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Nosferatu, eine Symphonie des Grauens aka Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (1922)
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Director F.W. Murnau
Writer Bram Stoker, Henrik Galeen
Cast Max Schreck, Alexander Granach, Gustav von Wangenheim
Plot Vampire Count Orlok expresses interest in a new residence and real estate agent Hutter's wife.
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Haxan aka H xan (1922)
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Director Benjamin Christensen
Writer Benjamin Christensen
Cast Benjamin Christensen, Elisabeth Christensen, Maren Pedersen
Plot Fictionalized documentary showing the evolution of witchcraft, from its pagan roots to its confusion with hysteria in Eastern Europe.
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Nanook of the North (1922)
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Director Robert J. Flaherty
Writer Frances H. Flaherty, Robert J. Flaherty
Cast Allakariallak, Alice Nevalinga, Cunayou
Plot 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.
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Dr. Mabuse, der Spieler aka Dr. Mabuse, the Gambler (1922)
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Director Fritz Lang
Writer Norbert Jacques, Thea von Harbou, Fritz Lang
Cast Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Aud Egede-Nissen, Gertrude Welcker
Plot Arch-criminal Dr. Mabuse sets out to make a fortune and run Berlin. Detective Wenk sets out to stop him.
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Cops (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox
Plot A series of mishaps manages to make a young man get chased by a big city's entire police force.
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Phantom (1922)
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Director F.W. Murnau
Writer Gerhart Hauptmann, Thea von Harbou, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski
Cast Alfred Abel, Frida Richard, Aud Egede-Nissen
Plot A shiftless young man becomes obsessed with a mysterious woman and yearns to find her again.
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Pay Day (1922)
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Director Charles Chaplin
Writer Charles Chaplin
Cast Charles Chaplin, Phyllis Allen, Mack Swain
Plot After a difficult day at work, a bricklayer tries to enjoy his pay day without his wife knowing.
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Der brennende Acker aka The Burning Soil (1922)
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Director F.W. Murnau
Writer Willy Haas, Arthur Rosen, Thea von Harbou
Cast Werner Krauss, Eugen Klaapfer, Vladimir Gajdarov
Plot When farmer Rog dies, his son Peter stays, but Johannes can not be satisfied with such a condition (and servant Maria's love) and finds a job as old Count Rudenberg's secretary. His ambition leads him to charm Gerda, the Count's u...
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Foolish Wives (1922)
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Director Erich von Stroheim
Writer Erich von Stroheim, Marian Ainslee, Walter Anthony
Cast Rudolph Christians, Miss DuPont, Maude George
Plot A con artist masquerades as Russian nobility and attempts to seduce the wife of an American diplomat.
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Les grenouilles qui demandent un roi aka The Frogs Who Wanted a King (1922)
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Director Wladyslaw Starewicz
Writer Wladyslaw Starewicz
Plot The frogs are bored with their lot, and ask God to give them a king - but God, irritated with their inability to govern themselves, quickly makes them change their minds.
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The Electric House (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Jeffrey Vance
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Keaton
Plot After being mistakenly certified as an electrical engineer, Buster is hired to wire a house.
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Das Weib des Pharao aka The Loves of Pharaoh (1922)
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Director Ernst Lubitsch
Writer Norbert Falk, Hanns Kra¤ly
Cast Emil Jannings, Harry Liedtke, Paul Biensfeldt
Plot The Ethiopian King offers his daughter to a powerful Pharaoh to secure peace between the two countries.
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Robin Hood (1922)
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Director Allan Dwan
Writer Douglas Fairbanks, Kenneth Davenport, Allan Dwan
Cast Douglas Fairbanks, Wallace Beery, Sam De Grasse
Plot A nobleman becomes the vigilante Robin Hood who protects the oppressed English people from the tyrannical Prince John.
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Crainquebille (1922)
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Director Jacques Feyder
Writer Jacques Feyder, Anatole France
Cast Maurice de Feraudy, Felix Oudart, Jean Forest
Plot 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.
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Die Gezeichneten (1922)
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Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer Carl Theodor Dreyer, Aage Madelung
Cast Adele Reuter-Eichberg, Vladimir Gajdarov, Polina Piekowskaja
Plot 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.
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The Paleface (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Virginia Fox, Joe Roberts
Plot Buster helps a Native American tribe save their land from greedy oil barons.
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The Blacksmith (1922)
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Director Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Writer Buster Keaton, Malcolm St. Clair
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Virginia Fox
Plot Buster Keaton shoes horses and repairs cars, with mixed results.
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Aschenputtel aka Cinderella (1922)
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Director Lotte Reiniger
Writer Jacob Grimm, Wilhelm Grimm, Humbert Wolfe
Plot The story of Cinderella and her prince.
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Day Dreams (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Renee Adoree, Edward F. Cline
Plot A sincere young man leaves his home to win his fortune so he can marry his home town sweetheart.
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Der var engang aka Once Upon a Time (1922)
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Director Carl Theodor Dreyer
Writer Holger Drachmann, Carl Theodor Dreyer, Palle Rosenkrantz
Cast Clara Pontoppidan, Svend Methling, Peter Jerndorff
Plot A beautiful but imperious princess refuses all offers of marriage, often condemning her suitors to death. The prince of Denmark comes seeking her hand and, aided by magic objects given to him by a mysterious spirit, seeks to win h...
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Grandma's Boy (1922)
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Director Fred C. Newmeyer
Writer Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Jean C. Havez
Cast Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Anna Townsend
Plot A meek young man must find the courage within when a rogue tramp menaces his home town.
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Beyond the Rocks (1922)
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Director Sam Wood
Writer Elinor Glyn, Jack Cunningham
Cast Gloria Swanson, Rudolph Valentino, Edythe Chapman
Plot A young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
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My Wife's Relations (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline
Cast Buster Keaton, Wallace Beery, Monte Collins
Plot By accident, Buster and an intimidating woman end up married.
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The Frozen North (1922)
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Director Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Writer Edward F. Cline, Buster Keaton
Cast Buster Keaton, Edward F. Cline, Marion Harlan
Plot Buster plays a bumbling villain in this parody of melodrama.
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Dr. Jack (1922)
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Director Fred C. Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Writer Hal Roach, Sam Taylor, Jean C. Havez
Cast Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, John T. Prince
Plot 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. Dr. Jack's old-fashioned methods do the trick, an...
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Lao gong zhi ai qing (1922)
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Director Shichuan Zhang
Writer Zhengqiu Zheng
Cast Zhegu Zheng, Zhengqiu Zheng, Ying Yu
Plot Cheng the fruit seller is in love with the daughter of his neighbor the doctor, but the good doctor won't let him marry her unless Chang finds him more patients. With some creative carpentering, Chang sets about augmenting the doc...
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La femme de nulle part aka The Woman from Nowhere (1922)
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Director Louis Delluc
Writer Louis Delluc
Cast aˆve Francis, Gine Avril, Noemi Seize
Plot A woman appears at the house where she used to live a long time ago. The new inhabitants, a married couple with a toddler, welcome her to stay for the night. Meanwhile, the wife has to choose between family and adventure.
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Othello (1922)
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Director Dimitri Buchowetzki
Writer Dimitri Buchowetzki, Karl Mueller-Hagens, William Shakespeare
Cast Emil Jannings, Werner Krauss, Ica von Lenkeffy
Plot Based on Shakespeare's play: The treacherous Iago plans to ruin the life of Othello by provoking him to jealousy.
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Kodachrome Color Motion Picture Tests aka Kodachrome Two-Color Test Shots No. III (1922)
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Director John Capstaff
Cast Mary Eaton, Hope Hampton, Mae Murray
Plot Experimental film done by Eastman Kodak to test the abilities of Kodachrome film stock.
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Blood and Sand (1922)
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Director Fred Niblo, Dorothy Arzner
Writer Vicente Blasco Iba¡a±ez, Tom Cushing, June Mathis
Cast Rudolph Valentino, Rosa Rosanova, Leo White
Plot A toreador's (Rudolph Valentino) familial and social life is threatened when he has an affair.
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Das Geheimnis der Marquisin aka The Secret of the Marquise (1922)
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Director Lotte Reiniger
Plot Nivea commercial from 1922 in which a margrave meets a marquess with the most beautiful skin. While dancing below her balcony at night, the marquess tells him her secret: She uses Nivea soap and Nivea cream.
