Best Classic Movies 100+ Years Old by Rank
2792
98
1919
Ernst Lubitsch
Victor Janson, Ossi Oswalda, Harry Liedtke, Julius Falkenstein
Comedy
Germany
German (Silent)
2792
98
1923
Robert Wiene
Gregori Chmara, Elisabeta Skulskaja, Alla Tarasova
Drama / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
2801
99
1924
Frank Borzage
Norma Talmadge, Eugene O'Brien, Patterson Dial, Emily Fitzroy, Claire McDowell
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2805
100
1923
Rex Ingram
Alice Terry, Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, Julia Swayne Gordon, Lloyd Ingraham
Drama / Romance / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Yevgeni Bauer
Vitold Polonsky, Olga Rakhmanova, Vera Karalli, M. Chalatova, Tamara Gedevanova
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Frank Borzage
Seena Owen, Matt Moore, J. Barney Sherry, Ethel Duray, Charles Craig
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Robert G. Vignola
Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley, June Elvidge, Truly Shattuck, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Drama | Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1919
Irvin Willat
Hobart Bosworth, Jane Novak, Wallace Beery, James Gordon, Richard Wayne
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman, Alec B. Francis, Robert Bolder
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1911
William F. Haddock
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Drama
USA
English
2807
101
1922
George Terwilliger
Marion Davies, John B. O'Brien, Frank Shannon, Wyndham Standing, Carl Miller
Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1919
John Francis Dillon
Jack Pickford, Gloria Hope, John Francis Dillon, Robert Walker, Tom Guise
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1919
Jerome Storm
Charles Ray, Colleen Moore, John Gilbert, Jay Morley, Otto Hoffman, Jack Nelson
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1914
James Kirkwood
Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Marshall Neilan, Gertrude Robinson
Short / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Buster Keaton, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Glen Cavender
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Sam Wood
Wallace Reid, Bebe Daniels, Raymond Hatton, Willis Marks, George B. Williams
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
William H. Clifford
Shorty Hamilton, Ellen Terry, Florence Drew, Andrew Arbuckle, Pomeroy Cannon
Comedy / Drama / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Robert C. Bruce
Walter
Documentary / Drama / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
Harry A. Pollard
Margarita Fischer, Monroe Salisbury, Kathleen Kirkham, Jack Mower, Joe Harris
Horror / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin
'Baby' Carmen De Rue, Cyril Gardner, Charles Gorman, James Harris, Jack Hull
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Christy Cabanne
Douglas Fairbanks, Richard Cummings, Margery Wilson, Gladys Brockwell
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Wallace Beery, J. Farrell MacDonald, Rose Dione
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Karalli, Aleksandr Kheruvimov, Vitold Polonsky, Andrej Gromov
Drama
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2807
101
1924
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Nathalie Lissenko, Pauline Po, Otto Detlefsen, Mary Odette
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2807
101
1900
J. Stuart Blackton
J. Stuart Blackton
Animation / Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Alan Crosland, Laurence Trimble
Olive Thomas, William Collier Jr., Joseph J. Dowling, Aileen Manning, Martha Mattox
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1921
Charley Chase
'Snub' Pollard, Marie Mosquini, George Rowe, Vera White, Noah Young
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Walt Disney
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Sam De Grasse, Pomeroy Cannon, Joseph Singleton, Bessie Love
Romance / Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Joseph De Grasse
C. Norman Hammond, Jay Belasco, Louise Lovely, Gretchen Lederer, Lon Chaney
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1924
Herbert G. Ponting
Robert Falcon Scott, Herbert G. Ponting
Documentary / Biography
UK
English (Silent)
2807
101
1921
John Griffith Wray
Florence Vidor, Lloyd Hughes, Theodore Roberts, Gertrude Claire, Madge Bellamy
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Alma Rubens, Sam De Grasse, Tom Wilson, Frank Brownlee
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
Reginald Barker
Enid Bennett, Charles Gunn, Thelma Salter, Andrew Arbuckle, Gertrude Claire
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Lawrence C. Windom
Babe Ruth, Ruth Taylor, William Sheer, Margaret Seddon, Frances Victory
Biography / Comedy / Drama / Sports
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
John Ford
Harry Carey, Duke R. Lee, Neva Gerber, Vester Pegg, Joe Harris, Steve Clemente
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Richard Wayne, Stuart Holmes, Lucien Littlefield, Charles Ogle
Western / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
Sidney Drew
Sidney Drew, Mrs. Sidney Drew
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
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Ramon Novarro, Jack Warner, Max Linder, Vola Vale
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
unknown
Pedro León
Documentary / Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
King Baggot
House Peters, Russell Simpson, Gertrude Claire, George Hackathorne, George West
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Joseph De Grasse
Dorothy Phillips, Helen Leslie, Frank Whitson, Lon Chaney, Albert MacQuarrie
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Walt Disney
Comedy / Family / Animation / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1923
Robert Z. Leonard
Mae Murray, Rod La Rocque, Robert Frazer, Edmund Burns, Jean Hersholt
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Short / Adventure / Comedy / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
France
French (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Chester M. Franklin, Sidney Franklin
Jane Grey, Tully Marshall, Charles West, Ralph Lewis, Walter Long, Charles Gorman
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1924
Serge Nadejdine
Suzanne Bianchetti, Nicolas Rimsky, Pierre Labry, René Maupré
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Colin Campbell
Colleen Moore, Tom Santschi, Harry Lonsdale, Eugenie Besserer, Doris Baker
Drama / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1904
Georges Méliès
Georges Méliès
Comedy / Short / Fantasy / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2807
101
1921
King Vidor
Lloyd Hughes, Madge Bellamy, Joseph Bennett, Lillian Leighton, Fred Gamble
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1921
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Florence Gilbert, Oliver Hardy, Jack Lloyd, Owen Evans
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Burton L. King
Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly, Frank Montgomery
Mystery / Adventure / Drama / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
George Melford
Dorothy Dalton, Charles Brinley, Emil Jorgenson, Rudolph Valentino, Maude Wayne
Adventure / Action / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Joseph De Grasse
Cleo Madison, Lon Chaney, Arthur Shirley, Wyndham Standing, Millard K. Wilson
Drama | Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Allan Dwan
Douglas Fairbanks, Wanda Hawley, Marjorie Daw, Frank Campeau, Katherine MacDonald
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Hal Roach, Fred C. Newmeyer
Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Roy Brooks, Sammy Brooks, William Gillespie
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Wheeler Oakman, Lon Chaney, Ralph Lewis, E. Alyn Warren
Crime / Romance / Thriller / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Jess Robbins
Stan Laurel, Glen Cavender, Vera Reynolds, Joy Winthrop, Mae Laurel
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Joseph De Grasse
Dorothy Phillips, Jack Mulhall, Lon Chaney, Joseph De Grasse, C. Norman Hammond
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Charles Brabin
Henry B. Walthall, Warda Howard, Ernest Maupain, Eleanor Thompson, Marian Skinner
Biography / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1924
Harry A. Pollard
Reginald Denny, Ruth Dwyer, John Steppling, May Wallace, William Austin
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1917
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle
Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Al St. John, Alice Lake, Agnes Neilson, Corinne Parquet
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1907
Segundo de Chomón, Ferdinand Zecca
Short / Fantasy / Horror / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2807
101
1914
Lucius Henderson, William Nigh
Beatriz Michelena, House Peters, William Pike, Clara Beyers, Lorraine Levy
Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Albert Parker
Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Harvey Clark, Leone Carton, Lillian Langdon
Drama / Crime / Spy
USA
English
2807
101
1916
J. Searle Dawley
Dorothy Cumming, Creighton Hale, Lionel Braham, Alice Washburn, Marguerite Clark
Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Paul Powell
Carmel Myers, Rudolph Valentino, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Alfred Allen, Fred Kelsey
Comedy / Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1909
D.W. Griffith
Charles West, Herbert Prior, Anita Hendrie, Mary Pickford, Harry Solter
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
William Desmond Taylor
Lewis Sargent, Ernest Butterworth, Clyde Fillmore, Grace Morse, Lila Lee
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1923
Herbert Brenon
Pola Negri, Antonio Moreno, Wallace Beery, Kathlyn Williams, Gareth Hughes
History / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
James Vincent
Marguerite Namara, Rudolph Valentino, Albert L. Barrett, Henrietta Simpson
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1915
Frank Hall Crane
Violet Horner, George Majeroni, Bertram Marburgh, Frances Nelson, Robert Warwick
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1921
Frank Lloyd
J. Frank Glendon, Leatrice Joy, Wallace Beery, E. Alyn Warren, Margaret McWade
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1914
Henry Lehrman
Edgar Kennedy, Virginia Kirtley, Hank Mann, Harry McCoy, Al St. John, Mack Swain
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Jack Cunningham
Cecil B. DeMille, Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Marion Davies, Bebe Daniels
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1924
F. Harmon Weight
George Arliss, Taylor Holmes, Edith Roberts, Wallie Howe, Redfield Clarke
Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1916
Stuart Paton
Dan Hanlon, Edna Pendleton, Curtis Benton, Allen Holubar, Matt Moore, Jane Gail
Action / Adventure / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1920
Emmett J. Flynn
Tom Mix, Pauline Starke, George Siegmann, Philo McCullough, James O. Barrows
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1919
Lambert Hillyer
William S. Hart, Jane Novak, Robert McKim, Lloyd Bacon, Leo Pierson
Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1911
Gaston Méliès
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Western
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1921
Emile Chautard
Lucy Cotton, Charles A. Stevenson, Philip Merivale, Robert Barrat, Mabel Archdale
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1924
Graham Cutts
Betty Compson, Clive Brook, Henry Victor, A.B. Imeson, Olaf Hytten, Daisy Campbell
Drama
UK
English (Silent)
2807
101
1923
Tod Browning
Priscilla Dean, Matt Moore, Raymond Griffith, Wallace Beery, Alfred Allen
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1923
Frank Lloyd
Norma Talmadge, Lew Cody, DeWitt Jennings, Lionel Belmore, Ward Crane
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1918
Maurice Tourneur
Warren Cook, Florence Billings, Ethel Hallor, Henry West, Flora Revalles
Drama / War
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1914
Reginald Barker
Sessue Hayakawa, Tsuru Aoki, Frank Borzage, Kisaburo Kurihara, Henry Kotani
Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2807
101
1922
Phil Rosen
Rudolph Valentino, Charles Ogle, Fanny Midgley, George Periolat, George Field
Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2809
102
1922
Sidney Franklin
Norma Talmadge, Wyndham Standing, Harrison Ford, Alec B. Francis, Glenn Hunter
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2817
103
1922
Elmer Clifton
Marguerite Courtot, Raymond McKee, William Walcott, Clara Bow, James Turfler
Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
2821
104
1924
D.W. Griffith
Neil Hamilton, Erville Alderson, Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Lee Beggs
Drama / History / War / Romance / Adventure / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
2821
104
1922
Frank Lloyd
Jackie Coogan, Lon Chaney, James A. Marcus, Aggie Herring, Lewis Sargent
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2837
105
1912
James Keane, André Calmettes
Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner, James Keane, George Moss
Drama / History / Biography / Epic
France / USA
English (Silent)
2858
106
1912
D.W. Griffith
Dorothy Bernard, Wilfred Lucas, Edwin August, Christy Cabanne, William A. Carroll
Short / Drama / Crime / Thriller / Caper
USA
English (Silent)
2858
106
1923
Mauritz Stiller
Einar Hanson, Hugo Björne, Mary Johnson, Stina Berg, Pauline Brunius
Adventure / Drama / Romance
Sweden
Swedish (Silent)
2860
107
1916
Yevgeni Bauer
Vera Kholodnaya, Lydia Koreneva, Ivane Perestiani, Vitold Polonsky
Drama / Romance
Russia
Russian (Silent)
2860
107
1913
D.W. Griffith
Walter Miller, Lillian Gish, Kate Bruce, Viola Barry, Charles West
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
107
1912
D.W. Griffith
W. Chrystie Miller, Kate Bruce, Mary Pickford, Edwin August
Short / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2860
107
1924
Lupu Pick
Edith Posca, Eugen Klöpfer, Frieda Richard, Karl Harbacher
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
NR
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1917
J. Gordon Edwards
Theda Bara, Fritz Leiber, Thurston Hall, Alan Roscoe, Herschel Mayall
Biography / Drama / History / Epic
USA
English (Silent)
