1920s

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1929

1 QUEEN KELLY (Erich von Stroheim)
2 LIBERTY (Leo McCarey)
3 APPLAUSE (Rouben Mamoulian)

4 WOMAN IN THE MOON (Fritz Lang)
5 THE LOVE PARADE (Ernst Lubitsch)
6 BERTH MARKS (Lewis R. Foster)
7 LUCKY STAR (Frank Borzage)
8 DIARY OF A LOST GIRL (G.W. Pabst)
9 THE NEW GENTLEMEN (Jacques Feyder)
10 THUNDERBOLT (Josef von Sternberg)
11 THE RIVER (Frank Borzage)
12 IN OLD ARIZONA (Raoul Walsh and Irving Cummings)

13 THE BLACK WATCH (John Ford)
14 WRONG AGAIN (Leo McCarey)
15 BLACKMAIL (Alfred Hitchcock)
16 THE KISS (Jacques Feyder)

17 THEY GO BOOM! (James Parrott)
18 THE GREENE MURDER CASE (Frank Tuttle)
19 TRENT'S LAST CASE (Howard Hawks)
20 THEY HAD TO SEE PARIS (Frank Borzage)


1928

1 STEAMBOAT BILL, JR. (Buster Keaton and Charles Reisner)
2 A GIRL IN EVERY PORT (Howard Hawks)
3 FOUR SONS (John Ford)
4 THE FALL OF THE HOUSE OF USHER (Jean Epstein)
5 THE PASSION OF JOAN OF ARC (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
6 SPIES (Fritz Lang)
7 THE WIND (Victor Sjöström)
8 THE CAMERAMAN (Edward Sedgwick)
9 THE HOUSE ON TRUBNAYA SQUARE (Boris Barnet)
10 THE DOCKS OF NEW YORK (Josef von Sternberg)

11 YOU'RE DARN TOOTIN' (Edgar Kennedy)
12 ZVENIGORA (Aleksandr Dovzhenko)
13 WE FAW DOWN (Leo McCarey)
14 STREET ANGEL (Frank Borzage)
15 RILEY THE COP (John Ford)
16 PLANE CRAZY (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks)
17 THE LAST COMMAND (Josef von Sternberg)

18 THE FINISHING TOUCH (Clyde Bruckman)
19 STEAMBOAT WILLIE (Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks)
20 THE WEDDING MARCH (Erich von Stroheim)
21 THE RACKET (Lewis Milestone)
22 THE LOVE OF ZERO (William Cameron Menzies and Robert Florey)
23 THE DEVIOUS PATH (G.W. Pabst)


1927

1 THE GENERAL (Buster Keaton and Clyde Bruckman)
2 THE STUDENT PRINCE OF OLD HEIDELBERG (Ernst Lubitsch)
3 SUNRISE (F.W. Murnau)

4 PAID TO LOVE (Howard Hawks)
5 BED AND SOFA (Abram Room)

6 EVE'S LOVE LETTERS (Leo McCarey)
7 7TH HEAVEN (Frank Borzage)
8 SHOULD MEN WALK HOME? (Leo McCarey)
9 COLLEGE (Buster Keaton and James W. Horne)
10 THE KID BROTHER (Ted Wilde and J.A. Howe)
11 THE CRADLE SNATCHERS (Howard Hawks)
12 THE BATTLE OF THE CENTURY (Clyde Bruckman)
13 METROPOLIS (Fritz Lang)
14 THE GIRL WITH THE HAT BOX (Boris Barnet)
15 FLAMING FATHERS (Leo McCarey and Stan Laurel)
16 TWO ARABIAN KNIGHTS (Lewis Milestone)
17 THE LIFE AND DEATH OF 9413, A HOLLYWOOD EXTRA (Robert Florey and Slavko Vorkapich)
18 UNDERWORLD (Josef von Sternberg)
19 THE END OF ST. PETERSBURG (Vsevolod Pudovkin)
20 NAPOLÉON (Abel Gance)
21 UPSTREAM (John Ford)
22 PUTTING THE PANTS ON PHILIP (Clyde Bruckman)


THE LODGER (Alfred Hitchcock)

1926

1 BATTLING BUTLER (Buster Keaton)
2 FAUST (F.W. Murnau)
3 THE SORROWS OF SATAN (D.W. Griffith)
4 BROMO AND JULIET (Leo McCarey)
5 MUM'S THE WORD (Leo McCarey)
6 NOW YOU TELL ONE (Charles Bowers and Harold L. Muller)
7 AN UNFORGETTABLE GRUDGE (Daisuke Ito)
8 THE STRONG MAN (Frank Capra)
9 MIGHTY LIKE A MOOSE (Leo McCarey)
10 GRIBICHE (Jacques Feyder)
11 RANSON'S FOLLY (Sidney Olcott)
12 THE FIRST YEAR (Frank Borzage)
13 SO THIS IS PARIS (Ernst Lubitsch)
14 THE SHAMROCK HANDICAP (John Ford)

CRAZY LIKE A FOX (Leo McCarey)
EGGED ON (Charles Bowers)
THE BLACKBIRD (Tod Browning)
SO'S YOUR OLD MAN (Gregory La Cava)
3 BAD MEN (John Ford)
DOG SHY (Leo McCarey)

1925

1 GREED (Erich von Stroheim)
2 THE BIG PARADE (King Vidor)

3 SEVEN CHANCES (Buster Keaton)
4 LADY WINDERMERE'S FAN (Ernst Lubitsch)
5 NO FATHER TO GUIDE HIM (Leo McCarey)
6 GO WEST (Buster Keaton)
7 THE RAT'S KNUCKLES (Leo McCarey)
8 LAZYBONES (Frank Borzage)
9 THE GOLD RUSH (Charles Chaplin)
10 PLAIN AND FANCY GIRLS (Leo McCarey)
11 SALLY OF THE SAWDUST (D.W. Griffith)
12 CHESS FEVER (Vsevolod Pudovkin and Nikolai Shpikovsky)
13 MASTER OF THE HOUSE (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
14 MOONLIGHT AND NOSES (Stan Laurel)
15 THE CARETAKER'S DAUGHTER (Leo McCarey) 16 THE CIRCLE (Frank Borzage)

LIGHTNIN' (John Ford)

1924

1 SHERLOCK, JR. (Buster Keaton)
2 THE LAST LAUGH (F.W. Murnau)
3 DIE NIBELUNGEN: KRIEMHILD'S REVENGE (Fritz Lang)
4 GIRL SHY (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
5 DIE NIBELUNGEN: SIEGFRIED (Fritz Lang)
6 THE THIEF OF BAGDAD (Raoul Walsh)
7 THE NAVIGATOR (Buster Keaton and Donald Crisp)

8 HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (Victor Sjöström)
9 SITTIN' PRETTY (Leo McCarey)
10 TOO MANY MAMAS (Leo McCarey)
11 STRIKE (Sergei Eisenstein)
12 ALL WET (Leo McCarey)
13 HOT WATER (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
14 DETAINED (Percy Pembroke and Joe Rock)

ENTR'ACTE (René Clair)

1923

1 OUR HOSPITALITY (Buster Keaton and John G. Blystone)
2 THE BALLOONATIC (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
3 PIERROT, PIERRETTE (Louis Feuillade)
4 WHY WORRY? (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)
5 THE LOVE NEST (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
6 THREE AGES (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
7 THE BURNING CRUCIBLE (Ivan Mozzhukhin)
8 SAFETY LAST! (Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor)

9 NORTH OF HUDSON BAY (John Ford)

CAMEO KIRBY (John Ford)

1922

1 DR. MABUSE, DER SPIELER (Fritz Lang)
2 COPS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)

3 HÄXAN (Benjamin Christensen)
4 LOVE'S CRUCIBLE (Victor Sjöström)
5 FOOLISH WIVES (Erich von Stroheim)
6 NOSFERATU, EINE SYMPHONIE DES GRAUENS (F.W. Murnau)

7 THE BLACKSMITH (Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair)
8 MY WIFE'S RELATIONS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
9 THE PALEFACE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
10 GRANDMA'S BOY (Fred C. Newmeyer)
11 THE FROZEN NORTH (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
12 DAYDREAMS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)

1921

1 THE GOAT (Buster Keaton and Malcolm St. Clair)
2 THE 'HIGH SIGN' (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
3 THE PLAY HOUSE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
4 DESTINY (Fritz Lang)
5 THE HAUNTED HOUSE (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
6 LEAVES FROM SATAN'S BOOK (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
7 THE BOAT (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
8 NEVER WEAKEN (Fred C. Newmeyer)
9 FOUR AROUND A WOMAN (Fritz Lang)
10 THE PHANTOM CARRIAGE (Victor Sjöström)
11 HARD LUCK (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)


1920

1 ONE WEEK (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
2 A DANGEROUS PLEDGE (Victor Sjöström)
3 THE SCARECROW (Edward F. Cline and Buster Keaton)
4 CONVICT 13 (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
5 NEIGHBORS (Buster Keaton and Edward F. Cline)
6 THE SPIDERS, PART 2: THE DIAMOND SHIP (Fritz Lang)
7 THE PARSON'S WIDOW (Carl Theodor Dreyer)
8 LAST OF THE MOHICANS (Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown)
9 ROMEO UND JULIA IM SCHNEE (Ernst Lubitsch)
10 DAS KABINETT DES DOKTOR CALIGARI (Robert Weine)

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