Best Silent Movies of all time

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Top rated Silent Movies, Silent Short Movies and Silent Documentaries on Filmaffinity

City Lights (1931)
- 8.6
  33,625
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Virginia Cherrill, Florence Lee ...
1
Modern Times (1936)
- 8.6
  64,292
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Henry Bergman ...
2
Sunrise (1927)
- 8.4
  14,986
- F.W. Murnau
- George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston ...
3
The Kid (1921)
- 8.4
  33,990
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance ...
4
The Gold Rush (1925)
- 8.4
  28,659
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Mack Swain, Georgia Hale ...
5
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- 8.3
  10,728
- Carl Theodor Dreyer
- Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Maurice Schutz ...
6
The General (1926)
- 8.3
  30,032
- Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman
- Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Glen Cavender ...
7
Metropolis (1927)
- 8.2
  39,797
- Fritz Lang
- Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel ...
8
The Last Laugh (1924)
- 8.2
  6,504
- F.W. Murnau
- Emil Jannings, Maly Delschaft, Max Hiller ...
9
The Crowd (1928)
- 8.1
  3,643
- King Vidor
- James Murray, Eleanor Boardman, Bert Roach ...
10
Greed (1924)
- 8.1
  4,161
- Erich von Stroheim
- Gibson Gowland, ZaSu Pitts, Jean Hersholt ...
11
The Wind (1928)
- 8.1
  2,592
- Victor Sjöström
- Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Montagu Love ...
12
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1920)
- 8.1
  21,265
- Robert Wiene
- Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Friedrich Feher ...
13
Faust (1926)
- 8.1
  6,530
- F.W. Murnau
- Emil Jannings, Gösta Ekman, Camilla Horn ...
14
The Circus (1928)
- 8.0
  8,304
- Charles Chaplin
- Charles Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Betty Morrisey ...
15
Napoleon (1927)
- 8.0
  3,054
- Abel Gance
- Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Edmond Van Daële ...
16
Die Nibelungen: Siegfried (Die Nibelungen - Part I) (1924)
- 8.0
  2,392
- Fritz Lang
- Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph ...
17
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- 8.0
  29,316
- Sergei M. Eisenstein
- Aleksandr Antonov, Vladimir Barsky, Grigori Aleksandrov ...
18
Nosferatu (1922)
- 8.0
  31,875
- F.W. Murnau
- Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim ...
19
The Phantom Carriage (1921)
- 7.9
  3,669
- Victor Sjöström
- Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg ...
20
The Cameraman (1928)
- 7.8
  3,069
- Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harry Gribbon ...
21
Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
- 7.8
  3,398
- Fritz Lang
- Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Alfred Abel, Aud Egede Nissen ...
22
Seventh Heaven (7th Heaven) (1927)
- 7.8
  1,682
- Frank Borzage
- Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Gladys Brockwell ...
23
Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge (Die Nibelungen - Part II) (1924)
- 7.8
  1,898
- Fritz Lang
- Margarete Schön, Gertrud Arnold, Theodor Loos ...
24
Intolerance (1916)
- 7.8
  5,042
- D.W. Griffith
- Lillian Gish, Mae Marsh, Constance Talmadge ...
25
The Big Parade (1925)
- 7.8
  1,744
- King Vidor
- John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Hobart Bosworth ...
26
I Was Born, But... (Children of Tokyo) (1932)
- 7.8
  1,852
- Yasujirō Ozu
- Tatsuo Saito, Mitsuko Yoshikawa, Seiichi Kato ...
27
October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
- 7.8
  5,479
- Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
- Vassilli Nikandrov, Boris Livanov, Eduard Tissé ...
28
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)
- 7.8
  3,327
- Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
- Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire ...
29
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (1931)
- 7.8
  2,464
- F.W. Murnau
- Matahi, Anne Chevalier, Bill Bambridge ...
30

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