The Best Movies Of 1921

Oliver Beresford is a strict and Puritanical father. He banned Judith from his house when the stories about her were bad. David secretly married and fathered a child before abandoning the child. Judit...

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Holmes and Watson match wits with an opera star intent on blackmailing a king.

The frothy experiences of a small man. The film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' theme when her father convinces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man.

As a young couple stops and rests in a small village inn, the man is kidnapped by Death and is sequestered behind a huge doorless, windowless wall. The woman finds a mystic entrance and is met by Deat...

This film is not an animated film because Walt draws a single frame. The series is called the Newman Laugh-O-Grams.

A erotic short film in a workshop.

The wife of a dull-witted miller is in her deathbed and the miller must find a new woman to marry. He is expected to marry the sister of a local forester, a refined woman he wants to love. She is gent...

Short drama film starring Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery.

The Damfino isn't big enough to get through the basement door. He drives off and the side of his house collapses. He rides the boat out at the harbor. The restored boat has many adventures for him and...

A charismatic lieutenant newly assigned to a remote fort is captured by a group of mountain bandits, setting in motion a madcap farce that is Lubitsch at his most outrageous. The satire of military li...

The first film to star the Marx Brothers was Humor Risk, a 1921 comedy short film. It is now considered a lost film. It is possible that the print was thrown away when it was left in the screening box...

A theater stage hand accidentally causes havoc after waking up from a dream.

A popular aristocrat has been killed, but no one can learn how. No one, that is, until the return of Sherlock Holmes.

A tale of an affair between an actress and a Russian officer, based on the real story of the affair between Maria Wisnowska and Aleksandr Barteniew.

A young Belgian girl who was raised by her nanny flees Europe at the start of World War I and travels to America to find her mother. Alfred E co-directed this melodrama. John Harron, Helen Raymond, an...

Ayan, Maharajah of Eschnapur, believes that his wife, Princess Savitri, has been unfaithful to him with officer Mac Allan. He decides to bury her alive, so he sends the Yogi Ramigani to England to loo...

The first film produced by Laugh-O-Gram was part of a demo reel. This film is not an animated film because Walt draws a single frame. The series is called the Newman Laugh-O-Grams.

A naive young man raised poor in a small town, comes to New York City to make his fortune. Overwhelmed by the city's hustle and bustle, and entranced by the rich and sophisticated high-society types h...

Monte must spend $2 million in less than a year and be unmarried to inherit the rest of the money after learning that he has $10 million from his late grandfather.

Silent Drama

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A woman searches for the child she gave up at birth.

When one of the men is assigned to carry out an assassination, the romantic rivalry among the members of the secret society becomes more intense.

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The normal life of a young farm boy as he goes to school and relaxes in the country is depicted.

The true story of Lord Francis Hope who inherits the Hope Diamond and marries showgirl May Yohe. Lord Francis Hope gambles away the family fortune and May Yohe leaves him. Another suspected curse of o...

A Lord's son is in love.

A series of adventures begins when a man is mistaken for a bad guy.

Victoria marries David, the man of her dreams. After a number of years and two children, the marriage turns out not to be what she had expected. Then she discovers her faith, and everything turns out ...

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarcha...

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Anna is a poor girl who loves Erik, the son of a rich farmer. His parents are however determined to make Erik marry the rich Britta.

A concert pianist, the romantic idol of many women, is seduced away from his wife. The seductress's husband takes in the pianist's wife, and all four pretend to be happy with the new arrangement.

A rich man and his unhappy wife are both found to be the same person.

A poor shoemaker struggles to send his son to college, where he becomes a football star.

The wife of Roger was killed by a maniac because of Roger's jealousy. To care for his home and son Peter, Roger hires an Irish immigrant as a nursemaid.

Tarzan doesn't want the love of La, Queen of Opar. He is attacked by two lions, dropped into a pit, and nearly sacrificed by sun worshipers when he isn't trying to keep the Bolsheviks from reaching Op...

Professor Griggs, teaching at the college, doesn't get paid a living wage; his next door neighbor, a successful shoemaker, has money and plentiful food, while the Griggses have hardly any. When the pr...