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Movies: Popular Movies of 1920

Movies in chronological context: 1920 (MCMXX) was a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a leap year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1920th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 920th year of the 2nd millennium, the 20th year of the 20th century, and the 1st year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1920, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which remained in localized use until 1923. ()

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari(1920)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 17min | Drama, Horror, Thriller, Crime
4.0/5 (with 704 votes)

Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep.

One Week(1920)

25min | Comedy
4.0/5 (with 107 votes)

The story involves two newlyweds, Keaton and Seely, who receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift. The house can be built, supposedly, in "one week." A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates. The movie recounts Keaton's struggle to assemble the house according to this new "arrangement.".

The Golem: How He Came into the World(1920)

FSK: 0+ years
| 1h 16min | Fantasy, Horror
3.5/5 (with 91 votes)

In 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde(1920)

3.4/5 (with 59 votes)

A doctor's research into the roots of evil turns him into a hideous depraved fiend.

The Scarecrow(1920)

3.7/5 (with 59 votes)

Buster competes with another farmhand for the love of the farmer's daughter.

Neighbors(1920)

3.6/5 (with 55 votes)

The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.

Convict 13(1920)

20min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 49 votes)

A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.

Way Down East(1920)

3.5/5 (with 39 votes)

A naive country girl is tricked into a sham marriage by a wealthy womanizer, then must rebuild her life despite the taint of having borne a child out of wedlock.

Within Our Gates(1920)

1h 14min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.9/5 (with 36 votes)

Abandoned by her fiancé, an educated black woman with a traumatizing past dedicates herself to helping a near bankrupt school for impoverished black children.

Directed by Oscar Micheaux - With Evelyn Preer, Floy Clements

The Mark of Zorro(1920)

3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Don Diego Vega pretends to be an indolent fop as a cover for his true identity, the masked avenger Zorro.

Beyond the Barricade(1920)

1h 40min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

Family man Poul Berg is tempted by a questionable investement offer and indebts himself to a point where suicide seems like the only way out. His widow struggles to maintain even a simple standard of living for herself and their three children, who are fatally marked by their fathers deed. (stumfilm.dk)

The Garage(1920)

25min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 23 votes)

Roscoe and Buster operate a combination garage and fire station. In the first half they destroy a car left for them to clean. In the second half they go off on a false alarm and return to find their own building on fire.

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The Penalty(1920)

1h 30min | Crime, Drama, Horror
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Blizzard, deranged from a childhood operation in which both his legs were needlessly amputated after an accident, becomes a vicious criminal, and eventually mob leader of the San Francisco underworld.

Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire(1920)

1h 28min | Horror
2.8/5 (with 18 votes)

Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the portrait in his study. After turning down a wealthy patron's offer to buy the picture, Percy falls asleep while reading stories of Genuine's life. Genuine comes to life from the painting and escapes. The film's sets were designed by the Expressionist painter César Klein.

The Parson's Widow(1920)

1h 11min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Hildur Carlberg, Einar Rød, Greta Almroth

The Saphead(1920)

1h 17min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter. Mark also nearly ruins the family business by selling off Henrietta stock at too low a price. Bertie, of all people, must come to the rescue on the trading floor.

Directed by Herbert Blaché - With Buster Keaton, Edward Connelly, Beulah Booker, Edward Alexander, Edward Jobson, Odette Tyler, ...

Leaves from Satan's Book(1920)

2h 1min | Drama, History, Fantasy
3.2/5 (with 17 votes)

The power of Satan is highlighted in four historical tales: the betrayal and subsequent arrest of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the execution of Marie Antoinette, and the Finnish War of Independence in 1918.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Clara Pontoppidan, Elith Pio, Halvard Hoff, Jeanne de Tramcourt, Johannes Meyer, Björn Halldén, ...

The Last of the Mohicans(1920)

3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

As Alice and Cora Munro attempt to find their father, a British officer in the French and Indian War, they are set upon by French soldiers and their cohorts, Huron tribesmen led by the evil Magua. Fighting to rescue the women are Chingachgook and his son Uncas, the last of the Mohican tribe, and their white ally, the frontiersman Natty Bumppo, known as Hawkeye.

Erotikon(1920)

3.0/5 (with 16 votes)

Erotikon is a 1920 Swedish romantic comedy film directed by Mauritz Stiller, starring Tora Teje, Karin Molander, Anders de Wahl and Lars Hanson. It is based on the 1917 play A kék róka by Ferenc Herczeg. The story revolves around an entomology professor obsessed with the sexual life of bugs, and his easygoing wife who is courted by two suitors.

Haunted Spooks(1920)

25min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

After numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.

An Eastern Westerner(1920)

27min | Comedy, Western
3.5/5 (with 15 votes)

A young man in New York has exasperated his father because of his constant carousing and irresponsibility, so his father sends him to his uncle's ranch in the west. The young man arrives in the town of Piute Pass, which is being terrorized by Tiger Lip Tompkins and his gang, the Masked Angels. The Easterner befriends a young woman whose father is being held captive by Tompkins, and he decides to help her.

High and Dizzy(1920)

26min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

A tipsy doctor encounters his patient sleepwalking on a building ledge, high above the street.

The Spiders - The Diamond Ship(1920)

1h 45min | Adventure
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

When last we saw Kay Hoog (millionaire adventurer, courageous hunk), he’d been beset with tragedy. Having escaped an ancient Incan city by the skin of his gleaming teeth, Hoog looked forward to a few years of settled life with his (amicably) captured Incan lovely, Naela. But the past struck quickly. Hoog’s arch-nemesis, the homicidal femme Lio Sha, murdered Naela on the very grounds of Hoog’s estate, prompting him to swear revenge upon her and her criminal organization, the Spiders. Now he must find them, as the Spiders continue their global quest for the Buddha-head Diamond. The head, it’s said, has the power to restore Asia to world dominance.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Carl de Vogt, Ressel Orla, Lil Dagover, Rudolf Lettinger

Sumurun(1920)

3.0/5 (with 13 votes)

The favorite slave girl of a tyrannical sheik falls in love with a cloth merchant. Meanwhile, a hunchback clown suffers unrequited love for a traveling dancer who wants to join the harem.

Number, Please?(1920)

25min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

While at an amusement park, trying vainly to forget the girl he has lost, a young man sees the girl with her new boyfriend. When her dog gets loose in the park, both suitors have to help her catch it. Then, the girl's uncle, a balloonist, gives her a pass for two in his balloon, provided that her mother approves. She then offers to take along the first of her admirers who is able to get her mother's consent.

Anna Boleyn(1920)

1h 58min | History, Drama
3.5/5 (with 11 votes)

The story of the ill-fated second wife of the English king Henry VIII, whose marriage to the Henry led to momentous political and religious turmoil in England.

His Royal Slyness(1920)

27min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

A young adventurer trades places with a European prince and falls in love above his station.

The Daughter of Dawn(1920)

2.5/5 (with 10 votes)

The Daughter of Dawn is a silent Western, and one of the few films of the silent era to have an entirely Native American cast. It tells the story of a Kiowa woman and her lover, his feats of bravery, and their trials at the hands of a jealous rival and Comanche warriors. Completed in 1920, it was only shown a few times before being considered lost. Five reels of the movie were found in 2005, and restored by the Oklahoma Historical Society in 2012.

Directed by Norbert A. Myles - With White Parker

From Morn to Midnight(1920)

1h 12min | Crime, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

A cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60, 000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport, love and religion.

Just Pals(1920)

50min | Drama, Western
3.1/5 (with 8 votes)

Bim (Buck Jones) seems to be his town's biggest loser, but when he takes a needy 13-year-old boy named Bill (George Stone) under his wing, it seems there may be some hope for Bim. After learning about Bill, a young teacher, Mary (Helen Ferguson), whom Bim secretly adores, helps get the young boy into school. And when Bim then helps Mary repay a loan, defaulted on by shifty boyfriend (William Buckley), it becomes evident that Bim can reform. As the plot in this captivating film twist and turns, the stakes get higher, the action gets more intense and hope for Bim bounds upward.

Directed by John Ford - With Buck Jones, Helen Ferguson, Georgie Stone, William Buckley, Bert Appling, Duke R. Lee, ...
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