Subgenre Sampler
Silent Cinema: 146 Films to Buy & Rent
- Battling Butler (1926)
- Dir. Buster Keaton
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton's seventh feature film is based on a Broadway play in which he plays a love–struck weakling who must masquerade as a boxer in…
- Black Pirate, The (1926)
- Dir. Albert Parker
Feat. Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp…
- An excellent silent swashbuckler with Douglas Fairbanks at his racy best, sliding down sails and flashing his cutlass. Beautifully shot on early…
- Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain) (1926)
- Dir. Arnold Fanck
Feat. Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker
- One of the landmark films of German Cinema, this is chiefly remembered as the awesome debut of Leni Riefenstahl who later became chief filmmaker for…
- Faust (1926)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings
- Innovative camera tricks and production design distinguish this rendering of the literary staple about a man who sells his soul to the devil.…
- 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…
- Metropolis (1984 Version) (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
- Fritz Lang's silent masterpiece retains its magnificence in spite of the slashed running time and the rock bombast of Georgio Moroder's contemporary…