Year |
Film |
Director |
Cast |
Notes |
Ref
|
1925 |
Ace of Spades |
Henry MacRae |
William Desmond,
Mary McAllister |
A 15-part Western serial. |
[1]
|
The Adventurous Sex |
Charles Giblyn |
Clara Bow,
Herbert Rawlinson,
Earle Williams |
Six reels, 58â60 minutes. |
[2]
|
CorazĂłn Aymara |
Pedro Sambarino |
|
First Bolivian fiction feature film. |
[3]
|
The Dark Angel |
George Fitzmaurice |
Vilma BĂĄnky,
Ronald Colman |
Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925. |
[4]
|
The Fighting Heart |
John Ford |
George O'Brien,
Billie Dove |
|
[5]
|
The Fighting Ranger |
Jay Marchant |
Jack Dougherty,
Eileen Sedgwick |
A Western serial with 18 episodes. |
[6]
|
The Great Circus Mystery |
Jay Marchant |
Joe Bonomo,
Louise Lorraine |
A 15-chapter serial. |
[7]
|
Heartbound |
Glen Lambert |
Ranger Bill Miller, Bess True |
An early 3D film (see
List of 3D films pre-2005). |
[8]
|
His Supreme Moment |
George Fitzmaurice |
Blanche Sweet,
Ronald Colman,
Anna May Wong |
Some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor. |
[9]
|
Idaho |
Robert F. Hill |
Mahlon Hamilton,
Vivian Rich |
A ten-part serial. |
[10]
|
Kiss Me Again |
Ernst Lubitsch |
Marie Prevost,
Monte Blue,
Clara Bow |
Warner Bros. popular film. |
[11]
|
The Lawful Cheater |
Frank O'Connor |
Clara Bow, David Kirby,
Raymond McKee |
|
[12]
|
A Man of Iron |
Whitman Bennett |
Lionel Barrymore,
Mildred Harris |
|
[13]
|
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe (
One Does Not Play with Love) |
Georg Wilhelm Pabst |
Werner Krauss |
|
[14]
|
New Brooms |
William C. deMille |
Bessie Love,
Neil Hamilton,
Phyllis Haver |
|
[15]
|
Perils of the Wild |
Francis Ford |
Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby |
A serial consisting of 15 episodes. |
[16]
|
Play Ball |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Walter Miller,
Allene Ray |
A ten-part serial. |
[17]
|
The Prophecy of the Lake |
José Maria Velasco Maidana |
|
Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released. |
|
The Scarlet Streak |
Henry MacRae |
Jack Dougherty,
Lola Todd |
A serial of ten episodes. |
[18]
|
That Royle Girl |
D. W. Griffith |
W. C. Fields |
Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence. |
[19]
[20]
|
Thank You |
John Ford |
Alec B. Francis,
Jacqueline Logan |
|
[21]
|
A Thief in Paradise |
George Fitzmaurice |
Doris Kenyon,
Ronald Colman,
Aileen Pringle |
|
[22]
|
The Tower of Lies |
Victor Seastrom |
Lon Chaney,
Norma Shearer,
Ian Keith |
|
[23]
|
We Moderns |
John Francis Dillon |
Colleen Moore |
A sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923. |
[24]
|
Wild Justice |
Chester Franklin |
Peter the Great,
George Sherwood,
Frank Hagney,
Frances Teague |
|
Wild West |
Robert F. Hill |
Jack Mulhall,
Helen Ferguson |
A ten-chapter serial. |
[25]
|
1926 |
Arirang |
Na Woon-gyu |
Na Woon-gyu |
A copy of this Korean film was rumored to have been in the possession of a Japanese collector who died in February 2005. |
[26]
|
The Bar-C Mystery |
Robert F. Hill |
Dorothy Phillips,
Wallace MacDonald |
A ten-part Western serial. |
[27]
|
The Boy Friend |
Monta Bell |
Marceline Day,
John Harron,
Gwen Lee |
|
[28]
|
The Cat's Pajamas |
William A. Wellman |
Betty Bronson |
|
[29]
|
The Dice Woman |
Edward Dillon, Edmund F. Bernoudy |
Priscilla Dean |
|
[30]
|
The Fighting Marine |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Gene Tunney, Marjorie Day |
A ten-episode serial. |
[31]
|
Fighting with Buffalo Bill |
Ray Taylor |
William F. Cody,
George H. Plympton,
William Lord Wright |
|
[32]
|
The Great Gatsby |
Herbert Brenon |
Warner Baxter,
Lois Wilson,
Neil Hamilton |
Only a minute-long trailer has survived. Despite extensive searches for the film and rumours of surviving copies existing in obscure archives, no other trace of the film has been found. |
[33]
|
GwiaĆșdzista eskadra |
Leonard Buczkowski |
Barbara Orwid |
A story of Americans in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting against the
Bolsheviks during the
Polish-Soviet War in 1918â1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by the
Soviet Army after 1945. |
[34]
[35]
|
Hearts and Fists |
Lloyd Ingraham |
John Bowers,
Marguerite De La Motte,
Alan Hale Sr. |
One of three known films from
H.C. Weaver Studios |
[36]
|
London |
Herbert Wilcox |
Dorothy Gish |
It is on the
BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing British feature films. |
[37]
|
Meet the Prince |
Joseph Henabery |
Joseph Schildkraut,
Marguerite De La Motte |
|
[38]
|
The Radio Detective |
William James Craft, William A. Crinley |
Jack Dougherty, Margaret Quimby |
A serial of ten episodes. |
[39]
|
The Road to Glory |
Howard Hawks |
May McAvoy |
Hawks's first official film as a director. |
[40]
|
Snowed In |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Allene Ray,
Walter Miller |
A ten-episode serial. |
[41]
|
A Social Celebrity |
Malcolm St. Clair |
Adolphe Menjou,
Louise Brooks |
In 1957, one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire. |
[42]
|
Stop, Look and Listen |
Larry Semon |
Oliver Hardy |
|
[43]
|
Strings of Steel |
Henry MacRae |
William Desmond,
Eileen Sedgwick |
|
[44]
|
Sweeney Todd |
George Dewhurst |
G.A. Baughan |
The first of several film adaptations of the
Sweeney Todd character. |
[45]
|
Swell Hogan |
Ralph Graves |
Ralph Graves |
The first film produced by
Howard Hughes, who hated the film and may have ordered it destroyed.
[46]
|
A Trip to Chinatown |
Robert P. Kerr |
Margaret Livingston,
Earle Foxe,
J. Farrell MacDonald |
|
[47]
|
The Winking Idol |
Francis Ford |
William Desmond,
Eileen Sedgwick |
A Western serial in ten parts. |
[48]
|
A Woman of the Sea |
Josef von Sternberg |
Edna Purviance |
Produced by
Charlie Chaplin, he destroyed it in 1933 as a tax
write-off. Production stills survive. |
[49]
[50]
|
1927 |
The American |
J. Stuart Blackton |
Bessie Love,
Charles Ray |
Made in the experimental
widescreen process Natural Vision. Never released theatrically. |
[51]
|
Babe Comes Home |
Ted Wilde |
Babe Ruth,
Anna Q. Nilsson |
Babe Ruth stars as himself in this feature-length comedy. |
[52]
|
Blake of Scotland Yard |
Robert F. Hill |
Hayden Stevenson,
Grace Cunard |
A 12-episode serial. |
[53]
|
Broadway Nights |
Joseph C. Boyle |
Lois Wilson,
Sam Hardy,
Barbara Stanwyck,
Ann Sothern |
A silent romantic drama film. |
[54]
|
The Broncho Twister |
Orville O. Dull |
Tom Mix,
Helene Costello |
|
[55]
[56]
|
The Callahans and the Murphys |
George W. Hill |
Marie Dressler,
Polly Moran |
This film caused some controversy because of its stereotypical depiction of Irish people. MGM withdrew the picture from distribution. |
[57]
|
The Chinese Parrot |
Paul Leni |
Marian Nixon,
Florence Turner,
Hobart Bosworth |
|
[58]
|
The City Gone Wild |
James Cruze |
Louise Brooks |
Early gangster film, with titles by
Herman J. Mankiewicz. |
[59]
|
The Conjure Woman |
Oscar Micheaux |
Evelyn Preer |
|
[60]
|
The Devil Dancer |
Fred Niblo |
Gilda Gray,
Clive Brook,
Anna May Wong |
|
[61]
|
Evening Clothes |
Luther Reed |
Adolphe Menjou,
Louise Brooks |
|
[62]
|
The Fire Fighters |
Jacques Jaccard |
Jack Dougherty,
Helen Ferguson |
A ten-chapter serial. |
[63]
|
For the Love of Mike |
Frank Capra |
Claudette Colbert |
Colbert's film debut. |
[64]
|
The Gateway of the Moon |
John Griffith Wray |
Dolores del RĂo,
Walter Pidgeon |
|
[65]
|
Gua ming de fu qi (A Couple in Name Only) |
Wancang Bu |
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
A Harp in Hock |
Renaud Hoffman |
Rudolph Schildkraut,
Junior Coghlan,
May Robson,
Bessie Love |
|
[66]
|
Hats Off |
Hal Yates |
Laurel and Hardy |
|
[67]
|
The Heart of the Yukon |
W.S. Van Dyke |
John Bowers,
Anne Cornwall,
Edward Hearn |
One of three known films from
H.C. Weaver Studios |
[68]
|
Heebee Jeebees |
Anthony Mack |
Our Gang: (
Joe Cobb,
Allen "Farina" Hoskins,
Jay R. Smith,
Jackie Condon,
Harry Spear,
Jean Darling,
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins,
Pete the Pup) |
|
[69]
|
Heroes of the Wild |
Harry S. Webb |
Jack Hoxie,
Josephine Hill |
A ten-episode serial. |
[70]
|
The House Behind the Cedars |
Oscar Micheaux |
Shingzie Howard,
Lawrence Chenault, C. D. Griffith |
A
race film, it was banned in
Virginia. |
[71]
|
London After Midnight |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney,
Marceline Day |
Chaney played both the villain, and the detective hunting him. Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the
1965 MGM vault fire. |
[72]
|
The Magic Flame |
Henry King |
Ronald Colman,
Vilma BĂĄnky |
|
[73]
[74]
|
The Masked Menace |
Arch Heath |
Larry Kent,
Jean Arthur |
Filmed in
Berlin, New Hampshire. |
[75]
|
Melting Millions |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Allene Ray,
Walter Miller |
A ten-episode serial. |
[76]
|
The Mountain Eagle |
Alfred Hitchcock |
Nita Naldi,
Bernhard Goetzke |
The film was poorly received and criticised for its lack of realism, and Hitchcock himself was relieved that the film was lost. |
[77]
[78]
[79]
|
Mumsie |
Herbert Wilcox |
Pauline Frederick,
Nelson Keys,
Herbert Marshall |
|
[80]
|
On Guard |
Arch Heath |
Cullen Landis, Muriel Kingston |
A ten-part serial. |
[81]
|
The Potters |
Fred C. Newmeyer |
W. C. Fields |
|
[82]
|
Rolled Stockings |
Richard Rosson |
Louise Brooks |
The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in
Berkeley, California. |
[83]
|
The Story of the Flag |
Anson Dyer |
|
The first full-length British animated film, it is on the
BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[84]
|
Sword of Penitence |
YasujirĆ Ozu |
SaburĆ Azuma |
Ozu's first film as director. |
|
Taxi! Taxi! |
Melville W. Brown |
Edward Everett Horton,
Burr McIntosh |
|
[85]
|
Tip Toes |
Herbert Wilcox |
Dorothy Gish,
Will Rogers |
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[86]
|
The Gay Defender |
Gregory La Cava |
Richard Dix,
Thelma Todd,
Fred Kohler,
Jerry Mandy |
|
[87]
|
The Trail of the Tiger |
Henry MacRae |
Jack Dougherty, Frances Teague |
A serial in ten parts. |
[88]
|
Two Flaming Youths |
John Waters |
W. C. Fields,
Chester Conklin,
Mary Brian |
|
[89]
|
Yale vs. Harvard |
Robert F. McGowan |
Our Gang: (
Joe Cobb,
Allen "Farina" Hoskins,
Jay R. Smith,
Jackie Condon,
Harry Spear,
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins,
Jean Darling,
Pete the Pup) |
Earliest Our Gang film to be entirely lost.
|
[90]
|
1928 |
Anybody Here Seen Kelly? |
William Wyler |
Bessie Love,
Tom Moore |
|
[91]
|
The Awakening |
Victor Fleming |
Vilma BĂĄnky,
Walter Byron |
|
[92]
|
What Price Beauty? |
Tom Buckingham |
Nita Naldi,
Natacha Rambova |
Film was shot in May 1925, but not released until January 1928 due to distribution issues. Notable for being
Myrna Loy's debut.
|
The Actress |
Sidney Franklin |
Sidney Franklin |
Destroyed in the
1965 MGM vault fire. |
[93]
|
Baiyun Ta (The White Cloud Pagoda) |
Zhang Shichuan |
Ruan Lingyu |
|
|
The Big City |
Tod Browning |
Lon Chaney,
Betty Compson |
Destroyed in the
1965 MGM vault fire. A trailer survives, but it does not include any footage from the film. |
[94]
|
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple |
Zhang Shichuan |
Die Hu,
Jie Tang |
Considered to be one of the
longest films ever made, released in 19 parts from 1928 to 1931 with a total running time of 27 hours. Notable for being the first
martial arts film. |
|
The Czarina's Secret |
R. William Neill |
Olga Baclanova,
Sally Rand |
Technicolor short subject, part of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. |
[95]
|
The Drag Net |
Josef von Sternberg |
William Powell,
Evelyn Brent |
|
[96]
|
Dry Martini |
Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast |
Mary Astor |
|
[97]
|
Edison, Marconi & Co. |
Anthony Mack |
Our Gang: (
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins,
Jay R. Smith,
Allen "Farina" Hoskins,
Joe Cobb,
Harry Spear,
Jackie Condon,
Pete the Pup) |
|
[98]
|
The Fleet's In |
Malcolm St. Clair |
Clara Bow,
James Hall |
With talking sequences and sound effects. |
[99]
|
4 Devils |
F. W. Murnau |
Janet Gaynor |
Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928. |
[100]
[101]
|
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes |
Mal St. Clair |
Alice White,
Ruth Taylor |
The first version of the
Anita Loos story. |
[102]
|
Growing Pains |
Anthony Mack,
Robert F. McGowan |
Our Gang:
Mary Ann Jackson,
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins,
Allen "Farina" Hoskins,
Joe Cobb,
Jay R. Smith,
Harry Spear,
Jackie Condon,
Jean Darling,
Pete the Pup |
|
[103]
|
The Hawk's Nest |
Benjamin Christensen |
Milton Sills,
Doris Kenyon,
SĆjin Kamiyama |
|
[104]
|
Ladies of the Mob |
William Wellman |
Clara Bow,
Richard Arlen |
|
[105]
|
The Last Moment |
Paul Fejos |
Georgia Hale,
Otto Matieson |
Experimental silent film told without subtitles. |
[19]
[106]
|
The Legion of the Condemned |
William A. Wellman |
Fay Wray,
Gary Cooper |
|
[19]
[107]
|
Mark of the Frog |
Arch Heath |
Donald Reed
Margaret Morris |
A ten-episode serial. |
[108]
|
Napoleon's Barber |
John Ford |
Otto Matieson, Natalie Golitzen |
|
[109]
|
Pirates of the Pines |
J. C. Cook |
George O'Hara, Rita Roma |
A serial with ten episodes. |
[110]
|
A Princess of Destiny |
Tom Terriss |
Anders Randolf,
Doris Lloyd,
Dorothy Gould,
Lloyd Ingraham, Fairfax Burger |
Technicolor short subject, part of the
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. |
[111]
|
Street of Sin |
Mauritz Stiller |
Emil Jannings,
Fay Wray |
|
[112]
|
Tarzan the Mighty |
Jack Nelson,
Ray Taylor |
Frank Merrill |
The seventh Tarzan movie produced. |
[113]
|
ThérÚse Raquin |
Jacques Feyder |
Gina ManĂšs,
Hans Adalbert Schlettow,
Jeanne Marie-Laurent |
|
[114]
|
The Vanishing Rider |
Ray Taylor |
William Desmond,
Ethlyne Clair |
A serial of 12 parts. |
[115]
|
The Vanishing West |
Richard Thorpe |
Jack Perrin,
Eileen Sedgwick |
A ten-episode serial. |
[116]
|
Vultures of the Sea |
Richard Thorpe |
Johnnie Walker,
Shirley Mason |
A serial with ten chapters. |
[117]
|
The Yellow Cameo |
Spencer Gordon Bennet |
Allene Ray,
Edward Hearn |
|
[118]
|
1929 |
Barro Humano |
Adhemar Gonzaga |
Gracia Morena,
Lelita Rosa,
Eva Schnoor,
Eva Nil |
|
[119]
|
The Case of Lena Smith |
Josef von Sternberg |
Esther Ralston |
Silent film withdrawn from circulation when talkies began to dominate. Only a 4-minute clip is known to exist.
|
The Crooked Billet |
Adrian Brunel |
Madeleine Carroll,
Carlyle Blackwell,
Miles Mander |
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[120]
|
The Diamond Master |
Jack Nelson |
Hayden Stevenson,
Louise Lorraine |
A ten-part serial. |
[121]
|
The Fatal Warning |
Richard Thorpe |
Ralph Graves,
Helene Costello |
Twelve-part mystery serial released by
Mascot Pictures. |
[122]
|
The Fire Detective |
Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey |
Gladys McConnell, Hugh Allan |
A serial with ten episodes. |
[123]
|
Frontier Romance |
Elmer Clifton |
Allan Simpson,
Nina Quartero,
Arthur Clayton |
The last of twelve short films produced in Technicolor as part of
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. |
.
[124]
|
The Holy Terror |
Anthony Mack,
Robert F. McGowan |
Our Gang:
Mary Ann Jackson,
Joe Cobb,
Allen "Farina" Hoskins,
Jean Darling,
Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins,
Harry Spear,
Pete the Pup |
|
[125]
|
The Last Post |
Dinah Shurey |
John Longden,
Frank Vosper, Cynthia Murtagh |
On the
BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
[126]
|
The Pirate of Panama |
Ray Taylor |
Jay Wilsey,
Natalie Kingston |
A serial in 12 parts. |
[127]
|
The Wages of Sin |
Oscar Micheaux |
William A. Clayton, Jr., Bessie Givens |
A
race movie with an all-black cast. |
[128]
|