Every Horror Movie from 1920
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- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsFritz KortnerSadjah GezzaErnst HofmannA three-part historical film, with episode one taking place in ancient Egypt, the second is based on the Hugo novel, and the third episode takes place during the 1917 Russian revolution.
- DirectorHans WerckmeisterStarsEmil JanningsJohn GottowtHans Adalbert SchlettowAn alien from the planet Algol gives a man a device that gives him superpowers.
- DirectorJacob FleckLuise FleckStarsLola Urban-KneidingerWilhelm KlitschJulius StroblDepicts a society lady trapped under the spell of an unskilled hypnotist.
- DirectorCornelius HintnerStarsVictor KutscheraCarmen CartellieriEugen PreißA poor youngster who sells flowers to the riches will be torn between the greed of her brother and the love of three wealthy aristocrats.
- DirectorJohn S. RobertsonStarsJohn BarrymoreMartha MansfieldBrandon HurstDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- DirectorJ. Charles HaydonStarsSheldon LewisAlex ShannonDora Mills AdamsDr. Henry Jekyll experiments with scientific means of revealing the hidden, dark side of man and releases a murderer from within himself.
- StarsHank Mann
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsFern AndraHans Heinrich von TwardowskiErnst GronauGenuine is an ancient and cruel divinity, who seduces men and induce them to kill as a proof of love.
- DirectorMarshall NeilanHenry Roberts SymondsStarsPat O'MalleyWesley BarryAgnes AyresAn intrepid newspaper reporter attempts to solve a series of murders committed by a gorilla carrying the transplanted brain of a human.
- DirectorAlfred J. GouldingHal RoachStarsHarold LloydMildred DavisWally HoweAfter numerous failed attempts to commit suicide, our hero (Lloyd) runs into a lawyer who is looking for a stooge to stand in as a groom in order to secure an inheritance for his client (Davis). The inheritance is a house, which her scheming uncle "haunts" so that he can scare them off and claim the property.
- DirectorLouis DellucStarsGabriel SignoretÈve FrancisGinette DarnysThe tragedy of a man, about to kill himself, who contemplates his past in a series of flashbacks.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHelge NissenHalvard HoffJacob TexiereIn 4 episodic tales of human suffering: the temptation of Jesus, the Spanish Inquisition, the French Revolution and the Russo-Finnish war of 1918, Satan attempts to win God's favor.
- DirectorRobert WieneStarsWerner KraussConrad VeidtFriedrich FeherHypnotist Dr. Caligari uses a somnambulist, Cesare, to commit murders.
- DirectorCharles GiblynStarsDorothy DaltonHuntley GordonWalter D. NealandPriscilla Maine, a wealthy young woman, is plagued by visions of menacing people and strange adventures, which she confides to Dr. Philip Fosdick, a young physician. Later, while reading a newspaper account of a crime, Philip recognizes the people from Priscilla's dreams and investigates. He discovers that Priscilla has a twin sister named Nora O'Moore, who has just escaped from the clutches of gang leader Red Carnahan. The criminal stalks Nora and takes revenge by drowning her in a lake. Priscilla has a vision that draws her to the lake, where she finds Carnahan. The gang leader, terrified by Priscilla's resemblance to his victim, is driven by fear to drown himself. Priscilla faints and is nursed back to health by Philip. They then discover that Priscilla's father had married a gypsy who gave birth to twin daughters, then ran off with Nora while Priscilla remained with her father. With the mystery solved, Philip and Priscilla marry.
- DirectorPaul WegenerCarl BoeseStarsPaul WegenerAlbert SteinrückErnst DeutschIn 16th-century Prague, a rabbi creates the Golem - a giant creature made of clay. Using sorcery, he brings the creature to life in order to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
- DirectorCharles RaymondStarsDavid DevantLady Doris StapletonCharles RaymondA magician helps outwit a Chinaman's gang.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsConrad VeidtMagnus StifterMargarete SchlegelTwo opposing characters are hidden in the person of the inconspicuous London gentleman.Dr.Warren and Janus
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsSascha GuraJohn GottowtPaul BiensfeldtWilton, a hunchback, who was always scorned and ridiculed by women, returns from Java a rich man after having discovered a diamond mine. He romances Gina, who is on the rebound from a broken affair, and showers her with expensive gifts. After Gina reconciles with her boyfriend, she continues to see Wilton because of what he gives her. After he discovers her perfidy, Wilton develops a poison and mixes it into her lipstick, which will kill any man who kisses her.
- DirectorHarry A. PollardStarsRuth CliffordJack SherrillSidney BraceyA scientist discovers a death ray and locks it in a box, giving the key to his daughter, who soon finds herself hunted by criminals looking to steal the deadly mineral.
- DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsHildur CarlbergEinar RödGreta AlmrothA newly elected village parson is required to marry the previous parson's widow. However he's already married, and the woman is old enough to be his grandmother.
- DirectorWallace WorsleyStarsCharles ClaryDoris PawnJim MasonA deformed criminal mastermind plans to loot the city of San Francisco as well as revenge himself on the doctor who mistakenly amputated his legs.
- DirectorHoward M. MitchellStarsPeggy HylandAlan RoscoeCorrean KirkhamA victim of hypnotism begins to have compulsions to steal.
- DirectorReinhold SchünzelStarsReinhold SchünzelAnita BerberConrad VeidtAbout a lurid tale of magic and secret societies during the reign of Luis XVI, focused on the figure of the Italian occultist Giuseppe Balsamo, known under his alias of Count Alessandro di Cagliostro.
- DirectorGeorge Edwardes-HallStarsDennis Neilson-TerryYvonne ArnaudChristine MaitlandAn ass's skin grants an author's wishes and makes him rich, but it is a dream.
- DirectorPierre MarodonStarsLady Nobody
- DirectorB.A. RolfeStarsOlive TellJames MorrisonMario MajeroniOld Silas Blackburn, a wealthy recluse, lives alone with his ward Katherine and his butler. One night, Katherine discovers Silas murdered in the room where three generations of Blackburns have mysteriously died. Silas' grandson Robert, whom Katherine loves, comes to visit the next day, suffering from amnesia. When the detective sent to investigate is found murdered in the room the next morning, suspicion points to Robert, but Katherine believes him innocent. After Silas' burial, the household is amazed to return from the cemetery and find him sitting in front of the fire. Facts reveal that Silas had a twin brother whom he murdered when he demanded a portion of the family fortune. When his brother's daughter appears, Silas suffers remorse and kills himself. With the mystery satisfactorily resolved, Katherine and Robert find happiness together.
- DirectorRichard OswaldStarsPaul WegenerReinhold SchünzelErna MorenaThomas Bezug, the richest man in the world, is a solitary, domineering and cruel cripple who hardly can move on his crutches. He dwells a fanatical love for his son, whom he holds like a monkey in a cage.
- StarsKarel ZelenskýJaroslav HurtLaura ZelenskáA young clerk loses her account book. It is found by a young unemployed man with whom the clerk falls in love. The young man answers a classified advertisement and starts work at a doctor's surgery who has just completed his fourth vivisection. The young man is not aware that he is to become the next object of the experimentation. Having dressed up the last corpse in the clothes of the unemployed man, the doctor takes it to the railway track so that it can be run over by a train. Urged by the clerk, the police begin a search and the case is entrusted to the famous detective, Gordon, who is soon on the trail of the mad doctor. He manages to apprehend the doctor and then hands him over to the police. The young man is saved and finds love in the arms of the bank clerk.
- DirectorErnest C. WardeStarsJ. Warren KerriganWedgwood NowellAlice WilsonWhen young writer Brandon McShane is left penniless by the death of his father, he is forced to rent a room in the tenement district from the Mahon family. Brandon soon becomes infatuated with the fortune hunting Mimi Gascoigne, who casts him aside for a wealthy suitor. In search of revenge, Brandon acquires a magic skin which will gratify its owner's wishes, but which exacts years from the petitioner's life in payment. Brandon wishes himself wealth and his enemies unhappiness, and then lives in terror of the penalty he must pay. One day he meets Pauline Mahon who has loved him since his tenement days. Pauline convinces Brandon to wish the skin out of his life, and then he discovers that Pauline's love is the fulfillment of this last wish.
- DirectorErnest C. WardeStarsJ. Warren KerriganJoseph J. DowlingFritzi BrunetteSpaulding Nelson moves into an apartment after his uncle has been driven from it by the sounds of screams and whispers. Upon undertaking an investigation, he meets neighbor Barbara Bradford, whose sister Clara is being tormented by the recurring sounds of her dead husband Roldo's voice. Roldo is actually alive and an accomplice of Henry Kent who built "the house of whispers" and riddled it with secret passageways which enabled him to gain entry to the apartments. Spaulding locates the secret panel doors, but is arrested on suspicion of murdering actress Daisy Luton, a victim of Roldo. Eluding the detectives, Spaulding escapes through the panel and down a secret passageway where he corners Kent, Roldo and Nettie Kelly, Roldo's first wife. After Nettie confesses, Clara is freed to marry her fiancé and Barbara accepts Spaulding's proposal.
- DirectorMax FleischerStarsRoland CrandallMax FleischerAn animator and a janitor are playing with a Ouija Board and Koko is haunted by a bunch of ghosts.
- DirectorWilly ZeynStarsErwin FichtnerLu JuergensWilly Kaiser-HeylWhen a nobleman is threatened by a family curse on his newly inherited estate, Sherlock Holmes is hired to investigate.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsConrad VeidtGussy HollEugen KlöpferA young Russian dancer in Geneva returns to Russia, where he falls in love with a grand duchess. He is arrested but manages to escape.
- DirectorKarl Heinz MartinStarsErnst DeutschErna MorenaRoma BahnA Cashier in a bank in a small German town is alerted to the power of money by the visit of a rich Italian lady. He embezzles 60, 000 Marks and leaves for the capital city, where he attempts to find satisfaction in politics, sport, love and religion.
- DirectorFred StranzStarsUschi ElleotHella MojaElse Berna