# List of fantasy films before 1930

A list of fantasy films released before the 1930s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes |
| 1899 |||||
| Cinderella (1899 film) | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Fairy tale Short film |
| 1903 |||||
| The Infernal Boiling Pot | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Short film |
| 1904 |||||
| The Impossible Voyage | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | France | Short Science fantasy film |
| 1910 |||||
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Otis Turner | Bebe Daniels, Hobart Bosworth, Eugenie Besserer | United States | Short film |
| 1911 |||||
| L'Inferno | Francesco Bertolini, Adolfo Padovan, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Salvatore Papa, Arturo Pirovano, Giuseppe de Liguoro | Italy | Short film |
| 1912 |||||
| Santa Claus | Walter R. Booth, R. H. Callum and F. Martin Thornton | Leedham Bantock, Margaret Favronova | United Kingdom | Short film |
| 1915 |||||
| The Story of a Story | Tod Browning | | United States | Short film |
| 1917 |||||
| Flames | Maurice Elvey | Douglas Munro, Owen Nares, Edward O'Neill | United Kingdom | Silent film |
| 1918 |||||
| The Blue Bird | Maurice Tourneur | Emma Lowry, Robin Macdougall, William J. Gross | United States | Silent film |
| Tarzan of the Apes | Scott Sidney | Elmo Lincoln | United States | Fantasy Silent film |
| The Ghost of Slumber Mountain | Willis O'Brien | | United States | Stop motion |
| 1921 |||||
| Körkarlen | Victor Sjöström | Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Astrid Holm | Sweden | Silent film |
| Der müde Tod | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke | Germany | Silent film |
| L'Atlantide | Jacques Feyder | | France | Silent film |
| 1922 |||||
| Phantom | F.W. Murnau | Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski, Frida Richard, Aud Egede Nissen | Germany | Silent film |
| 1924 |||||
| Dante's Inferno | Henry Otto | Lawson Butt, Howard Gaye, Ralph Lewis | United States | Silent film |
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | Fritz Lang | Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph | Germany | Silent film |
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache | Fritz Lang | Rudolf Rittner, Margarete Schön, Hans Adalbert Schlettow | Germany | Silent film |
| The Enchanted Cottage | John S. Robertson | Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman | United States | Silent film |
| Paris Qui Dort | René Clair | Madeleine Rodrigue, Myla Seller, Henri Rollan | France | Silent film |
| Peter Pan | Herbert Brenon | Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick | United States | Silent film |
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston | United States | Silent film |
| Waxworks | Paul Leni | Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, William Dieterle | Germany | Silent film |
| 1925 |||||
| The Lost World | Harry Hoyt | Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery | United States | Silent film |
| She | Leander de Cordova, G.B. Samuelson | Betty Blythe | United Kingdom | Silent film |
| Wizard of Oz | Larry Semon | Larry Semon, Bryant Washburn, Dorothy Dwan | United States | Silent film |
| 1926 |||||
| Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | | Germany | Animated film |
| Faust | F.W. Murnau | Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn | Germany | Silent film |
| A Kiss for Cinderella | Herbert Brenon | Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston | United States | Silent film |
| The Sorrows of Satan | D.W. Griffith | Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster | United States | Silent film |
| The Student of Prague | Henrik Galeen | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss | Germany | Silent film |