Top Movies of 1920s


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61. Way Down East

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Lowell Sherman, Burr McIntosh, Porter Strong, Edgar Nelson
Plot: A callous, rich womanizer tricks a naive country girl into a sham marriage only to leave her after she becomes pregnant. The desperate woman must rebuild her life after suffering the indignity.

62. The Great K & A Train Robbery

Year of Release: 1926
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Action/Western
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Lewis Seiler
Actors: Tom Mix, Tony the Horse, Dorothy Dwan, Will Walling, Harry Gripp, Carl Miller
Plot: In order to bring down a gang of train robbers, a man poses undercover as a highwayman and brings the men down from the inside, along with the help of a hobo.

63. Nanook of the North

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Documentary
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Actors: Allakariallak, Nyla, Cunayou, Allee, Allegoo
Plot: Director Robert Flaherty follows Nanook and his family around for 1 Year.

64. Why Change Your Wife?

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Cecil B. DeMille
Actors: Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan, Bebe Daniels, Theodore Kosloff, Sylvia Ashton, Clarence Geldart

65. Golem, The ( Golem, wie er in die Welt kam, Der )

Year of Release: 1921
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Fantasy/Horror
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova, Ernst Deutsch, Hans Stürm, Max Kronert

66. The Covered Wagon

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James Cruze
Actors: J. Warren Kerrigan, Lois Wilson, Alan Hale, Ernest Torrence, Tully Marshall, Ethel Wales

67. College

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Sport
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: James W. Horne
Actors: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Carl Harbaugh
Plot: A young man goes to college and tries to impress the lady he's interested in.

68. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse

Year of Release: 1921
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Rex Ingram, Kevin Brownlow, David Gill
Actors: Pomeroy Cannon, Josef Swickard, Rudolph Valentino, Bridgetta Clark, Virginia Warwick, Alan Hale

69. Seven Chances

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Family
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: Buster Keaton
Actors: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Frances Raymond, Ruth Dwyer, Snitz Edwards, Erwin Connelly
Plot: A young man finds out that he will inherit a fortune if he gets married...
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70. Under Two Jags

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.0 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: George Jeske
Actors: Stan Laurel, Katherine Grant, Mae Laurel, Sammy Brooks, Charles Stevenson, William Gillespie

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