Best Movies of the Last 100 Years by Year
2637
2596
1928
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2654
2612
1928
Joe May
Lars Hanson, Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo, Theodor Loos
Drama / War
Germany
German (Silent)
2670
2628
1928
unknown
Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2670
2628
1928
Dave Fleischer
Dave Fleischer, George Rufle
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Sci-Fi
USA
English (Silent)
2670
2628
1928
Frank Capra
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris, Philo McCullough
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2670
2628
1928
Solomon Sir Jones
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2670
2628
1928
Harold Muller, Charles R. Bowers
Charles R. Bowers, Buster Brodie, Kathryn McGuire, Blue Washington
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sylvia Ashton
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten, Gordon Harker
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Murray Roth
Jack Born, Elmer Lawrence
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
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2732
2689
1928
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Francis McDonald
Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
unknown
Val Stanton, Ernie Stanton
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2732
2689
1928
Alfred Hitchcock
Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Clyde Bruckman, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
William Beaudine
Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Littlefield, Thelma Todd
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2732
2689
1928
Fred Guiol
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Viola Richard, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Archie Mayo
Henry B. Walthall, Tom McGuire, Ed Cane
Short / Drama
USA
English
2732
2689
1928
Richard Wallace
Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Roscoe Karns, Emmett King
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2732
2689
1928
James Parrott, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Sam Lufkin, Dorothy Coburn
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Frank Capra
Mitchell Lewis, Alice Day, Margaret Livingston, Theodore von Eltz, William Bailey
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1928
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2761
2718
1928
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2765
2722
1928
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Catherine Hessling, Amy Wells, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby
Short / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2765
2722
1928
Clyde Bruckman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
25
25
1927
Fritz Lang
Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Fritz Rasp
Sci-Fi / Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
49
49
1927
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
218
212
1927
Abel Gance
Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Drama / War / Epic / History / Biography
Sweden / Italy / France / Czechoslovakia / Germany
French (Silent)
796
780
1927
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer
Drama / Music
USA
English
1154
1133
1927
Ted Wilde, J.A. Howe, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone
Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis, Olin Francis
Comedy / Family / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
1252
1228
1927
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard
Drama / Romance / War
USA
English (Silent)
1507
1478
1927
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1575
1545
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney, June, Malcolm Keen
Crime / Thriller / Drama
UK
English (Silent)
1644
1614
1927
Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1651
1621
1927
Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, Larry Semon
Crime / Drama / Pre-Noir / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
1766
1734
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz, John George
Drama / Horror / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1893
1858
1927
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1920
1885
1927
Walter Ruttmann
Documentary / Experimental
Germany
German (Silent)
1949
1914
1927
Buster Keaton, James W. Horne
Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin
Comedy / Sports / Romance / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2214
2177
1927
Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
German (Silent)
2309
2270
1927
Alfred Hitchcock
Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey
Drama / Romance / Sports
UK
English (Silent)
2409
2370
1927
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
Kru, Chantui, Nah, Ladah, Bimbo the Monkey
Adventure / Documentary / History
USA
English (Silent)
2459
2419
1927
Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller
Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Ivan Chuvelyov, Aleksei Davor
Drama / History
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2459
2419
1927
F. Richard Jones
Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Adventure / Romance / Drama / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2459
2419
1927
Frank Capra
Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong, Robert McKim
Comedy / Romance / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2459
2419
1927
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield
Comedy / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2459
2419
1927
A.V. Bramble, Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Annette Benson, Chili Bouchier, David Brooks, Donald Calthrop
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Silent)
2468
2428
1927
Cecil B. DeMille
H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill
Drama / History / Religion / Epic / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2497
2457
1927
Clyde Bruckman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Noah Young, Eugene Pallette, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2545
2505
1927
Tod Browning
Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams, Conrad Nagel
Drama / Horror / Thriller / Detective / Crime / Mystery
USA
English (Silent)
2572
2532
1927
Victor Fleming
Emil Jannings, Belle Bennett, Phyllis Haver, Donald Keith, Fred Kohler
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2598
2558
1927
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt, Henry Victor
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2598
2558
1927
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp, Brigitte Helm
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Fred Niblo
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Lilyan Tashman, Rose Dione, Oscar Beregi Sr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Alexandre Volkoff
Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo, Rina De Liguoro
Biography / Drama / Period Film
France
French (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall, Gertrude Astor
Horror / Mystery / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg
Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson, Norman Trevor, Hedda Hopper
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Wadad Orfi
Aziza Amir, Assia Dagher, Ahmed Galal, Wadad Orfi, Stephan Rosti
Documentary
Egypt
Arabic (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert
John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy, Brandon Hurst
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Albert Parker
Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon, Ian Keith, Andrés de Segurola
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2637
2596
1927
Walter Fyrst
Tryggve Larssen, Bengt Djurberg, Julie Lampe, Tove Tellback, Harald Stormoen
Drama / Mystery
Norway
Norwegian (Silent)
2670
2628
1927
Karl Brown
Helen Mundy, Forrest James, Reb Grogan, Silas Miracle
Drama / Action / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2713
2670
1927
Herbert Brenon
H.B. Warner, Anna Q. Nilsson, Mickey McBan, Carmel Myers, Lionel Belmore
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Clyde Bruckman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Lillian Elliott
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
unknown
Carter DeHaven, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Leo McCarey
Max Davidson, Spec O'Donnell, Jesse De Vorska, Lillian Elliott, James Finlayson
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Allan Dwan
George O'Brien, Virginia Valli, J. Farrell MacDonald, Dore Davidson, Sonia Nodell
Drama / Sports / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Roy Del Ruth
Russell Simpson, Frank Campeau, Gibson Gowland, Anders Randolf, William Demarest
Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2732
2689
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Martha Sleeper, Oliver Hardy, William Burress, Eugene Pallette
Short / Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Marion Norris Gleason
Romance / Adventure / Action / Comedy / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Dorothy Arzner
Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn, Harvey Clark
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Marshall Neilan
Colleen Moore, Larry Kent, Hallam Cooley, Gwen Lee, Martha Mattox, Charles Giblyn
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Harry Edwards
Harry Langdon, Natalie Kingston, Ruth Hiatt, Vernon Dent, Bud Jamison
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Joe Francis
Josephine Baker, André Luguet, Hélène Hallier
Musical / Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, May Wallace, William Orlamond, Eugene Pallette
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Monta Bell
John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell, Marc McDermott, Philip W. Anderson
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Malcolm McGregor, Betty Blythe, William Demarest
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
George Fitzmaurice
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Natalie Kingston, John George
Action / Adventure / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2732
2689
1927
Frank R. Strayer
Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Russell Simpson, Louise Brooks, Emile Chautard
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2732
2689
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Eugenia Gilbert, Gale Henry, Vernon Dent, Burr McIntosh
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Alfred Santell
Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee, Alma Bennett, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Clyde Bruckman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charles A. Bachman, Ed Brandenburg, Harvey Clark
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Gregory La Cava
W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan, Frederick Burton
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Fred Guiol
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Tiny Sandford
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
James Parrott
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Bull Montana, Mickey Bennett, Louise Carver
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
John Ford
Nancy Nash, Earle Foxe, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus, Raymond Hitchcock
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Charles Brabin
Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Arthur Stone, George Fawcett, Paul Hurst, Yola d'Avril
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2732
2689
1927
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2732
2689
1927
William K. Howard
Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft, George Nichols, Bob Perry
Western / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2732
2689
1927
Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller
Charles R. Bowers
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2744
2701
1927
Edwin Carewe
Rod La Rocque, Dolores del Rio, Rita Carewe, Marc McDermott, Lucy Beaumont
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2765
2722
1927
Jean Renoir
Catherine Hessling, Pierre Braunberger, Johnny Huggins
Short / Comedy / Drama / Musical
France
French (Silent)
2765
2722
1927
Jean Epstein
Olga Day, Suzy Pierson, René Ferté
Drama / Experimental
France
French (Silent)