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An Andalusian Dog (1929)
Director: Luis Buñuel
Cast: Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí
Story: Seventeen minutes of bizarre and surreal images that may or may not mean anything.
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1247
8.2
8.1
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
Director: Robert Wiene
Cast: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover
Story: Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.
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191
8.2
8.1
The Crowd (1928)
Director: King Vidor
Cast: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
Story: The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles and downfalls.
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143
8.3
7.8
Director: Victor Sjöström
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, John Gilbert, Ruth King
Story: An inventor who, suffering betrayal in life, makes a career of it by becoming a clown whose act consists of getting slapped by all the other clowns.
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Director: Benjamin Christensen
Cast: Maren Pedersen, Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Oscar Stribolt
Story: A documentary about the history of witchcraft, told in a variety of styles, from illustrated slideshow to dramatised events of alleged real-life events, right up to the early twentieth century.
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1007
8.2
8.3
The Kid (1921)
Director: Charles Chaplin
Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
Story: The Tramp cares for an abandoned child, but events put that relationship in jeopardy.
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The Circus (1928)
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567
8.4
8.3
Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Director: Dziga Vertov
Cast: Mikhail Kaufman
Story: A cameraman travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
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2014
8.3
8.3
Metropolis (1927)
Director: Fritz Lang
Cast: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Story: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Log Lady's rating:
347
7.7
7.7
Nanook of the North (1922)
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Cast: Allakariallak, Nyla, Allee, Cunayou
Story: In this silent-film predecessor to the modern documentary, filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuit Eskimos living in the Arctic Circle.
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392
7.9
7.8
Pandora's Box (1929)
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Cast: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz
Story: The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
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766
8.7
8.1
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer
Cast: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Story: A chronicle of the trial of Jeanne d'Arc on charges of heresy, and the efforts of her ecclesiastical jurists to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
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576
8.4
8.2
Sherlock, Jr. (1924)
Director: Buster Keaton
Cast: Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Joe Keaton, Ward Crane
Story: A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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229
7.8
7.6
Director: Sergei M. Eisenstein
Cast: Maksim Shtraukh, Grigori Aleksandrov, Mikhail Gomorov, I. Ivanov
Story: In Russia's factory region during Czarist rule, there's restlessness and strike planning among workers; management brings in spies and external agents. When a worker hangs himself after being falsely accused of thievery, the workers strike.
Log Lady's rating:
662
8.6
8.1
Sunrise (1927)
Director: F.W. Murnau
Cast: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Story: A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city.
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Nosferatu (1922)
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1303
8
8.2
Director: Georges Méliès
Cast: Victor André, Bleuette Bernon, Brunnet, Henri Delannoy
Story: A group of astronomers go on an expedition to the moon.
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222
7.9
7.7
The Unknown (1927)
Director: Tod Browning
Cast: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, John George
Story: Alonzo, an armless knife thrower and gun shooter for a circus, is actually a burglar with his arms intact. He and his accomplice are hiding from the police, and Alonzo views his disguise as perfect, especially since it keeps from view an unusual deformity of his left hand that would immediately give him away as the burglar.
Log Lady's rating:
263
7.3
7.3
Director: Louis Feuillade
Cast: Musidora, Édouard Mathé, Marcel Lévesque, Jean Aymé
Story: An intrepid reporter and his loyal friend battle a bizarre secret society of criminals known as The Vampires.
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