My top 5 favorite Silent Films

I started watching them as part of my film class, and went out saw more on my own. I have yet to see ones like Sunrise, and Greed, which I hear are really good, but I want to find the extra long version of Greed first, before watching it. But from what I have seen so far, here is my top five:

1. City Lights
2. Metropolis
3. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
4. The Thief of Baghdad
5. The Birth of a Nation

What do you think?

The thieve baghdad was not great. was so so

One of my favourites

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Why Birth of a Nation?

Everyone loves The General but for me it was very overhyped perhaps. It's a good movie but I wouldn't rank it as high as other people. Still good and solid though.

As for The Birth of a Nation, I guess it's one of those movies that's so bad, it's good. It's offensive and over the top in it's views, but to the point where it's priceless, and you are entertained by the fact, that you simply cannot believe what you're watching. It's bad, but it hooks me on it's pricelessness, if that makes sense.

If I had to 'narrow it down'...

1. Metropolis
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc
3. Pandora's Box
4. Greed
5. The Artist

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I'm not exactly caught up in my silent films, but here it goes...

1. The General (Because I bloody love trains!)
2. The Passion of Joan of Arc (The close-ups are beautiful)
3. Safety Last! (The climbing scene was pretty neat)
4. Man With A Movie Camera (Many amazing shots)
5. The Gold Rush (Humour is alright in parts. Can get very suspenseful)

Cabinet was good for the first half, then it got pretty uninteresting in the second half. The plot twist was interesting, considering it would have been one of the first films to do it.

I could never get the praise of City Lights. The humour is pretty predictable and only got a few smiles out of me. Also there's pretty much no plot until the last 20 minutes. The first hour is just Chaplin goofing off around a city.

Haven't seen the rest...yet.

If you like silent horrors,
You might want to see
The Man Who Laughs (1928),
And the Hunchback, from 1923.

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5.) Nosferatu (1922)
4.) Metropolis (1927)
3.) Regeneration (1915)
2.) The Racket (1928)
1.) Underworld (1927)

EDIT: Sadly, I have yet to see Abel Gance's Napoleon (1927)

1.City Lights
2.The Cameraman
3.The General
4.The Cabinet of Dr Caligari
5.The Kid

Only seen about 10-15 silent feature films though.

My absolute TOP 10 (although there are way more silent masterpieces I love):

1. La passion de Jeanne d'Arc [The Passion of Joan of Arc] (1928)
2. Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
3. Körkarlen [The Phantom Carriage] (1921)
4. J'accuse! [I Accuse] (1919)
5. Der müde Tod [Destiny] (1921)
6. Обломок империи [Fragments of an Empire] (1929)
7. Броненосец «Потёмкин» [Battleship Potemkin] (1925)
8. Земля [Earth] (1930)
9. Человек с киноаппаратом [Man With a Movie Camera] (1929)
10. Napoléon vu par Abel Gance [Abel Gance's Napoleon] (1927)

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Another top10 because why not.

1. City lights (Charles Chaplin, 1931)
2. A page of madness - Kurutta ippêji (Teinosuke Kinugasa, 1926)
3. The passion of Joan of Arc - La passion de Jeanne d'Arc (Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1928)
4. The crowd (King Vidor, 1928)
5. The cabinet of Dr. Caligari - Das kabinett des Dr. Caligari (Robert Wiene, 1920)
6. 7th Heaven (Frank Borzage, 1927)
7. The adventures of prince Achmed - Die abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (Lotte Reiniger, 1926)
8. Metropolis (Fritz Lang, 1927)
9. The General (Buster Keaton, 1926)
10. Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927)

Love the first 3 but wasn't too keen on #4. Haven't seen Birth of a Nation yet.

1. The General
2. Metropolis
3. City Lights
4. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
5. The Phantom of the Opera