Category:1922, Top Films

1918 -- 1919 -- 1920 -- 1921

-- -- 1922, Top Films -- --

1923 -- 1924 -- 1925 -- 1926

Notable 1922 Films (My Ranking)

-> -> ->

#1. Nosferatu <YouTube> -- Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.

-> ->

#3. Nanook of the North -- In this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.

#6. Foolish Wives <YouTube> -- A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.

#2. Häxan (SWE 1922 Christensen) <YouTube> -- Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.

#21. Love One Another / Die Gezeichneten / Os Estigmatizados (DEU 1922 Dryer) <YouTube> -- Based on the 1918 novel 'Elsker hverandre' by Aage Madelung, the film follows various lives, one of which is Jewish girl Hanne Liebe, as she grows up, and experiences the pains of living as a Jew in Russia, leading to a revolution.

#36. Oliver Twist (USA 1922 Lloyd) -- An orphan named Oliver Twist meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master. Starring Jackie Coogan and Lon Chaney.

#39. The Toll of the Sea <YouTube> -- While visiting China, an American man falls in love with a young Chinese woman, but he then has second thoughts about the relationship.

#50. Crainquebille / Coster Bill of Paris (FRA 1922) <YouTube> -- A poor vegetable peddler in Paris runs afoul of the law and finds himself ground up in the cogs of the corrupt French judicial system.

#50+, Nathan der Weise <YouTube> -- One of the main works of the Age of Enlightenment, a powerful plea in favour of tolerance, humanity and freedom of opinion. Set in the age of the crusades, it deals with the relations between the three monotheistic religions.

#50+. Our Gang (serial)

->

#22. Blood and Sand <YouTube> -- A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.

#5. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler <YouTube> -- Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.

Timothy's Quest (USA 1922 Olcott) <YouTube> -- A charming pastoral about two unwanted children finding acceptance and love, rare cinematic gem based on Kate Douglas Wiggin's novel of the same name.

=

Dr. Jack (USA 1922 Taylor) <YouTube> -- Country doctor Jack Jackson is called in to treat the Sick-Little-Well-Girl, who has been making Dr. Saulsbourg and his sanitarium very rich, after years of unsuccessful treatment. Starring Harold Lloyd.

Lorna Doone (USA 1922) <YouTube> -- In 17th-century England, an outlaw clan kidnaps a young girl, who grows up among them. The farm boy who met her just before the kidnapping eventually rescues her, and they fall in love.

Moran of the Lady Letty (USA 1922) <YouTube> -- A milquetoast young man of society toughens up once he's shanghaied and falls for the captain's tomboy daughter.

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films

50 Top Films of 1922

-- #1. Nosferatu -- #2. Häxan -- #3. Nanook of the North -- #4. Cops -- #5. <Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler> -- #6. Foolish Wives -- #7. Pay Day -- #8. The Electric House -- #9. Phantom -- #10. The Paleface

-- #11. Daydreams -- #12. The Blacksmith -- #13. The Frozen North -- #14. Opus II -- #15. My Wife's Relations -- #16. Danse macabre -- #17. Cinderella -- #18. Dr. Jack -- #19. The Burning Soil -- #20. Beyond the Rocks -- #21. Love One Another -- #22. <Blood and Sand> -- #23. The Three Must-Get-Theres -- #24. Roman of a Fruit Peddler -- #25. Once Upon a Time -- #26. Love's Crucible -- #27. The Woman from Nowhere -- #28. Manslaughter -- #29. The Loves of Pharaoh -- #30. Tess of the Storm Country

-- #36. Oliver Twist -- #37. Nice and Friendly -- #39. The Toll of the Sea -- #40. The Lighthouse Keepers -- #41. Moran of the Lady Letty -- #42. Sherlock Holmes

-- #48. The Pest -- #49. Mud and Sand -- #50. Coster Bill of Paris

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #5. Nosferatu -- #31. Nanook of the North -- #34. Witchcraft Through the Ages -- #42. Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler -- #56. Foolish Wives -- #66. Cops (Keaton) -- #78. Robin Hood -- #85. Tess of the Storm Country

-- #115. Blood and Sand -- #141. Grandma’s Boy -- #167. The Burning Soil -- #197. The Electric House (Keaton) -- #201. La Roue (Gance) -- #204. The Toll of the Sea -- #227. The Three Must-Get-Theres -- #235. A Santanotte -- #285. Shadows -- #294. Phantom (Murnau)

-- #300+. Beyond the Rocks -- The Blacksmith (Keaton) -- Day Dreams (Keaton) -- Dr. Jack -- Down to the Sea in Ships -- Manslaughter -- Mud and Sand -- My Wife’s Relations' -- Oliver Twist -- The Paleface -- Pan -- Pay Day -- The Prisoner of Zenda -- The Ropin’ Fool -- Sherlock Holmes -- The Loves of Pharaoh -- When Knighthood Was in Flower

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #27. Cops (Keaton) -- #30. Nosferatu (Murnau) -- #69. Hard Luck (Keaton) -- #96. Foolish Wives (Stroheim)

Silent Films Ranked, Best Films

-- #11. Nosferatu (Murnau) -- #30. Nanook of the North (Flaherty) -- #44. Dr. Mabuse the Gambler (Lang) -- #51. Häxan (Christensen) -- #64. Foolish Wives (Stroheim) -- #75. Robin Hood (Dwan) -- #78. Cops (Keaton)