Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref |
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1925 | Ace of Spades | Henry MacRae | William Desmond, Mary McAllister | A 15-part Western serial. | [1] |
The Adventurous Sex | Charles Giblyn | Clara Bow, Herbert Rawlinson, Earle Williams | Six reels, 58–60 minutes. | [2] |
Corazón Aymara | Pedro Sambarino | | First Bolivian fiction feature film. | [3] |
The Dark Angel | George Fitzmaurice | Vilma Bánky, Ronald Colman | Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1925. | [4] |
The Fighting Heart | John Ford | George O'Brien, Billie Dove | | [5] |
The Fighting Ranger | Jay Marchant | Jack Dougherty, Eileen Sedgwick | A Western serial with 18 episodes. | [6] |
The Great Circus Mystery | Jay Marchant | Joe Bonomo, Louise Lorraine | A 15-chapter serial. | [7] |
Heartbound | Glen Lambert | Ranger Bill Miller, Bess True | An early 3D film (see List of 3D films (1914–2004)). | [8] |
His Supreme Moment | George Fitzmaurice | Blanche Sweet, Ronald Colman, Anna May Wong | Some sequences had 2 strip Technicolor. | [9] |
Idaho | Robert F. Hill | Mahlon Hamilton, Vivian Rich | A ten-part serial. | [10] |
Kiss Me Again | Ernst Lubitsch | Marie Prevost, Monte Blue, Clara Bow | Warner Bros. popular film. | [11] |
The Lawful Cheater | Frank O'Connor | Clara Bow, David Kirby, Raymond McKee | | [12] |
A Man of Iron | Whitman Bennett | Lionel Barrymore, Mildred Harris | | [13] |
Man spielt nicht mit der Liebe ( One Does Not Play with Love ) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Werner Krauss | | [14] |
New Brooms | William C. deMille | Bessie Love, Neil Hamilton, Phyllis Haver | | [15] |
Perils of the Wild | Francis Ford | Joe Bonomo, Margaret Quimby | A serial consisting of 15 episodes. | [16] |
Play Ball | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Walter Miller, Allene Ray | A ten-part serial. | [17] |
The Prophecy of the Lake | José Maria Velasco Maidana | | Second completed Bolivian fiction feature film; banned and never released. | |
The Scarlet Streak | Henry MacRae | Jack Dougherty, Lola Todd | A serial of ten episodes. | [18] |
That Royle Girl | D. W. Griffith | W. C. Fields | Griffith used 24 airplane propellers to create a tornado sequence. | [19] [20] |
Thank You | John Ford | Alec B. Francis, Jacqueline Logan | | [21] |
A Thief in Paradise | George Fitzmaurice | Doris Kenyon, Ronald Colman, Aileen Pringle | | [22] |
The Tower of Lies | Victor Seastrom | Lon Chaney, Norma Shearer, Ian Keith | | [23] |
We Moderns | John Francis Dillon | Colleen Moore | A sequel to Moore's Flaming Youth of 1923. | [24] |
Wild Justice | Chester Franklin | Peter the Great, George Sherwood, Frank Hagney, Frances Teague | |
Wild West | Robert F. Hill | Jack Mulhall, Helen Ferguson | A ten-chapter serial. | [25] |
1926 | Arirang | Na Woon-gyu | Na Woon-gyu | A copy of this Korean film was rumored to have been in the possession of a Japanese collector who died in February 2005. | [26] |
The Bar C Mystery | Robert F. Hill | Dorothy Phillips, Wallace MacDonald | A ten-part Western serial. | [27] |
The Boy Friend | Monta Bell | Marceline Day, John Harron, Gwen Lee | | [28] |
The Cat's Pajamas | William A. Wellman | Betty Bronson | | [29] |
The Dice Woman | Edward Dillon, Edmund F. Bernoudy | Priscilla Dean | | [30] |
The Fighting Marine | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Gene Tunney, Marjorie Day | A ten-episode serial. | [31] |
Fighting with Buffalo Bill | Ray Taylor | William F. Cody, George H. Plympton, William Lord Wright | | [32] |
The Great Gatsby | Herbert Brenon | Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton | Only a minute-long trailer has survived. Despite extensive searches for the film and rumours of surviving copies existing in obscure archives, no other trace of the film has been found. | [33] |
Gwiaździsta eskadra | Leonard Buczkowski | Barbara Orwid | A story of Americans in the Polish 7th Air Escadrille fighting against the Bolsheviks during the Polish-Soviet War in 1918–1920. All copies were stolen or destroyed by the Soviet Army after 1945. | [34] [35] |
Hearts and Fists | Lloyd Ingraham | John Bowers, Marguerite De La Motte, Alan Hale Sr. | One of three known films from H.C. Weaver Studios | [36] |
London | Herbert Wilcox | Dorothy Gish | It is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of missing British feature films. | [37] |
Meet the Prince | Joseph Henabery | Joseph Schildkraut, Marguerite De La Motte | | [38] |
The Radio Detective | William James Craft, William A. Crinley | Jack Dougherty, Margaret Quimby | A serial of ten episodes. | [39] |
The Road to Glory | Howard Hawks | May McAvoy | Hawks's first official film as a director. | [40] |
Snowed In | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Walter Miller | A ten-episode serial. | [41] |
A Social Celebrity | Malcolm St. Clair | Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks | In 1957, one print deteriorated, and later another was lost in a fire. | [42] |
Stop, Look and Listen | Larry Semon | Oliver Hardy | | [43] |
Strings of Steel | Henry MacRae | William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick | | [44] |
Sweeney Todd | George Dewhurst | G.A. Baughan | The first of several film adaptations of the Sweeney Todd character. | [45] |
Swell Hogan | Ralph Graves | Ralph Graves | The first film produced by Howard Hughes, who hated the film and may have ordered it destroyed. [46] |
A Trip to Chinatown | Robert P. Kerr | Margaret Livingston, Earle Foxe, J. Farrell MacDonald | | [47] |
The Winking Idol | Francis Ford | William Desmond, Eileen Sedgwick | A Western serial in ten parts. | [48] |
A Woman of the Sea | Josef von Sternberg | Edna Purviance | Produced by Charlie Chaplin, he destroyed it in 1933 as a tax write-off. Production stills survive. | [49] [50] |
1927 | The American | J. Stuart Blackton | Bessie Love, Charles Ray | Made in the experimental widescreen process Natural Vision. Never released theatrically. | [51] |
Babe Comes Home | Ted Wilde | Babe Ruth, Anna Q. Nilsson | Babe Ruth stars as himself in this feature-length comedy. | [52] |
Blake of Scotland Yard | Robert F. Hill | Hayden Stevenson, Grace Cunard | A 12-episode serial. | [53] |
Broadway Nights | Joseph C. Boyle | Lois Wilson, Sam Hardy, Barbara Stanwyck, Ann Sothern | A silent romantic drama film. | [54] |
The Broncho Twister | Orville O. Dull | Tom Mix, Helene Costello | | [55] [56] |
The Callahans and the Murphys | George W. Hill | Marie Dressler, Polly Moran | This film caused some controversy because of its stereotypical depiction of Irish people. MGM withdrew the picture from distribution. | [57] |
The Chinese Parrot | Paul Leni | Marian Nixon, Florence Turner, Hobart Bosworth | | [58] |
The City Gone Wild | James Cruze | Louise Brooks | Early gangster film, with titles by Herman J. Mankiewicz. | [59] |
The Conjure Woman | Oscar Micheaux | Evelyn Preer | | [60] |
The Devil Dancer | Fred Niblo | Gilda Gray, Clive Brook, Anna May Wong | | [61] |
Evening Clothes | Luther Reed | Adolphe Menjou, Louise Brooks | | [62] |
The Fire Fighters | Jacques Jaccard | Jack Dougherty, Helen Ferguson | A ten-chapter serial. | [63] |
For the Love of Mike | Frank Capra | Claudette Colbert | Colbert's film debut. | [64] |
The Gateway of the Moon | John Griffith Wray | Dolores del Río, Walter Pidgeon | | [65] |
Gua ming de fu qi (A Couple in Name Only) | Wancang Bu | Ruan Lingyu | | |
A Harp in Hock | Renaud Hoffman | Rudolph Schildkraut, Junior Coghlan, May Robson, Bessie Love | | [66] |
Hats Off | Hal Yates | Laurel and Hardy | | [67] |
The Heart of the Yukon | W.S. Van Dyke | John Bowers, Anne Cornwall, Edward Hearn | One of three known films from H.C. Weaver Studios | [68] |
Heebee Jeebees | Anthony Mack | Our Gang: (Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Pete the Pup) | | [69] |
Heroes of the Wild | Harry S. Webb | Jack Hoxie, Josephine Hill | A ten-episode serial. | [70] |
The House Behind the Cedars | Oscar Micheaux | Shingzie Howard, Lawrence Chenault, C. D. Griffith | A race film, it was banned in Virginia. | [71] |
London After Midnight | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day | Chaney played both the villain, and the detective hunting him. Reconstructed in 2002 using stills and original script. Last known print destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. | [72] |
The Magic Flame | Henry King | Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky | | [73] [74] |
The Masked Menace | Arch Heath | Larry Kent, Jean Arthur | Filmed in Berlin, New Hampshire. | [75] |
Melting Millions | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Walter Miller | A ten-episode serial. | [76] |
The Mountain Eagle | Alfred Hitchcock | Nita Naldi, Bernhard Goetzke | The film was poorly received and criticised for its lack of realism, and Hitchcock himself was relieved that the film was lost. | [77] [78] [79] |
Mumsie | Herbert Wilcox | Pauline Frederick, Nelson Keys, Herbert Marshall | | [80] |
On Guard | Arch Heath | Cullen Landis, Muriel Kingston | A ten-part serial. | [81] |
The Potters | Fred C. Newmeyer | W. C. Fields | | [82] |
Rolled Stockings | Richard Rosson | Louise Brooks | The film features the Paramount Junior stars, and was filmed in Berkeley, California. | [83] |
The Story of the Flag | Anson Dyer | | The first full-length British animated film, it is on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [84] |
Sword of Penitence | Yasujirō Ozu | Saburō Azuma | Ozu's first film as director. | |
Taxi! Taxi! | Melville W. Brown | Edward Everett Horton, Burr McIntosh | | [85] |
Tip Toes | Herbert Wilcox | Dorothy Gish, Will Rogers | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [86] |
The Gay Defender | Gregory La Cava | Richard Dix, Thelma Todd, Fred Kohler, Jerry Mandy | | [87] |
The Trail of the Tiger | Henry MacRae | Jack Dougherty, Frances Teague | A serial in ten parts. | [88] |
Two Flaming Youths | John Waters | W. C. Fields, Chester Conklin, Mary Brian | | [89] |
Yale vs. Harvard | Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: (Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jay R. Smith, Jackie Condon, Harry Spear, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jean Darling, Pete the Pup) | Earliest Our Gang film to be entirely lost. | [90] |
1928 | Anybody Here Seen Kelly? | William Wyler | Bessie Love, Tom Moore | | [91] |
The Awakening | Victor Fleming | Vilma Bánky, Walter Byron | | [92] |
What Price Beauty? | Tom Buckingham | Nita Naldi, Natacha Rambova | Film was shot in May 1925, but not released until January 1928 due to distribution issues. Notable for being Myrna Loy's debut. |
The Actress | Sidney Franklin | Sidney Franklin | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. | [93] |
Baiyun Ta (The White Cloud Pagoda) | Zhang Shichuan | Ruan Lingyu | | |
The Big City | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Betty Compson | Destroyed in the 1965 MGM vault fire. A trailer survives, but it does not include any footage from the film. | [94] |
The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple | Zhang Shichuan | Die Hu, Jie Tang | Considered to be one of the longest films ever made, released in 19 parts from 1928 to 1931 with a total running time of 27 hours. Notable for being the first martial arts film. | |
The Czarina's Secret | R. William Neill | Olga Baclanova, Sally Rand | Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. | [95] |
The Drag Net | Josef von Sternberg | William Powell, Evelyn Brent | | [96] |
Dry Martini | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Mary Astor | | [97] |
Edison, Marconi & Co. | Anthony Mack | Our Gang: (Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Jay R. Smith, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Pete the Pup) | | [98] |
The Fleet's In | Malcolm St. Clair | Clara Bow, James Hall | With talking sequences and sound effects. | [99] |
4 Devils | F. W. Murnau | Janet Gaynor | Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1928. | [100] [101] |
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes | Mal St. Clair | Alice White, Ruth Taylor | The first version of the Anita Loos story. | [102] |
Growing Pains | Anthony Mack, Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: Mary Ann Jackson, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Joe Cobb, Jay R. Smith, Harry Spear, Jackie Condon, Jean Darling, Pete the Pup | | [103] |
The Hawk's Nest | Benjamin Christensen | Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Sōjin Kamiyama | | [104] |
Ladies of the Mob | William Wellman | Clara Bow, Richard Arlen | | [105] |
The Last Moment | Paul Fejos | Georgia Hale, Otto Matieson | Experimental silent film told without subtitles. | [19] [106] |
The Legion of the Condemned | William A. Wellman | Fay Wray, Gary Cooper | | [19] [107] |
Mark of the Frog | Arch Heath | Donald Reed Margaret Morris | A ten-episode serial. | [108] |
Napoleon's Barber | John Ford | Otto Matieson, Natalie Golitzen | | [109] |
Pirates of the Pines | J. C. Cook | George O'Hara, Rita Roma | A serial with ten episodes. | [110] |
A Princess of Destiny | Tom Terriss | Anders Randolf, Doris Lloyd, Dorothy Gould, Lloyd Ingraham, Fairfax Burger | Technicolor short subject, part of the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer "Great Events" series. | [111] |
Street of Sin | Mauritz Stiller | Emil Jannings, Fay Wray | | [112] |
Tarzan the Mighty | Jack Nelson, Ray Taylor | Frank Merrill | The seventh Tarzan movie produced. | [113] |
Thérèse Raquin | Jacques Feyder | Gina Manès, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Jeanne Marie-Laurent | | [114] |
The Vanishing Rider | Ray Taylor | William Desmond, Ethlyne Clair | A serial of 12 parts. | [115] |
The Vanishing West | Richard Thorpe | Jack Perrin, Eileen Sedgwick | A ten-episode serial. | [116] |
Vultures of the Sea | Richard Thorpe | Johnnie Walker, Shirley Mason | A serial with ten chapters. | [117] |
The Yellow Cameo | Spencer Gordon Bennet | Allene Ray, Edward Hearn | | [118] |
1929 | Barro Humano | Adhemar Gonzaga | Gracia Morena, Lelita Rosa, Eva Schnoor, Eva Nil | | [119] |
The Case of Lena Smith | Josef von Sternberg | Esther Ralston | Silent film withdrawn from circulation when talkies began to dominate. Only a 4-minute clip is known to exist. |
The Crooked Billet | Adrian Brunel | Madeleine Carroll, Carlyle Blackwell, Miles Mander | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [120] |
The Diamond Master | Jack Nelson | Hayden Stevenson, Louise Lorraine | A ten-part serial. | [121] |
The Fatal Warning | Richard Thorpe | Ralph Graves, Helene Costello | Twelve-part mystery serial released by Mascot Pictures. | [122] |
The Fire Detective | Spencer Gordon Bennet, Thomas Storey | Gladys McConnell, Hugh Allan | A serial with ten episodes. | [123] |
Frontier Romance | Elmer Clifton | Allan Simpson, Nina Quartero, Arthur Clayton | The last of twelve short films produced in Technicolor as part of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's "Great Events" series. | . [124] |
The Holy Terror | Anthony Mack, Robert F. McGowan | Our Gang: Mary Ann Jackson, Joe Cobb, Allen "Farina" Hoskins, Jean Darling, Bobby "Wheezer" Hutchins, Harry Spear, Pete the Pup | | [125] |
The Last Post | Dinah Shurey | John Longden, Frank Vosper, Cynthia Murtagh | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. | [126] |
The Pirate of Panama | Ray Taylor | Jay Wilsey, Natalie Kingston | A serial in 12 parts. | [127] |
The Wages of Sin | Oscar Micheaux | William A. Clayton, Jr., Bessie Givens | A race movie with an all-black cast. | [128] |