Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Silent Cinema: 129 Films to Buy & Rent
Ace of Hearts, The (1921)
- Dir. Wallace Worsley
Feat. Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers
- A silent–era crime drama with Lon Chaney as a member of a secret vigilante society. The group make a plan to dispatch a wealthy businessman…
Kid, The (1921)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance
- Silent comedian Chaplin's first full–length feature has him teaming with lovable scamp Jackie Coogan for a life of crime.
Orphans of the Storm (1921)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut…
- Vivid melodrama with the sisters Gish caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921)![Aro Favourite Aro Favourite](/img/arofavsm.gif)
- Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
- Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
Buster Keaton Shorts (1920-1923)
- Feat. Buster Keaton
- A selection of early Buster Keaton short comedies, dating from just after his period as sidekick to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and prior to his classic…
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…
- The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 1 (Safety Last!, An Eastern Westerner, Girl Shy) (1920-1924)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes dazzling comedy SAFETY LAST! (co–written by Hal Roach), with Lloyd's justly famous…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 5 (Hot Water, Now or Never, High and Dizzy, Get Out and Get Under) (1920-1924)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Four classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes the hilarious marriage farce, HOT WATER, and three underseen shorts.
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 6 (Speedy, Never Weaken, Haunted Spooks, Grandma's Boy) (1920-1928)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Ted Wilde, Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Four classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes Lloyd's last silent film, SPEEDY, about a baseball–obsessed no–hoper (with a cameo…
Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 7 (Number Please?, A Sailor Made Man, I Do, Among Those Present, For Heaven's Sake) (1920-1926)![Recommended Recommended](/img/arorecsm.gif)
- Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Hal Roach, Sam Taylor
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Five classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes the comedian's first feature–length film, A SAILOR MADE MAN, about the misadventures of…