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Top 100 Classic Movies of the 1920’s | Decade: |
| Rank | Title | Cast | Score |
| 1 . | The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920) | Conrad Veidt | 9.89 |
| 2 . | The Gold Rush (1925) | Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Tom Murray, Henry Bergman | 9.32 |
| 3 . | The Circus (1928) | Charlie Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Harry Crocker, Henry Bergman | 8.68 |
| 4 . | The General (1926) | Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender, Frank Hagney | 8.57 |
| 5 . | Sherlock Jr. (1924) | Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire | 8.57 |
| 6 . | Nosferatu (1922) | Max Schreck | 7.89 |
| 7 . | The Kid (1921) | Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Jackie Coogan, Albert Austin | 7.86 |
| 8 . | Wings (1927) | Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston | 7.50 |
| 9 . | Sunrise (1927) | George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing | 7.22 |
| 10 . | Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) | Conrad Veidt, B?la Lugosi | 7.11 |
| 11 . | Our Hospitality (1923) | Ralph Bushman, Monte Collins, Natalie Talmadge, Buster Keaton | 7.11 |
| 12 . | Big Business (1929) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Charlie Hall | 7.08 |
| 13 . | Safety Last! (1923) | Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Westcott Clarke, William Gillespie | 6.94 |
| 14 . | Metropolis (1927) | Brigitte Helm | 6.67 |
| 15 . | The Phantom of the Opera (1925) | Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry, Arthur Edmund Carewe | 6.53 |
| 16 . | Seven Chances (1925) | Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Jean Arthur, Constance Talmadge | 6.48 |
| 17 . | Blood and Sand (1922) | Leo White, Rudolph Valentino, Lila Lee, Charles Belcher | 6.30 |
| 18 . | The Crowd (1928) | Eleanor Boardman, James Murray, Bert Roach, Sally Eilers | 6.30 |
| 19 . | The Jazz Singer (1927) | Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer | 6.30 |
| 20 . | 7th Heaven (1927) | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, David Butler | 6.11 |
| 21 . | The Big Parade (1925) | John Gilbert, Hobart Bosworth, Karl Dane, Harry Crocker | 6.11 |
| 22 . | The Eagle (1925) | Rudolph Valentino, Vilma B?nky, Louise Dresser, Carrie Clark Ward | 6.11 |
| 23 . | The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1921) | Rudolph Valentino, Stuart Holmes, Nigel De Brulier, Edward Connelly | 6.11 |
| 24 . | Girl Shy (1924) | Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston | 6.11 |
| 25 . | In Old Arizona (1929) | Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, Henry Armetta | 6.11 |
| 26 . | Scaramouche (1923) | Ramon Novarro, Lewis Stone, George Siegmann, Edward Connelly | 6.11 |
| 27 . | The Skeleton Dance (1929) | 6.11 | |
| 28 . | Speedy (1928) | Harold Lloyd, Babe Ruth, Ernie Adams, Sam Lufkin | 6.11 |
| 29 . | Street Angel (1928) | Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Natalie Kingston, Henry Armetta | 6.11 |
| 30 . | The Thief of Bagdad (1924) | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Charles Belcher, Julanne Johnston | 6.11 |
| 31 . | The Navigator (1924) | Buster Keaton, Kathryn McGuire, Noble Johnson | 5.93 |
| 32 . | Two Arabian Knights (1927) | William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith | 5.93 |
| 33 . | Barbed Wire (1927) | Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater, Einar Hanson | 5.83 |
| 34 . | Our Dancing Daughters (1928) | Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Anita Page | 5.83 |
| 35 . | The Sheik (1921) | Rudolph Valentino, Agnes Ayres, George Waggner, Lucien Littlefield | 5.83 |
| 36 . | Bulldog Drummond (1929) | Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Montagu Love, Wilson Benge | 5.78 |
| 37 . | Flesh and the Devil (1926) | John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, Eugenie Besserer, Marcelle Corday | 5.74 |
| 38 . | Sadie Thompson (1928) | Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Raoul Walsh | 5.74 |
| 39 . | Along Came Auntie (1926) | Vivien Oakland, Oliver Hardy, Tyler Brooke, Martha Sleeper | 5.56 |
| 40 . | Angora Love (1929) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Charlie Hall | 5.56 |
| 41 . | The Awful Truth (1929) | Henry Daniell, Paul Harvey, Blanche Friderici | 5.56 |
| 42 . | Bacon Grabbers (1929) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Jean Harlow | 5.56 |
| 43 . | Battle of the Century (1927) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin | 5.56 |
| 44 . | Beggars of Life (1928) | Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Roscoe Karns | 5.56 |
| 45 . | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) | Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman, May McAvoy, Betty Bronson | 5.56 |
| 46 . | Camille (1926) | Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Harvey Clark, Helen Jerome Eddy | 5.56 |
| 47 . | Captain Blood (1924) | Otis Harlan, Boyd Irwin | 5.56 |
| 48 . | Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) | Louise Brooks, Sig Arno | 5.56 |
| 49 . | Disraeli (1921) | Reginald Denny, Betty Blythe | 5.56 |
| 50 . | The Enchanted Cottage (1924) | Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Holmes Herbert | 5.56 |
| 51 . | The Freshman (1925) | Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Charles Farrell, Grady Sutton | 5.56 |
| 52 . | The Garden of Allah (1927) | Michael Powell | 5.56 |
| 53 . | Get Out and Get Under (1920) | Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis | 5.56 |
| 54 . | Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929) | Winnie Lightner, William Bakewell, Louise Beavers, Gertrude Short | 5.56 |
| 55 . | The Great Gatsby (1926) | Warner Baxter, Lois Wilson, Neil Hamilton, Georgia Hale | 5.56 |
| 56 . | The Hole in the Wall (1929) | Claudette Colbert, Edward G. Robinson, Donald Meek | 5.56 |
| 57 . | The Idle Class (1921) | Charlie Chaplin, Edna Purviance, Mack Swain, Henry Bergman | 5.56 |
| 58 . | The Iron Mask (1929) | Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier | 5.56 |
| 59 . | It (1927) | Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner | 5.56 |
| 60 . | The Last Laugh (1924) | Emil Jannings | 5.56 |
| 61 . | Love 'em and Weep (1927) | Mae Busch, Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Oliver Hardy | 5.56 |
| 62 . | The Man Who Laughs (1928) | Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Stuart Holmes, Sam De Grasse | 5.56 |
| 63 . | The Mississippi Gambler (1929) | Joseph Schildkraut, Joan Bennett, Otis Harlan | 5.56 |
| 64 . | Neighbors (1920) | Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jack Duffy | 5.56 |
| 65 . | Oliver Twist (1922) | Jackie Coogan, Joan Standing, Lon Chaney, George Siegmann | 5.56 |
| 66 . | Pay Day (1922) | Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain, Edna Purviance, Syd Chaplin | 5.56 |
| 67 . | Putting Pants on Philip (1927) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harvey Clark, Sam Lufkin | 5.56 |
| 68 . | Queen Kelly (1929) | Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Sylvia Ashton, Wilson Benge | 5.56 |
| 69 . | The Revenge of Tarzan (1920) | Karla Schramm, Estelle Taylor, Walter Miller | 5.56 |
| 70 . | Say It with Songs (1929) | Al Jolson, Holmes Herbert, Arthur Hoyt | 5.56 |
| 71 . | Scorching Sands (1923) | Stan Laurel, James Finlayson, Billy Engle | 5.56 |
| 72 . | The Sea Hawk (1924) | Milton Sills, Enid Bennett, Wallace Beery, Lionel Belmore | 5.56 |
| 73 . | Smiling Irish Eyes (1929) | Colleen Moore, Claude Gillingwater, Robert Emmett O'Connor, Julanne Johnston | 5.56 |
| 74 . | The Three Musketeers (1921) | Douglas Fairbanks, George Siegmann, Eugene Pallette, Boyd Irwin | 5.56 |
| 75 . | Treasure Island (1920) | Lon Chaney, Bull Montana, Charles Hill Mailes | 5.56 |
| 76 . | Untamed (1929) | Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Holmes Herbert, John Miljan | 5.56 |
| 77 . | The Vagabond Lover (1929) | Rudy Vall?e, Sally Blane, Marie Dressler, Charles Sellon | 5.56 |
| 78 . | Words and Music (1929) | Elizabeth Patterson, John Wayne, Frank Albertson, Dorothy Jordan | 5.56 |
| 79 . | Yes, Yes, Nanette (1925) | James Finlayson, Oliver Hardy | 5.56 |
| 80 . | You're Darn Tootin (1928) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Christian J. Frank | 5.56 |
| 81 . | The Young Rajah (1922) | Rudolph Valentino, George Periolat, William Boyd, Wanda Hawley | 5.56 |
| 82 . | Young Sherlocks (1922) | William Gillespie | 5.56 |
| 83 . | The Broadway Melody (1929) | Charles King, Anita Page, Bessie Love, Arthur Freed | 5.44 |
| 84 . | College (1927) | Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Carl Harbaugh | 5.42 |
| 85 . | A Girl in Every Port (1928) | Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Leila Hyams | 5.37 |
| 86 . | Go West (1925) | Buster Keaton, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Babe London | 5.37 |
| 87 . | The Matinee Idol (1928) | Bessie Love, Lionel Belmore, Mary Gordon | 5.37 |
| 88 . | Beau Brummel (1924) | John Barrymore, Mary Astor, Carmel Myers, Irene Rich | 5.28 |
| 89 . | Berth Marks (1929) | Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Harry Bernard, Baldwin Cooke | 5.28 |
| 90 . | The Cameraman (1928) | Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Richard Alexander | 5.28 |
| 91 . | Dangerous Curves (1929) | Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Kay Francis, Joyce Compton | 5.28 |
| 92 . | The Iron Horse (1924) | George O'Brien, Madge Bellamy, J. Farrell MacDonald, George Waggner | 5.28 |
| 93 . | The King of Kings (1927) | H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Joseph Schildkraut, James Neill | 5.28 |
| 94 . | The Mark of Zorro (1920) | Douglas Fairbanks, Noah Beery, Charles Hill Mailes, Marguerite De La Motte | 5.28 |
| 95 . | Our Modern Maidens (1929) | Joan Crawford, Rod La Rocque, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Anita Page | 5.28 |
| 96 . | Son of the Sheik (1926) | Rudolph Valentino, Vilma B?nky, Montagu Love, Karl Dane | 5.28 |
| 97 . | Way Down East (1920) | 5.28 | |
| 98 . | A Boy of Flanders (1924) | Jackie Coogan, Nigel De Brulier, Lionel Belmore, Sidney Franklin | 5.19 |
| 99 . | Faust (1926) | Emil Jannings, William Dieterle | 5.19 |
| 100 . | After Midnight (1927) | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Conrad Nagel | 5.00 |
This chart uses a weighted rating based on the average rating per film and the number of votes per film.