No Academy Award this year — the formula crowns:
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Dir. F. W. Murnau · Max Schreck · Gustav von Wangenheim · Greta Schröder · Georg H. Schnell
The mysterious Count Orlok summons a happily married real estate agent to his castle, located up in the Transylvanian mountains, to finalise a terrifying deal.
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Rudolf Klein-Rogge · Aud Egede-Nissen · Gertrude Welcker · Alfred Abel
Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.
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Dir. F. W. Murnau · Alfred Abel · Grete Berger · Lil Dagover · Lya De Putti
Lorenz Lubota is a city clerk with no direction in life. One day on his way to work he is run over by a woman driving a chariot and he is immediately infatuated with her.
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Dir. Erich von Stroheim · Erich von Stroheim · Rudolph Christians · Miss DuPont · Maude George
A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer · Harold Lloyd · Mildred Davis · Anna Townsend · Charles Stevenson
A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his hometown.
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Dir. Allan Dwan · Douglas Fairbanks · Enid Bennett · Wallace Beery · Sam De Grasse
Amid big-budget medieval pageantry, King Richard goes on the Crusades leaving his brother Prince John as regent, who promptly emerges as a cruel, grasping, treacherous tyrant. Apprised of England's peril by message from his lady-love Marian, the dashing Earl of Huntingdon endangers his life and honor by returning to oppose John, but finds himself and his friends outlawed, with Marian apparently dead. Enter Robin Hood, acrobatic champion of the oppressed, laboring to set things right through swashbuckling feats and cliffhanging perils!
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Dir. Sam Taylor · Harold Lloyd · Mildred Davis · John T. Prince · Eric Mayne
Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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Dir. Sam Wood · Rudolph Valentino · Gloria Swanson · Edythe Chapman · Alec B. Francis
A young woman dutifully marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman-- who'd previously saved her life-- on her unhappy honeymoon.
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Dir. Fred Niblo · Rudolph Valentino · Nita Naldi · Walter Long · Lila Lee
Juan is the son of a poor widow in Seville. Against his mother's wishes he pursues a career as toreador. He rapidly gains national prominence, and takes his childhood sweetheart Carmen as his bride. He meets the Marquis' daughter Doña Sol and finds himself in the awkward position of being in love with two women, which threatens the stability of his family and his position in society. He finds interesting parallels in the life of the infamous bandit Plumitas when they eventually meet by chance.
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.