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Films from 1920 — 8 films

Year: 1920Clear filters
A laboratory vessel casts orderly and irregular shadows on a wall.
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
1920 · John S. Robertson81 min · Horror drama

A respected doctor separates his moral impulses from his hidden desires, creating a second identity that becomes increasingly difficult to contain.

StrangeTenseEasy
A small raft with two figures drifts along a broad river at sunset.
Huckleberry Finn
1920 · William Desmond Taylor70 min · Adventure drama

Huck escapes an abusive home and travels along the Mississippi, encountering fraud, danger, and the demands of friendship.

FunnyGentleModerate
Original illustration for One Week: A charming impossible prefabricated wooden house assembled from visibly wrong-size paper panels, crooked but physically legible, tilted roof and one round window.
One Week
1920 · Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton19 min · Comedy

Newlyweds assemble a prefabricated house whose numbered parts have been quietly rearranged by a resentful rival.

FunnyGentleEasy
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari: Momo peers around sharp paper architecture beside a glowing carnival cabinet.
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari
1920 · Robert Wiene77 min · Horror

A fairground prediction becomes a question of who controls the outcome.

StrangeBleakModerate
A small group crosses a narrow rocky ledge high above a wooded river valley.
Momo indicating a new note
New note The Last of the Mohicans
1920 · Maurice Tourneur, Clarence Brown73 min · Historical adventure

During the French and Indian War, two sisters and their escorts cross contested territory while rival forces close around them.

TenseBeautifulModerate
Original illustration: A giant black Z integrated into Zorro lettering above the shadows of a mask and rapier.
The Mark of Zorro
1920 · Fred Niblo91 min · Swashbuckling adventure

A seemingly idle aristocrat secretly becomes the masked Zorro, defending ordinary people from corrupt officials in Spanish California.

FunnyRomanticEasy
A torn sea chart rises into the broad sail of a wooden ship on a dark green sea.
Treasure Island
1920 · Maurice TourneurAdventure

Young Jim Hawkins acquires a treasure map and sails with a crew whose most charismatic member has plans of his own.

TenseStrange
Original illustration for Within Our Gates: Dignified empty early-20th-century schoolroom: a warm morning beam crosses worn wooden desks and an open exercise book, the open doorway frames trees and a road beyond.
Within Our Gates
1920 · Oscar Micheaux73 min · Silent film

A teacher seeking funds for a Black school confronts intertwined histories of racism, violence, family, and self-determination.

BleakTenseModerate

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