1925

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)

  • Are Parents People?, starring Florence Vidor
  • Bad Boy – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charley Chase
  • The Battleship Potemkin (Bronyenosyets Potyomkin) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Ben-Hur, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramón Novarro, Francis X. Bushman and May McAvoy
  • The Big Parade – directed by King Vidor; starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
  • The Blackguard (Die Prinzessin und der Geiger), directed by Graham Cutts – (GB/Germany)
  • Braveheart, starring Rod La Rocque
  • Bride of Glomdal (Glomdalsbruden), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
  • Bulldog Drummond’s Third Round, starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
  • Chess Fever (Shakhmatnaya goryachka) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Circle, directed by Frank Borzage; starring Eleanor Boardman
  • Cobra, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
  • Corazón Aymara, directed by Pedro Sambarino; first Bolivian fiction feature film
  • Curses!, starring Fatty Arbuckle
  • The Dark Angel, directed by George Fitzmaurice; starring Vilma Bánky and Ronald Colman
  • Don Q, Son of Zorro starring Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Astor and Donald Crisp
  • The Eagle, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
  • Le fantôme du Moulin-Rouge (The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge), directed by René Clair – (France)
  • The Farmer from Texas, directed by Joe May, starring Lillian Hall-Davis (Germany)
  • Feu Mathias Pascal (The Late Mathias Pascal), directed by Marcel L’Herbier – (France)
  • Fifty-Fifty, starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
  • The Freshman, starring Harold Lloyd
  • Go West, starring Buster Keaton
  • The Gold Rush – a Charlie Chaplin film
  • The Goose Woman, directed by Clarence Brown; starring Louise Dresser
  • Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
  • The Heart Breaker
  • His People, starring Rudolph Schildkraut
  • His Supreme Moment directed by Marshall Neilan; starring his wife Blanche Sweet with Ronald Colman
  • El Húsar de la muerte (Hussar of the Dead), starring and directed by Pedro Sienna – (Chile)
  • Isn’t Life Terrible – directed by Leo McCarey (uncredited), starring Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy
  • Jealousy, directed by Karl Grune (Germany)
  • Joyless Street (Die freudlose Gasse), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo – (Germany)
  • The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell; starring Bessie Love & Adolphe Menjou
  • A Kiss For Cinderella, starring Esther Ralston and Dorothy Cumming
  • The Lady, starring Norma Talmadge
  • Lady Windermere’s Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
  • Lights of Old Broadway, directed by Monta Bell; starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
  • Little Annie Rooney, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Lost World, starring Bessie Love and Wallace Beery
  • The Lucky Horseshoe, starring Tom Mix and Billie Dove
  • Madame Behave, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
  • Madame Sans-Gene, starring Gloria Swanson – (France)
  • Master of the House (Du skal ære din hustru) (aka Thou Shalt Honour Thy Wife), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer – (Denmark)
  • Men and Women, starring Richard Dix
  • The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
  • Les Misérables – (France)
  • The Monster, starring Lon Chaney
  • The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning; starring Aileen Pringle
  • Old Clothes
  • Orochi – (Japan)
  • Paris Qui Dort, directed by René Clair – (France)
  • Pampered Youth, directed by David Smith
  • Phantom of the Opera, starring Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin and Norman Kerry
  • The Plastic Age – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland; Clark Gable was also in this film
  • The Pleasure Garden – directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty – (GB)
  • Prem Sanyas (Die Leuchte Asiens | The Light of Asia) – (Germany/India)
  • Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell
  • Proud Flesh – directed by King Vidor
  • Quo Vadis, starring Emil Jannings – (Italy)
  • The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
  • The Rat, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
  • Red Heels (Das Spielzeug von Paris) – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita – (Austria)
  • Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding; starring Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford & Sally O’Neil
  • Sally of the Sawdust – directed by D.W. Griffith; starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields
  • Seven Chances, a Buster Keaton film
  • She, starring Betty Blythe – (GB/Germany)
  • Smouldering Fires directed by Clarence Brown; starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
  • Stella Dallas, starring Ronald Colman and Belle Bennett
  • The Street of Forgotten Men
  • Strike (Stachka) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
  • The Swan directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki; starring Frances Howard, Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez
  • The Tailor from Torzhok (Zakroyshchik iz Torzhka) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Three Weeks in Paris, starring Matt Moore
  • Too Many Kisses, directed by Paul Sloane
  • Tumbleweeds, starring William S. Hart
  • Under the Crimson Sunset (Akai yuhi ni terasarete) – (Japan)
  • The Unholy Three, starring Lon Chaney
  • Visages d’enfants (Faces of Children), directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
  • The Whirlpool of Fate (La Fille de l’eau), directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
  • The White Lily Laments (Shirayuri wa nageku) – (Japan)
  • Variety (Variete) (Jealousy), starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Wizard of Oz, starring Dorothy Dwan
  • Wolf Blood
  • Womanhandled, starring Richard Dix and Esther Ralston
  • A Woman of the World, starring Pola Negri
  • Zander the Great, directed by George W. Hill; starring Marion Davies and Harrison Edward Ford