMovies: 13035 Checks , 842 Favourites , 27 Official listsList of 32 Voters:
Directed by: Dziga Vertov
Country: Soviet Union (2288,38 Pts, 37 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–11–31
Plot: A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
ICheckMovies: 6129 Checks , 844 Favourites , 22 Official listsList of 37 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Chaplin
Country: USA (2478,27 Pts, 34 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–17–32
Plot: With the aid of a wealthy erratic tippler, a dewy-eyed tramp who has fallen in love with a sightless flower girl accumulates money to be able to help her medically.
ICheckMovies: 20429 Checks , 2394 Favourites , 32 Official listsList of 34 Voters:
Directed by: Buster Keaton
Country: USA (2484,77 Pts, 39 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–14–34
Plot: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
ICheckMovies: 9635 Checks , 1249 Favourites , 23 Official listsList of 39 Voters:
Directed by: Buster Keaton; Clyde Bruckman
Country: USA (2485,23 Pts, 35 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–18–30
Plot: When Union spies steal an engineer's beloved locomotive, he pursues it single-handedly and straight through enemy lines.
ICheckMovies: 13825 Checks , 1630 Favourites , 32 Official listsList of 35 Voters:
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Country: USA (3273,96 Pts, 46 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–21–42
Plot: An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.
ICheckMovies: 9092 Checks , 1421 Favourites , 34 Official listsList of 46 Voters:
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany (3307,99 Pts, 47 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 6–22–41
Plot: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
ICheckMovies: 27176 Checks , 2746 Favourites , 34 Official listsList of 47 Voters:
Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Country: France (3308,42 Pts, 45 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 10–24–38
Plot: In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
ICheckMovies: 10244 Checks , 1314 Favourites , 26 Official listsList of 45 Voters:
If I had ranked the unranked portion of my list, I would have ranked Metropolis above La passion de Jeanne d'Arc and it would have changed the results Oh well, still good top two.
and 9 other Persons !
Oh well, still good top two.