1925 - 1929

 
1925: Battleship Potemkin A (Eisenstein) Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Barsky
            The Big Parade
B+ (Vidor) John Gilbert, Renee Adoree
            Der Letzte Mann (The Last Laugh)
B- (Murnau) Emil Jannings, Hans Underkircher
            The Freshman
B (Newmeyer) Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston
            The Gold Rush
B (Chaplin) Charlie Chaplin, Mack Swain
            Grass
A- (Cooper) documentary
            Greed
C+ (Von Stroheim) Dale Fuller, Gibson Gowland
            Lady Windermere's Fan
B+ (Lubitsch) May McAvoy, Ronald Colman
            Lost World
A- (Hoyt) Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
            The Merry Widow
C- (Von Sternberg) John Gilbert, Mae Murray
            The Monster
B (West) Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur
            Paris Qui Dort (The Crazy Ray)
B (Clair) Henri Rollan, Albert Prejean
            Phantom Of The Opera
A (Julian) Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry
            Seven Chances
A- (Keaton) Buster Keaton, T. Roy Barnes
            Stachka (Srike)
C+ (Eisenstein) Mikhail Gomorov, Ivan Klyukvin
            The Unholy Three
B (Browning) Lon Chaney, Mae Busch
            The Wizard of Oz
C (Semon) Dorothy Dawn, Oliver Hardy
1926: Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed B- (Reiniger) silhouette animation feature
            Beau Geste
B+ (Brenon) Ronald Colman, Neil Hamilton
            The Bells
C+ (Young) Lionel Barrymore, Boris Karloff
            Ben Hur
B (Niblo) Ramon Novarro, Francis X. Bushman
            The Black Pirate
B (Parker) Douglas Fairbanks, Donald Crisp
            Der Heilige Berg (The Holy Mountain)
B (Fanck) Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker
            Faust
A (Murnau) Emil Jannings, Gosta Eckman
            Flesh and The Devil
B+ (Brown) John Gilbert, Greta Garbo
            The General
C+ (Keaton) Buster Keaton, Marion Mack
            The Great K and A Train Robbery
C- (Seiler) Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan
            The Lodger
B- (Hitchcock) Ivor Novello, June Tripp
            The Scarlet Letter
D (Sjostrom) Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson
            Tell It To The Marines
B (Hill) Lon Chaney, William Haines
1927: Berlin: Symphony of a Great City A (Walter Ruttman) documentary
            Chang
A- (Cooper & Schoedsack) documentary
            College
A- (Keaton) Buster Keaton, A. Cornwall
            The Gaucho
B (Jones) Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Valez
            It
C+ (Badger) Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno
            The Jazz Singer
C+ (Crosland) Al Jolson, May McAvoy
            Love
B- (Goulding) Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
            Metropolis
A (Lang) Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
            Napolean
C (Gance) Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko
            The Student Prince of Old Heidelberg
A- (Lubitsch) Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer
            Sunrise
A (Murnau) George O'Brian, Janet Gaynor
            The Unknown
A- (Browning) Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford
            Wings
B- (Wellman) Clara Bow, Charles "Buddy" Rogers
1928: Alraune B- (Galeen) Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener
            The Cameraman
A- (Sedgwick) Buster Keaton, Marceline Day
            The Crowd
A (Vidor) Eleanor Boardman, James Murray
            The Fall of the House of Usher
A- (Epstein) Jean Debucourt, Charles Lamy
            Geschlecht in Fesseln - Die Sexualnot der Gefangenen (Sex in Chains)
B+ (Dieterle) William Dieterle, Mary Johnson
            The Man Who Laughs
B+ (Leni) Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin
            The Passion of Joan of Arc
B- (Dreyer) Maria Falconetti, Antonin Artaud
            Sadie Thompson
C- (Walsh) Gloria Swanson, Lionel Barrymore
            Show People
B (Vidor) Marion Davies, William Haines
            Steamboat Bill Jr.
B+ (Rieser) Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence
            Spione (Spies)
B- (Lang) Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus
            Storm Over Asia
B+ (Pudovkin) Valery Inkijinoff, Victor Tsoppi
            West of Zanzibar
B+ (Browning) Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore
            White Shadows in the South Seas
B+ (W.S. Van Dyke) Monte Blue, Robert Anderson
            Wild Orchids
C+ (Franklin) Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone
            The Wind
A- (Sjostrom) Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson
            Woman of Affairs
B+ (Brown) Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
1929: Arsenal B- (Dovzhenko) Luciano Albertini, Semyon Svashenko
            Blackmail
B+ (Hitchcock) John Longden, Anny Ondra
            Bulldog Drummond
C+ (Jones) Ronald Colman, Montagu Love
            Chelovek S Kinoapparatom (Man With A Movie Camera)
B (Vertov) Documentary
            Cocoanuts
B (Florey-Santley) The Marx Brothers
            Diary of a Lost Girl
A- (Pabst) Louise Rainer, Andre Roanne
            The Flying Fleet
B- (Hill) Ramon Novarro, Gardner James
            Halleluiah!
C- (Vidor) David L. Haines, Nina Mae McKinney
            Hollywood Revue of 1929
C- (Reisner) Jack Benny, Conrad Nagel
            Hell's Heroes
B+ (Wyler) Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton
            Noah's Ark
C- (Curtiz) George O'Brien, Dolores Costello
            Pandora's Box
C (Pabst) Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner
            Queen Kelly
C- (Von Stroheim) Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron
            Spite Marriage
B- (Sedgwick) Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian
            The Thirteenth Chair
B- (Browning) Bela Lugosi, Conrad Nagel
            Un Chien Andalou
B+ (Bunuel, Dali) Pierre Batchell, Simone Marevil
            The Wild Party
B- (Arzner) Clara Bow, Fredric March
 
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