Movie Forums: Top 50, pre-1930s

1927

 1

  Metropolis

1926

 2

  The General

1927

 3

  Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1925

 4

  The Gold Rush

1920

 5

  The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1928

 6

  The Passion of Joan of Arc

1922

 7

  Nosferatu

1924

 8

  Sherlock, Jr.

1925

 9

  Battleship Potemkin

1921

 10

  The Kid

1923

 11

  Safety Last!

1929

 12

  Man with a Movie Camera

1929

 13

  Un Chien Andalou

1926

 14

  Faust

1925

 15

  Greed

1902

 16

  A Trip to the Moon

1929

 17

  Pandora's Box

1921

 18

  The Phantom Carriage

1925

 19

  The Phantom of the Opera

1927

 20

  The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

1916

 21

  Intolerance

1927

 22

  Wings

1924

 23

  He Who Gets Slapped

1928

 24

  The Cameraman

1922

 25

  Häxan: Witchcraft Through the Ages

1926

 26

  The Adventures of Prince Achmed

1927

 27

  It

1927

 28

  The Unknown

1928

 29

  The Crowd

1926

 30

  3 Bad Men

1929

 31

  Diary of a Lost Girl

1927

 32

  7th Heaven

1928

 33

  Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1919

 34

  Broken Blossoms or The Yellow Man and the Girl

1922

 35

  Nanook of the North

1903

 36

  The Great Train Robbery

1928

 37

  The Circus

1915

 38

  The Birth of a Nation

1918

 39

  A Dog's Life

1924

 40

  The Last Laugh

1923

 41

  The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1928

 42

  The Wind

1920

 43

  Way Down East

1928

 44

  The Last Command

1924

 45

  Entr'acte

1921

 46

  The Goat

1927

 47

  Underworld

1928

 48

  The Man Who Laughs

1929

 49

  Blackmail

1929

 50

  The Skeleton Dance