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Rental > Silent Cinema: 137 Films to Rent on DVD
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
- A 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…
Master of the House (Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife, Du Skal Aere Din Hustru) (1925)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Johannes Meyer
- Deceptively simple, penetrating chamber piece from Dreyer, centered on an abusive husband who is dealt to by the long–suffering family’s…
Merry Widow, The (1925)
- Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Tully Marshall…
- Silent romantic comedy about a prince who falls in love with a dancer and commoner (Mae Murray) but after the marriage is forbidden she goes on to…
Seven Chances (1925)
- Dir. Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Another of Buster Keaton's masterpieces is this romantic comedy in which he plays a man who is offered a seven million dollar fortune if he marries…