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Metropolis — Monumental ivory lettering rises over a mechanical city and a small copper heart.
Metropolis
1927 · Fritz Lang150 min · Sci-Fi
Résumé en anglais

A vast silent city of the future, still staggering.

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Nosferatu: An elongated shadow climbs a dark engraved staircase beside a moonlit Gothic window.
Nosferatu
1922 · F. W. Murnau95 min · Horror
Résumé en anglais

A shadow crosses the wall, and horror cinema finds its shape.

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The Kid — Momo carries glazier tools through a warm paper city courtyard.
The Kid
1921 · Charlie Chaplin68 min · Comedy

Un vagabond trouve un enfant, et le burlesque devient discrètement une histoire de famille.

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The General — Momo rides a steam locomotive through a landscape built from torn paper.
The General
1926 · Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman78 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Keaton, a train, and perfect deadpan engineering.

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The Gold Rush — Momo performs a bread-roll dance in a warmly lit snowy cabin.
The Gold Rush
1925 · Charlie Chaplin88 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Hunger, loneliness, and a dinner roll become materials for Chaplin’s warmest dreams.

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A laboratory vessel casts orderly and irregular shadows on a wall.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920 · John S. Robertson81 min · Horror drama
Résumé en anglais

A respected doctor separates his moral impulses from his hidden desires, creating a second identity that becomes increasingly difficult to contain.

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A small raft with two figures drifts along a broad river at sunset.
Huckleberry Finn
1920 · William Desmond Taylor70 min · Adventure drama
Résumé en anglais

Huck escapes an abusive home and travels along the Mississippi, encountering fraud, danger, and the demands of friendship.

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Original illustration for One Week: A charming impossible prefabricated wooden house assembled from visibly wrong-size paper panels, crooked but physically legible, tilted roof and one round window.
One Week
1920 · Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton19 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Newlyweds assemble a prefabricated house whose numbered parts have been quietly rearranged by a resentful rival.

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The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Momo peers around sharp paper architecture beside a glowing carnival cabinet.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Robert Wiene77 min · Horror
Résumé en anglais

A fairground prediction becomes a question of who controls the outcome.

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A small group crosses a narrow rocky ledge high above a wooded river valley.
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Nouvelle note The Last of the Mohicans
1920 · Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown73 min · Historical adventure
Résumé en anglais

During the French and Indian War, two sisters and their escorts cross contested territory while rival forces close around them.

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Original illustration: A giant black Z integrated into Zorro lettering above the shadows of a mask and rapier.
The Mark of Zorro
1920 · Fred Niblo91 min · Swashbuckling adventure
Résumé en anglais

A seemingly idle aristocrat secretly becomes the masked Zorro, defending ordinary people from corrupt officials in Spanish California.

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A torn sea chart rises into the broad sail of a wooden ship on a dark green sea.
Treasure Island
1920 · Maurice TourneurAdventure
Résumé en anglais

Young Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and sails with a crew whose most charismatic member has plans of his own.

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Original illustration for Within Our Gates: Dignified empty early-20th-century schoolroom: a warm morning beam crosses worn wooden desks and an open exercise book, the open doorway frames trees and a road beyond.
Within Our Gates
1920 · Oscar Micheaux73 min · Silent film
Résumé en anglais

A teacher seeking funds for a Black school confronts intertwined histories of racism, violence, family, and self-determination.

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An empty palace corridor holds a crown-shaped shadow and shafts of light.
Hamlet
1921 · Svend Gade, Heinz Schall131 min · Tragedy
Résumé en anglais

Hamlet investigates a father’s death and a corrupt court in an adaptation built around a radical account of the prince’s identity.

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A small boy rests a hand on the arm of an older man seated in a wooden chair.
Little Lord Fauntleroy
1921 · Alfred Edward Green, Jack Pickford112 min · Family drama
Résumé en anglais

A warm-hearted American boy is summoned to England as heir to an aristocratic title and gradually challenges his grandfather’s suspicion and pride.

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Jewelry at a neckline contrasts with a shoulder turned away.
Sappho
1921 · Dimitri Buchowetzki82 min · Romantic drama
Résumé en anglais

A celebrated woman’s past and a younger man’s idealised love collide in a drama of desire, reputation, and social judgement.

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A family table breaks into a battlefield beneath four spectral horses in the clouds.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
1921 · Rex Ingram132 min · War drama
Résumé en anglais

Members of one international family are divided by the First World War as a carefree Argentine grandson is drawn into love, loss, and combat.

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The Phantom Carriage — A spectral carriage crosses a wintry landscape in silver engraving.
The Phantom Carriage
1921 · Victor Sjöström106 min · Fantasy
Résumé en anglais

On New Year’s Eve, a ghostly carriage arrives to collect more than the dead.

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Four swords extend from the corners and meet at the centre of a blue field beneath the title.
The Three Musketeers
1921 · Fred Niblo119 min · Swashbuckling adventure
Résumé en anglais

Young d’Artagnan reaches Paris, quarrels with three musketeers, and joins them in a dangerous struggle involving the queen’s honour.

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Momo playfully sticks out the tip of his tongue in a palace, with both open palms inside transparent glass shoes and the heels pointing toward the viewer.
Cinderella
1922 · Walt Disney7 min · Animated fairy tale
Résumé en anglais

Walt Disney’s Laugh-O-gram studio gives Cinderella a compact animated retelling with a Jazz Age flavour.

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Original illustration: Paper figures, a Monte Carlo casino balcony, roulette wheel, champagne glass and title lettering.
Foolish Wives
1922 · Erich von Stroheim147 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A fraudulent aristocrat in Monte Carlo targets wealthy women while his accomplices maintain the appearance of status around him.

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Original illustration for Häxan: An immense open antique book on a lectern, its engraved pages dissolve into a forest of paper-thin shadow branches and a silver moon.
Häxan
1922 · Benjamin Christensen105 min · Horror
Résumé en anglais

Woodcuts, staged visions, and social argument combine in an unsettling investigation of witchcraft and persecution.

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Two hands pull on a taut hemp rope across torn prison cloth and dark sea textures.
Monte Cristo
1922 · Emmett J. Flynn107 min · Adventure drama
Résumé en anglais

A sailor falsely imprisoned for years escapes, acquires a fortune, and returns under a new identity to punish the people who betrayed him.

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A small kayak and paddle rest on sea ice beside a dark channel through white floes.
Nanook of the North
1922 · Robert J. Flaherty79 min · Documentary
Résumé en anglais

Arctic landscapes and everyday labour are shaped into an influential—and heavily staged—portrait of an Inuk family.

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A small boy looks upwards between two much taller figures in dark coats.
Oliver Twist
1922 · Frank Lloyd74 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

An orphan escapes a workhouse, reaches London, and is drawn into a household of child thieves while searching for safety and belonging.

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A laundry worker is seen as a soft silhouette through a hanging white sheet bearing the title Shadows.
Shadows
1922 · Tom Forman70 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A Chinese laundryman in a coastal town becomes entangled in the lives of neighbours divided by grief, prejudice, and religious hypocrisy.

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A magnifying lens enlarges a chess-piece clue in foggy London.
Sherlock Holmes
1922 · Albert Parker85 min · Detective mystery
Résumé en anglais

Sherlock Holmes confronts Professor Moriarty as a blackmail case, a hidden identity, and an old romance draw him into a wider criminal design.

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Two faint profiles appear in textured tree bark among pale pink blossoms.
Smilin' Through
1922 · Sidney Franklin96 min · Romantic melodrama
Résumé en anglais

An old grief shapes a guardian’s response when the young woman he raised falls in love with a man connected to the past.

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A figure hesitates at the bottom of a cramped stairway under oversized title lettering.
Crime and Punishment
1923 · Robert Wiene135 min · Psychological drama
Résumé en anglais

A student convinced of his exceptional right to act commits murder and discovers that an idea cannot contain the consequences.

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MISS SUWANNA OF SIAM, 1923 lettering above Momo carefully arranging blank torn paper on an archive desk, with an empty paper frame and brass paperweight. Original editorial illustration.
Miss Suwanna of Siam
1923 · Henry MacRae60 min · Romantic drama
Résumé en anglais

Made in Siam in 1923 with Thai performers, Henry MacRae’s romance opens a question that still shapes its history: what makes a film the first of a nation’s cinema?

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Safety Last! — Momo hangs from the hand of a giant city clock.
Safety Last!
1923 · Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor64 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

A perfect city comedy climbs one floor at a time toward an impossible clock.

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A theatre mask and red curtain open onto a crowded revolutionary street.
Scaramouche
1923 · Rex Ingram101 min · Historical adventure
Résumé en anglais

A lawyer becomes an actor, masked swordsman, and revolutionary after an aristocrat kills his friend on the eve of the French Revolution.

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A hunched figure grips a hanging rope beneath a large window shadow.
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1923 · Wallace Worsley100 min · Romance
Résumé en anglais

Quasimodo’s devotion to Esmeralda unfolds amid persecution, desire, and enormous recreations of medieval Paris.

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A large Roman numeral X on cracked stone meets angular concrete forms.
The Ten Commandments
1923 · Cecil B. DeMille136 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

Biblical spectacle gives way to a modern morality tale about two brothers who choose opposite relationships to law and desire.

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A red ribbon links three architectural eras while Momo gestures beneath the title.
Three Ages
1923 · Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline63 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

The same romantic rivalry unfolds in the Stone Age, ancient Rome, and the modern 1920s, with each era insisting that love has completely changed.

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A fence divides dry ochre fields, with a strip of green grass passing through a gap beneath the title To the Last Man.
To the Last Man
1923 · Victor Fleming70 min · Western
Résumé en anglais

A long-running feud pulls two frontier families towards violence even as younger relationships suggest another route.

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Glossy black shoes step across a wooden stage beneath a red skirt and sweeping red title lettering.
Zaza
1923 · Allan Dwan66 min · Romantic drama
Résumé en anglais

A music-hall performer’s affair with a respectable man changes when she discovers the domestic life hidden outside their romance.

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Original illustration for Aelita: Constructivist imagined Mars: huge vermilion and ivory circular architectural planes intersect cobalt stairs and smoked-gold antenna shapes.
Aelita
1924 · Yakov Protazanov80 min · Silent film
Résumé en anglais

Earthly jealousy and post-revolutionary hardship spill into an angular fantasy of Mars, revolution, and desire.

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A broken iron shackle and chain lie across sailcloth bearing the title.
Captain Blood
1924 · David Smith110 min · Historical adventure
Résumé en anglais

An Irish doctor is unjustly condemned, transported to the Caribbean, and driven from enslavement into piracy and rebellion.

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Momo flies through a monochrome montage of rooftops, a funeral carriage and circles.
Entr'acte
1924 · René Clair22 min · Avant-garde comedy
Résumé en anglais

Objects, bodies, city views, a cannon, a funeral procession, and cinematic tricks collide in a playful refusal of ordinary narrative logic.

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Greed — Gold lettering and scattered coins recede into an empty desert.
Greed
1924 · Erich von Stroheim140 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A former miner’s marriage and friendships collapse after a lottery win turns ordinary insecurity into consuming possession.

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Three soil-covered potatoes rest in dark folded cloth.
Isn't Life Wonderful
1924 · D. W. Griffith120 min · Social drama
Résumé en anglais

A displaced family in post-war Germany tries to secure food, work, shelter, and a future amid inflation and scarcity.

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A lens-shaped frame gathers scenes of work, market, play and swimming.
Kino-Eye
1924 · Dziga Vertov79 min · Documentary
Résumé en anglais

Dziga Vertov and his collaborators assemble work, leisure, markets, bodies, and machines into an argument for a camera that sees social life differently from the human eye.

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Four flying figures cross a collage of stars, a red moon, London rooftops and turquoise waves.
Peter Pan
1924 · Herbert Brenon105 min · Fantasy adventure
Résumé en anglais

Peter Pan takes Wendy and her brothers from their London nursery to Neverland, where play, danger, and the refusal to grow older exist together.

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Sherlock Jr. — Momo steps between a cinema screen and a world of film strips.
Sherlock Jr.
1924 · Buster Keaton45 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Forty-five minutes of impossible silent-comedy joy.

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The Last Laugh lettering on an immense teal revolving hotel door, with Momo pushing a panel beside an oversized doorman coat.
The Last Laugh
1924 · F. W. Murnau90 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

An ageing hotel doorman loses his prestigious uniform and tries to hide the demotion from neighbours who measure him by it.

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Western boots and a coat hem stand above a long rough printed shadow in pale desert dust.
The Last of the Duanes
1924 · Lynn Reynolds70 min · Western
Résumé en anglais

A man marked by a family reputation for violence becomes an outlaw while searching for a way to use his skill without being consumed by it.

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Original illustration for The Navigator: Enormous ocean liner viewed from low deck: funnel, coiled ropes and empty deck chairs recede with precise perspective.
The Navigator
1924 · Donald Crisp, Buster Keaton62 min · Comedy
Résumé en anglais

Two wealthy young people accidentally find themselves alone aboard a drifting ocean liner and must learn the simplest tasks of survival.

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Dark oars stretch across turquoise water and a pale triangular sail reflection.
The Sea Hawk
1924 · Frank Lloyd122 min · Adventure drama
Résumé en anglais

An English gentleman framed by his half-brother is enslaved, becomes a corsair, and returns with the power to confront betrayal.

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Original illustration for The Thief of Bagdad: A soaring fictional palace rises from nested cobalt and pale-gold cut-paper arches; a small flying carpet curls through one arch in the distant upper sky.
The Thief of Bagdad
1924 · Raoul Walsh154 min · Fantasy
Résumé en anglais

A swaggering thief falls in love with a princess and must turn appetite, magic, and daring towards a purpose beyond himself.

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Two opposing pale and charcoal profiles share a flowing arrangement beneath the film title.
The White Shadow
1924 · Graham Cutts42 min · Melodrama
Résumé en anglais

Twin sisters associated with opposing temperaments enter a melodrama of family division, nightlife, and mistaken identity.

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A writer faces three illuminated wax figure niches and their story shadows.
Waxworks
1924 · Paul Leni, Leo Birinski83 min · Fantasy horror
Résumé en anglais

A poet invents stories for three wax figures, moving from exotic adventure to historical nightmare and a final pursuit through distorted space.

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Battleship Potemkin: A monumental paper battleship, red waves and descending stairways form a bold diagonal composition.
Battleship Potemkin
1925 · Sergei Eisenstein73 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

The montage that taught cinema how to shout.

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Two chariots race around an ochre curve, leaving pale dust trails between red fields.
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
1925 · Fred Niblo139 min · Historical epic
Résumé en anglais

A Jewish prince is betrayed by a Roman friend, enslaved, and driven towards revenge as the life of Christ unfolds alongside his own.

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A pulpit casts bar-like shadows against stained-glass colours.
Body and Soul
1925 · Oscar Micheaux93 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

An escaped convict poses as a preacher, exploiting a community’s trust; Paul Robeson also plays the preacher’s upright twin.

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Momo stands beside a coiled rope among orange buildings and dark blue foliage.
Don Q, Son of Zorro
1925 · Donald Crisp111 min · Swashbuckling adventure
Résumé en anglais

The son of Zorro is framed for murder in Spain and must use disguise, acrobatics, and family assistance to clear his name.

DrôleTenduFacile à regarder
A dressmaker holds unbleached muslin against a tailoring form, with a finished black dress behind it and the title Fifth Avenue Models.
Fifth Avenue Models
1925 · Svend Gade70 min · Drama
Résumé en anglais

A young woman’s work and relationships draw her into the class display and personal risk surrounding New York fashion.

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Original illustration: Momo and a gentle cow beside a wooden ranch fence in a golden pasture beneath Go West lettering.
Go West
1925 · Buster Keaton70 min · Comedy western
Résumé en anglais

A solitary drifter tries ranch work, befriends a cow named Brown Eyes, and eventually guides an entire herd through Los Angeles.

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A herd follows a rocky path through a mountain valley towards a green field marked GRASS.
Grass
1925 · Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack71 min · Documentary
Résumé en anglais

The Bakhtiari people undertake a seasonal migration across rivers and mountains in search of grazing land.

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An empty market stall faces a brightly lit shop across a wet street.
Joyless Street
1925 · Georg Wilhelm Pabst148 min · Social drama
Résumé en anglais

In inflation-stricken Vienna, two neighbouring women face hunger, exploitation, and sharply unequal chances of escape.

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