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The Phantom Carriage

Victor Sjöström
1921 • 106 minutes • 1.37:1 • Sweden
Spine: #579 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Based on a novel by Nobel Prize winner Selma Lagerlöf, this extraordinarily rich and innovative silent classic (which inspired Ingmar Bergman to make movies) is a Dickensian ghost story and a deeply moving morality tale, as well as a showcase for groundbreaking special effects.

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Nanook of the North

Robert Flaherty
1922 • 79 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #33 Edition: DVD

Robert Flaherty’s classic film tells the story of Inuit hunter Nanook and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada’s Hudson Bay region.

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Häxan

Benjamin Christensen
1922 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • Denmark
Spine: #134 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Benjamin Christensen’s legendary silent film uses a series of dramatic vignettes to explore the scientific hypothesis that the witches of the Middle Ages suffered the same hysteria as turn-of-the-century psychiatric patients. Häxan is a witches’ brew of the scary, gross, and darkly humorous.

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The King of Kings

Cecil B. DeMille
1927 • 155 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #266 Edition: DVD

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster.

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The Passion of Joan of Arc

Carl Th. Dreyer
1928 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #62 Edition: DVD

Dreyer’s The Passion of Joan of Arc, in which Renée Falconetti gives one of the greatest performances ever recorded on film, convinced the world that movies could be art.

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Pandora’s Box

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
1929 • 133 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #358 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Sensationally modern, G. W. Pabst’s lurid, controversial melodrama follows the downward spiral of the fiery, brash, yet innocent showgirl Lulu (Louise Brooks), whose sexual vivacity has a devastating effect on everyone she comes in contact with.

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Under the Roofs of Paris

René Clair
1930 • 92 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #161 Edition: DVD

In René Clair’s irrepressibly romantic portrait of the crowded tenements of Paris, a street singer and a gangster vie for the love of a beautiful young woman. An international sensation upon its release, Under the Roofs of Paris is an exhilarating celebration of filmmaking.

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People on Sunday

Robert Siodmak and Edgar G. Ulmer
1930 • 73 minutes • 1.33:1 • Germany
Spine: #569 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

People on Sunday, an effervescent, sunlit silent, about a handful of city dwellers (a charming cast of nonprofessionals) enjoying a weekend outing, offers a rare glimpse of Weimar-era Berlin, would influence generations of film artists around the world.

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M

Fritz Lang
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #30 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray, Collector’s Sets

Peter Lorre stars as serial killer Hans Beckert in Fritz Lang’s harrowing masterwork M, a suspenseful panorama of private madness and public hysteria that to this day remains the blueprint for the psychological thriller.

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Le million

René Clair
1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #72 Edition: DVD

By turns charming and inventive, René Clair’s lyrical masterpiece about the journey of a winning lottery ticket had a profound impact on not only the Marx Brothers and Charlie Chaplin but the American musical as a whole.

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À nous la liberté

René Clair
1931 • 81 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #160 Edition: DVD

One of the all-time comedy classics, René Clair’s À nous la liberté tells the story of Louis, an escaped convict who becomes a wealthy industrialist. Unfortunately, his past returns (in the form of old jail pal Emile) to upset his carefully laid plans.

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The Threepenny Opera

Georg Wilhelm Pabst
1931 • 110 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #405 Edition: DVD

Set in the impoverished back alleys of Victorian London, The Threepenny Opera follows underworld antihero Mackie Messer (a.k.a. Mack the Knife) as he tries to woo Polly Peachum and elude the authorities. Set to Kurt Weill’s irresistible score, this film remains a benchmark of early sound cinema.

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The Most Dangerous Game

Ernest B. Schoedsack and Irving Pichel
1932 • 63 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #46 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

One of the best and most literate movies from the great days of horror, The Most Dangerous Game stars Leslie Banks as a big-game hunter with a taste for the world’s most exotic prey—his houseguests.

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Vampyr

Carl Th. Dreyer
1932 • 73 minutes • 1.19:1 • Denmark
Spine: #437 Edition: DVD

With Vampyr, Danish filmmaker Carl Theodor Dreyer’s brilliance at achieving mesmerizing atmosphere and austere, profoundly unsettling imagery was for once applied to the horror genre. Yet the result is nearly unclassifiable. Vampyr is one of cinema’s great nightmares.

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Trouble in Paradise

Ernst Lubitsch
1932 • 82 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #170 Edition: DVD

When thief Gaston Monescu (Herbert Marshall) meets his true love in pickpocket Lily (Miriam Hopkins), they embark on a scam to rob lovely perfume company executive Mariette Colet (Kay Francis). Legendary director Ernst Lubitsch’s masterful touch is in full flower in Trouble in Paradise.

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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Jean Renoir
1932 • 84 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #305 Edition: DVD

In Jean Renoir’s satire of the bourgeoisie, Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, whose family decides to take in the irrepressible bum.

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Island of Lost Souls

Erle C. Kenton
1932 • 70 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #586 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

A twisted treasure from Hollywood’s pre-Code horror heyday, Island of Lost Souls is
a cautionary tale of science run amok, adapted from H. G. Wells’s novel The Island of Dr. Moreau.

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W. C. Fields—Six Short Films

Monte Brice, Clyde Bruckman, Edwin Middleton…
1933 • 115 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #79 Edition: DVD

W. C. Fields’s prolific career placed him at the forefront of slapstick comedy. Gathered here are six gems that feature the comic genius at his peak.

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The Testament of Dr. Mabuse

Fritz Lang
1933 • 121 minutes • 1.19:1 • Germany
Spine: #231 Edition: DVD

In Fritz Lang’s landmark of mystery and suspense, Berlin’s star detective must connect the fragmented clues of an insane criminal mastermind’s last will: a manifesto establishing a future empire of crime.

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Design for Living

Ernst Lubitsch
1933 • 91 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #592 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Gary Cooper, Fredric March, and Miriam Hopkins play a trio of Americans in Paris who enter into a very adult “gentleman’s agreement” in this continental pre-Code comedy, freely adapted by Ben Hecht from a play by Noël Coward and directed by Ernst Lubitsch.

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The Scarlet Empress

Josef von Sternberg
1934 • 104 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #109 Edition: DVD

Filmmaker-svengali Josef von Sternberg escalates his obsession with screen legend Marlene Dietrich in this lavish depiction of sex and deceit in the eighteenth-century Russian court, a self-proclaimed “relentless excursion into style.”

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The 39 Steps

Alfred Hitchcock
1935 • 86 minutes • 1.33:1 • United Kingdom
Spine: #56 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

The best known of Hitchcock’s British films, this civilized spy yarn follows the escapades of Richard Hannay (Robert Donat), who stumbles into a conspiracy that involves him in a hectic chase across the Scottish moors—a chase in which he is both the pursuer and the pursued.

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My Man Godfrey

Gregory La Cava
1936 • 93 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #114 Edition: DVD

The definitive screwball comedy, My Man Godfrey follows the madcap antics of a wealthy and eccentric family when they hire a down-and-out “forgotten man” as their butler.

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Modern Times

Charlie Chaplin
1936 • 87 minutes • 1.33:1 • United States
Spine: #543 Editions: DVD, Blu-ray

Modern Times, Charlie Chaplin’s last outing as the Little Tramp, puts the iconic character to work as a giddily inept factory employee who becomes smitten with a gorgeous gamine (Paulette Goddard).

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Grand Illusion

Jean Renoir
1937 • 114 minutes • 1.33:1 • France
Spine: #1 Editions: DVD, Collector’s Sets

Jean Renoir’s antiwar masterpiece Grand Illusion, hailed as one of the greatest films ever made, stars Jean Gabin and Pierre Fresnay as French soldiers held in a World War I German prison camp.

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