No Academy Award this year — the formula crowns:
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Dir. Victor Sjöström · Victor Sjöström · Bergliot Husberg · August Falck · Edith Erastoff
Terje Vigen, a sailor, suffers the loss of his family through the inflexibility of another man. Years later, when his enemy's family finds itself dependent on his benevolence, Terje must decide whether to avenge himself.
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Dir. Yevgeni Bauer · Vera Karalli · Aleksandr Kheruvimov · Vitold Polonsky · Andrey Gromov
After being betrayed by her playboy lover, a heartbroken mute young woman joins a ballet company; during a performance of “The Dying Swan,” she enraptures a painter obsessed with portraying death genuinely.
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Dir. Maurice Tourneur · Mary Pickford · Madlaine Traverse · Charles Wellesley · Gladys Fairbanks
Gwen's family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant's irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.
How scoring works: films are ranked by a composite of a weighted (Bayesian) IMDb rating — the same method as the IMDb Top 250, so a high score from few voters can't outrank a strong score from many — blended with TMDB. Box office is a tiebreaker and a badge, never part of the score. Raw IMDb ratings and vote counts are shown on each card.