25 Essential Silent Film Starter Guide
New to silent films? Start with 25 essential silent films that shaped modern filmmaking. Curated for beginners and updated monthly.
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Don Q, Son of Zorro
Don Cesar De Vega crosses swords with a vicious member of the Queen's Guard, and steals the affection of a young heir...
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Lady of the Night
The story of two baby girls, born near in proximity but worlds apart in society: Molly Helmer, the daughter of a thie...
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The Lucky Devil
Richard Dix, a displayer in a department store, enters a raffle and wins the so-called 'hoodoo' bad-luck automobile f...
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Shore Leave
"Bilge" Smith (Richard Barthelmess), a tough sailor, meets Connie Martin (Dorothy Mackaill), a seamstress in a small ...
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Hot Water
Lloyd's look at married life and the issues of the in-law. Adventures include a ride on a crowded trolley with a live...
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The Pony Express
The Pony Express is a silent 1925 Western film produced by Famous Players-Lasky and distributed by Paramount Pictures...
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Waking Up the Town
Jim Joyce runs a garage with old Abner Hope. When Hope's granddaughter, Mary Ellen, comes to visit, Joyce falls in lo...
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The Rag Man
Tim Kelly is an orphan who runs away after his orphanage burns down. Presumed to be killed in the fire, he is able to...
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Episodes in the Life of a Gin Bottle
A gin bottle is personified with a spirit. As the gin bottle changes hands the spirit of the bottle tempts the variou...
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Ella Cinders
Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she j...
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Beau Brummel
George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own...
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Dick Turpin
In eighteenth century England, gentleman highwayman Dick Turpin overcomes many difficulties to rescue his sweetheart ...
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A Kiss for Cinderella
An adaption of a novel by Peter Pan author J.M. Barrie. Classification CategoryClassic Movies & Vintage Fi...
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The Lady
A young woman marries the wastrel son of a British aristocrat. Her husband, who has been disinherited by his father, ...
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Our Hospitality
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member o...
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The Perfect Clown
A clerk is given $10,000 to deposit at the bank, but the bank is closed for the night so he tries to get to the bank ...
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A Woman of the World
A European countess, after being betrayed by her lover, goes to live in small town Middle America with her cousins an...
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The Plastic Age
Hugh Carver is an athletic star and a freshman at Prescott College. He falls in love with Cynthia Day, a popular girl...
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The Road to Yesterday
Malena's apparent frigidity toward her husband Kenneth is a result of injustice done in an earlier incarnation when h...
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The Signal Tower
A railroad worker accepts a colleague's offer to stay in his home, but when his friend is called out one night to sto...
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The Night Club
After having been stood up at his own wedding, a young man vows that he will have nothing more to ever do with women....
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The Greatest Question
Young Nellie Jarvis, daughter of a wandering couple, witnesses the murder of a woman by a man and his wife. Years lat...
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Girl Shy
Harold Meadows is a shy, stuttering bachelor working in a tailor shop, who is writing a guidebook, The Secret of Maki...
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The Extra Girl
Sue Graham is a small town girl who wants to be a motion picture star. She wins a contract when a picture of a very p...
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Forbidden Paradise
Alexei, a young officer, saves the Czarina of a small European kingdom from revolutionary conspirators and is rewarde...