1922

Film Decades: 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)

  • The Bachelor Daddy – directed by Alfred E. Green, starring Thomas Meighan and Leatrice Joy
  • Beauty’s Worth – directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
  • Beyond the Rocks – directed by Sam Wood; starring Gloria Swanson and Rudolph Valentino
  • A Bill of Divorcement – directed by Denison Clift, starring Constance Binney, Fay Compton – (Britain)
  • The Blacksmith – a Buster Keaton short
  • A Blind Bargain, directed by Wallace Worsley, starring Lon Chaney
  • Blood and Sand – directed by Fred Niblo; starring Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, and Lila Lee
  • The Bohemian Girl, Starring Gladys Cooper and Ivor Novello – (GB)
  • The Bride’s Play – directed by George Terwilliger, starring Marion Davies and Carl Miller
  • The Burning Soil (Der brennende Acker) – (Germany)
  • The Card – directed by A.V. Bramble – (Britain)
  • Clarence – directed by William C. deMille, starring Wallace Reid
  • Cocaine – directed by Graham Cutts – (GB)
  • Cops – a Buster Keaton film
  • Crainquebille (Coster Bill of Paris), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
  • Daydreams – a Buster Keaton short
  • A Debt of Honour – starring Isobel Elsom and Clive Brook (Britain)
  • The Dictator – directed by Jim Cruze; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler (Dr. Mabuse the Gambler) – directed by Fritz Lang; starring Rudolf Klein-Rogge – (Germany)
  • Dr. Jack – starring Harold Lloyd
  • The Electric House – a Buster Keaton short
  • Fair Lady – directed by Kenneth Webb
  • La Femme de nulle part – directed by Louis Delluc – (France)
  • Flames of Passion – starring Mae Marsh and C. Aubrey Smith – (GB)
  • Flesh and Blood – starring Lon Chaney
  • Foolish Wives – directed by & starring Erich von Stroheim
  • The Frozen North – starring Buster Keaton
  • The Ghost Breaker – directed by Alfred E. Green; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • A Gipsy Cavalier – directed by J. Stuart Blackton ; starring Georges Carpentier and
  • Flora le Breton – (GB)
  • Grandma’s Boy – starring Harold Lloyd
  • The Grass Orphan – directed by Frank Hall Crane; starring Margaret Bannerman, Reginald Owen – (Britain)
  • Häxan – directed by Benjamin Christensen – (Sweden/Denmark)
  • The Headless Horseman – starring Will Rogers
  • In the Name of the Law – directed by Emory Johnson, starring Ralph Lewis and Claire McDowell
  • Laborer’s Love (Laogong zhi aiqing) – (China)
  • Lorna Doone – directed by Maurice Tourneur
  • The Loves of Pharaoh (Das Weib des Pharao) – directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Lucrezia Borgia – directed by Richard Oswald, starring Conrad Veidt and Liane Haid (Germany)
  • Manslaughter – starring Thomas Meighan
  • Marizza (aka Marizza – called the Smuggler Madonna), directed by F.W. Murnau – (Germany)
  • Moran of the Lady Letty – directed by George Melford, starring Dorothy Dalton & Rudolph Valentino
  • More to Be Pitied Than Scorned – directed by Edward LeSaint
  • Mud and Sand – a parody of Blood and Sand, starring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
  • My Boy – starring Jackie Coogan
  • My Wife’s Relations – starring Buster Keaton
  • Nanook of the North – a documentary directed by Robert J. Flaherty
  • Nathan the Wise – directed by Manfred Noa (Germany)
  • Nice People – directed by William C. deMille; starring Wallace Reid and Bebe Daniels
  • Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens (Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror) – directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Max Schreck – (Germany)
  • Number 13, directed by Alfred Hitchcock – starring Ernest Thesiger – (GB)
  • Oliver Twist – starring Jackie Coogan
  • One Exciting Night – directed by D. W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and Henry Hull
  • One Glorious Day – directed by James Cruze; starring Will Rogers and Lila Lee
  • The Paleface – starring Buster Keaton
  • Pay Day – a Charlie Chaplin short
  • Peg o’ My Heart – directed by King Vidor
  • Phantom – directed by F. W. Murnau; starring Alfred Abel, Lil Dagover and Lya De Putti – (Germany)
  • Polikushka – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Primitive Lover – directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Constance Talmadge
  • The Prisoner of Zenda – starring Lewis Stone
  • Rent Free – directed by Howard Higgin; starring Wallace Reid and Lila Lee
  • Robin Hood – directed by Allan Dwan; starring Douglas Fairbanks
  • Rob Roy – directed by W.P. Kellino (GB)
  • Saturday Night – starring Leatrice Joy and Conrad Nagel
  • The Scarlet Letter – starring Sybil Thorndike – (GB)
  • Shadows – directed by Tom Forman; starring Lon Chaney and Marguerite De La Motte
  • Sherlock Holmes – starring John Barrymore and Roland Young
  • Smilin’ Through – starring Norma Talmadge
  • Sodom and Gomorrah – directed by Michael Curtiz– (Austria)
  • La Souriante Madame Beudet (The Smiling Madame Beudet) – (France)
  • Squibs Wins the Calcutta Sweep directed by George Pearson – starring Betty Balfour – (GB)
  • The Suram Fortress (Suramis tsikhe) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Tess of the Storm Country – starring Mary Pickford
  • The Three Must-Get-Theres directed by and starring Max Linder
  • The Toll of the Sea – starring Anna May Wong
  • Vaskresenja ne biva bez smrti, (There’s no resurrection without death) – the first Montenegrin movie
  • What’s Wrong with the Women? – directed by Roy William Neill; starring Constance Bennett & Hedda Hopper
  • When Knighthood Was in Flower – starring Marion Davies
  • Wildness of Youth – directed by Ivan Abramson
  • The Young Diana – directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Marion Davies and Forrest Stanley
  • The Young Rajah – starring Rudolph Valentino