Category:1925, Top Films

1921 -- 1922 -- 1923 -- 1924

-- -- 1925, Top Films -- --

1926 -- 1927 -- 1928 -- 1929

Notable 1925 Films

MUBI, Best Films (1925)

#1. Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) RUS
#2. The Gold Rush (Chaplin) USA
#3. Strike (Eisenstein) RUS
#4. The Phantom of the Opera (Julian) USA
#5. Seven Chances (Keaton) USA
#6. The Big Parade (Vidor) USA
#7. Go West (Keaton) USA
#8. The Freshman (Newmeyer) USA
#9. The Hands of Orlac
#10. The Crazy Ray

#11. Tartuffe (Murnau) DEU
#12. Chess Fever
#13. The Lost World (Hoyt) USA
#14. Master of the House
#15. The Unholy Three (Browning) USA
#16. The Joyless Street (Pabst) DEU
#17. The Merry Widow (Stroheim) USA
#18. Faces of Children / Visages d'enfants (Feyder) FRA
#19. Lady Windermere's Fan (Lubitsch) USA
#20. Ben-Hur (Niblo) USA
#21. Opus IV
#22. Variety (Dupont) DEU
#23. The Salvation Hunters
#24. Body and Soul (Micheaux) USA
#25. Grass (Cooper)
#26. Games on Reflection and Speed
#27. Whirlpool of Fate
#28. Lazybones
#29. Sally of the Sawdust
#30. The Eagle (Brown) USA

#31. Lady of the Night (Bell)
#32. Serpent
#33. The Imaginary Voyage
#34. Our Heavenly Bodies
#35. The Pleasure Garden
#36. Rebus-Film no.1
#37. Double Love
#38. Ways to Strength and Beauty
#39. Maciste in Hell
#40. Alice's Egg Plant
#41. The Open Road
#42. Stella Dallas
#43. Don Q, Son of Zorro
#44. The Ingmar Inheritance
#45. The Road to Yesterday
#46. Tumbleweeds (Baggot)
#47. The Adventure of Robert Macaire
#48. The Mystic
#49. The Hussar of Death
#50. The Rediscovered Paradise

Addenda

#50+. Cobra (Henabery)
Little Annie Rooney (Beaudine) USA
Les Miserables (Frescourt) FRA
No Father to Guide Him (McCarey)
Poil de carotte (Duvivier) FRA
Quo Vadis? (Jacoby)
The Rag Man (Cline) USA
Stage Struck (Dwan)
The Vanishing American (Seitz) USA

Critical Reception

The Film Daily, Best Films (1925)

-- #1. The Big Parade -- #2. Ben Hur -- #3. Stella Dallas -- #4. The Merry Widow -- #5. The Gold Rush -- #6. The Unholy Three -- #7. Don Q, Son of Zorro -- #8. The Last Laugh (1924?) -- #9. The Freshman -- #10. The Phantom of the Opera

-- #11. The Lost World -- #12. Kiss Me Again -- #13. Dark Angel -- #14. Beggar on Horseback -- #15. The Lady -- #16. The Pony Express -- #17. The Goose Woman -- #18. The Vanishing American -- #19. The Tower of Lies -- #20. Grass -- #21. Siege -- #21. Siegfried -- #23. Little Annie Rooney -- #24. Charley's Aunt -- #25. Lady Windermere's Fan -- #26. Shore Leave -- #27. Sally of the Sawdust -- #28. Street of Forgotten Men -- #29. Paths to Paradise -- #30. Madame Sans Gene

-- #31. Graustark -- #32. His People -- #33. The Road to Yesterday -- #34. The Goose Hangs High -- #35. Classified -- #36. Zander the Great -- #37. Sally -- #38. The King on Main Street -- #39. Her Sister from Paris -- #40. Drusilla with a Million -- #41. Black Cyclone -- #42. The Wanderer -- #43. Introduce Me -- #44. The Eagle -- #45. Are Parents People?

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #6. The Gold Rush -- #9. Battleship Potemkin -- #18. The Big Parade -- #20. The Phantom of the Opera -- #25. Ben-Hur -- #46. The Freshman -- #54. Seven Chances -- #72. The Lost World -- #89. The Unholy Three -- #92. Variety

-- #108. The Merry Widow -- #136. Go West (Keaton) -- #157. Tumbleweeds -- #172. The Eagle -- #182. Tartuffe -- #186. Lady Windermere’s Fan -- #195. Cobra -- #198. Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life -- #210. Body and Soul -- #270. Lady of the Night -- #279. Paths to Paradise -- #281. The Plastic Age -- #282. Riders of the Purple Sage

-- 300+. Are Parents People? -- Clash of the Wolves -- Curses -- The Danger Signal -- La Fille de l’eau -- The Goose Woman -- Master of the House -- The Monster -- The Night Club -- The Rag Man -- Rewi’s Last Stand -- Sally of the Sawdust -- The Street of Forgotten Men -- The Vanishing American

Paste Magazine, Best Films

-- #25. The Big Parade (Vidor) -- #56. Seven Chances (Keaton) -- #65. The Gold Rush (Chaplin) -- #70. Strike (Eisenstein) -- #81. The Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein) -- #82. Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (Niblo)

Schneider, Best Films

-- #2. The Gold Rush -- #3. Strike -- #4. The Phantom of the Opera -- #5. Seven Chances -- #6. The Big Parade -- #30. The Eagle

National Film Registry

-- #2. The Gold Rush -- #4. The Phantom of the Opera -- #6. The Big Parade -- #13. The Lost World -- #20. Ben-Hur -- #25. Grass

-- Body and Soul -- The Clash of the Wolves -- The Freshman -- Lady Windermere's Fan -- Theodore Case Sound Test: Gus Visser and His Singing Duck <short>

American Film Institute

-- The Gold Rush

TSPDT, Best Films

-- #1. Battleship Potemkin -- #2. The Gold Rush -- #3. Strike -- #5. Seven Chances

Top10ner, Best Films

-- #1. Battleship Potemkin -- #2. The Gold Rush -- #4. The Phantom of the Opera -- #5. Seven Chances -- #6. The Big Parade

Film101, Best Films

-- #1. Battleship Potemkin -- #2. The Gold Rush -- #3. Strike -- #4. The Phantom of the Opera -- #5. Seven Chances -- #6. The Big Parade