1920 Movies

Way Down East

Directed by: D.W. Griffith

Starring: Lillian Gish, Richard Barthelmess, Mrs. David Landau, Lowell Sherman

Country: United States of America

Outline: A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

The Mark of Zorro

Directed by: Fred Niblo

Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Robert McKim, Noah Beery

Country: United States of America

Outline: A seemingly idiotic fop is really the courageous vigilante Zorro, who seeks to protect the oppressed.

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Directed by: Robert Wiene

Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover

Country: United States of America

Outline: Hypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.

The Penalty

Directed by: Wallace Worsley

Starring: Charles Clary, Doris Pawn, Jim Mason, Lon Chaney

Country: United States of America

Outline: A deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.

Sand

Directed by: Lambert Hillyer

Starring: William S. Hart, Mary Thurman, G. Raymond Nye, Patricia Palmer

Outline: Railroad station agent Dan Kurrie is fired from his job by his rival in love, Joseph Garber. Believed false by the girl he loves, Margaret , Kurrie must prove himself by unmasking a gang of...

The Golem

Directed by: Carl Boese, Paul Wegener

Starring: Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück, Ernst Deutsch, Lyda Salmonova

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Directed by: John S. Robertson

Starring: John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield, Brandon Hurst, Charles Lane

Country: United States of America

Outline: Dr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.

The Woman in the Suitcase

Directed by: Fred Niblo

Starring: Enid Bennett, William Conklin, Dorcas Matthews, Rowland V. Lee

Outline: Mary Moreland discovers the photograph of a woman not her mother in her father's suitcase and sets out to find her in hopes of returning her father to his rightful place in the family.

Mahabharat

Directed by: Babubhai Mistry

The Mollycoddle

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Douglas Fairbanks, Ruth Renick, Wallace Beery, Paul Burns

Outline: An American who has lived much of his life outside the country returns to Arizona for the first time in years and encounters villainy.

The Last of the Mohicans

Directed by: Clarence Brown, Maurice Tourneur

Starring: Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe, Lillian Hall

Country: United States of America

Outline: As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil...

Pollyanna

Directed by: Paul Powell

Starring: Mary Pickford, Wharton James, Katherine Griffith, Helen Jerome Eddy

Country: United States of America

Outline: An orphan's optimistic outlook brings a change to the ill-tempered town in which she resides to her aunt.

Anna Boleyn

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Henny Porten, Emil Jannings, Paul Hartmann, Ludwig Hartau

Country: United States of America

Outline: The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

Erotikon

Directed by: Mauritz Stiller

Starring: Anders de Wahl, Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Elin Lagergren

Country: United States of America

Outline: EROTIKON surely pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable on the screen in 1920: Irene, the bored wife of a distracted entomologist, pursues a womanizing aviator, but she may actually be...

Outside the Law

Directed by: Tod Browning

Starring: Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis

Country: United States of America

Outline: In this early collaboration with director Tod Browning (Dracula, Freaks), Chaney delivers a dual performance of dramatic intensity, starring as Ah Wing, a kind-hearted student of Confucian ...

The Toll Gate

Directed by: Lambert Hillyer

Starring: William S. Hart, Anna Q. Nilsson, Joseph Singleton, Jack Richardson

Outline: After being betrayed to the law by one of his henchmen, a bandit leader seeks to avenge himself.

Within Our Gates

Directed by: Oscar Micheaux

Starring: Evelyn Preer, Flo Clements, James D. Ruffin, Jack Chenault

Country: United States of America

Outline: Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a shocking past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black youths.

Sex

Directed by: Fred Niblo

Starring: Louise Glaum, Irving Cummings, Peggy Pearce, Myrtle Stedman

Country: United States of America

Outline: A broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.

Sumurun

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: Ernst Lubitsch, Pola Negri, Paul Wegener, Jenny Hasselqvist

Country: United States of America

Outline: The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

Down on the Farm

Directed by: Ray Grey, F. Richard Jones, Erle C. Kenton

Starring: Louise Fazenda, Harry Gribbon, Bert Roach, James Finlayson

Outline: The day starts off as any normal day on Roach's farm, where Teddy, the farmhouse dog, is doing more productive work than everyone else combined. But the day changes when Roach's farmhand ...

The Man Who Had Everything

Directed by: Alfred E. Green

Starring: Jack Pickford, Lionel Belmore, Priscilla Bonner, Shannon Day

Outline: Harry Bullway is a careless young man, always after a good time. He nearly runs over a blind beggar with his car, but he shows no remorse. In response to his heartlessness, the beggar ...

Godless Men

Directed by: Reginald Barker

Starring: Russell Simpson, Jim Mason, Helene Chadwick, John Bowers

Outline: On board his trading schooner in the South Pacific, tough sea captain Black Pawl confronts his own son, who has grown up in his father's shadow and reflects only his dark side.

Man and Woman

Directed by: Takahiko Iimura

What Women Love

Directed by: Nate Watt

Starring: Annette Kellerman, Ralph Lewis, Wheeler Oakman, William Fairbanks

Directed by: Robert Wiene

Starring: Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher, Lil Dagover, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski, Rudolf Lettinger