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Theme: Silent Movies

Aelita (1924)

21 December 20116 June 2019

Rating: ★★½

Soviet Science-Fiction/Expedition to Mars

Director: Yakov Protazanov
Actors: Yuliya Solntseva, Nikolai Tsereteli, Vera Kuindzhi, Pavel Pol, …
Category: Science Fiction

L’Age d’Or (1930)

15 December 200527 April 2019

Rating: ★★★

Surrealism

Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Lionel Salem, Joseph Llorens Artigas, …
Category: Fantasy

The Airship Destroyer (1909)

24 August 201116 June 2019

Rating: ★★

Predictions of Aerial Warfare

Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Science Fiction

Alraune (1928)

2 February 201331 July 2019

Rating: ★★

Evil Artificially-Birthed Woman

Director: Henrik Galeen
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener, Wolfgang Zilzer, Louis Ralph, …
Category: Science Fiction

The Avenging Conscience or “Thou Shalt Not Kill” (1914)

9 June 201426 October 2019

Rating: ★★½

Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: D.W. Griffith
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet, George Siegmann, …
Category: Horror

The Bat (1926)

16 November 201630 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Old Dark House Thriller/Silent Movie

Director: Roland West
Actors: Emily Fitzroy, Louise Fazenda, Tullio Carminadi, Eddie Gribbon, …
Category: Horror

The Bells (1926)

13 May 20159 November 2019

Rating: ★★★

Guilt-Haunted Murderer

Director: James Young
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Boris Karloff, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Edward Phillips, …
Category: Horror

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari (1919)

5 February 20018 February 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Sinister Hypnotist/German Expressionism

Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Category: Horror

The Cat and the Canary (1927)

9 November 200219 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Old Dark House Thriller

Director: Paul Leni
Actors: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann
Category: Horror

Un Chien Andalou (1928)

23 May 200015 April 2020

Rating: ★★★

Surrealism

Director: Luis Buñuel
Category: Fantasy

Cowards Bend the Knee, or The Blue Hands (2003)

29 July 200417 May 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama

Director: Guy Maddin
Actors: Darcy Fehr, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, Tara Birtwhistle, …
Category: Fantasy

The Crazy Ray (1925)

25 August 200216 June 2020

Rating: ★★★

Paris Frozen in Time

Director: Rene Clair
Category: Science Fiction

Dante’s Inferno (1924)

2 April 20202 April 2020

Rating: ★★½

Vision of Hell

Director: Henry Otto
Actors: Ralph Lewis
Category: Fantasy

Destiny (1921)

20 December 200127 July 2020

Rating: ★★★

Death Incarnates Lovers Throughout History

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Lil Dagover, Bernhard Goetzke
Category: Fantasy

The Devil’s Manor (1896)

1 June 20045 August 2020

Rating: ★★½

The Devil Causes Mischief

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915)

3 January 201914 November 2019

Rating: ★★

Cavemen and Dinosaurs

Director: Willis O'Brien
Category: Science Fiction

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)

20 December 201814 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: Herbert Brenon
Actors: King Baggot, Jane Gail, Howard Crampton, William Sorelle, …
Category: Horror

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)

13 February 200914 May 2020

Rating: ★★★

Evil Personality Within Unleashed

Director: John S. Robertson
Actors: John Barrymore, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane, George Stevens
Category: Horror

Dr Mabuse, The Gambler (1922)

9 May 201818 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Bernhard Goetzke, Alfred Abel, Paul Richter
Category: Fantasy

Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)

8 August 200331 August 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Dracula Ballet Adaptation

Director: Guy Maddin
Category: Horror

The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)

23 May 201210 November 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation

Director: Jean Epstein
Category: Horror

Faust (1926)

4 July 200028 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Pact with the Devil

Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Emil Jannings
Category: Fantasy

Genuine (1920)

12 April 201630 August 2018

Rating: ★★

German Expressionism/Femme Fatale

Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen, …
Category: Horror

The Golem (1920)

12 November 20028 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Artificial Creature of Clay

Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmanova
Category: Horror

The Hands of Orlac (1924)

26 August 20114 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Possessed Hands/Silent German Classic

Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Conrad Veidt
Category: Horror

Häxan (1922)

3 November 201027 June 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Satanism and Witchcraft Documentary

Director: Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Karen Winther, Emmy Schönfeld, Johs Andersen, Elith Pio, …
Category: Horror

Heaven Ship (1918)

30 April 201430 August 2018

Rating: ★★½

Expedition to Mars

Director: Holger-Madsen
Actors: Gunnar Tolnaes, Lilly Jacobson, Nicolai Neiiendam, Zanny Petersen, …
Category: Science Fiction

An Impossible Voyage (1904)

23 September 201110 March 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Train Journey Into Space

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction

Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)

5 September 20043 April 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Teutonic Legend

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Margarete Schön, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Rudolf Rittner, …
Category: Fantasy

The Last Warning (1929)

9 January 20199 January 2019

Rating: ★★★

Killer Stalks a Broadway Theatre

Director: Paul Leni
Actors: Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, John Boles, …
Category: Horror

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)

2 August 201718 December 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Jack the Ripper Thriller

Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Ivor Novello
Category: Horror

London After Midnight (1927)

6 July 200330 August 2018

Rating: ★★

Vampires/Whodunnit

Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lon Chaney, Henry B. Walthall, Conrad Nagel, Marceline Day, …
Category: Horror

The Lost World (1925)

3 July 200026 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Lost Plateau of Dinosaurs

Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Actors: Wallace Beery
Category: Science Fiction

Maciste in Hell (1925)

28 May 202028 May 2020

Rating: ★★½

Italian Muscleman in Hell

Director: Guido Brignone
Actors: Bartolomeo Pagano
Category: Fantasy

The Magician (1926)

11 August 20206 September 2020

Rating: ★★½

Evil Sorcerer

Director: Rex Ingram
Actors: Paul Wegener, Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich
Category: Horror

The Man Who Laughs (1928)

11 September 200912 December 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Historical Horror/Man With a Frozen Grin

Director: Paul Leni
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova, Brandon Hurst
Category: Horror

Melies Cinemagician (2011)

12 June 200223 May 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts

Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy

Metropolis (1927)

3 December 201127 February 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Dystopia/Social Revolution/Mad Scientist/Robot Temptress

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Froelich, Alfred Abel, …
Category: Science Fiction

The ? Motorist (1906)

14 May 201326 March 2020

Rating: ★★★

Motorcar Travels Into Space

Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Fantasy

The Mysterious Island (1929)

5 July 20168 May 2020

Rating: ★★

Underwater Adventures/City of Merpeople

Director: Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Montagu Love
Category: Science Fiction

Nosferatu (1922)

2 September 19994 January 2020

Rating: ★★★★★

Silent Dracula Adaptation

Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Waggenheim
Category: Horror

A Page of Madness (1926)

5 September 20042 March 2019

Rating: ★★½

Madness/Surrealism

Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Actors: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Eiko Minami, Misao Seki
Category: Fantasy

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

24 November 201414 February 2020

Rating: ★★★

Death’s Carriage Driver

Director: Victor Sjöström
Category: Fantasy

The Phantom of the Opera (1925)

1 July 200110 March 2020

Rating: ★★★★½

Disfigured Madman Beneath the Opera House

Director: Rupert Julian
Actors: Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe
Category: Horror

The Raven (1915)

11 July 201917 July 2020

Rating: ★★

Edgar Allan Poe Biopic

Director: Charles J. Brabin
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Wanda Howard, Ernest Maupain
Category: Horror

Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)

18 March 201330 August 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Old Dark House Thriller

Director: Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Creighton Hale, Thelma Todd, William V. Mong, Sojin, …
Category: Horror

Siegfried (1924)

19 April 20093 April 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Epic Heroic Legend

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Paul Richter, Theodor Loos, Hanna Ralph, Margerete Schön, …
Category: Fantasy

The Student of Prague (1926)

5 November 2018

Rating: ★★★½

Pact with the Devil/Malevolent Doppelganger

Director: Henrik Galeen
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy, Elizza La Porta, …
Category: Fantasy, Horror

Tarzan of the Apes (1918)

14 May 201226 February 2019

Rating: ★★★

Jungle Hero

Director: Scott Sidney
Actors: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Gordon Griffith, George B. French, …
Category: Fantasy

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

18 May 201214 July 2019

Rating: ★★★½

Expedition to the Moon/Comedy

Director: Georges Melies
Actors: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction

Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)

5 May 200121 August 2020

Rating: ★★★½

Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation

Director: Stuart Paton
Actors: Allen Holubar, Jane Gail, Howard Crampton
Category: Science Fiction

The Wizard of Oz (1910)

4 July 20176 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Silent Adaptation

Director: Otis Turner
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Robert Z. Leonard, Hobarth Bosworth, Winifred Greenwood, …
Category: Fantasy

Wizard of Oz (1925)

31 July 20116 September 2020

Rating: ★★

Silent Slapstick Adaptation

Director: Larry Semon
Actors: Larry Semon, Dorothy Dwan, Charles Murray, Oliver N. Hardy, …
Category: Fantasy

Woman in the Moon (1929)

20 December 20003 April 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Expedition to the Moon

Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Marcus, Gustav von Waggenheim, Fritz Rasp, …
Category: Science Fiction

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  • Disaster Movies
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  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Nazis
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Sexual Fetishism in Fantastic Cinema
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  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
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  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being Based on True Stories
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