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1920s Thriller Movies

Public list by WPS with 26 movies or TV shows/series

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Battleship Potemkin(1925)

1h 15min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 494 votes)

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.

Safety Last!(1923)

3.9/5 (with 200 votes)

When a store clerk organizes a contest to climb the outside of a tall building, circumstances force him to make the perilous climb himself.

Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler(1922)

4h 31min | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
3.8/5 (with 81 votes)

Dr. Mabuse and his organization of criminals are in the process of completing their latest scheme, a theft of information that will allow Mabuse to make huge profits on the stock exchange. Afterwards, Mabuse disguises himself and attends the Folies Bergères show, where Cara Carozza, the main attraction of the show, passes him information on Mabuse's next intended victim, the young millionaire Edgar Hull. Mabuse then uses psychic manipulation to lure Hull into a card game where he loses heavily. When Police Commissioner von Wenk begins an investigation of this mysterious crime spree, he has little to go on, and he needs to find someone who can help him.

Blackmail(1929)

1h 26min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 91 votes)

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

Assassination(1927)

1h 10min | Crime

"Assassination" - A far-right political organization called "Fellowship Loyalty" seeks contact with an easily seducable man whom she finds in Joachim Burthe. The leader of this deeply democratizing group, the equally characterless and unscrupulous Gregor of Askanius, whispers to the fanatical student seeking guidance that it is finally time to put the death sentence on the corrupt system and its representatives.

Seine Exzellenz von Madagaskar. 1. Das Mädchen aus der Fremde(1922)

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Directed by Georg Jacoby

The Golden Plague(1921)

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Directed by Louis Ralph

Attention Harry! Open eyes!(1926)

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Directed by Harry Piel

Bride 13(1920)

A gang of Tripolitan pirates swooped down and kidnapped 13 wealthy brides, whom they held for ransom.

Directed by Richard Stanton - With Marguerite Clayton, John B. O'Brien, W. E. Lawrence, Gretchen Hartman

Der Teufelsreporter(1929)

54min | Thriller

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Directed by Ernst Laemmle - With Billy Wilder, Eddie Polo, Maria Forescu

Caught in the Fog(1928)

1h 10min | Thriller

Wealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.

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Orientexpress(1927)

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The Armored Vault(1926)

1h 48min | Crime

Directed by Lupu Pick, who died far too young, it was billed as a melodrama about a ring of counterfeiters on its first screening in New York City. Pick plays with the already well-established conventions of the detective genre for maximum effect and humor.

The Hobgoblin(1924)

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Adventure in the Night Express(1925)

2h 11min

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The Woman in Flames(1924)

1h 5min

Dancing, sports and erotic pursuits are the main ingredients in this drama about the fate of this scorned and abandoned woman, Josefine, who falls for the selfish Fennhofer. This film is considered lost.

What's Going on in Beely Circus?(1927)

1h 25min | Adventure, Mystery
2.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Harry Piel plays Harry Peel who receives an urgent telephone call from a friend who has returned from South America recently. The call is being made from the circus "Beely" and our hero arrives there too late to prevent the murder of his friend. Now Harry must find his friend's killer and go on a strange mission involving a hidden document.

Rätsel einer Nacht(1927)

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Directed by Harry Piel - With Harry Piel, Dary Holm

Man Against Man(1928)

3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

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Code of the Air(1928)

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Directed by James P. Hogan

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower(1928)

2h | Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing the money. This formidable brotherhood, whose headquarters are in the Eiffel Tower, send the Mironton Brothers on impossible adventures and countless traps.

The Ship of Lost Men(1929)

2h 1min | Drama, Thriller
2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew.

The Diplomatic Pouch(1927)

1h 5min | Thriller, Drama, History
2.6/5 (with 3 votes)

The film's plot is based on the real murder of the Soviet diplomatic courier Theodor Nette abroad. The pouch of the Soviet diplomat, which is stolen by British spies, is taken away by the sailors of a ship sailing to Leningrad who deliver it to the authorities. The intelligence agents make every effort to retrieve the bag.

Directed by Alexander Dovzhenko - With Alexander Dovzhenko, Georgy Zelondzhev-Shipov, Dmitry Kapka

Looping the Loop(1928)

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

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