While most modern viewers aren’t running to watch a silent period drama, The Passion of Joan of Arc is a French film masterpiece. Directed by Danish Master filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer ...

While there are modern silent classics, such as 2011’s The Artist and even 2024’s Hundreds of Beavers, this list focuses on pre-1930s films, a.k.a. the silent film era (with one noted exception).

A seminal figure of the French Impressionist film movement of the 1920s, Jean Epstein is best remembered today for his silent horror classic The Fall of the House of Usher, an adaptation of Edgar ...

"The House of the Devil" (1896) is considered the first horror film. This French silent trick film was directed by Georges Méliès, and shows a 3 minute theatrical tale about the Devil meeting ...

A 1920s French silent film with live music by Frame Ensemble A young woman comes to Paris to work at her uncle’s haberdashery shop only to find that the family business is being crushed by the ...

Gints Zilbalodis' Flow scooped two nominations at the Academy Awards 2025 in the categories of Best International Feature ...