11. Safety Last!
Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Mildred Davis, Harold Lloyd, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Bill Strother
Plot: A sales associate puts on a bet about climbing the building on the outside which creates consequences unknown from the beginning. Silent.
12. Sherlock Jr.
Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Erwin Connelly, Ward Crane
Plot: A movie projectionist dreams of being a detective.
13. The Phantom of the Opera
Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rupert Julian
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Gibson Gowland, John St. Polis
Plot: The Opera of Paris is visited by a mysterious phantom (Lon Chaney) who has his eye on the famous singer - but after frightening her away, an ingenue, Christine Daae is brought in and becomes intrigued by the phantom living in the catacombs and his reason for staying.
14. Greed
Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Actors: Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt, Dale Fuller, Zasu Pitts, Tempe Pigott, Sylvia Ashton
Plot: The lives of three people are forever altered when a winning lottery ticket brings out the greed and destroys all they have worked for.
15. Faust ( Faust - Eine deutsche Volkssage )
Year of Release: 1926
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert
Plot: The classic story brought to life by F.W. Murnau as God and Satan battle for the souls of earth, they wager on one man's soul: Faust. Mephisto is sent to corrupt the learned man's soul - as a plague ravages his town, Faust searches for a cure in vain - but Mephisto arrives with insight into a cure and later tempts him with youth.
16. Man with a Movie Camera, The ( Chelovek s kino-apparatom )
Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Dziga Vertov
Plot: In this inventive documentary we follow a man documenting a typical day in the Soviet Union... while also documenting the making of that documentary.
17. The Circus
Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Chaplin
Actors: Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, George Davis, Harry Crocker, Tiny Sandford
Plot: The Tramp accidentally gets in trouble with the law by a pickpocket. He then stumbles into a Circus wherein he becomes a star. Merna sees the Tramp and eventually become friends. He falls for her but she falls for a handsome tightrope walker.
18. Phantom Carriage, The ( Körkarlen )
Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: Swedish
Genre: Drama/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Victor Sjöström
Actors: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg, Astrid Holm, Concordia Selander, Lisa Lundholm
19. Girl Shy
Year of Release: 1924
Overall Rating: 3.1 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Richard Daniels, Carlton Griffin
Plot: A shy, young man who finds it incredibly difficult to talk to women, none-the-less pens a novel for bachelors: "The Secret of Making Love". When he finds himself falling for a rich woman - it seems it is too late, as she is already betrothed - but a daring stunt may prove he is the true love after all.
20. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.9 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Family/Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Charles Reisner
Actors: Tom McGuire, Buster Keaton, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron, Ernest Torrence
Plot: A sailor meets his son for the first time... and he turns out to be a huge disappointment.
