Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Classics > Silent Cinema: 114 Films to Rent on DVD
- Garbo Silents Collection, The (Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, The Mysterious Lady) (1926-1928)
- Dir. Clarence Brown, Fred Niblo
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
- Three MGM classics that well represent the great Greta Garbo as the ultimate silent movie icon:
Flesh and the Devil (1927, 112m.)
A gorgeous high…
- General, The (1926)
- Dir. Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton risks life and limb to pursue his beloved rail engine, hijacked by Union spies at the time of the U.S. Civil War. Hilarious…
- La Boheme (1926)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree…
- Silent film adaptation of the 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, with Lillian Gish starring alongside John Gilbert as doomed lovers Mimi and Rodolphe, a…
- Lodger, The (1926)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney…
- The first notable Hitchcock, this silent variant of the 'Jack the Ripper' features a memorable turn from Ivor Novello and some spine–tingling…
- Metropolis (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…
- Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design.
Set around the year 2000, a…
- Tartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha
- This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
- Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
- Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
- An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
- 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…