Top Movies of 1920s


The top movies of 1920s list is calculated by community movie ratings and members' "Top Movies List". Lists are updated daily.

61. Robin Hood

Year of Release: 1922
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Adventure/Romance
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Allan Dwan
Actors: Wallace Beery, Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey, William Lowery

62. 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.

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. The Wedding March

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.8 out of 4 stars
Language: English
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Erich von Stroheim
Actors: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, Matthew Betz, Zasu Pitts, George Fawcett, Maude George

66. 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

67. 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

68. Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge, Die ( Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache, Die )

Year of Release: 1928
Overall Rating: 2.7 out of 4 stars
Language: German
Genre: Drama/Fantasy
MPAA Rating: NR
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos, Hans Carl Mueller, Erwin Biswanger, Bernhard Goetzke
Plot: After Siegfried's dead, Kriemhild marries Etzel, the King of the Huns. She gives birth to a child, and invites her brothers for a party. She tries to persuade Etzel and the other Huns, that they kill Hagen, the murderer of Siegfried, but he is protected by her brothers. A fierce battle begins to force her brothers to give Hagen to her.

69. 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.

70. 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.

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