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  • I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang
  • Trouble in Paradise
  • Freaks
  • Scarface
  • Love Me Tonight

PUNQ's -- Top-500 -- 1932

500 films 70 17 Edit

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1932, the year of sophisticated comedies (Trouble in Paradise, Love me Tonight), stretching the limits of the horror genre…

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  • City Lights
  • Dishonored
  • The Public Enemy
  • Five Star Final

PUNQ's -- Top-500 -- 1931

500 films 43 3 Edit

------------------------------------------ 1931, the gangster genre defined (The Public Enemy, Little Caesar, City Streets), same with the horror side of things…

  • City Girl
  • The Blue Angel
  • The Unholy Three
  • Au Bonheur des Dames
  • All Quiet on the Western Front

PUNQ’s -- Top-500 -- 1930

500 films 40 6 Edit

1930 was the first true sound year. At least for the US (aprox 99% of the releases was sound) while…

  • Diary of a Lost Girl
  • Lucky Star
  • Pandora's Box
  • The Last Warning
  • Spite Marriage

PUNQ's -- Top-300 -- 1929

300 films 33 18 Edit

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1929 was a awkward year within the silent to sound transition. Cinemas was still being wired for sound and…

  • The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • The Last Command
  • Steamboat Bill, Jr.
  • The Mysterious Lady
  • Underground

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1928

100 films 18 6 Edit

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The last true silent year. With Al Jolson's tremendous success with The Jazz Singer at the end of 1927,…

  • The Cat and the Canary
  • Metropolis
  • Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
  • 7th Heaven
  • Chicago

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1927

100 films 17 9 Edit

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The year that The Jazz Singer came out and changed it all creating the demand for sound films, but…

  • The General
  • The Scarlet Letter
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed
  • Faust
  • Miss Mend

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1926

100 films 15 8 Edit

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1926... a quality silent year, both for comedies (The General; For Heaven’s Sake; The Strong Man) and for more…

  • Battleship Potemkin
  • Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
  • The Gold Rush
  • The Unholy Three
  • Seven Chances

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1925

100 films 22 10 Edit

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Can't complain about a year that brought us Battleship Potemkin, Ben-Hur and The Gold Rush! Hey, what about Lon…

  • The Last Laugh
  • Greed
  • He Who Gets Slapped
  • Girl Shy
  • The Thief of Bagdad

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1924

100 films 17 11 Edit

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1924 had a fantastic Top-20! Greed! Der Letzte Mann! He Who Gets Slapped! The Thief of Bagdad! Die Nibelungen…

  • Safety Last!
  • La Roue
  • Crainquebille
  • Our Hospitality
  • Why Worry?

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1923

100 films 15 6 Edit

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In 1923 Harold Lloyd climbed to the top with one of my favorite comedies of all time, Safety Last!,…

  • Robin Hood
  • Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler
  • Nosferatu
  • Crainquebille
  • Tess of the Storm Country

PUNQ's -- Top-100 -- 1922

100 films 9 6 Edit

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1922, year of German creeps Dr. Mabuse and Nosferatu and more likable exotic people like Nanook. The year Buster…

  • Little Lord Fauntleroy
  • The Phantom Carriage
  • The Kid
  • Orphans of the Storm
  • The Boat

PUNQ’s -- Top-100 -- 1921

100 films 9 1 Edit

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A very even pick at the top. Mary Pickford's Little Lord Fauntleroy, Victor Sjöström's The Phantom Carriage, Charlie Chaplin's…