These are my favorite films from the 1920s.

Rated 10/10
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (Wiene, 1920)
Greed (von Stroheim, 1924)
Sherlock, Jr. (Keaton, 1924)
Battleship Potemkin (Eisenstein, 1925)
The Gold Rush (Chaplin, 1925)
The General (Keaton, 1926)
Napoléon (Gance, 1927)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (Murnau, 1927)
The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer, 1928)
Man With a Movie Camera (Vertov, 1929)
Un Chien Andalou (Buñuel & Dali, 1929)

Rated 9/10
The Kid (Chaplin, 1921)
Our Hospitality (Keaton, 1923)
Safety Last! (Taylor & Newmeyer, 1923)
Ballet Mécanique (Murphy & Léger, 1924)
The Navigator (Keaton, 1924)
Strike (Eisenstein, 1925)
The Freshman (Newmeyer & Taylor, 1925)
Ghosts Before Breakfast (Richter, 1928)
Steamboat Bill, Jr. (Keaton & Reisner, 1928)
Pandora’s Box (Pabst, 1929)

Rated 8/10
Nanook of the North (Flaherty, 1922)
Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror (Murnau, 1922)
Cops (Keaton & Cline, 1922)
The Blacksmith (Keaton & St. Clair, 1922)
Return to Reason (Ray, 1923)
The Last Laugh (Murnau, 1924)
The Thief of Bagdad (Walsh, 1924)
Flesh and the Devil (Brown, 1926)
Leave Me Alone (Ray, 1926)
October (10 Days that Shook the World) (Eisenstein, 1928)
The Starfish (Ray, 1928)
The Life and Death of 9413, A Hollywood Extra (Vorkapić & Florey, 1928)
Two Tars (Parrott, 1928)
Autumn Mists (Kirsanoff, 1929)
Queen Kelly (von Stroheim, 1929)
The Cocoanuts (Santley & Florey, 1929)