1922 Movies

Sherlock Holmes

Directed by: Guy Ritchie

Starring: Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams, Mark Strong

Country: United States of America

Outline: Detective Sherlock Holmes and his stalwart partner Watson engage in a battle of wits and brawn with a nemesis whose plot is a threat to all of England.

Robin Hood

Directed by: Ridley Scott

Starring: Russell Crowe, Cate Blanchett, Matthew Macfadyen, Max von Sydow

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 12th century England, Robin and his band of marauders confront corruption in a local village and lead an uprising against the crown that will forever alter the balance of world power.

Robin Hood

Directed by: Allan Dwan

Starring: Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse, Enid Bennett, Paul Dickey

Country: United States of America

Outline: A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.

Blood and Sand

Directed by: Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner

Starring: Rosa Rosanova, Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Leo White

Country: United States of America

Outline: A toreador's familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.

Grandma's Boy

Directed by: Fred C. Newmeyer

Starring: Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend, Charles Stevenson

Country: United States of America

Outline: A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.

Nosferatu

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder

Country: United States of America

Outline: Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

Dr. Mabuse: The Gambler

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker, Alfred Abel

Country: United States of America

Outline: Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

Beyond the Rocks

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.

Tess of the Storm Country

Directed by: John S. Robertson

Starring: Mary Pickford, Lloyd Hughes, Gloria Hope, David Torrence

Country: United States of America

Outline: Wealthy Elias Graves builds his home on the top of a hill, where a group of squatters have taken up residence at the bottom. Many of the men in the squatters' village have their eyes on ...

Crainquebille

Directed by: Jacques Feyder

Starring: Maurice de Féraudy, Félix Oudart, Jean Forest, Marguerite Carré

Country: United States of America

Outline: A poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system.

Just Tony

Directed by: Lynn Reynolds

Starring: Tony the Horse, Tom Mix, J.P. Lockney, Claire Adams

Outline: A cowboy seeks revenge against the man who shot him in a bar-room brawl. While searching for him, he comes across a wild stallion that he is determined to capture and break, and unknowingly...

Foolish Wives

Directed by: Erich von Stroheim

Starring: Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George, Mae Busch

Country: United States of America

Outline: A con artist masquerades a Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

Lorna Doone

Directed by: Maurice Tourneur

Starring: Madge Bellamy, John Bowers, Frank Keenan, Jack McDonald

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.

Phantom

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Starring: Alfred Abel, Frida Richard, Aud Egede-Nissen, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski

Country: United States of America

Outline: A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.

Silver Spurs

Directed by: Henry McCarty, James Leo Meehan

Starring: Lester Cuneo, Lillian Ward, Bert Sprotte, Zalla Zarana

Outline: Craig Hamilton, bored with Manhattan, travels to the small town of Saint Vincente. There he has a real western adventure involving the lovely Rosario del Camarillo and the greedy and violent Juan von Rolf who has stolen her ranch.

The Trap

Directed by: Robert Thornby

Starring: Lon Chaney, Alan Hale, Dagmar Godowsky, Stanley Goethals

Country: United States of America

Outline: A miner's happiness is destroyed when a rival steals his mine. He becomes obsessed with revenge, and plans a trap for the man who took his mine.

Oliver Twist

Directed by: Frank Lloyd

Starring: Jackie Coogan, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent

Country: United States of America

Outline: An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.

Moran of the Lady Letty

Directed by: George Melford

Starring: Dorothy Dalton, Charles Brinley, Emil Jorgenson, Rudolph Valentino

Country: United States of America

Outline: A milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.

Flesh and Blood

Directed by: Irving Cummings

Starring: Lon Chaney, Edith Roberts, Noah Beery, DeWitt Jennings

Outline: A convict hiding in Chinatown assumes the identity of a cripple to track down a businessman who framed him 15 years previously. He discovers that his daughter has fallen in love with the businessman's son.

Shadows

Directed by: Tom Forman

Starring: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison Ford, John St. Polis

Country: United States of America

Outline: A dying Chinese man converts to Christianity in order to stop a friend from being blackmailed.

Down to the Sea in Ships

Directed by: Elmer Clifton

Starring: Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow

Country: United States of America

Outline: Story of the lives of the people in a small Quaker community and the adventures of a whaling ship.

Sherlock Holmes

Directed by: Albert Parker

Starring: John Barrymore, Roland Young, Carol Dempster, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young Sherlock Holmes seeks to bring down the criminal mastermind Moriarty as he solves a crime involving a blackmailed prince.

The Dungeon

Directed by: Oscar Micheaux

Starring: William Fountaine, Shingzie Howard, J. Kenneth Goodman, William Crowell

The Arsonist

Directed by: Brenton Spencer

Oliver Twist

Directed by: Roman Polanski