No Academy Award this year — the formula crowns:
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Dir. Charlie Chaplin · Charlie Chaplin · Mack Swain · Tom Murray · Henry Bergman
A gold prospector in Alaska struggles to survive the elements and win the heart of a dance hall girl.
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Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · Aleksandr Antonov · Vladimir Barsky · Grigori Aleksandrov · Ivan Bobrov
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre.
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Dir. Buster Keaton · Buster Keaton · T. Roy Barnes · Snitz Edwards · Ruth Dwyer
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
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Dir. Rupert Julian · Lon Chaney · Norman Kerry · Mary Philbin · Arthur Edmund Carewe
The deformed Phantom who haunts the Paris Opera House causes murder and mayhem in an attempt to make the woman he loves a star.
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Dir. King Vidor · John Gilbert · Renée Adorée · Hobart Bosworth · Claire McDowell
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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Dir. Sergei Eisenstein · Maksim Shtraukh · Grigori Aleksandrov · Mikhail Gomorov · Ivan Klyukvin
Workers in a factory in pre-revolutionary Russia go on strike and are met by violent suppression.
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Dir. Fred Niblo · Ramon Novarro · Francis X. Bushman · May McAvoy · Betty Bronson
Erstwhile childhood friends, Judah Ben-Hur and Messala meet again as adults, this time with Roman officer Messala as conqueror and Judah as a wealthy, though conquered, Israelite. A slip of a brick during a Roman parade causes Judah to be sent off as a galley slave, his property confiscated and his mother and sister imprisoned. Years later, as a result of his determination to stay alive and his willingness to aid his Roman master, Judah returns to his homeland an exalted and wealthy Roman athlete. Unable to find his mother and sister, and believing them dead, he can think of nothing else than revenge against Messala.
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Dir. Fred C. Newmeyer · Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Brooks Benedict · Hazel Keener
An unathletic college freshman ridiculed by his peers for his mannerisms strives to become popular by making the football team.
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Dir. F. W. Murnau · Emil Jannings · Werner Krauss · Lil Dagover · Hermann Picha
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.
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Dir. Buster Keaton · Buster Keaton · Howard Truesdale · Kathleen Myers · Ray Thompson
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
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Dir. Harry O. Hoyt · Bessie Love · Lewis Stone · Wallace Beery · Lloyd Hughes
The first film adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic novel about a land where prehistoric creatures still roam.
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Dir. Carl Theodor Dreyer · Johannes Meyer · Astrid Holm · Karin Nellemose · Mathilde Nielsen
When a man becomes tyrannical towards his family, the women of the house decide to teach him a lesson in gratitude.
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Dir. René Clair · Henri Rollan · Madeleine Rodrigue · Albert Préjean · Charles Martinelli
A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
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Dir. Tod Browning · Lon Chaney · Mae Busch · Matt Moore · Victor McLaglen
Three sideshow performers form a conspiracy known as "The Unholy Three" - a ventriloquist, midget, and strongman working together to commit a series of robberies.
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Dir. Erich von Stroheim · Mae Murray · John Gilbert · Roy D'Arcy · Josephine Crowell
Prince Danilo falls in love with dancer Sally O'Hara. However, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids the marriage due to her being a commoner. Thinking she's been jilted by her prince, Sally marries lecherous old Baron Sadoja, whose wealth has kept the kingdom afloat. When he suddenly dies, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.
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.