Directed by: Paul Wegener; Carl Boese
Country: Germany (624,13 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–9
Plot: In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
ICheckMovies: 1777 Checks , 76 Favourites , 9 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Herbert G. Ponting
Country: UK (628,83 Pts, 15 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–7
Plot: In 1910 the British Antarctic Expedition, led by Capt. Robert F. Scott, embarks from Lyttleton, NZ on a quest to become the first to reach the South Pole.
ICheckMovies: 490 Checks , 58 Favourites , 1 Official listsList of 15 Voters:
Directed by: Paul Leni
Country: USA (649,29 Pts, 14 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–0–10
Plot: When a proud noble refuses to kiss the hand of the despotic King James in 1690, he is cruelly executed and his son surgically disfigured.
ICheckMovies: 1816 Checks , 153 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 14 Voters:
Directed by: Walter Ruttmann
Country: Germany (651,77 Pts, 18 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–0–9
Plot: This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
ICheckMovies: 1586 Checks , 94 Favourites , 11 Official listsList of 18 Voters:
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Country: USA (671,81 Pts, 14 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–10
Plot: On the South Pacific island of Bora Bora, a young couple's love is threatened when the tribal chief declares the girl a sacred virgin.
ICheckMovies: 1716 Checks , 116 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 14 Voters:
Directed by: Frank Borzage
Country: USA (701,66 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–9
Plot: Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his...
ICheckMovies: 400 Checks , 63 Favourites , 4 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Victor Sjöström
Country: Sweden (733,43 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–12
Plot: Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the cruelty of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on Terje's beneficence, Terje must ...
ICheckMovies: 740 Checks , 48 Favourites , 6 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Yonggang Wu
Country: China (739,67 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–10
Plot: Street walker by night, devoted mother by day, a woman fights to get her young son an education amid criminal and social injustice in China.
ICheckMovies: 685 Checks , 70 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany (807,01 Pts, 21 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–13
Plot: After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that...
ICheckMovies: 1097 Checks , 109 Favourites , 11 Official listsList of 21 Voters:
Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch
Country: Germany (807,41 Pts, 13 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–5–10
Plot: Forced into marriage by his uncle, a man decides to fool him by marrying a life-like mechanical doll instead.
ICheckMovies: 839 Checks , 93 Favourites , 6 Official listsList of 13 Voters:
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
Country: USA (811,65 Pts, 17 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–12
Plot: A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
ICheckMovies: 2475 Checks , 170 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 17 Voters:
Directed by: Buster Keaton
Country: USA (816,66 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–14
Plot: A man learns he will inherit a fortune if he marries by 7 p.m. that same day.
ICheckMovies: 2832 Checks , 252 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Rupert Julian; Ernst Laemmle; Lon Chaney; Edward Sedgwick
Country: USA (826,9 Pts, 15 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–12
Plot: A mad, disfigured composer seeks love with a lovely young opera singer.
ICheckMovies: 9264 Checks , 269 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 15 Voters:
Directed by: Louis Feuillade
Country: France (857,32 Pts, 18 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–3–11
Plot: An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
ICheckMovies: 2050 Checks , 136 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 18 Voters:
Directed by: D.W. Griffith
Country: USA (869,42 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–4–12
Plot: A frail waif, abused by her brutal boxer father in London's seedy Limehouse District, is befriended by a sensitive Chinese immigrant with tragic consequences.
ICheckMovies: 3337 Checks , 205 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Wladyslaw Starewicz
Country: Russia (875,13 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–13
Plot: Mr Beetle seeks companionship from a statuesque dragonfly dancer, unaware that her ex-boyfriend, a slender grasshopper and an industrious cameraman, watches their every move. Will Mrs Beetle forgive him? Will he get away with adultery?
ICheckMovies: 1744 Checks , 147 Favourites , 4 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Donald Crisp; Buster Keaton
Country: USA (876 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–14
Plot: Two spoiled rich people find themselves trapped on an empty passenger ship.
ICheckMovies: 2980 Checks , 202 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
Directed by: Dimitri Kirsanoff
Country: France (888,43 Pts, 21 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–14
Plot: A couple is brutally murdered in the working-class district of Paris. Later on, the narrative follows the lives of their two daughters, both in love with a Parisian thug and leading them to separate ways.
ICheckMovies: 1135 Checks , 143 Favourites , 6 Official listsList of 21 Voters:
Directed by: John G. Blystone; Buster Keaton
Country: USA (908,74 Pts, 18 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–15
Plot: A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
ICheckMovies: 3641 Checks , 285 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 18 Voters:
Directed by: Abel Gance
Country: France (919,14 Pts, 18 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–13
Plot: A railway engineer adopts a young girl orphaned by a train crash. Years later when she starts getting suitors, he grapples with whether or not to tell her the truth about her parentage.
ICheckMovies: 784 Checks , 85 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 18 Voters:
Directed by: Tod Browning
Country: USA (929,13 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–14
Plot: A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
ICheckMovies: 2389 Checks , 214 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA (944 Pts, 22 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–16
Plot: A blue-collar worker on New York's depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.
ICheckMovies: 1661 Checks , 135 Favourites , 9 Official listsList of 22 Voters:
Directed by: Pál Fejös
Country: USA (966,04 Pts, 22 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–13
Plot: Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together. Will they ever see each other again?
ICheckMovies: 861 Checks , 121 Favourites , 9 Official listsList of 22 Voters:
Directed by: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast; William A. Wellman
Country: USA (967,01 Pts, 23 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–14
Plot: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
ICheckMovies: 2407 Checks , 148 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 23 Voters:
Directed by: Lotte Reiniger; Carl Koch
Country: Germany (967,78 Pts, 19 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–14
Plot: A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
ICheckMovies: 2463 Checks , 240 Favourites , 11 Official listsList of 19 Voters:
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany (971,51 Pts, 23 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 2–4–12
Plot: Siegfried, son of King Sigmund, hears of the beautiful sister of Gunter, King of Worms, Kriemhild. On his way to Worms, he kills a dragon and finds a treasure, the Hort. He helps Gunther to...
ICheckMovies: 1438 Checks , 165 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 23 Voters:
Directed by: Jean Epstein
Country: France (1014,94 Pts, 17 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–13
Plot: Marie wants to escape from her job and also from her lover, Paul, an unemployed drunk. She dreams of going off with Jean, a dockworker. The two men quarrel and fight over Marie on two ...
ICheckMovies: 444 Checks , 50 Favourites , 4 Official listsList of 17 Voters:
Directed by: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Country: Japan (1016,79 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–2–15
Plot: A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.
ICheckMovies: 1018 Checks , 120 Favourites , 11 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
Directed by: Yasujirô Ozu
Country: Japan (1018,65 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–4–12
Plot: Two young brothers throw a tantrum when they discover that their father isn't the most important man in his workplace.
ICheckMovies: 1302 Checks , 131 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
Directed by: Jean Epstein
Country: France (1038,8 Pts, 16 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–5–14
Plot: Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.
ICheckMovies: 1341 Checks , 123 Favourites , 9 Official listsList of 16 Voters:
Directed by: Edward F. Cline; Buster Keaton
Country: USA (1042,88 Pts, 23 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–17
Plot: A newly wedded couple attempts to build a house with a prefabricated kit, unaware that a rival sabotaged the kit's component numbering.
ICheckMovies: 3746 Checks , 385 Favourites , 10 Official listsList of 23 Voters:
Directed by: Benjamin Christensen
Country: Sweden, Denmark (1053,65 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–3–13
Plot: Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
ICheckMovies: 3872 Checks , 313 Favourites , 15 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: Josef von Sternberg
Country: USA (1125,65 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–4–17
Plot: A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.
ICheckMovies: 942 Checks , 122 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: Fritz Lang
Country: Germany (1164,93 Pts, 23 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–17
Plot: Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
ICheckMovies: 2362 Checks , 196 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 23 Voters:
Directed by: Edward Sedgwick; Buster Keaton
Country: USA (1168,11 Pts, 24 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–1–19
Plot: Hopelessly in love with a woman working at MGM Studios, a clumsy man attempts to become a motion picture cameraman to be close to the object of his desire.
ICheckMovies: 3472 Checks , 345 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 24 Voters:
Directed by: F.W. Murnau
Country: USA (1194,59 Pts, 23 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 1–6–18
Plot: A Chicago waitress falls in love with a Minnesota farmer, and decides to face a life in the country.
ICheckMovies: 909 Checks , 117 Favourites , 5 Official listsList of 23 Voters:
Directed by: King Vidor; George W. Hill
Country: USA (1198,06 Pts, 19 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–7–16
Plot: A young American soldier witnesses the horrors of the Great War.
ICheckMovies: 1855 Checks , 183 Favourites , 13 Official listsList of 19 Voters:
Directed by: Charles Reisner; Buster Keaton
Country: USA (1222,72 Pts, 29 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–0–20
Plot: The effete son of a cantankerous riverboat captain comes to join his father's crew.
ICheckMovies: 4916 Checks , 385 Favourites , 12 Official listsList of 29 Voters:
Directed by: Mario Peixoto
Country: Brazil (1223,53 Pts, 20 Votes) , Top 1–10-50: 0–6–16
Plot: Three people sail aimlessly while remembering their past.
ICheckMovies: 747 Checks , 81 Favourites , 8 Official listsList of 20 Voters:
