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Your #1 was Metropolis (#1).
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Dir. Fritz Lang · Gustav Fröhlich · Brigitte Helm · Alfred Abel · Rudolf Klein-Rogge
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
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Dir. F. W. Murnau · George O'Brien · Janet Gaynor · Margaret Livingston · Bodil Rosing
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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Dir. Abel Gance · Albert Dieudonné · Nicolas Roudenko · Edmond van Daële · Alexandre Koubitzky
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
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Dir. Tod Browning · Lon Chaney · Norman Kerry · Joan Crawford · Nick De Ruiz
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder—a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.
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Dir. William A. Wellman · Clara Bow · Charles 'Buddy' Rogers · Richard Arlen · Jobyna Ralston
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.
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Dir. Alfred Hitchcock · Ivor Novello · Marie Ault · Arthur Chesney · June Tripp
London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.
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Dir. Frank Borzage · Janet Gaynor · Charles Farrell · Albert Gran · David Butler
In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.
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Dir. Ted Wilde · Harold Lloyd · Jobyna Ralston · Walter James · Leo Willis
The timid youngest son of the most important family in town must use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and the love of a beautiful new woman in town.
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Dir. Josef von Sternberg · George Bancroft · Evelyn Brent · Clive Brook · Fred Kohler
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
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Dir. Clarence G. Badger · Clara Bow · Antonio Moreno · William Austin · Priscilla Bonner
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism -- the captivating personal quality otherwise known as "it."
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Dir. Paul Leni · Laura La Plante · Creighton Hale · Forrest Stanley · Tully Marshall
Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.
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Dir. James W. Horne · Buster Keaton · Anne Cornwall · Flora Bramley · Harold Goodwin
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
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Dir. Cecil B. DeMille · H.B. Warner · Dorothy Cumming · Ernest Torrence · Joseph Schildkraut
The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.
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Dir. Ernst Lubitsch · Ramon Novarro · Norma Shearer · Jean Hersholt · Gustav von Seyffertitz
A young prince falls in love with a beautiful barmaid while at university in old Heidelberg.
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Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin · Aleksandr Chistyakov · Vera Baranovskaya · Ivan Chuvelyov · Vladimir Obolenskiy
Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.
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Dir. Alan Crosland · Al Jolson · May McAvoy · Warner Oland · Eugenie Besserer
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.
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