Title Director Cast Country Subgenre/Notes 1920 Algol Hans Werckmeister Emil Jannings , John Gottowt , Hans Adalbert Schlettow Germany Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde J. Charles Haydon Sheldon Lewis United States Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde John S. Robertson John Barrymore , Martha Mansfield , Charles Willis Lane , Nita Naldi United States Figures of the Night Richard Oswald Paul Wegener , Reinhold Schünzel , Conrad Veidt Germany The Invisible Ray Harry A. Pollard Ruth Clifford , Jack Sherrill , Sidney Bracey United States Serial film , lost film 1921 Die Blitzzentrale Valy Arnheim Valy Arnheim, Victor Colani Germany The Mechanical Man Andre Deed Gabriel Moreau , Valentina Frascaroli , Fernando Vivas-May Italy 1922 The Man from Beyond Burton L. King Harry Houdini , Arthur Maude , Albert Tavernier , Erwin Connelly United States [ 1] 1923 Black Oxen Frank Lloyd Corinne Griffith , Conway Tearle , Clara Bow United States 1924 Aelita Yakov Protazanov Yuliya Solntseva , Igor Ilyinsky , Nikolai Tsereteli Soviet Union The Hands of Orlac Robert Wiene Conrad Veidt , Alexandra Sorina , Fritz Kortner , Carmen Cartellieri Austria Interplanetary Revolution Nikolay Khodatayev , Zenon Komissarenko , Yuriy Merkulov Soviet Union Animated short film. Russian title: Межпланетная революция , tr. Mezhplanetnaya revolyutsiya [ 2] [ 3] [ 4] [ 5] [ 6] L'Inhumaine Marcel L'Herbier Georgette Leblanc , Jaque Catelain , Philippe Hériat France The Last Man on Earth John G. Blystone Buck Black , Maurice Murphy , William Steele United States 1925 The Lost World Harry Hoyt Bessie Love , Lewis Stone , Wallace Beery , Lloyd Hughes , Alma Bennett United States Luch Smerti Lev Kuleshov Porfiri Podobed , Vsevolod Pudovkin , Aleksandra Khokhlova Soviet Union [ 7] [ 8] Paris Qui Dort René Clair Madeleine Rodrigue , Myla Seller , Henri Rollan France Sci-Fi Comedy The Power God Francis Ford , Ben F. Wilson Ben F. Wilson , Neva Gerber , Mary Crane United States Serial film [ 9] [ 10] Wunder Der Schöpfung Hanns Walter Kornblum Paul Bildt , Willy Kaiser-Heyl , Theodor Loos , Oscar Marion Germany [ 11] 1927 Metropolis Fritz Lang Alfred Abel , Gustav Froehlich , Rudolf Klein-Rogge , Theodor Loos Germany 1928 Alraune Henrik Galeen Brigitte Helm Germany 1929 High Treason Maurice Elvey Benita Hume , Basil Gill , Jameson Thomas , Milton Rosmer United Kingdom [ 12] The Mysterious Island Lucien Hubbard Lionel Barrymore , Jane Daly , Lloyd Hughes United States Woman in the Moon Fritz Lang Klaus Pohl , Willy Fritsch , Gerda Maurus , Fritz Rasp Germany