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F.W. Murnau • Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston
Drama • Marriage Drama • Melodrama
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Carl Theodor Dreyer • Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Courtroom Drama
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Clyde Bruckman, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender
Action Comedy • Action • Comedy
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy
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Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton
Action Comedy • Comedy • Crime Comedy
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan
Drama • Silent Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Alfred Abel, Heinrich George, Fritz Alberti
Cyberpunk / Tech Noir • Cyborg / Android / Robot • Dystopian Film
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother
Adventure Comedy • Adventure • Comedy of Errors
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder
Costume Horror • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
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Robert Wiene • Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher
Costume Horror • German Expressionist Film • Gothic Film
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
Drama • Fairy Tales and Legends • Fantasy
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Charles Chaplin • Starring: George Davis, Al Ernest Garcia, Charles Chaplin
Adventure • Romance • Romantic Adventure
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Dziga Vertov • Starring: Mikhail Kaufman
Avant-garde / Experimental • City Symphony film • Culture and Society
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Charles Reisner • Starring: Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence
Action Comedy • Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy
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Edward Sedgwick • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sidney Bracey, Dick Alexander
Comedy • Romance • Romantic Comedy
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Silent Film
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Psychological Drama
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Crime Drama • Crime • Drama
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F.W. Murnau • Starring: Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn
Drama • Fantasy • Foreign Language Film
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John G. Blystone, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Joe Roberts, Natalie Talmadge
Adventure Comedy • Comedy • Romance
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Benjamin Christensen • Starring: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio
Docudrama • Documentary • Drama
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Abel Gance • Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Edmond Van Daële, Gina Manès
Based-on-a-True-Story • Biopic • Drama
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King Vidor • Starring: James Murray, Bert Roach, Daniel G. Tomlinson
Drama • Psychological Drama • Romance
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Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes, Snitz Edwards
Comedy of Errors • Comedy • Romance
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Erich von Stroheim • Starring: ZaSu Pitts, Gibson Gowland, Jean Hersholt
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Luis Buñuel • Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel
Avant-garde / Experimental • Mindbender • Satire
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Rupert Julian • Starring: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Costume Horror • Gothic Film
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Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Fredereick Vroom
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Tod Browning • Starring: Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry
Drama • Horror • Romance
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Action • Adventure • Combat Films
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede Nissen, Gertrude Welcker
Crime • Foreign Language Film • Police Detective Film
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King Vidor • Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth
Anti-War Film • Drama • Romance
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Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton • Starring: Buster Keaton, Sybil Seely, Joe Roberts
Comedy • Short Film • Silent Film
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Brooks Benedict, Harold Lloyd, James Anderson
Comedy • Family-Oriented Comedy • Silent Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Gertrud Arnold, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph
Adventure • Fantasy Adventure • Fantasy
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Victor Sjöström • Starring: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love
Drama • Psychological Drama • Silent Film
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Lotte Reiniger
Adventure • Animation • Fairy Tales and Legends
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Raoul Walsh • Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston
Adventure • Costume Adventure • Fantasy Adventure
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Alfred Hitchcock • Starring: Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June
Crime • Horror • Psychological Horror
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Paul Leni • Starring: Conrad Veidt, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell
Adventure Drama • Adventure • Costume Romance
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Robert Florey, Joseph Santley • Starring: Groucho Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx
Absurd Comedy • Comedy • Pre-Code Hollywood
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin
Drama • Melodrama • Period Film
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Fritz Lang • Starring: Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke
Fantasy • Foreign Language Film • German Expressionist Film
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Sergei M. Eisenstein • Starring: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov
Drama • Epic • Foreign Language Film
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Ted Wilde • Starring: Harold Lloyd
Action Comedy • Action • Adventure Comedy
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Robert J. Flaherty • Starring: Berry Kroeger
Documentary • History • Silent Film
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Josef von Sternberg • Starring: George Bancroft, Betty Compson, Olga Baclanova
Drama • Melodrama • Romance
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Carl Boese, Paul Wegener • Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Lyda Salmonova
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Georg Wilhelm Pabst • Starring: Louise Brooks, Andre Roanne, Josef Rovensky
Drama • Foreign Language Film • Melodrama
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Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor • Starring: Richard Daniels, Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
Comedy • Silent Film
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