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Movies: Popular Movies of 1923

Movies in chronological context: 1923 (MCMXXIII) was a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1923rd year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 923rd year of the 2nd millennium, the 23rd year of the 20th century, and the 4th year of the 1920s decade. As of the start of 1923, the Gregorian calendar was 13 days ahead of the Julian calendar, which was relegated that February to use only by churches after Greece adopted the Gregorian calendar. ()

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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.

Our Hospitality(1923)

3.8/5 (with 106 votes)

A man returns to his Appalachian homestead. On the trip, he falls for a young woman. The only problem is her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate(1923)

1h 18min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 67 votes)

When Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.

The Pilgrim(1923)

47min | Comedy, Western
3.5/5 (with 54 votes)

The Tramp is an escaped convict who is mistaken as a pastor in a small town church.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame(1923)

3.3/5 (with 48 votes)

In 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.

Three Ages(1923)

1h 3min | Drama, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 46 votes)

The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.

The Smiling Madame Beudet(1923)

42min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 35 votes)

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.

Return to Reason(1923)

3min
3.2/5 (with 35 votes)

Experimental film, white specks and shapes gyrating over a black background, the light-striped torso of Kiki of Montparnasse (Alice Prin), a gyrating eggcrate. One of the first Dadaist films.

Directed by Man Ray - With Alice Prin

The Love Nest(1923)

20min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 35 votes)

In an attempt to forget his lost sweetheart, Buster takes a long trip at the sea when he's caught by pirates.

The Balloonatic(1923)

3.2/5 (with 33 votes)

Buster and Phyllis endure a number of outdoor adventures trying to prove to each other their survival skills. The balloon which lands Buster in the wilderness proves useful later on as their canoe is about go over a waterfall.

The Ten Commandments(1923)

2h 16min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 28 votes)

The first part tells the story of Moses leading the Jews from Egypt to the Promised Land, his receipt of the tablets and the worship of the golden calf. The second part shows the efficacy of the commandments in modern life through a story set in San Francisco. Two brothers, rivals for the love of Mary, also come into conflict when John discovers Dan used shoddy materials to construct a cathedral.

La Roue(1923)

6h 58min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 26 votes)

Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.

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Cœur fidèle(1923)

1h 27min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 22 votes)

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.

Glumov's Diary(1923)

5min | Fantasy, Comedy
2.6/5 (with 18 votes)

Filmic insert to Eisenstein's modernized, free adaptation of Ostrovskiy's 19th-century Russian stage play, "The Wise Man" ("Na vsyakogo mudretsa dovolno prostoty"). The anti-hero Glumov tries to escape exposure in the midst of acrobatics, derring-do, and farcical clowning. Several members of Eisenstein's troupe at the legendary "Proletkult" stage theatre in Moscow briefly appear in this little film.

Felix in Hollywood(1923)

9min | Animation
3.3/5 (with 17 votes)

A starving actor, reduced to trying his luck in the movies, travels to Hollywood. His cat, Felix, poses as a travel bag and comes along.

Directed by Otto Messmer

Alice's Wonderland(1923)

12min | Animation
3.0/5 (with 17 votes)

Instead of Wonderland, Alice visits the Walt Disney animation room.

Directed by Walt Disney - With Virginia Davis

Warning Shadows(1923)

3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

During a dinner given by a wealthy baron and his wife, attended by four of her suitors in a 19th century German manor, a shadow-player rescues the marriage by giving all the guests a vision what might happen tonight if the baron stays jealous and the suitors do not reduce their advances towards his beautiful wife. Or was it a vision?

Why Worry?(1923)

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

A hypochondriac vacations in the tropics for the fresh air - and finds himself in the middle of a revolution instead.

The Toll of the Sea(1923)

3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship. The plot is a variation of the Madame Butterfly story, set in China instead of Japan. The Toll of the Sea was one of the first and most successful Technicolor feature films.

The Nightingale's Voice(1923)

2.9/5 (with 10 votes)

A partly-animated short film, a fairy-tale-like telling of why the nightingale only sings at night. A young girl who has caught a nightingale dreams about the songbird and its mate, and comes to realize that birds are not meant to be captive.

Directed by Ladislas Starevich - With Nina Star

Zaza(1923)

3.1/5 (with 9 votes)

Zaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.

Rhythm 23(1923)

3min | Animation
2.7/5 (with 9 votes)

We watch white shapes dancing on black background, which changes when the white shape fills up the screen completely, and black lines and figures bounce around on the now white background.

Directed by Hans Richter

Go West(1923)

12min | Western, Drama, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Western Movies with monkeys in the roles. The son of mom and dad Monkey gets home too late after a wet night. The father, tired of this behavior has enough and throws his son out of the house.

Oranges and Lemons(1923)

12min | Comedy
2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

After getting into a scuffle with his boss and some co-workers, an orange packer tries to help another co-worker, only to wind up in a conflict with him as well. Trying to elude his boss, he heads inside the packing house, and visits with the women who are packing fruit into cases. Then he heads to a storage area, and tries to use the machinery to escape his pursuers.

The Street(1923)

1h 14min | Drama, Crime
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

The movie follows two distinct plot lines until the two eventually merge: the first is that of the bored middle-aged man seeking a departure from monotony in his life; the second is that of the blind man and the little boy, his grandson, who are interdependent. None of the characters have been given names and are therefore referred to only by description. The city is an expressionistic nightmare, a dangerous and chaotic place.

Kino-pravda no. 17: For the First Agricultural and Cottage Industries Exhibition in the USSR(1923)

17min | Documentary
3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Hunger and harvest / Alliance between city and country / Agricultural and home industries exhibition: To the exhibition, construction work and preparations, exhibits, map of the exhibition, visitors.

The Covered Wagon(1923)

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

Two wagon caravans converge at what is now Kansas City, and combine for the westward push to Oregon. On their quest the pilgrims will experience desert heat, mountain snow, hunger, and Indian attack. To complicate matters further, a love triangle develops, as pretty Molly must chose between Sam, a brute, and Will, the dashing captain of the other caravan. Can Will overcome the skeleton in his closet and win Molly's heart?

Kino-Pravda No. 15(1923)

23min | Documentary
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Dziga Vertov-directed Soviet newsreel covering: Against war / Against Gods / Education / Agitation / Sports and gymnastics / Danger of war.

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser's Shop(1923)

32min | Mystery, Comedy
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

The Mysteries of a Hairdresser’s Shop describes the absurd goings-on of a by no means ordinary hair salon, where men with great beards wait in vain for a shave while the barber takes a nap.

Merry-Go-Round(1923)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

A nobleman, posing as a necktie salesman, falls in love with the daughter of a circus puppeteer, even though he is already married to the daughter of his country's war minister.

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