Top Movies of 1920s


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141. Destiny ( müde Tod, Der )

Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke, Hans Sternberg, Karl Rückert, Max Adalbert
Plot: The character of Death claims a young man whose time has come. His lover pleads for his return, and Death gives her three chances to reclaim him by saving one other life that is due to end. The film presents the outer story of Death and the two lovers and the three inner stories of her attempts to prevent another death.

142. Sadie Thompson

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Raoul Walsh
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley, James A. Marcus, Blanche Friderici

143. Convict 13

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts, Edward F. Cline, Joe Keaton, Louise Keaton
Plot: A golfer finds himself in jail after being mistaken for an escaped convict. Things will change for him once he's inside prison.

144. Diary of a Lost Girl ( Tagebuch einer Verlorenen )

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Actors: Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Vera Pawlowa, Franziska Kinz
Plot: Follows the trials and tribulations of Thymian, a young woman from the upper class who finds her life torn asunder when a new governess moves in and she herself becomes pregnant by a pharmacist renting a business from her father, a scandal her family tries to cover up by sending the baby off and making her attend a reform school.

145. Bulldog Drummond

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.5 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: F. Richard Jones
Actors: Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge, Joan Bennett

146. The Egg

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Gilbert Pratt
Actors: Stan Laurel, Drin Moro, Colin Kenny, Tom Kennedy, Alfred Hollingsworth

147. The Toll Gate

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lambert Hillyer
Actors: William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson, Richard Headrick

148. The Scarecrow

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton

149. My Wife's Relations

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton

150. The Frozen North

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Sybil Seely, Bonnie Hill, Freeman Wood, Edward F. Cline
Plot: The story of a man living in a very cold, frozen, northern town.

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