Your Favourite Silent Movies?

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In the Twenties, silent film became a true art.

Just a few:
The Office (I think that is what it is called. It has an amazing long tracking shot through a high rise office of people working)
The Kid
The Great Dictator
Modern Times (I know these two are in the sound era but they play like silent films and it's Chaplin)
Metropolis
The Thief of Baghdad
The Passion of Joan of Arc
Almost all of the Chaplin short comedies. Amazing slapstick with emotional weight.
All of Buster Keaton's features. There is no one better in the form.
Some Harold Lloyd. His character is so copied now that it just doesn't look original. But he was first at the bumbling, intelligent, handsome, arrogant goof and his stunt work is daring.
And I am skimming. Sadly, I've forgotten the names of so many great silent performances and movies I've watched. I used to watch more on TCM. I'm so lazy now.

 

Any Chaplin
Sunrise
Metropolis
The Cabinet Of Dr. Caligari

 

Great films! Let me throw in:

Lloyd’s “The Kid Brother”
Pickford’s “Sparrows”
Chaplin’s “City Lights”
“Ben-Hur”

 

The Passion Of Joan Of Arc (Dreyer)
Die Nibelungen (Lang)
The Phantom Carriage (Sjostrom)
Underworld (Von Sternberg)
Metropolis (Lang)
Sumurun (Lubitsch)
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene)
Wings (Wellman)

I am not too fond of the comedies

 

Then you need to get hip

The silent film comedy is one of the greatest art forms of the 20th century

 

Thx for the info.

 

I have a huge love for silent cinema. I saw my first silent, in I'm sure, a very shortened version projected at an old church or schoolhouse at Greenfield Village Visit Greenfield Village in Dearborn, MI | The Henry Ford
when I was 8 or 9 years old. This would have been in 1978.
The film, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde starring John Barrymore (1920)

A few more favorites:
City Girl (1930)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920)
Fantômas - a five film serial (1913-1914)
Faust (1926)
The General (1926)
The Golem (1920)
Häxan (1922)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The Last Laugh (1924)
The Lost World (1925)
Manhandled (1924)
Master of the House (1925)
People on Sunday (1930)
Peter Pan (1924)

 

Unfortunately not a lot of silent films available in Australia, so most of the film I own, I've imported from the US and UK.

My favourites are:

Pandora's Box
Diary Of A Lost Girl
Metropolis
Nosferatu
The Cabinet Of Caligari
Sunrise
Tartuffe
Beggars Of Life
Faust
The Lodger
Un Chien Andalou
A Girl In Every Port

 

i am a huge fan of Chaney and Browning but London After Midnight is not that great in my opinion .
It is a cult movie for sure but not in the same league as their other movies

 

"Silent Movie". Seriously.

 

Mel Funn?

 

Sunrise
Berlin - Symphony Of A Great City
Metropolis
Greed
The Last Laugh
Foolish Wives
Broken Blossoms

 

What about books on the genre, coffee sized~pictorial or text related ?

 

Two excellent books are
The Parade's Gone By - Kevin Brownlow
American Silent Film - William K. Everson

 

Yeah! Have to get them. ​

 

Silent films with a classical score ?

 

I thought Mel brooks silent film was a nice tribute.

 

Ha! hip.

I appreciate the comedies. I just am not fond of them.

 

Seductive Cinema by James Card is another great one worth checking out...

 

All-time favorite silent film has to be Chaplin's City Lights. The final scene, where the Tramp encounters the girl whose sight he has helped to restore (although she didn't know it was him), is sublime--what Faulkner meant when he said that the only thing worth writing about is "the human heart in conflict with itself."

 

It's a short - Our Gang's Wiggle Your Ears

 

M

 

All of which I would choose. BTW, The Great Dictator isn't a silent movie.

 

I'm aware of that & the OP requested silent movies so I saw no reason to break down Chaplin's films