Best 1920s Dramas

Pulse of Cinema lists 236 drama films from the 1920s, ranked by the Pulse Score blended from IMDb, Letterboxd and TMDB. Standouts include Metropolis, The Kid, The Passion of Joan of Arc.

8.1

Metropolis

1927

8.1

The Kid

1921

8.0

The Passion of Joan of Arc

1928

7.9

The General

1926

8.0

The Gold Rush

1925

7.8

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

1927

7.8

Napoleon

1927

7.9

The Circus

1928

7.9

Faust

1926

7.9

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

1920

7.8

The Phantom Carriage

1921

7.8

The Last Laugh

1924

7.8

The Cameraman

1928

7.7

Die Nibelungen: Siegfried

1924

7.6

Battleship Potemkin

1925

7.6

The Crowd

1928

7.3

Greed

1924

7.6

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

1928

7.3

The Wind

1928

7.5

Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge

1924

7.5

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

1926

7.6

The Big Parade

1925

7.3

The Last Command

1928

7.6

He Who Gets Slapped

1924

7.5

Pandora's Box

1929

7.5

The Unknown

1927

7.4

Strike

1925

7.3

The Man Who Laughs

1928

7.3

Diary of a Lost Girl

1929

7.3

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ

1925

7.5

Lonesome

1928

7.4

Destiny

1921

7.3

La Roue

1923

7.2

Wings

1927

6.9

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

1928

7.6

Lucky Star

1929

7.4

7th Heaven

1927

7.3

A Page of Madness

1926

7.2

Flesh and the Devil

1926

7.1

Nanook of the North

1922

7.0

Underworld

1927

6.9

The Docks of New York

1928

6.9

The Kid Brother

1927

6.9

3 Bad Men

1926

7.2

Woman in the Moon

1929

7.2

Cœur fidèle

1923

7.1

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

1927

7.1

The Scarlet Letter

1927