He Who Gets Slapped (1924), Flesh and the Devil (1926), Sparrows (1926), Smouldering Fires (1925), The Rag Man (1925), The White Sister (1923), The Temptress (1926), The Little Match Girl (1928) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best 1920s Cinema movies.
Storyline: Story of an inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns. He falls in love with another circus performer, and those who betrayed him enter his life yet again.—Robert Tonsing <rtonsing@ti.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, tragedy, circus, betrayal, revenge, psychological ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Leo and Ulrich are life long friends. Home, on leave from their military training, Leo sees the beautiful Felicitas at the railroad station. Awed by her beauty, they meet again at the ball and quietly leave together. In her room, her husband, about whom she has neglected to inform Leo, comes in and challenges Leo to a duel. The duel is done, the Count is killed and Felicitas is a widow. Leo, however, is 'requested' to serve 5 years in Africa and he tells Ulrich to watch over Felicitas while he is gone. After 3 years, Ulrich is able to get a pardon for Leo and all that Leo thinks about on the way home is Felicitas. When he arrives, he learns that Felicitas has married Ulrich. Felicitas likes that Ulrich is rich and she never told Ulrich the truth about Leo and her. Leo is crushed and does not visit them which saddens Ulrich as he does not know the reason why. Leo tries to stay away from her, but Felicitas uses every opportunity to tempt him to return to her as her lover. She creating a deadly triangle with the two life long friends.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, romance, drama, melodrama, black and white, love triangle, forbidden love ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Evil Mr.Grimes keeps a rag-tag bunch orphans on his farm deep in a swamp in the US South. He forces them to work in his garden and treats them like slaves. They are watched over by the eldest, Molly. A gang in league with Mr. Grimes kidnaps Doris, the beautiful little daughter of a rich man, and hides her out on Grimes' farm, awaiting ransom. When the police close in, and Mr. Grimes threatens to throw Doris into the bottomless mire, Molly must lead her little flock out through the alligator-infested swamp.—John Oswalt <jao@jao.com>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, kidnapping, rescue, orphans, melodrama, classic hollywood ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A successful businesswoman falls in love with one of her (much younger) factory workers. She doesn't know that he is in love with her younger sister.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, melodrama, classic hollywood, love triangle, social class ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to roam the streets of New York freely. He meets Max Ginsberg, an old Jewish junk dealer with rheumatism, and the two strike a partnership and a close friendship.—page8701
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, comedy, family business, father-son relationship, poverty, street life ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Lillian Gish is the daughter of a rich Italian count who is killed in a fall from his horse. Though Lillian stands to inherit a large estate, her older half-sister burns the will and thus inherits the property herself, throwing Lillian into poverty. Fortunately, she is engaged to marry the dashing officer Ronald Coleman, but he is captured by Arabs on an expedition to Africa. Dedicating her life to his memory, Lillian becomes a nun, unaware that her lover has escaped his captors and returning to Italy! The climax takes place against a backdrop of the eruption of Mount Vesuvius.—Ed Lengel <egl2r@faraday.clas.virginia.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, religious, tragedy, black and white, melodrama ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a masked ball in Paris, Manuel Robledo, a young Argentinian architect, meets Elena, the Marquess of Torre Blanca. Later, the young woman is rightly accused causing the misfortune and loss of wealth of Fontenoy, a man who fell for her charms. To escape social criticism, the Marquis of Torre Blanca transfers his residence to Argentina. There, Elena meets again Manuel, when he is building a river's dam. Manos Duras, a thug, harasses Elena, and when Manuel intervenes, he defies him to a whip duel. The duel is long and vicious, both men suffering many cuts on their faces and naked chests, but in the end, the thug is vanquished and humiliated. Manos Duras sets up an ambush to murder Manuel, but the Marquis of Torre Blanca is killed instead. Now, there only two men in love for Elena, the eternal temptress^Å—Artemis-9
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, romance, tragedy, temptation, moral dilemma, female protagonist ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: On New Year's Eve, a beautiful but penniless young woman (Catherine Hessling) trudges through the snowy streets of Paris attempting to sell matches to the wealthy passers-by. After staring longingly into the windows of restaurants at the safe and warm patrons within, the match girl attempts to escape the snow and cold by huddling into a corner near a toy shop. As the girl tries to warm herself with her matches, the shop's window display comes alive and beckons her into a fantasy world.
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, short film, black and white, tragedy, poverty, holiday film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Charles Abbott is a wealthy adventurer in Cuba of the 1850s. He is in love with Narcissa but goes after La Clavel to obtain information on the Spanish. He becomes implicated in the death of his friend Escobar, brother of Narcissa.—Ed Stephan <stephan@cc.wwu.edu>
Plot Keywords: silent film, drama, historical, romance, adventure, war, revolution ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A boy (Buster Keaton) loves a girl (Margaret Leahy) in parallel stories set in the Stone Age, ancient Rome and modern times.
Plot Keywords: comedy, silent film, history, romance, ancient rome, parody, satire ...
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