Aelita (1924)
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)
Rating: ★★★
Surrealism
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Gaston Modot, Lya Lys, Lionel Salem, Joseph Llorens Artigas, …
Category: Fantasy
The Airship Destroyer (1909)
Rating: ★★
Predictions of Aerial Warfare
Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Science Fiction
Alraune (1928)
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)
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)
Rating: ★★★★
Old Dark House Thriller/Silent Movie
Director: Roland West
Actors: Emily Fitzroy, Louise Fazenda, Tullio Carminadi, Eddie Gribbon, …
Category: Horror
The Bells (1926)
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)
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)
Rating: ★★★★
Old Dark House Thriller
Director: Paul Leni
Category: Horror
Un Chien Andalou (1928)
Rating: ★★★
Surrealism
Director: Luis Buñuel
Actors: Pierre Batcheff, Salvador Dali, Luis Buñuel
Category: Fantasy
Cowards Bend the Knee, or The Blue Hands (2003)
Rating: ★★★½
Surreal Silent Movie Melodrama
Director: Guy Maddin
Actors: Darcy Fehr, Melissa Dionisio, Amy Stewart, Louis Negin, …
Category: Fantasy
The Crazy Ray (1925)
Rating: ★★★
Paris Frozen in Time
Director: Rene Clair
Actors: Henri Rollan, Madeleine Rodrigue, Myla Seller, Charles Martinelli, …
Category: Science Fiction
Destiny (1921)
Rating: ★★★
Death Incarnates Lovers Throughout History
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Lil Dagover, Bernhard Goetzke, Walter Janssen
Category: Fantasy
The Devil’s Manor (1896)
Rating: ★★½
The Devil Causes Mischief
Director: Georges Melies
Category: Fantasy
The Dinosaur and the Missing Link: A Prehistoric Tragedy (1915)
Rating: ★★
Cavemen and Dinosaurs
Director: Willis O'Brien
Category: Science Fiction
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1913)
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)
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)
Rating: ★★★★
Mind-Controlling Criminal Mastermind
Director: Fritz Lang
Category: Fantasy
Dracula: Pages from a Virgin’s Diary (2002)
Rating: ★★★★
Dracula Ballet Adaptation
Director: Guy Maddin
Category: Horror
The Fall of the House of Usher (1928)
Rating: ★★★½
Silent Edgar Allan Poe Adaptation
Director: Jean Epstein
Category: Horror
Faust (1926)
Rating: ★★★★★
Pact with the Devil
Director: F.W. Murnau
Actors: Emil Jannings, Gosta Ekman, Camilla Horn, Yvette Guilbert
Category: Fantasy
Genuine (1920)
Rating: ★★
German Expressionism/Femme Fatale
Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Ernst Gronau, Harald Paulsen, …
Category: Horror
The Golem (1920)
Rating: ★★★½
Artificial Creature of Clay
Director: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener
Actors: Paul Wegener, Lyda Salmanova, Albert Steinruck, Lothar Muthel, …
Category: Horror
The Hands of Orlac (1924)
Rating: ★★★★
Possessed Hands/Silent German Classic
Director: Robert Wiene
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina, Fritz Kortner, Carmen Cartellieri, …
Category: Horror
Häxan (1922)
Rating: ★★★½
Satanism and Witchcraft Documentary
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Karen Winther, Emmy Schönfeld, Johs Andersen, Elith Pio, …
Category: Horror
Heaven Ship (1918)
Rating: ★★½
Expedition to Mars
Director: Holger-Madsen
Actors: Gunnar Tolnaes, Lilly Jacobson, Nicolai Neiiendam, Zanny Petersen, …
Category: Science Fiction
An Impossible Voyage (1904)
Rating: ★★★½
Train Journey Into Space
Director: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction
Kriemhild’s Revenge (1924)
Rating: ★★★½
Teutonic Legend
Director: Fritz Lang
Category: Fantasy
The Last Warning (1929)
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)
Rating: ★★★★
Jack the Ripper Thriller
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Actors: Ivor Novello
Category: Horror
London After Midnight (1927)
Rating: ★★
Vampires/Whodunnit
Director: Tod Browning
Actors: Lon Chaney, Henry B. Walthall, Conrad Nagel, Marceline Day, …
Category: Horror
The Lost World (1925)
Rating: ★★★½
Lost Plateau of Dinosaurs
Director: Harry O. Hoyt
Actors: Wallace Beery
Category: Science Fiction
The Man Who Laughs (1928)
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)
Rating: ★★★★
Compilation of Georges Melies Shorts
Director: Director - David Gladwell
Category: Fantasy
Metropolis (1927)
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)
Rating: ★★★
Motorcar Travels Into Space
Director: Walter R. Booth
Category: Fantasy
The Mysterious Island (1929)
Rating: ★★
Underwater Adventures/City of Merpeople
Director: Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Montagu Love, Jane Daly, Lloyd Hughes
Category: Science Fiction
Nosferatu (1922)
Rating: ★★★★★
Silent Dracula Adaptation
Director: Friedrich Wilhelm Murnau
Actors: Max Schreck, Gustav von Waggenheim
Category: Horror
A Page of Madness (1926)
Rating: ★★½
Madness/Surrealism
Director: Teinosuke Kinugasa
Actors: Masuo Inoue, Yoshie Nakagawa, Eiko Minami, Misao Seki
Category: Fantasy
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
Rating: ★★★
Death’s Carriage Driver
Director: Victor Sjöström
Category: Fantasy
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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)
Rating: ★★
Edgar Allan Poe Biopic
Director: Charles J. Brabin
Actors: Henry B. Walthall, Wanda Howard, Ernest Maupain
Category: Horror
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Rating: ★★★½
Old Dark House Thriller
Director: Benjamin Christensen
Actors: Creighton Hale, Thelma Todd, William V. Mong, Sojin, …
Category: Horror
Siegfried (1924)
Rating: ★★★½
Epic Heroic Legend
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Paul Richter, Theodor Loos, Hanna Ralph, Margerete Schön, …
Category: Fantasy
The Student of Prague (1926)
Rating: ★★★½
Pact with the Devil/Malevolent Doppelganger
Director: Henrik Galeen
Actors: Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy, Elizza La Porta, …
Tarzan of the Apes (1918)
Rating: ★★★
Jungle Hero
Director: Scott Sidney
Actors: Elmo Lincoln, Enid Markey, Gordon Griffith, George B. French, …
Category: Fantasy
A Trip to the Moon (1902)
Rating: ★★★½
Expedition to the Moon/Comedy
Director: Georges Melies
Actors: Georges Melies
Category: Science Fiction
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Rating: ★★★½
Victorian Submarine Inventor/Jules Verne Adaptation
Director: Stuart Paton
Actors: Allen Holubar, Jane Gail, Dan Hanlon, Matt Moore, …
Category: Science Fiction
The Wizard of Oz (1910)
Rating: ★★
Silent Adaptation
Director: Otis Turner
Actors: Bebe Daniels, Robert Z. Leonard, Hobarth Bosworth, Winifred Greenwood, …
Category: Fantasy
Wizard of Oz (1925)
Rating: ★★
Silent Slapstick Adaptation
Director: Larry Semon
Actors: Larry Semon, Dorothy Dwan, Charles Murray, Oliver N. Hardy, …
Category: Fantasy
Woman in the Moon (1929)
Rating: ★★★★
Expedition to the Moon
Director: Fritz Lang
Actors: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Marcus, Gustav von Waggenheim, Fritz Rasp, …
Category: Science Fiction