Top Movies of 1920s


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81. Beyond the Rocks

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sam Wood
Actors: Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder, Gertrude Astor

82. Why Worry?

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Comedy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Actors: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, John Aasen, Wallace Howe, Jim Mason, Leo White

83. My Best Girl

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Comedy/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sam Taylor
Actors: Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield, Carmelita Geraghty, Hobart Bosworth

84. The Jazz Singer

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Musical/Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Alan Crosland
Actors: Al Jolson, Eugenie Besserer, Warner Oland, May McAvoy, Robert Gordon, Otto Lederer
Plot: A run away Jewish man who goes against his family heritage is given the opportunity to be become a jazz singer. He tries to balance his relationships but must make choices that many may or may not like to make. The first talking movie.

85. Strike ( Stachka )

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: Russian
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Actors: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov, Ivan Klyukvin, Yudif Glizer
Plot: In Czarist Russia, a worker's suicide sparks a factory strike. The people are at first excited and exuberant that their demands will be met. Yet as time goes by, management refuses to budge and mounting hunger and pressure from local from bureaucrats dampen spirits until at last the military is brought in.

86. Spies ( Spione )

Year of Release: 1929
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Thriller
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph, Craighall Sherry, Willy Fritsch

87. The Mark of Zorro

Year of Release: 1920
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fred Niblo
Actors: Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Robert McKim, Claire McDowell, Walt Whitman
Plot: In old Spanish California, the oppressive colonial government is opposed by Zorro, masked champion of the people, who appears out of nowhere with flashing sword, scarring the faces of evildoers with his Mark. Meanwhile, beautiful Lolita is courted by villainous Captain Ramon, rich but effete Don Diego... and dashing Zorro. As Zorro continues to evade pursuit, Ramon puts the damsel in distress...

88. The Cat and the Canary

Year of Release: 1927
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Horror/Mystery
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Paul Leni
Actors: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor, Flora Finch
Plot: Young Anabelle West is set to inherit a fortune from her eccentric
relative -- if she can prove that she is sane! In the event that she
cannot inherit the money, another relative, whose identity is kept secret,
will step in to take her place.

89. The Lost World

Year of Release: 1925
Overall Rating: 2.6 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Actors: Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett, Arthur Hoyt

90. Return to Reason ( retour à la raison, Le )

Year of Release: 1923
Overall Rating: 3.2 out of 4 stars
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Man Ray
Actors: Kiki of Montparnasse
Plot: Man Ray rejected the common idea of having characters and a plot in this Surrealist short.

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