1920 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1920

Notable Films Released in 1920

U.S.A. unless stated

  • The $1,000,000 Reward
  • Algol, starring Emil Jannings - (Germany)
  • Anna Boleyn, directed by Ernst Lubitsch - (Germany)
  • Barrabas, directed by Louis Feuillade - (France)
  • Bleak House directed by Maurice Elvey - (Britain)
  • Build Thy House, directed by Fred Goodwins, starring Henry Ainley - (Britain)
  • The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, directed by Robert Wiene; starring Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt and Lil Dagover - (Germany)
  • Colonel Newcome directed by Fred Goodwins' starring Milton Rosmer, Joyce Carey - (Britain)
  • Common Sin, starring Rod La Rocque and Nita Naldi
  • The Copperhead, starring Lionel Barrymore and Doris Rankin
  • Convict 13, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • The Devil's Pass Key, directed by Erich von Stroheim; starring Mae Busch and Maude George
  • Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, directed by John S. Robertson; starring John Barrymore
  • Ernest Maltravers directed by Jack Denton; starring Lillian Hall-Davis - (Britain)
  • Erotikon, directed by Mauritz Stiller - (Sweden)
  • The Ever Open Door directed by Fred Goodwins; starring Hayford Hobbs - (Britain)
  • The Fordington Twins directed by W.P. Kellino - (Britain)
  • General Post directed by Thomas Bentley; starring Douglas Munro, Lilian Braithwaite - (Britain)
  • The Girl in Number 29, directed by John Ford
  • The Golem: How He Came Into the World (Der Golem, wie er in die Welt kam), directed by & starring Paul Wegener - (Germany)
  • Haunted Spooks, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Herr och fru Stockholm, starring Greta Garbo - (Sweden)
  • High and Dizzy, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Huckleberry Finn, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Lewis Sargent, Edythe Chapman, Martha Mattox
  • If I Were King, directed by J. Gordon Edwards; starring William Farnum, Betty Ross Clarke and Fritz Leiber, Sr.
  • The Jack-Knife Man, directed by King Vidor
  • Judy of Rogue's Harbor, directed by William Desmond Taylor; starring Mary Miles Minter, Fritzi Ridgeway and Theodore Roberts
  • Karin Daughter of Ingmar (Karin Ingmarsdotter), directed by & starring Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
  • Lady Audley's Secret directed by Jack Denton; starring Margaret Bannerman and Manning Haynes - (Britain)
  • Lady Rose's Daughter directed by Hugh Ford; starring Elsie Ferguson
  • The Last of the Mohicans, directed by Maurice Tourneur and Clarence Brown; starring Wallace Beery, Barbara Bedford, Alan Roscoe
  • Love, Honor, and Behave, starring George O'Hara and Marie Prevost
  • The Lure of Crooning Water, directed by Arthur Rooke; starring Guy Newall and Ivy Duke - (Britain)
  • The Mark of Zorro, directed by Fred Niblo; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • The Mollycoddle, directed by Victor Fleming; starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
  • The Monastery of Sendomir (Klostret i Sendomir), directed by Victor Sjostrom - (Sweden)
  • Mr. Gilfil's Love Story directed by A.V. Bramble; starring Mary Odette - (Britain)
  • Neighbors, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
  • Nomads of the North, starring Lon Chaney and Lewis Stone
  • Old Lady 31, directed by John Ince & Sherry Harris; starring Emma Dunn, Carrie Clark Ward, Winifred Westover & Martha Mattox
  • One Week, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • Outside the Law, directed by Tod Browning
  • Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  • The Parson's Widow (Prästänkan), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - (Sweden)
  • The Penalty, directed by Wallace Worsley; starring Lon Chaney
  • Pollyanna, starring Mary Pickford - (film only mentioned in article)
  • The Prince and the Pauper directed by Alexander Korda (Austria)
  • Romance, starring Doris Keane & Norman Trevor(refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo talkie)
  • The Saphead, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
  • Satan (Satanas), directed by F. W. Murnau - (Germany)
  • The Scarecrow, directed by & starring Buster Keaton
  • Sex, directed by Fred Niblo
  • Shipwrecked Among Cannibals documentary film
  • Something to Think About, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Monte Blue
  • A Son of David, directed by Hay Plumb; starring Ronald Colman - (Britain)
  • The Son of Tarzan
  • Stolen Moments, starring Rudolph Valentino
  • Suds, starring Mary Pickford
  • Die Todeskarawane, starring Dora Gerson and Bela Lugosi - (Germany)
  • Treasure Island, directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Lon Chaney & Shirley Mason(as Jim)
  • Trent's Last Case, directed by Richard Garrick; starring Gregory Scott, Pauline Peters and Clive Brook - (Britain)
  • The Twelve Pound Look, directed by Jack Denton; starring Milton Rosmer - (Britain)
  • Way Down East, directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess
  • Why Change Your Wife?, directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson, Thomas Meighan and Bebe Daniels
  • Within Our Gates, directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer

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