20 Greatest Movies of Each Year 1920s

Movie Posters for Metropolis, and Nosferatu
Criteria: The movies are ranked according to their initial and lasting acclaim, influence as well as initial and lasting popularity.

20 Greatest Movies of 1929

  #. Movie Title - (Directors Name)

1. Man with a Movie Camera
(Dziga Vertov)
2. Un chien andalou
(Luis Buñuel)
3. Pandora's Box
(G.W. Pabst)
4. The Broadway Melody
(Harry Beaumont)
5. Blackmail
(Alfred Hitchcock)
6. Hallelujah!
(King Vidor)
7. The Love Parade
(Ernst Lubitsch)
8. Diary of a Lost Girl
(G.W. Pabst)
9. The Cocoanuts
(Robert Florey & Joseph Santley)
10. Applause
(Rouben Mamoulian)
11. Woman in the Moon
(Fritz Lang)
12. Big Business
(James W. Horne & Leo McCarey)
13. Arsenal
(Alexander Dovzhenko)
14. Piccadilly
(E.A. Dupont)
15. The Skeleton Dance
(Walt Disney)
16. Gold Diggers of Broadway
(Roy Del Ruth)
17. Lucky Star
(Frank Borzage)
18. The General Line
(Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov)
19. A Cottage on Dartmoor
(Anthony Asquith)
20. Rain
(Mannus Franken & Joris Ivens)

20 Greatest Movies of 1928

The Passion of Joan of Arc movie poster
1. The Passion of Joan of Arc
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
2. The Crowd
(King Vidor)
3. Steamboat Willie
(Walt Disney & Ub Iwerks)
4. The Circus
(Charles Chaplin)
5. The Cameraman
(Buster Keaton & Edward Sedgwick)
6. Steamboat Bill, Jr.
(Buster Keaton & Charles Reisner)
7. The Wind
(Victor Sjöström)
8. October: Ten Days That Shook the World
(Sergei M. Eisenstein & Grigori Alexandrov)
9. The Last Command
(Josef von Sternberg)
10. In Old Arizona
(Irving Cummings)
11. The Docks of New York
(Josef von Sternberg)
12. The Man Who Laughs
(Paul Leni)
13. Fall of the House of Usher
(Jean Epstein)
14. Storm over Asia
(Vsevolod Pudovkin)
15. Show People
(King Vidor)
16. Street Angel
(Frank Borzage)
17. Spione
(Fritz Lang)
18. Sadie Thompson
(Raoul Walsh)
19. The Wedding March
(Erich von Stroheim)
20. Lonesome
(Paul Fejos)

20 Greatest Movies of 1927

Metropolis movie poster
1. Metropolis
(Fritz Lang)
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
(F.W. Murnau)
3. The Jazz Singer
(Alan Crosland)
4. Napoléon
(Abel Gance)
5. Wings
(William A. Wellman)
6. Seventh Heaven
(Frank Borzage)
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
(Alfred Hitchcock)
8. The Unknown
(Tod Browning)
9. Underworld
(Josef von Sternberg)
10. Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
(Walter Ruttmann)
11. It
(Clarence G. Badger & Josef von Sternberg)
12. The Kid Brother
(Ted Wilde & J.A. Howe)
13. The Cat and the Canary
(Paul Leni)
14. The King of Kings
(Cecil B. DeMille)
15. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg
(Ernst Lubitsch)
16. The End of St. Petersburg
(Vsevolod Pudovkin & Mikhail Doller)
17. My Best Girl
(Sam Taylor)
18. College
(Buster Keaton & James W. Horne)
19. The Girl with the Hat Box
(Boris Barnet)
20. The Battle of the Century
(Clyde Bruckman)

20 Greatest Movies of 1926

The General movie poster
1. The General
(Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman)
2. Faust
(F. W. Murnau)
3. Flesh and the Devil
(Clarence Brown)
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed
(Lotte Reiniger)
5. The Black Pirate
(Albert Parker)
6. Mother
(Vsevolod Pudovkin)
7. Don Juan
(Alan Crosland)
8. Ménilmontant
(Dimitri Kirsanoff)
9. A Page of Madness
(Teinosuke Kinugasa)
10. For Heaven's Sake
(Sam Taylor)
11. The Scarlet Letter
(Victor Sjöström)
12. Moana
(Robert J. Flaherty)
13. La Bohème
(King Vidor)
14. Sparrows
(William Beaudine)
15. What Price Glory?
(Raoul Walsh)
16. Battling Butler
(Buster Keaton)
17. The Son of the Sheik
(George Fitzmaurice)
18. The Winning of Barbara Worth
(Henry King)
19. 3 Bad Men
(John Ford)
20. By the Law
(Lev Kuleshov)

20 Greatest Movies of 1925

Battleship Potemkin movie poster
1. Battleship Potemkin
(Sergei M. Eisenstein)
2. The Gold Rush
(Charles Chaplin)
3. The Big Parade
(King Vidor)
4. The Phantom of the Opera
(Rupert Julian)
5. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
(Fred Niblo)
6. Strike
(Sergei M. Eisenstein)
7. Seven Chances
(Buster Keaton)
8. The Freshman
(Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
9. The Lost World
(Harry O. Hoyt)
10. The Merry Widow
(Erich von Stroheim)
11. Grass
(Merian C. Cooper & Ernest B. Schoedsack)
12. Lady Windermere's Fan
(Ernst Lubitsch)
13. The Unholy Three
(Tod Browning)
14. Joyless Street
(G.W. Pabst)
15. Variety
(E. A. Dupont)
16. Go West
(Buster Keaton)
17. Master of the House
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
18. Paris qui dort
(René Clair)
19. The Eagle
(Clarence Brown)
20. Stella Dallas
(Henry King)

20 Greatest Movies of 1924

Sherlock Jr. DVD cover
1. Sherlock Jr.
(Buster Keaton)
2. Greed
(Erich von Stroheim)
3. The Last Laugh
(F. W. Murnau)
4. The Thief of Bagdad
(Raoul Walsh)
5. The Navigator
(Buster Keaton & Donald Crisp)
6. Die Nibelungen: Siegfried
(Fritz Lang)
7. Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge
(Fritz Lang)
8. He Who Gets Slapped
(Victor Sjöström)
9. The Iron Horse
(John Ford)
10. Entr'acte
(René Clair)
11. Girl Shy
(Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
12. Michael
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
13. Peter Pan
(Herbert Brenon)
14. Ballet mécanique
(Fernand Léger)
15. The Marriage Circle
(Ernst Lubitsch)
16. The Saga of Gösta Berling
(Mauritz Stiller)
17. The Hands of Orlac
(Robert Wiene)
18. Kino Eye
(Dziga Vertov)
19. Aelita
(Yakov Protazanov)
20. Waxworks
(Paul Leni & Leo Birinski)

20 Greatest Movies of 1923

Safety Last! movie poster
1. Safety Last!
(Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
2. Our Hospitality
(Buster Keaton & John G. Blystone)
3. The Hunchback of Notre Dame
(Wallace Worsley)
4. La Roue
(Abel Gance)
5. The Ten Commandments
(Cecil B. DeMille)
6. A Woman of Paris
(Charles Chaplin)
7. Cœur fidèle
(Jean Epstein)
8. The Smiling Madame Beudet
(Germaine Dulac)
9. Three Ages
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
10. The Covered Wagon
(James Cruze)
11. Why Worry?
(Fred C. Newmeyer & Sam Taylor)
12. The Pilgrim
(Charles Chaplin)
13. Scaramouche
(Rex Ingram)
14. Little Old New York
(Sidney Olcott)
15. Warning Shadows
(Arthur Robison)
16. Merry-Go-Round
(Rupert Julian)
17. Flaming Youth
(John Francis Dillon)
18. The Extra Girl
(F. Richard Jones)
19. Souls for Sale
(Rupert Hughes)
20. Rosita
(Ernst Lubitsch)

20 Greatest Movies of 1922

Nosferatu movie poster
1. Nosferatu
(F.W. Murnau)
2. Nanook of the North
(Robert J. Flaherty)
3. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler Part One: The Great Gambler
(Fritz Lang)
4. Häxan
(Benjamin Christensen)
5. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler Part Two: Inferno
(Fritz Lang)
6. Foolish Wives
(Erich von Stroheim)
7. Cops
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
8. Robin Hood
(Allan Dwan)
9. Blood and Sand
(Fred Niblo)
10. Grandma's Boy
(Fred C. Newmeyer)
11. The Great White Silence
(Herbert G. Ponting)
12. Pay Day
(Charles Chaplin)
13. The Electric House
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
14. When Knighthood Was in Flower
(Robert G. Vignola)
15. Salomé
(Charles Bryant)
16. Phantom
(F.W. Murnau)
17. The Paleface
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
18. Crainquebille
(Jacques Feyder)
19. Dr. Jack
(Fred C. Newmeyer)
20. Beyond the Rocks
(Sam Wood)

20 Greatest Movies of 1921

The Kid movie poster
1. The Kid
(Charles Chaplin)
2. The Phantom Carriage
(Victor Sjöström)
3. The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
(Rex Ingram)
4. Destiny
(Fritz Lang)
5. Orphans of the Storm
(D.W. Griffith)
6. The Sheik
(George Melford)
7. Tol'able David
(Henry King)
8. The Playhouse
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
9. The Boat
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
10. The Three Musketeers
(Fred Niblo)
11. The High Sign
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
12. Manhatta
(Charles Sheeler & Paul Strand)
13. The Goat
(Buster Keaton & Malcolm St. Clair)
14. El Dorado
(Marcel L'Herbier)
15. The Idle Class
(Charles Chaplin)
16. Never Weaken
(Fred C. Newmeyer)
17. The Wildcat
(Ernst Lubitsch)
18. L'Atlantide
(Jacques Feyder)
19. A Sailor-Made Man
(Fred C. Newmeyer)
20. The Affairs of Anatol
(Cecil B. DeMille)

20 Greatest Movies of 1920

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari movie poster
1. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
(Robert Wiene)
2. Way Down East
(D. W. Griffith)
3. One Week
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
4. The Golem: How He Came into the World
(Paul Wegener & Carl Boese)
5. The Mark of Zorro
(Fred Niblo)
6. Within Our Gates
(Oscar Micheaux)
7. Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
(John S. Robertson)
8. The Last of the Mohicans
(Maurice Tourneur & Clarence Brown)
9. The Penalty
(Wallace Worsley)
10. The Parson's Widow
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
11. Erotikon
(Mauritz Stiller)
12. The Scarecrow
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
13. Anna Boleyn
(Ernst Lubitsch)
14. L'homme du large
(Marcel L'Herbier)
15. Neighbors
(Buster Keaton & Edward F. Cline)
16. The Flapper
(Alan Crosland)
17. Humoresque
(Frank Borzage)
18. Pollyanna
(Paul Powell)
19. Leaves from Satan's Book
(Carl Theodor Dreyer)
20. From Morn to Midnight
(Karlheinz Martin)
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Last Updated: 2023-04-17

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