The Silent Era website is a highly comprehensive guide to silent movies that is a must for anyone interested in such things. It includes a list of The Top 100 Silent Era Films, none of which are lost films but many of which are unfortunately still hard to find.
| # |
Title |
Year |
Director |
IMDb |
| 1 |
The General |
1926 |
Buster Keaton & Clyde Bruckman |
IMDb |
| 2 |
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans |
1927 |
F. W. Murnau |
IMDb |
| 3 |
Metropolis |
1927 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
| 4 |
City Lights |
1931 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 5 |
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror |
1922 |
F. W. Murnau |
IMDb |
| 6 |
The Gold Rush |
1925 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 7 |
The Passion of Joan of Arc |
1928 |
Carl Theodor Dreyer |
IMDb |
| 8 |
Greed |
1924 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
| 9 |
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari |
1920 |
Robert Wiene |
IMDb |
| 10 |
Pandora's Box |
1929 |
G. W. Pabst |
IMDb |
| 11 |
The Crowd |
1928 |
King Vidor |
IMDb |
| 12 |
Intolerance |
1916 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
| 13 |
Battleship Potemkin |
1925 |
Sergei Eisenstein |
IMDb |
| 14 |
Napoleon |
1927 |
Abel Gance |
IMDb |
| 15 |
The Big Parade |
1925 |
King Vidor |
IMDb |
| 16 |
The Wind |
1928 |
Victor Seastrom |
IMDb |
| 17 |
Sherlock, Jr. |
1924 |
Buster Keaton |
IMDb |
| 18 |
The Last Laugh |
1924 |
F. W. Murnau |
IMDb |
| 19 |
Safety Last! |
1923 |
Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor |
IMDb |
| 20 |
The Phantom of the Opera |
1925 |
Rupert Julian |
IMDb |
| 21 |
The Birth of a Nation |
1915 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
| 22 |
Broken Blossoms |
1919 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
| 23 |
The Thief of Bagdad |
1924 |
Raoul Walsh |
IMDb |
| 24 |
Flesh and the Devil |
1927 |
Clarence Brown |
IMDb |
| 25 |
Faust |
1926 |
F. W. Murnau |
IMDb |
| 26 |
The Kid |
1921 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 27 |
Wings |
1927 |
William Wellman |
IMDb |
| 28 |
Steamboat Bill, Jr. |
1928 |
Charles F Reisner |
IMDb |
| 29 |
Way Down East |
1920 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
| 30 |
Our Hospitality |
1923 |
Buster Keaton & Jack Blystone |
IMDb |
| 31 |
Häxan |
1922 |
Benjamin Christensen |
IMDb |
| 32 |
Man with a Movie Camera |
1929 |
Dziga Vertov |
IMDb |
| 33 |
The Unknown |
1927 |
Tod Browning |
IMDb |
| 34 |
Show People |
1928 |
King Vidor |
IMDb |
| 35 |
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ |
1925 |
Fred Niblo |
IMDb |
| 36 |
The Lodger |
1926 |
Alfred Hitchcock |
IMDb |
| 37 |
The Wedding March |
1928 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
| 38 |
Un Chien Andalou |
1928 |
Luis Buñuel |
IMDb |
| 39 |
The Freshman |
1925 |
Sam Taylor & Fred Newmeyer |
IMDb |
| 40 |
The Diary of a Lost Girl |
1929 |
G. W. Pabst |
IMDb |
| 41 |
Nanook of the North |
1922 |
Robert J Flaherty |
IMDb |
| 42 |
Foolish Wives |
1922 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
| 43 |
Tol'able David |
1921 |
Henry King |
IMDb |
| 44 |
Girl Shy |
1924 |
Fred Newmeyer & Sam Taylor |
IMDb |
| 45 |
Die Nibelungen |
1924 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
| 46 |
7th Heaven |
1927 |
Frank Borzage |
IMDb |
| 47 |
The Cameraman |
1928 |
Edward Sedgwick |
IMDb |
| 48 |
Seven Chances |
1925 |
Buster Keaton |
IMDb |
| 49 |
He Who Gets Slapped |
1924 |
Victor Seastrom |
IMDb |
| 50 |
Dr. Mabuse the Gambler |
1922 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
| 51 |
The Circus |
1928 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 52 |
The Mark of Zorro |
1920 |
Fred Niblo |
IMDb |
| 53 |
Tabu |
1931 |
F. W. Murnau & Robert J Flaherty |
IMDb |
| 54 |
Orphans of the Storm |
1921 |
D. W. Griffith |
IMDb |
| 55 |
The Navigator |
1924 |
Donald Crisp & Buster Keaton |
IMDb |
| 56 |
The Hunchback of Notre Dame |
1923 |
Wallace Worsley |
IMDb |
| 57 |
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg |
1927 |
Ernst Lubitsch |
IMDb |
| 58 |
Earth |
1930 |
Alexander Dovzhenko |
IMDb |
| 59 |
Beggars of Life |
1928 |
William Wellman |
IMDb |
| 60 |
The Man Who Laughs |
1928 |
Paul Leni |
IMDb |
| 61 |
My Best Girl |
1927 |
Sam Taylor |
IMDb |
| 62 |
The Last Command |
1928 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
| 63 |
The Kid Brother |
1927 |
Ted Wilde & J. A. Howe |
IMDb |
| 64 |
Cops |
1922 |
Buster Keaton & Eddie Cline |
IMDb |
| 65 |
Strike |
1924 |
Sergei M. Eisenstein |
IMDb |
| 66 |
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse |
1921 |
Rex Ingram |
IMDb |
| 67 |
A Trip to the Moon |
1902 |
George Melies |
IMDb |
| 68 |
The Sheik |
1921 |
George Melford |
IMDb |
| 69 |
The Immigrant |
1917 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 70 |
October |
1928 |
Sergei M. Eisenstein |
IMDb |
| 71 |
The Golem |
1920 |
Paul Wegener |
IMDb |
| 72 |
The Docks of New York |
1928 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
| 73 |
It |
1927 |
Clarence Badger |
IMDb |
| 74 |
Les Vampires |
1915 |
Louis Feuillade |
IMDb |
| 75 |
Destiny |
1921 |
Fritz Lang |
IMDb |
| 76 |
The Great Train Robbery |
1903 |
Edwin S. Porter |
IMDb |
| 77 |
Robin Hood |
1922 |
Allen Dwan |
IMDb |
| 78 |
Speedy |
1928 |
Ted Wilde |
IMDb |
| 79 |
Cabiria |
1914 |
Giovanni Pastrone |
IMDb |
| 80 |
Queen Kelly |
1929 |
Erich Von Stroheim |
IMDb |
| 81 |
The Joyless Street |
1925 |
G. W. Pabst |
IMDb |
| 82 |
Big Business |
1929 |
James W. Horne |
IMDb |
| 83 |
Variety |
1925 |
E. A. Dupont |
IMDb |
| 84 |
The Iron Horse |
1924 |
John Ford |
IMDb |
| 85 |
The Cheat |
1915 |
Cecil B. DeMille |
IMDb |
| 86 |
The Unholy Three |
1925 |
Tod Browning |
IMDb |
| 87 |
Sadie Thompson |
1928 |
Raoul Walsh |
IMDb |
| 88 |
The Strong Man |
1926 |
Frank Capra |
IMDb |
| 89 |
Sparrows |
1926 |
William Beaudine |
IMDb |
| 90 |
Mother |
1926 |
Vsevolod I. Pudovkin |
IMDb |
| 91 |
Storm Over Asia |
1928 |
Vsevolod I. Pudovkin |
IMDb |
| 92 |
Stella Maris |
1918 |
Marshall Neilan |
IMDb |
| 93 |
Aelita |
1924 |
Yakov Protazanov |
IMDb |
| 94 |
Underworld |
1927 |
Josef Von Sternberg |
IMDb |
| 95 |
A Woman of Affairs |
1929 |
Clarence Brown |
IMDb |
| 96 |
Tess of the Storm Country |
1922 |
John S. Robertson |
IMDb |
| 97 |
The Student of Prague |
1926 |
Henrik Galeen |
IMDb |
| 98 |
A Woman of Paris |
1923 |
Charles Chaplin |
IMDb |
| 99 |
The Lost World |
1925 |
Harry O. Hoyt |
IMDb |
| 100 |
The Son of the Sheik |
1926 |
George Fitzmaurice |
IMDb |
