Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Silent Cinema: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
- Harold Lloyd Collection - Disc 3 (Why Worry?, Dr. Jack, Feet First) (1922-1930)
- Dir. Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Clyde Bruckman
Feat. Harold Lloyd
- Three classic Harold Lloyd features/shorts. Includes, WHY WORRY?, the tale of a hypochondriac whose retreat to a Paradise island lands him in the…
- Lotte Reiniger: The Fairy Tale Films (1922-1961)
- Dir. Lotte Reiniger
- THE FAIRY TALE FILMS is an inspired collection of animated shorts by renowned director Lotte Reiniger, whose signature style incorporated black and…
- Nosferatu (1922)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Max Schreck, Alexander Granach
- Max Schreck is unforgettable as the titular vampire in this exquisitely chilling, silent forerunner to Lugosi's Dracula. A milestone of early…
- Wizard of Oz, The (1922)
- Dir. Larry Semon
Feat. Oliver Hardy, Larry Semon
- Original adaptation of the L Frank Baum story, conjures up more laughs than the Judy Garland version, with Oliver Hardy as the Tin–Man, and…
- Ace of Hearts, The (1921)
- Dir. Wallace Worsley
Feat. Lon Chaney, Leatrice Joy, John Bowers
- A silent–era crime drama with Lon Chaney as a member of a secret vigilante society. The group make a plan to dispatch a wealthy businessman…
- Kid, The (1921)
- Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance
- Silent comedian Chaplin's first full–length feature has him teaming with lovable scamp Jackie Coogan for a life of crime.
- Orphans of the Storm (1921)
- Dir. D.W. Griffith
Feat. Lillian Gish, Dorothy Gish, Joseph Schildkraut…
- Vivid melodrama with the sisters Gish caught up in the turmoil of the French Revolution, encountering misery and love along the way.
- Phantom Carriage, The (Körkarlen) (1921)
- Dir. Victor Sjostrom
Feat. Victor Sjostrom, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg
- Impeccable Swedish silent film following a ghostly carriage as it takes a man's soul on a journey following his death on New Year's Eve, forcing him…
- Buster Keaton Shorts (1920-1923)
- Feat. Buster Keaton
- A selection of early Buster Keaton short comedies, dating from just after his period as sidekick to Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle and prior to his classic…
- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
- Dir. John S. Robertson
Feat. John Barrymore, Charles Lane, Brandon Hurst…
- The first of many adaptations is this unsettling silent version of Robert Louis Stevenson's novella about a charitable scientist whose…