1920

Film Decades: 1919 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • April Folly – directed by Robert Z. Leonard; starring Marion Davies and Conway Tearle
  • Boccaccio – directed by Michael Curtiz – Austria
  • The Copperhead – starring Lionel Barrymore and Doris Rankin
  • 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
  • The Flapper – starring Olive Thomas
  • The Girl in Number 29 – directed by John Ford
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Love Flower – directed by D. W. Griffith starring Richard Barthelmess and Carol Dempster
  • The Mark of Zorro – directed by Fred Niblo; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • The Mollycoddle – directed by Victor Fleming; starring Douglas Fairbanks and Wallace Beery
  • 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
  • Outside the Law – directed by Tod Browning
  • Over the Hill to the Poorhouse
  • The Penalty – directed by Wallace Worsley; starring Lon Chaney
  • Pollyanna – starring Mary Pickford
  • The Restless Sex – directed by Robert Z. Leonard; starring Marion Davies and Carlyle Blackwell
  • Romance, starring Doris Keane and Norman Trevor (refilmed later as a 1930 Greta Garbo talkie)
  • The Scourge of God – directed by Michael Curtiz – Austria
  • Sex directed by Fred Niblo
  • Shipwrecked Among Cannibals – documentary
  • Something to Think About- directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring Gloria Swanson and Monte Blue
  • The Star of Damascus – directed by Michael Curtiz – Austria
  • Stolen Moments – starring Rudolph Valentino
  • Suds – starring Mary Pickford
  • Tarnished Reputation – directed by Herbert Blache, Alice Guy-Blaché, and Léonce Perret, starring Dolores Cassinelli, Alan Roscoe, & Georges Deneubourg – presumed lost
  • Treasure Island – directed by Maurice Tourneur; starring Lon Chaney and Shirley Mason
  • 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 Danies
  • Within Our Gates – directed by Oscar Micheaux, starring Evelyn Preer