No Academy Award this year — the formula crowns:
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Dir. Abel Gance · Romuald Joubé · Séverin-Mars · Maryse Dauvray · Maxime Desjardins
The story of two men, one married, the other the lover of the other's wife, who meet in the trenches of the First World War, and how their tale becomes a microcosm for the horrors of war.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Ossi Oswalda · Victor Janson · Hermann Thimig · Max Kronert
The misadventures of an effete young man who must get married in order to inherit a fortune. He opts to purchase a remarkably lifelike doll and marry it instead, not realizing that the doll is actually the dollmaker’s flesh-and-blood daughter in disguise.
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Dir. D.W. Griffith · Lillian Gish · Richard Barthelmess · Donald Crisp · Arthur Howard
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
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Dir. Richard Oswald · Conrad Veidt · Anita Berber · Magnus Hirschfeld · Reinhold Schünzel
Conrad Veidt plays a famous musician who is blackmailed for being gay. Eventually he stands trial and is convicted. At the end the film pleads for the abolition of §175 (the law that punishes homosexuality).
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Dir. D.W. Griffith · Lillian Gish · Robert Harron · Wilbur Higby · Loyola O'Connor
Susie secretly loves her neighbor, William Jenkins, but neither, it seems, can confess their feelings for each other.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Victor Janson · Ossi Oswalda · Harry Liedtke · Julius Falkenstein
A pampered American oyster tycoon decides to buy a husband for his daughter, but things don’t go quite as planned. Along the way there are mishaps, misunderstandings and a foxtrot sequence that must be seen to be believed.
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Dir. Cecil B. DeMille · Thomas Meighan · Gloria Swanson · Lila Lee · Theodore Roberts
When an aristocratic family and their servants are shipwrecked, the butler becomes their ruler.
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Dir. Mauritz Stiller · Richard Lund · Hjalmar Selander · Concordia Selander · Mary Johnson
Three Scottish officers, including Sir Archi, murder Sir Arne and his household for a coffin filled with gold. The only survivor is Elsalill, who moves to relatives in Marstrand. There she meets a charming young officer- Sir Archi- and she soon understands that he was one of the murderers.
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Dir. Erich von Stroheim · Erich von Stroheim · Gibson Gowland · Sam De Grasse · Francelia Billington
An Austrian military officer and rogue attempts to seduce the wife of a surgeon. The two men confront each other in a test of abilities that ends surprisingly.
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Dir. Victor Fleming · Douglas Fairbanks · Albert MacQuarrie · Kathleen Clifford · Frank Campeau
Daniel Boone Brown is a pleasure-seeking playboy carousing around New York City without a care in the world -- that is, until he becomes the unwitting subject of a series of experiments at the hands of a sadistic psychiatrist. Through various means of control, the mad scientist drives Daniel to think he's losing his mind, but ultimately introduces him to the lovely Lucette.
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Dir. Marshall Neilan · Mary Pickford · Milla Davenport · Percy Haswell · Fay Lemport
Wealthy Jarvis Pendleton acts as benefactor for orphan Judy Abbott, anonymously sponsoring her in her boarding school. But as she grows up, he finds himself falling in love with her, and she with him, though she does not know that the man she has fallen for is her benefactor.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Pola Negri · Emil Jannings · Harry Liedtke · Reinhold Schünzel
The story of Madame DuBarry, the mistress of Louis XV of France, and her loves in the time of the French revolution.
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Dir. Sidney Franklin · Mary Pickford · Ralph Lewis · Kenneth Harlan · T.D. Crittenden
A spoiled young rich girl is forced by misfortune to fight for survival in the slums and alleys, where she becomes involved with all manner of unpleasantness.
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Dir. Cecil B. DeMille · Elliott Dexter · Gloria Swanson · Lew Cody · Sylvia Ashton
Leila Porter comes to dislike her husband James, a glue king who is always eating onions and looking sloppy. But after she divorces him and marries two-timing playboy Schuyler Van Sutphen the now-reformed James looks pretty good.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Carl de Vogt · Ressel Orla · Georg John · Lil Dagover
In San Francisco, well-known sportsman Kay Hoog announces to a club that he has found a message in a bottle with a map drawn by a Harvard professor who has gone missing. The map tells of a lost Incan civilization that possesses an immense treasure. Hoog immediately plans an expedition to find it. But Lio Sha, the head of a criminal organization known as the Spiders, is determined to get the treasure for herself and plans a rival expedition.
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.