#1
#1
Adjusted Score: 105912%
Critics Consensus: The Passion of Joan of Arc is must-see cinema for Renée Maria Falconetti's incredible performance alone -- and an all-time classic for innumerable other reasons.
Synopsis: A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior.... [More]
Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schultz
Directed By: Carl Theodor Dreyer

#2
#2
Adjusted Score: 104050%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this silent comedy, college boy William Canfield Jr. (Buster Keaton) reunites with his boat captain father in a Mississippi... [More]
Starring: Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Marion Byron, Tom Lewis
Directed By: Charles Reisner, Buster Keaton

#3

The Man Who Laughs (1928)
100%

#3
Adjusted Score: 102119%
Critics Consensus: A meeting of brilliant creative minds, The Man Who Laughs serves as a stellar showcase for the talents of director Paul Leni and star Conrad Veidt.
Synopsis: Disfigured by a king as a child, an 18th-century clown (Conrad Veidt) again becomes the pawn of royalty.... [More]
Starring: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Josephine Crowell
Directed By: Paul Leni

#4

The Cameraman (1928)
100%

#4
Adjusted Score: 101971%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this silent classic, photographer Buster (Buster Keaton) meets Sally (Marceline Day), who works as a secretary for the newsreel... [More]
Starring: Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Harry Gribbon
Directed By: Edward Sedgwick

#5

Docks of New York (1945)
100%

#5
Adjusted Score: 101346%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Mugs, Glimpy and the rest of the gang (Gloria Pope) find a diamond necklace in an alley.... [More]
Starring: Gloria Pope, Carlyle Blackwell Jr.
Directed By: Wallace Fox

#6
#6
Adjusted Score: 100931%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A man obsesses over his fear that his wife will die and be buried alive.... [More]
Starring: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Directed By: Jean Epstein

#7

The Wind (1928)
100%

#7
Adjusted Score: 100485%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When Letty Mason (Lillian Gish), an emotionally fragile woman from Virginia, relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by... [More]
Starring: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love, Dorothy Cumming
Directed By: Victor Sjöström

#8

The Patriot (1928)
100%

#8
Adjusted Score: 100485%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The final days of the mad, tyrannical Czar Paul I of Russia (Emil Jannings) are recounted. As the Czar behaves... [More]
Starring: Emil Jannings, Lewis Stone, Florence Vidor, Neil Hamilton
Directed By: Ernst Lubitsch

#9

Red Hair (1928)
100%

#9
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]
Starring: Jacqueline Gadsdon, William Irving, Lawrence Grant, Clara Bow
Directed By: Clarence G. Badger

#10

Speedy (1928)
100%

#10
Adjusted Score: 89119%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Chronically unemployed Yankees fan Harold "Speedy" Swift (Harold Lloyd) dates Jane Dillon (Ann Christy), a girl whose beloved grandfather, Pop... [More]
Starring: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Brooks Benedict
Directed By: Ted Wilde

#11

The Racket (1928)
100%

#11
Adjusted Score: 89119%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this Prohibition-era silent film, James McQuigg (Thomas Meighan) is an honest police captain in a city ruled by gangsters... [More]
Starring: Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim, George Stone
Directed By: Lewis Milestone

#12

Steamboat Willie (1928)
100%

#12
Adjusted Score: 21083%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Mickey Mouse steers a steamboat down a river.... [More]
Starring: Walt Disney
Directed By: Walt Disney

#13

The Circus (1928)
97%

#13
Adjusted Score: 100456%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Wrongfully accused of criminal acts, a tramp (Charlie Chaplin) unwittingly ducks into a big top, where his bumbling attempts to... [More]
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Crocker
Directed By: Charlie Chaplin

#14

The Crowd (1928)
96%

#14
Adjusted Score: 98565%
Critics Consensus: King Vidor's dynamic direction brings expressionist style to the American Dream in The Crowd, a powerfully humanist picture about the struggle for self-actualization.
Synopsis: Young John Sims (James Murray) weathers the death of his father and travels to New York City in search of... [More]
Starring: Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Estelle Clark
Directed By: King Vidor

#15

The Last Command (1928)
95%

#15
Adjusted Score: 97079%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Tsarist general Sergius Alexander (Emil Jannings) is basking in the glory of imperial Russia. After sending the revolutionary Lev Andreyev... [More]
Starring: Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Nicholas Soussanin
Directed By: Josef von Sternberg

#16

Show People (1928)
92%

#16
Adjusted Score: 92931%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Starry-eyed country girl Peggy Pepper (Marion Davies) dreams of being a movie star. So that she can begin her career,... [More]
Starring: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli
Directed By: King Vidor

#17
#17
Adjusted Score: 91758%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A widowed British farmer (Jameson Thomas) enlists his housekeeper's (Lilian Hall-Davis) help to find a wife.... [More]
Starring: Jameson Thomas, Lilian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Maude Gill
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

#18

Sadie Thompson (1928)
86%

#18
Adjusted Score: 86040%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A young, beautiful prostitute named Sadie Thompson (Gloria Swanson) arrives on the South Pacific island of Pago Pago looking for... [More]
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore, Raoul Walsh, Blanche Frederici
Directed By: Raoul Walsh

#19
#19
Adjusted Score: 72878%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Russian spy Tania Fedorova (Greta Garbo) uses her seductive charms to steal precious secrets for the motherland. Few saboteurs can... [More]
Starring: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustave von Seyffertitz, Edward Connelly
Directed By: Fred Niblo

#20

4 Devils (1928)
82%

#20
Adjusted Score: 85902%
Critics Consensus: 4 Devils combines thrilling cinematography and an affecting story to produce an absorbing and well-acted drama.
Synopsis: Four orphans are taken in by an aging clown and trained to be highwire artists.... [More]
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Anders Randolf, Barry Norton, Charles Morton
Directed By: F.W. Murnau

#21

Storm Over Asia (1928)
75%

#21
Adjusted Score: 75425%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Lowly Mongolian trapper Bair (Valery Inkijinoff), shunned by his fellow trappers for fighting with a trader, flees his trading post... [More]
Starring: Valery Inkijinoff, A. Tchistiakov, I. Dedintsev, L. Belinskaya
Directed By: Vsevolod Pudovkin

#22

Lonesome (1928)
71%

#22
Adjusted Score: 42444%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Two lonely people (Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon) meet, then are separated.... [More]
Starring: Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon
Directed By:

#23

The Divine Woman (1928)
70%

#23
Adjusted Score: 70485%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]
Starring: Greta Garbo, Lars Hanson, Lowell Sherman, Polly Moran
Directed By: Victor Sjöström

#24
#24
Adjusted Score: 64634%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Against the backdrop of Vienna's hidebound caste system, aristocrat and army officer Nicki (Erich von Stroheim) falls for lowly commoner... [More]
Starring: Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray, ZaSu Pitts, Matthew Betz
Directed By: Erich von Stroheim

#25

Champagne (1928)
63%

#25
Adjusted Score: 21581%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A millionaire (Gordon Harker) pretends bankruptcy to teach his daughter (Betty Balfour) responsibility.... [More]
Starring: Betty Balfour, Gordon Harker, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten
Directed By: Alfred Hitchcock

#26

Noah's Ark (1928)
57%

#26
Adjusted Score: 23329%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The same couple (Dolores Costello, George O'Brien) appear in parallel dramas of the Deluge and World War I.... [More]
Starring: Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda
Directed By: Michael Curtiz

#27

In Old Arizona (1929)
56%

#27
Adjusted Score: 56603%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this early Western, notorious bandit the Cisco Kid (Warner Baxter) is so feared that he rarely has to fire... [More]
Starring: Edmund Lowe, Warner Baxter, Dorothy Burgess
Directed By: Raoul Walsh

#28
#28
Adjusted Score: 56319%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Fresh-faced thespians hoping to conquer the Great White Way become dispirited after crossing paths with a merciless theatrical producer.... [More]
Starring: Nancy Carroll, Richard Arlen, Danny O'Shea, Paul Lukas
Directed By: Dorothy Arzner

#29

Tenderloin (1928)
25%

#29
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]
Starring: Dan Wolheim, Pat Hartigan, George E. Stone, G. Raymond Nye
Directed By: Michael Curtiz

#30

Street Angel (1928)

#30
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A young woman on the run from the police joins a traveling circus and falls in love with a painter.... [More]
Starring: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti
Directed By: Frank Borzage

#31
#31
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In the midst of the Jazz Age, two friends wrestle with love and liberation. Diana (Joan Crawford) has a flamboyant... [More]
Starring: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian, Nils Asther
Directed By: Harry Beaumont

#32
#32
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On the run for killing in self-defense, a woman (Louise Brooks) meets a hobo (Richard Arlen) who helps her flee... [More]
Starring: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Kewpie Morgan
Directed By:

#33

Four Sons (1928)

#33
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A widow's (Margaret Mann) sons fight in World War I, one (James Hall) of whom fights for the American side... [More]
Starring: Margaret Mann, James Hall, Francis X. Bushman, Charles Morton
Directed By: John Ford

#34

Moulin Rouge (1928)

#34
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An aristocrat (Jean Bradin) falls for his girlfriend's (Eve Grey) mother (Olga Tschechowa), the star of a Paris revue.... [More]
Starring: Olga Tache, Eve Grey, Jean Bradin, Georges Treville
Directed By: E.A. Dupont

#35

Underground (1929)

#35
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Bill (Brian Aherne) and Bert (Cyril McLaglen) meet the same woman on the same day at the same underground station... [More]
Starring: Brian Aherne, Cyril McLaglen, Elissa Landi, Norah Baring
Directed By: Anthony Asquith

#36
#36
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]
Starring: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Mack Swain, Roy D'Arcy
Directed By: Paul Leni

#37
#37
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Toni LeBrun (Corinne Griffith) is beautiful jazz age singer who takes a job in a Paris cabaret, where she is... [More]
Starring: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George
Directed By: Lewis Milestone

#38
#38
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hogan (Victor McLaglen), a soldier of fortune, goes AWOL from service in the French army in Algiers to return home... [More]
Starring: Victor McLaglen, June Collyer, Larry Kent, Earle Foxe
Directed By: John Ford

#39
#39
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Childhood friends Diana (Greta Garbo), Neville (John Gilbert) and David (Johnny Mack Brown) are caught in a love triangle as... [More]
Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown
Directed By: Clarence Brown

#40
#40
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A clown named Tito Beppi (Lon Chaney) adopts orphaned Simonetta (Loretta Young), and they begin to travel and perform in... [More]
Starring: Lon Chaney, Bernard Siegel, Loretta Young, Cissy Fitzgerald
Directed By: Herbert Brenon

#41
#41
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In this dialogue-free film, Emma Hart (Corinne Griffith), a young woman of lowly birth, is courted by rich Charles Greville... [More]
Starring: Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith
Directed By: Frank Lloyd

#42
#42
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: An affair splits up a husband-and-wife acting team.... [More]
Starring: Brian Aherne, Annette Benson, Chili Bouchier, David Brooks
Directed By: Anthony Asquith, A.V. Bramble

#43
#43
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Two sailors (Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong) travel the world in search of women and adventure, until one decides to get... [More]
Starring: Victor McLaglen, Maria Casajuana, Robert Armstrong, Natalie Joyce
Directed By: Howard Hawks

#44
#44
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When magician Phroso's (Lon Chaney) beloved wife, Anna (Jacqueline Gadsden), leaves him for ivory merchant Crane (Lionel Barrymore), the two... [More]
Starring: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter
Directed By: Tod Browning

#45

Tempest (1928)

#45
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Despite his peasant upbringing, proud Ivan Markov (John Barrymore) rises to the officer ranks of the Russian Army during the... [More]
Starring: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Louis Wolheim, Boris De Fas
Directed By: Sam Taylor

#46
#46
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: ... [More]
Starring: Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, John Loder, Iván Petrovich
Directed By: Henrik Galeen

#47

Lilac Time (1928)

#47
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A British fighter ace, Capt. Philip Blythe (Gary Cooper), falls in love with local farm girl Jeannine (Colleen Moore) while... [More]
Starring: Colleen Moore, Gary Cooper, Burr McIntosh, George Cooper
Directed By: George Fitzmaurice

#48
#48
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A man convicted of manslaughter is released from prison and his wife is worried he has changed.... [More]
Starring: William Dieterle, Gunnar Tolnæs, Mary Johnson, Paul Henckels
Directed By: William Dieterle

#49

The Cossacks (1928)

#49
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A Russian villager is branded a coward because he would rather read than fight.... [More]
Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Ernest Torrence, Dale Fuller
Directed By: George W. Hill

#50
#50
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: This epic silent movie follows the trials and tribulations of the countless people who risked everything to join in the... [More]
Starring: Dolores del Río, Ralph Forbes, Harry Carey, Karl Dane
Directed By: Clarence Brown

#51
#51
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On a Polynesian island, Dr. Matthew Lloyd (Monte Blue) is disgusted by the way trader Sebastian (Robert Anderson) exploits the... [More]
Starring: Monte Blue, Raquel Torres, Robert Anderson
Directed By: W. S. Van Dyke II

#52
#52
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Hired by a tennis pro to make his fiance jealous, a young woman falls in love with the guy..... [More]
Starring: Marion Davies, Jetta Goudal, Nils Asther, Andrés de Segurola
Directed By: Robert Z. Leonard

#53
#53
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When militant atheist Judy (Lina Basquette) organizes a society for non-believers at her high school, devout Christian Bob (George Duryea)... [More]
Starring: Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Eddie Quillan
Directed By: Cecil B. DeMille

#54
#54
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In 1850s Massachusetts, young Joel Shore (Ramon Novarro) and his family await the return of seagoing brothers Mark (Ernest Torrence),... [More]
Starring: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier
Directed By: William Nigh

#55

The Terror (1928)

#55
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Guests at an old English manor house are stalked by a mysterious killer known only as "The Terror."... [More]
Starring: May McAvoy, Louise Fazenda, Edward Everett Horton, Alec B. Francis
Directed By: Roy Del Ruth

#56
#56
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A man is framed for the murder of a crime boss. This film made history as the first all-talking motion... [More]
Starring: Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Gladys Brockwell, Mary Carr
Directed By: Bryan Foy

#57

The Viking (1928)

#57
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A story loosely based on the novel "Leif the Lucky," which tells of Viking activity west of Greenland.... [More]
Starring: Donald Crisp, Pauline Starke, LeRoy Mason, Anders Randolf
Directed By: Roy William Neill

#58

The Patsy (1928)

#58
Adjusted Score: -1%
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Jealous that her older sister, Grace (Jane Winton), has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson (Orville Caldwell), Patricia Harrington (Marion... [More]
Starring: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Dell Henderson
Directed By: King Vidor

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