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Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
- Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…
Tartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha
- This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
- Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
- An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov
- This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Eagle, The (1925)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
- Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…
Gold Rush, The (1925)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Georgia Hale, Mack Swain
- Immortal comedy with Charlie Chaplin at his clownish best. The Little Tramp is a lone gold prospector who through a series of adventures, strikes it…
Kriemhilde's Revenge (Die Nibelungen Pt. 2) (1925)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Margarete Schon, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos
- Second part of Lang's Die Nibelungen saga (Part One – SIEGFRIED) has the aggrieved Kriemhilde joining forces with Attila the Hun against her…
Last Laugh, The (Letzte Mann, Der) (1925)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
- One of the classics of silent German cinema, this puts visual expressionism to use for a penetrating psychological study of a man's systematic…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)
- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon
- French silent film based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
Lost World, The (1925)
- Dir. Harry Hoyt
Feat. Bessie Love, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
- An inventive precursor to KING KONG, based on Arthur Conan Doyle's adventure story. Prehistoric monsters abound in this showcase of pioneering…