“What are the best Silent Movies?” We looked at 251 of the top Silent films, aggregating and ranking them so we could answer that very question!
The top 41 films, all appearing on 5 or more “Best Silent” movie lists, are ranked below by how many times they appear. The remaining 200+ movies, as well as the sources we used, are in alphabetical order on the bottom of the page.
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Top 41 Best Silent Movies Ever Made
41 .) 7th Heaven (1927) directed by Frank Borzage
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Independent
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
40 .) Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (1922) directed by Fritz Lang
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Silent Era
- Telegraph
Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse, who is a master of disguise and has been hypnotising people into doing his bidding, sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
39 .) Earth (1930) directed by Alexander Dovzhenko
Lists It Appears On:
- Film School Rejects
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
In the peaceful countryside, Vassily opposes the rich kulaks over the coming of collective farming.
38 .) Faust (1926) directed by F.W. Murnau
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.
37 .) Flesh and the Devil (1926) directed by Clarence Brown
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Independent
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
As lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home following completion of their military training, Leo sees stunning Felicitas at the railway station and, mesmerized by her beauty, is smitten. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.
36 .) Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages (1922) directed by Benjamin Christensen
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- IMDB
- io9
- MUBI
- Open Culture
Grave robbing, torture, possessed nuns, and a satanic Sabbath: Benjamin Christensen’s legendary film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. But the film itself is far from serious– instead it’s a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.
35 .) It (1927) directed by Clarence G. Badger
Lists It Appears On:
- Film School Rejects
- IMDB 2
- Independent
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as “it.”
34 .) Our Hospitality (1923) directed by John G. Blystone
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Ranker
- Silent Era
A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
33 .) The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) directed by Rex Ingram
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- Independent
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
Set in the years before and during World War I, this epic tale tells the story of a rich Argentine family, one of its two descending branches being half of French heritage, the other being half German. Following the death of the family patriarch, the man’s two daughters and their families resettle to France and Germany, respectively. In time the Great War breaks out, putting members of the family on opposing sides.
32 .) The Thief of Bagdad (1924) directed by Raoul Walsh
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A recalcitrant thief vies with a duplicitous Mongol ruler for the hand of a beautiful princess.
31 .) Un Chien Andalou (1929) directed by Luis Buñuel
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Telegraph
Un Chien Andalou is a classic European avant-garde surrealist film from the cooperation of director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali. The film changed the way people made movies. Most famous is the scene of a woman’s eye being cut with a knife.
30 .) Wings (1927) directed by William A. Wellman
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who’s the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.
29 .) A Trip to the Moon (1902) directed by Georges Méliès
Lists It Appears On:
- Film School Rejects
- io9
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- What We Do All Day
A group of men travel to the moon by being shot in a capsule from a giant cannon. They are captured by moon-men, escape, and return to the earth. The film was the first film with a self-contained plot and was the beginning of the science fiction genre.
28 .) Broken Blossoms (1919) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Filmsite
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
The love story of an abused English girl and a Chinese Buddhist in a time when London was a brutal and harsh place to live.
27 .) The Big Parade (1925) directed by King Vidor
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Filmsite
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army’s Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
26 .) The Cameraman (1928) directed by Edward Sedgwick
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
25 .) The Circus (1928) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- Ranker
- Silent Era
Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman and falls in love with the circus owner’s daughter. Unaware of Charlie’s affection, the girl falls in love with a handsome young performer. Charlie’s versatility makes him star of the show when he substitutes for an ailing tightwire walker. He is discharged from the company when he protects the girl from her father’s abuse, but he returns and appeals to the handsome performer to marry the girl. After the wedding the father prevails upon them to rejoin the circus. Charlie is hired again, but he stays behind when the caravan moves on. ×
24 .) The Last Laugh (1924) directed by F.W. Murnau
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
An aging doorman, after being fired from his prestigious job at a luxurious Hotel is forced to face the scorn of his friends, neighbours and society.
23 .) The Phantom Carriage (1921) directed by Victor Sjöström
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Open Culture
- Ranker
It’s New Year’s Eve. Three drunkards evoke a legend. The legend tells that the last person to die in a year, if he is a great sinner, will have to drive during the whole year the Phantom Chariot, that picks up the souls of the dead.
22 .) Greed (1924) directed by Erich von Stroheim
Lists It Appears On:
- Filmsite
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.
21 .) Pandora’s Box (1929) directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Telegraph
Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast and Lulu’s seedy old friend, Schigolch. When Lulu’s charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.
20 .) The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927) directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Film School Rejects
- IMDB
- Open Culture
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
19 .) The Phantom of the Opera (1925) directed by Rupert Julian
Lists It Appears On:
- BFI
- IMDB
- io9
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
A grotesquely disfigured composer known as “The Phantom” haunts Paris’ opera house, where he’s secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.
18 .) Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Cheat Sheet
- Filmsite
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
- Telegraph
The story of a poor young woman, separated by prejudice from her husband and baby, is interwoven with tales of intolerance from throughout history.
17 .) Modern Times (1936) directed by Charlie Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Audicious
- Cheat Sheet
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- List Challenges
- Taste Of Cinema
- What We Do All Day
The Tramp struggles to live in modern industrial society with the help of a young homeless woman.
16 .) Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928) directed by Charles Reisner
Lists It Appears On:
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- Ranker
- Silent Era
The just out of college effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was little.
15 .) The Birth of a Nation (1915) directed by D.W. Griffith
Lists It Appears On:
- Cheat Sheet
- Film School Rejects
- Filmsite
- IMDB
- Independent
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Silent Era
Two families, abolitionist Northerners the Stonemans and Southern landowners the Camerons, intertwine in director D.W. Griffith’s controversial Civil War epic. When Confederate colonel Ben Cameron is captured in battle, nurse Elsie Stoneman petitions for his pardon. In Reconstruction-era South Carolina, Cameron founds the Ku Klux Klan, battling Elsie’s congressman father and his African-American protégé, Silas Lynch.
14 .) Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei M. Eisenstein
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
A dramatized account of a great Russian naval mutiny and a resultant public demonstration, showing support, which brought on a police massacre. The film had an incredible impact on the development of cinema and is a masterful example of montage editing.
13 .) City Lights (1931) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Cheat Sheet
- Filmsite
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
City Lights is the first silent film that Charlie Chaplin directed after he established himself with sound accompanied films. The film is about a penniless man who falls in love with a flower girl.
12 .) Man with a Movie Camera (1929) directed by Dziga Vertov
Lists It Appears On:
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Telegraph
A cameraman wanders around Moscow, Kharkov, Kiev and Odessa with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
11 .) Nosferatu (1922) directed by F.W. Murnau
Lists It Appears On:
- Cheat Sheet
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Independent
- io9
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
Vampire Count Orlok is interested in a new residence and in his real estate agent’s young wife. F. W. Murnau’s unauthorized adaptation of Bram Stoker’s “Dracula.”
10 .) The Kid (1921) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Independent
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
Considered one of Charlie Chaplin’s best films, The Kid also made a star of little Jackie Coogan, who plays a boy cared for by The Tramp when he’s abandoned by his mother, Edna. Later, Edna has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son. When she finds him and wrests him from The Tramp, it makes for what turns out be one of the most heart-wrenching scenes ever included in a comedy.
9 .) The Wind (1928) directed by Victor Sjöström
Lists It Appears On:
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- Movies Silently
- MUBI
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
- The Guardian
When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she receives a surprisingly cold welcome from his wife, Cora. Soon tensions in the family and unwanted attention from a trio of suitors, including neighbor Lige Hightower, leave Letty increasingly disturbed, resulting in tragedy.
8 .) Safety Last! (1923) directed by Fred C. Newmeyer
Lists It Appears On:
- Film School Rejects
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
- What We Do All Day
When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.
7 .) Sherlock, Jr. (1924) directed by Buster Keaton
Lists It Appears On:
- Audicious
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- What We Do All Day
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meagre skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend’s father’s pocketwatch.
6 .) The Gold Rush (1925) directed by Charles Chaplin
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Film School Rejects
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
A lone prospector ventures into Alaska looking for gold. He gets mixed up with some burly characters and falls in love with the beautiful Georgia. He tries to win her heart with his singular charm.
5 .) The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer
Lists It Appears On:
- Compass Classroom
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Telegraph
- The Guardian
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
4 .) Metropolis (1927) directed by Fritz Lang
Lists It Appears On:
- Audicious
- Cheat Sheet
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- Independent
- io9
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
3 .) The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) directed by Robert Wiene
Lists It Appears On:
- Audicious
- BFI
- Cheat Sheet
- Film School Rejects
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- io9
- List Challenges
- Movies Silently
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- The Guardian
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. ×
2 .) The General (1926) directed by Clyde Bruckman
Lists It Appears On:
- Cheat Sheet
- Compass Classroom
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- Frame Trek
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- Independent
- List Challenges
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
- Telegraph
- The Guardian
During America’s Civil War Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray’s beloved locomotive The General – his lady love, Annabelle Lee, aboard an attached boxcar – and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle. Released throughout most of the world in 1927, this Silent comedy-action film flopped when originally released, but now is regarded as one of the great American motion pictures. The story is based on actual historic events. ×
1 .) Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) directed by F.W. Murnau
Lists It Appears On:
- Audicious
- Cheat Sheet
- Compass Classroom
- Film School Rejects
- Filmsite
- Flick Chart
- IMDB
- IMDB 2
- List Challenges
- MUBI
- Open Culture
- Ranker
- Silent Era
- Taste Of Cinema
- Telegraph
- The Guardian
A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
The 200+ Additional Best Silent Films
| # | Movies | Directors | Lists |
| 42 | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | John S. Robertson | BFI |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 43 | He Who Gets Slapped (1924) | Victor Sjöström | IMDB |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 44 | Les vampires (1915) | Louis Feuillade | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 45 | Nanook of the North (1922) | Robert J. Flaherty | Film School Rejects |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 46 | The Crowd (1928) | Filmsite | |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 47 | The Fall of the House of Usher (1928) | Jean Epstein | BFI |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| – | – | – | Telegraph |
| 48 | The Golem (1920) | Carl Boese | BFI |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 49 | The Last Command (1928) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| – | – | – | Telegraph |
| 50 | The Man Who Laughs (1928) | Paul Leni | IMDB |
| – | – | – | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Ranker |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 51 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | Fred Niblo | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 52 | Foolish Wives (1922) | Erich von Stroheim | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 53 | Mother (1925) | Jacques Feyder | IMDB |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 54 | Napoleon (1927) | Abel Gance | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 55 | October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927) | Grigoriy Aleksandrov | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 56 | Seven Chances (1925) | Buster Keaton | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 57 | Show People (1928) | King Vidor | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Movies Silently |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 58 | Sparrows (1926) | William Beaudine | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 59 | Strike (1925) | Sergei M. Eisenstein | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 60 | The Freshman (1925) | Fred C. Newmeyer | Frame Trek |
| – | – | – | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 61 | The Great Train Robbery | Film School Rejects | |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 62 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) | Wallace Worsley | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 63 | The Lost World (1925) | io9 | |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 64 | The Mark of Zorro (1920) | Fred Niblo | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Independent |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 65 | The Navigator (1924) | Donald Crisp | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 66 | The Sheik (1921) | George Melford | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 67 | The Son of the Sheik (1926) | George Fitzmaurice | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 68 | The Unknown (1927) | Tod Browning | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 69 | The Wedding March (1928) | Erich von Stroheim | IMDB |
| – | – | – | List Challenges |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 70 | Aelita: Queen of Mars (1924) | io9 | |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| 71 | Cops (1922) | Compass Classroom | |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 72 | Frankenstein (1910) | BFI | |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| 73 | Girl Shy (1924) | Fred C. Newmeyer | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 74 | I Was Born, But….. (1932) | List Challenges | |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| 75 | Judex (1916) | Movies Silently | |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| 76 | Limite (1931) | List Challenges | |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| 77 | Old and New | MUBI | |
| – | – | – | Open Culture |
| 78 | Queen Kelly | Silent Era | |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 79 | Robin Hood (1922) | Allan Dwan | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 80 | Sadie Thompson | Silent Era | |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 81 | Sir Arne’s Treasure (Her Arnes pengar) | Film School Rejects | |
| – | – | – | MUBI |
| 82 | Speedy (1928) | Ted Wilde | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 83 | Stella Maris (1918) | Movies Silently | |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 84 | Tabu (1931) | List Challenges | |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 85 | The Docks of New York (1928) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 86 | The Immigrant | Open Culture | |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 87 | The Joyless Street (1925) | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 88 | The Kid Brother (1927) | Ted Wilde | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 89 | The King of Kings | Silent Era | |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 90 | The Last of the Mohicans (1920) | Clarence Brown | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 91 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg | Silent Era | |
| – | – | – | Taste Of Cinema |
| 92 | Underworld (1927) | Josef von Sternberg | IMDB |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 93 | Variety (1925) | Ewald André Dupont | IMDB 2 |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 94 | Witchcraft Through the Ages (Häxan) | Film School Rejects | |
| – | – | – | Silent Era |
| 95 | A Burlesque On Carmen | Open Culture | |
| 96 | A Christmas Carol | Open Culture | |
| 97 | A Dog’s Life | Open Culture | |
| 98 | A Fair Exchange | Open Culture | |
| 99 | A Man There Was | MUBI | |
| 100 | A Man with a Camera | Open Culture | |
| 101 | A Page of Madness | MUBI | |
| 102 | A Woman of Paris | Silent Era | |
| 103 | Abraham Lincoln | Open Culture | |
| 104 | After the Ball | Open Culture | |
| 105 | Alice in Wonderland | Open Culture | |
| 106 | An Andalusian Dog (Un Chien andalou) | Film School Rejects | |
| 107 | Anémic Cinéma | Open Culture | |
| 108 | Apart from You | MUBI | |
| 109 | Applause (1929) | Rouben Mamoulian | IMDB |
| 110 | Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (L’arrivée d’un train en gare de La Ciotat) | Film School Rejects | |
| 111 | Barbed Wire (1927) | Movies Silently | |
| 112 | Battling Butler (1926) | Buster Keaton | IMDB |
| 113 | Bed and Sofa | MUBI | |
| 114 | Beggars of Life | Silent Era | |
| 115 | Behind the Screen | Open Culture | |
| 116 | Between Showers | Open Culture | |
| 117 | Beyond the Rocks (1922) | Sam Wood | IMDB |
| 118 | Big Business | Silent Era | |
| 119 | Borderline | MUBI | |
| 120 | Cabiria | Silent Era | |
| 121 | Champagne | Open Culture | |
| 122 | Charlie Shanghaied | Open Culture | |
| 123 | Charlie’s Recreation | Open Culture | |
| 124 | Cinderella | Open Culture | |
| 125 | Cobra (1925) | Joseph Henabery | IMDB |
| 126 | Das Wandernde Bild | Open Culture | |
| 127 | Der Golum | Open Culture | |
| 128 | Destiny | Silent Era | |
| 129 | Diary of a Lost Girl | MUBI | |
| 130 | Die Nibelungen | Open Culture | |
| 131 | Don Quixote | Open Culture | |
| 132 | Downhill | Open Culture | |
| 133 | Easy Street | Open Culture | |
| 134 | Easy Virtue | Open Culture | |
| 135 | Emak | Open Culture | |
| 136 | Entr’Acte | Open Culture | |
| 137 | Faithful Heart | MUBI | |
| 138 | Gertie the Dinosaur | Film School Rejects | |
| 139 | Ghosts Before Breakfast (Vormittagsspuk) | Open Culture | |
| 140 | H2O | MUBI | |
| 141 | Harakiri | Open Culture | |
| 142 | Hell W10 | Open Culture | |
| 143 | Hell’s Hinges (1916) | Movies Silently | |
| 144 | Impatience | MUBI | |
| 145 | In Pictures | Telegraph | |
| 146 | Infernal Cauldron (1903) | BFI | |
| 147 | Joyless Street | Open Culture | |
| 148 | Kid Auto Races at Venice | Open Culture | |
| 149 | Kriemhild’s Revenge | Silent Era | |
| 150 | L’argent | MUBI | |
| 151 | L’inhumaine | MUBI | |
| 152 | L’Arrivée D’un Train En Gare De La Ciotat | Open Culture | |
| 153 | La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc | Open Culture | |
| 154 | La Souriante Madame Beudet | Open Culture | |
| 155 | Lady Windermere’s Fan | MUBI | |
| 156 | Last of the Mohicans (1920) | Compass Classroom | |
| 157 | Laughing Gas | Open Culture | |
| 158 | Le Ballet Mécanique | Open Culture | |
| 159 | Le Retour à la Raison | Open Culture | |
| 160 | Liberty | What We Do All Day | |
| 161 | Lonesome | Taste Of Cinema | |
| 162 | Lucky Star (1929) | Frank Borzage | IMDB 2 |
| 163 | Mabel’s Strange Predicament | Open Culture | |
| 164 | Making a Living | Open Culture | |
| 165 | Menilmontant | Open Culture | |
| 166 | Michael | MUBI | |
| 167 | Michael Strogoff (1926) | Movies Silently | |
| 168 | My Best Girl | Silent Era | |
| 169 | One A.M. | Open Culture | |
| 170 | One Week (1920) | Compass Classroom | |
| 171 | Orphans of the Storm | Silent Era | |
| 172 | People on Sunday | MUBI | |
| 173 | Phantom | MUBI | |
| 174 | Po zakonu (1926) | Lev Kuleshov | IMDB |
| 175 | Romance Sentimentale | Open Culture | |
| 176 | Salt for Svanetia | MUBI | |
| 177 | Scenes of Ostend | MUBI | |
| 178 | Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon | Open Culture | |
| 179 | Spies (1928) | Fritz Lang | IMDB |
| 180 | Spite Marriage (1929) | Edward Sedgwick | IMDB |
| 181 | Storm Over Asia (1928) | Vsevolod Pudovkin | IMDB |
| 182 | Street Without End | MUBI | |
| 183 | Sunrise (1926) | Raymond Longford | IMDB |
| 184 | Suspense | Film School Rejects | |
| 185 | Tartuffe | MUBI | |
| 186 | Tess of the Storm Country | Silent Era | |
| 187 | The Adventurer | Open Culture | |
| 188 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed (Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed) | Film School Rejects | |
| 189 | The Andalusian Dog | Silent Era | |
| 190 | The Artist | Cheat Sheet | |
| 191 | The Big Swallow | Film School Rejects | |
| 192 | The Birth of a Flower | Film School Rejects | |
| 193 | The Black Pirate (1926) | Compass Classroom | |
| 194 | The Bond | Open Culture | |
| 195 | The Cabbage Fairy (La Fée aux Choux) | Film School Rejects | |
| 196 | The Cameraman’s Revenge | Film School Rejects | |
| 197 | The Cat and the Canary (1927) | Paul Leni | IMDB |
| 198 | The Cheat | Silent Era | |
| 199 | The Count | Open Culture | |
| 200 | The Cure | Open Culture | |
| 201 | The Delicious Little Devil (1919) | Robert Z. Leonard | IMDB |
| 202 | The Devilish Tenant | Open Culture | |
| 203 | The Diary of a Lost Girl | Silent Era | |
| 204 | The Dreyfus Affair | Open Culture | |
| 205 | The Dying Swan | MUBI | |
| 206 | The Eagle (1925) | Clarence Brown | IMDB |
| 207 | The Fireman | Open Culture | |
| 208 | The Floorwalker | Open Culture | |
| 209 | The Goddess | Open Culture | |
| 210 | The Good for Nothing | Open Culture | |
| 211 | The Haunted House (1921) | BFI | |
| 212 | The Hearts of Age | Open Culture | |
| 213 | The Impossible Voyage | Open Culture | |
| 214 | The Ingmar Inheritance | MUBI | |
| 215 | The Iron Horse | Silent Era | |
| 216 | The Iron Mask | Silent Era | |
| 217 | The Jazz Singer (1927) | Filmsite | |
| 218 | The Lady and the Hooligan | Open Culture | |
| 219 | The Late Mathias Pascal | MUBI | |
| 220 | The Little Match Girl | Open Culture | |
| 221 | The Manxman | Open Culture | |
| 222 | The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912) | D.W. Griffith | IMDB |
| 223 | The New Babylon | MUBI | |
| 224 | The Outlaw and His Wife | MUBI | |
| 225 | The Oyster Princess | Film School Rejects | |
| 226 | The Pawnshop | Open Culture | |
| 227 | The Pearl | MUBI | |
| 228 | The Penalty | Silent Era | |
| 229 | The Pleasure Garden | Open Culture | |
| 230 | The Ring | Open Culture | |
| 231 | The Rink | Open Culture | |
| 232 | The Sea Hawk (1924) | Movies Silently | |
| 233 | The Sealed Room | Open Culture | |
| 234 | The Seashell and the Clergyman | Open Culture | |
| 235 | The Sons of Ingmar | MUBI | |
| 236 | The Three Lights (1921) | Fritz Lang | IMDB |
| 237 | The Three-Sided Mirror | MUBI | |
| 238 | The Toll of the Sea | Open Culture | |
| 239 | The Tramp | Open Culture | |
| 240 | The Unholy Three | Silent Era | |
| 241 | The Vagabond | Open Culture | |
| 242 | The Virginian (1929) | Compass Classroom | |
| 243 | The Wheel | MUBI | |
| 244 | The Wizard of Oz | Open Culture | |
| 245 | Tillie’s Punctured Romance | Open Culture | |
| 246 | Tol’able David | Silent Era | |
| 247 | Two Arabian Knights (1927) | Lewis Milestone | IMDB |
| 248 | Way Down East | Silent Era | |
| 249 | West of Zanzibar (1927) | Movies Silently | |
| 250 | West Point (II) (1927) | Edward Sedgwick | IMDB |
| 251 | White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) | W.S. Van Dyke | IMDB |
22 Best Silent Film Sources/Lists
| Source | Article |
| Audicious | Top Five Silent Films of All Time |
| BFI | 10 great silent horror films |
| Cheat Sheet | 10 Silent Movies That Everyone Should See |
| Compass Classroom | Great Films from the 1920s |
| Film School Rejects | The Silent Film Era: 30 Essential Films You Should Watch |
| Filmsite | Silent Films |
| Flick Chart | The Best Silent Films of All Time |
| Frame Trek | Top 10 Best Comedy Films of the Silent Era |
| IMDB | Best Silent Films:The Ultimate List |
| IMDB 2 | The 20 Best Silent Movies Of All Time |
| Independent | The 10 best silent films |
| io9 | 8 Silent Films Every Sci-Fi and Horror Fan Should See |
| List Challenges | Greatest Silent Films |
| Movies Silently | Movies Silently’s Top Ten Silent Films |
| MUBI | 100 best silent films |
| Open Culture | 101 Free Silent Films: The Great Classics |
| Ranker | 1920s Silent Movies | List of Best 20s Silent Films |
| Silent Era | Top 100 Silent Era Films |
| Taste Of Cinema | The 30 Best Silent Movies in Hollywood History |
| Telegraph | 10 best silent films, selected by Tim Robey |
| The Guardian | Top 10 silent movies | Film |
| What We Do All Day | The Best Silent Movies to Watch with Your Kids |