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What are your favorite silent movies?

posted 18 years ago by masterofmydomain78
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My top 50

1-Sunrise (Murnau)
2-The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Dreyer)
3-Metropolis (Lang)
4-The General (Keaton/Bruckman)
5-City Lights (Chaplin)
6-Greed (Stroheim)
7-Nosferatu (Murnau)
8-Intolerance (Griffith)
9-The Gold Rush (Chaplin)
10-Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein)
11-The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari (Wiene)
12-Napoleon (Gance)
13-Pandora’s Box (Pabst)
14-The Birth Of A Nation (Griffith)
15-The Navigator (Keaton/Crisp)
16-Destiny (Lang)
17-The Crowd (Vidor)
18-The Andalusian Dog (Buñuel)
19-A Trip To The Moon (Melies)
20-Sherlock Jr. (Keaton)
21-The Man With The Movie Camera (Vertov)
22-The Phantom Of The Opera (Julian)
23-The Wind (Sjostrom)
24-Nanook Of The North (Flaherty)
25-Safety Last (Newmeyer/Taylor)
26-The Mark Of Zorro (Niblo)
27-Dr. Mabuse (Lang)
28-Cops (Keaton/Cline)
29-The Last Laugh (Murnau)
30-Queen Kelly (Stroheim)
31-The Kid (Chaplin)
32-Faust (Murnau)
33-The Thief Of Bagdad (Walsh)
34-The Big Parade (Vidor)
35-The Lodger (Hitchcock)
36-Seven Chances (Keaton)
37-Mother (Pudovkin)
38-The Immigrant (Chaplin)
39-The Great Train Robbery (Porter)
40-Tabu (Murnau/Flaherty)
41-The Cameraman (Keaton/Sedgwick)
42-Strike (Eisenstein)
43-Broken Blossoms (Griffith)
44-Our Hospitality (Keaton/Blystone)
45-The Sheik (Melford)
46-The Golem (Wegener)
47-Steamboat Bill Jr. (Keaton/Reisner)
48-Haxan (Christensen)
49-The Student Of Prague (Galeen)
50-The Circus (Chaplin)

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[–] lisztnet 10 years ago

There is not even the Joyless street in you list.

[–] willowtara 10 years ago

Never seen it, been looking for it

[–] lisztnet 10 years ago

There are 2 versions, one is on YT i guess, i bought it by the Film Archiv Austria... the other one can be found easily too (E2dk) also a nice sound track, very different versions if i sum up.

I find it's Garbo's best (she said so), maybe with Grand Hotel...

[–] tobias_681 10 years ago

http://www.imdb.com/list/ls058836732/

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[–] irishm 8 years ago

Admittedly, I'm not that much of a silent movie fan, but I loved "Nosferatu" and I never get tired of re-watching it. I also really enjoyed Chaney's "Phantom of the Opera", "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", and several of the short films by Melies.

[–] SamoanJoes 8 years ago

The General
Sherlock Jr.
Seven Chances
The Cabinet Of Doctor Caligari