# List of lost silent films (1920–1924)

This is a list of lost silent films released from 1920 to 1924.
* 1920
* 1921
* 1922
* 1923
* 1924
| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1920 | Abend – Nacht – Morgen (Evening – Night – Morning) | F. W. Murnau | Gertrude Welcker, Bruno Ziener, Conrad Veidt | |
| 1920 | The Amazing Quest of Mr. Ernest Bliss | Henry Edwards | Henry Edwards, Chrissie White | On the BFI "75 Most Wanted" lost film list. The last copy is thought to have been destroyed in a bonfire during World War II by Edwards and White as storing it posed a fire hazard. |
| 1920 | Anna the Adventuress | Cecil M. Hepworth | Alma Taylor | Taylor plays identical twins. |
| 1920 | Bonnie May | Ida May Park, Joseph De Grasse | Bessie Love | |
| 1920 | Bride 13 | Richard Stanton | Marguerite Clayton, John B. O'Brien | A 15-part serial. |
| 1920 | The Brute | Oscar Micheaux | Evelyn Preer | |
| 1920 | Der Bucklige und die Tänzerin (The Hunchback and the Dancer) | F. W. Murnau | Sascha Gura, John Gottowt | |
| 1920 | The Devil's Pass Key | Erich von Stroheim | Leo White, Mae Busch | Negative depiction of Americans led some to suggest Stroheim be deported from the United States. |
| 1920 | The Dragon's Net | Henry MacRae | Marie Walcamp, Harland Tucker | An adventure serial with 12 episodes. |
| 1920 | Fantômas | Edward Sedgwick | Edward Roseman, Edna Murphy | A 20-chapter American serial. |
| 1920 | The Fatal Sign | Stuart Paton | Claire Anderson, Harry Carter | A serial with 14 episodes. |
| 1920 | The Flaming Disc | Robert F. Hill | Elmo Lincoln, Louise Lorraine | An 18-part serial. |
| 1920 | The Girl in Number 29 | John Ford | Frank Mayo | |
| 1920 | Hitchin' Posts | John Ford | Frank Mayo | |
| 1920 | The Invisible Ray | Harry A. Pollard | Ruth Clifford, Jack Sherrill | A 15-part serial. |
| 1920 | Der Januskopf (The Head of Janus) | F. W. Murnau | Conrad Veidt, Magnus Stifter, Margarete Schlegel | An adaptation of Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde. |
| 1920 | King of the Circus | J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo, Corrine Porter | An 18-part serial. |
| 1920 | The $1,000,000 Reward | George Lessey | Coit Albertson | A 15-episode serial. |
| 1920 | Il mostro di Frankenstein | Eugenio Testa | Luciano Albertini, Umberto Guarracino | The third film based upon the novel of Frankenstein and probably the first ever Italian horror/science fiction film. Severely cut by censorship board before theatrical release. |
| 1920 | The Paliser Case | William Parke | Pauline Frederick | |
| 1920 | Passion's Playground | J. A. Barry | Katherine MacDonald, Norman Kerry, Nell Craig | |
| 1920 | Pegeen | David Smith | Bessie Love | |
| 1920 | Pirate Gold | George B. Seitz | Marguerite Courtot, George B. Seitz | A ten-part serial. |
| 1920 | The Prince of Avenue A | John Ford | James J. Corbett, Richard Cummings | |
| 1920 | The Purple Cipher | Chester Bennett | Earle Williams, Vola Vale, Earnest Shields | This film is listed in the American Silent Feature Film Survival Database, but no holdings are located in the archives. |
| 1920 | Remodeling Her Husband | Lillian Gish | Dorothy Gish, James Rennie | The only movie Lillian Gish directed. |
| 1920 | Romance | Chester Withey | Doris Keane, Basil Sydney | |
| 1920 | The Screaming Shadow | Ben F. Wilson, Duke Worne | Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber | A serial of 15 episodes. |
| 1920 | The Shadow of Lightning Ridge | Wilfred Lucas | Snowy Baker, Agnes Vernon | |
| 1920 | A Slave of Vanity | Henry Otto | Pauline Frederick | |
| 1920 | A Son of David | Hay Plumb | Poppy Wyndham, Ronald Colman, Arthur Walcott | |
| 1920 | Thunderbolt Jack | Francis Ford, Murdock MacQuarrie | Jack Hoxie, Marin Sais | A ten-part serial. |
| 1920 | Trailed by Three | Perry N. Vekroff | Stuart Holmes, Frankie Mann | A 15-part serial. |
| 1920 | Treasure Island | Maurice Tourneur | Shirley Mason, Charles Ogle, Lon Chaney | A lavish production of the Stevenson novel, reportedly with some color sequences. |
| 1920 | The Vanishing Dagger | Edward A. Kull, John F. Magowan, Eddie Polo | Eddie Polo, Thelma Percy | An 18-part serial. |
| 1920 | Vanishing Trails | Leon De La Mothe | Franklyn Farnum, Mary Anderson | A serial with 15 episodes |
| 1920 | Wuthering Heights | A.V. Bramble | Milton Rosmer, Colette Brettel, Warwick Ward | The first film adaptation of Wuthering Heights. |
| 1921 | Action | John Ford | Hoot Gibson | |
| 1921 | The Adventures of Mr. Pickwick | Thomas Bentley | Frederick Volpe, Mary Brough, Bransby Williams | One of the BFI 75 Most Wanted. |
| 1921 | Appearances | Donald Crisp | David Powell | |
| 1921 | The Avenging Arrow | William Bowman, W. S. Van Dyke | John Big Tree | |
| 1921 | Bits of Life | Marshall Neilan | Lon Chaney, Noah Beery, Sr., Anna May Wong | The first anthology film. |
| 1921 | The Blue Mountains Mystery | Raymond Longford, Lottie Lyell | Marjorie Osborne, John Faulkner | |
| 1921 | Dangerous Lies | Paul Powell | David Powell | Alfred Hitchcock is credited as a title designer. |
| 1921 | Desperate Trails | John Ford | Harry Carey | |
| 1921 | Do or Die | J. P. McGowan | Eddie Polo, Magda Lane | An 18-episode serial. |
| 1921 | Experience | George Fitzmaurice | Richard Barthelmess, Lilyan Tashman, Marjorie Daw | Allegory in which all the characters are named for a human Certainty or Approximation. |
| 1921 | Forever | George Fitzmaurice | Elsie Ferguson, Wallace Reid | Film version of George du Maurier play Peter Ibbetson. |
| 1921 | The Freeze-Out | John Ford | Harry Carey | |
| 1921 | The Great Reward | Francis Ford | Francis Ford, Ella Hall | A 15-episode serial. |
| 1921 | The Gunsaulus Mystery | Oscar Micheaux | Evelyn Preer | Inspired by the 1913 murder of Mary Phagan. |
| 1921 | The Honor of Rameriz | Robert North Bradbury | Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, Ruth Stonehouse | |
| 1921 | Humor Risk | Richard Smith | Marx Brothers | The first Marx Brothers film. This short two-reeler is not believed to have been shown more than once theatrically, if at all. |
| 1921 | Hurricane Hutch | George B. Seitz | Charles Hutchison | A 15-episode serial. |
| 1921 | The Jackeroo of Coolabong | Wilfred Lucas | Snowy Baker, Kathleen Key | |
| 1921 | Jackie | John Ford | Shirley Mason, William Scott | |
| 1921 | Know Thy Child | Franklyn Barrett | Roland Conway, Nada Conrade, Lotus Thompson | Thompson's film debut came in this Australian production. |
| 1921 | Ladies Must Live | George Loane Tucker | Betty Compson, Mahlon Hamilton, Leatrice Joy, John Gilbert | |
| 1921 | The Lotus Eater | Marshall Neilan | John Barrymore, Colleen Moore | Tropical scenes filmed partly on Catalina Island, and in Florida. |
| 1921 | The Narrow Valley | Cecil Hepworth | Alma Taylor, George Dewhurst, James Carew | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
| 1921 | The Offenders | Fenwicke L. Holmes | Margery Wilson, Percy Helton | |
| 1921 | Penny of Top Hill Trail | Arthur Berthelet | Bessie Love | |
| 1921 | Rudd's New Selection | Raymond Longford | J. P. O'Neill, Tal Ordell, Lottie Lyell | |
| 1921 | The Secret Four | Albert Russell, Perry N. Vekroff | Eddie Polo, Kathleen Myers | A 15-episode serial. |
| 1921 | Sehnsucht (Desire) | F. W. Murnau | Conrad Veidt | |
| 1921 | Sentimental Tommy | John S. Robertson | Gareth Hughes | One of the biggest Paramount hits of 1921. |
| 1921 | The Sky Ranger | George B. Seitz | George B. Seitz, June Caprice | A serial with 15 episodes. |
| 1921 | The Spirit of the Lake | Robert North Bradbury | Tom Santschi, Bessie Love, Ruth Stonehouse | |
| 1921 | Terror Trail | Edward A. Kull | Eileen Sedgwick, George Larkin | An 18-part serial. |
| 1921 | Uncharted Seas | Wesley Ruggles | Alice Lake, Carl Gerard, Rudolph Valentino | |
| 1921 | The Wallop | John Ford | Harry Carey | |
| 1921 | Winners of the West | Edward Laemmle | Art Acord Myrtle Lind | A serial in 18 parts. |
| 1922 | The Beautiful and Damned | William A. Seiter | Kenneth Harlan, Marie Prevost | F. Scott Fitzgerald's second novel, adapted and produced by Warner Bros. Six lobby cards are extant. |
| 1922 | Brawn of the North | Laurence Trimble, Jane Murfin | Irene Rich, Strongheart (a dog) | |
| 1922 | A Blind Bargain | Wallace Worsley | Lon Chaney | Negative destroyed by MGM in 1931. Last surviving print lost in 1965 MGM vault fire. |
| 1922 | Clarence | William C. deMille | Wallace Reid Adolphe Menjou | |
| 1922 | Forget Me Not | W. S. Van Dyke | Bessie Love, Gareth Hughes | |
| 1922 | In the Days of Buffalo Bill | Edward Laemmle | Art Acord, Duke R. Lee | An 18-episode Western serial. |
| 1922 | Little Miss Smiles | John Ford | Shirley Mason, Gaston Glass | |
| 1922 | Nan of the North | Duke Worne | Ann Little, Tom London | A 15-episode serial. |
| 1922 | One Glorious Day | James Cruze | Will Rogers | Possibility of a nitrate print surviving in a European film archive. |
| 1922 | Perils of the Yukon | Jay Marchant, J. P. McGowan, Perry N. Vekroff | William Desmond, Laura La Plante | A serial with 15 chapters. |
| 1922 | The Power of Love | Henry MacRae | Elliot Sparling, Barbara Bedford, Noah Beery, Aileen Manning, Albert Prisco, John Herdman | The first feature length 3D film is lost. The fate of the 1923 2D version, titled Forbidden Lover, is unknown. |
| 1922 | Quincy Adams Sawyer | Clarence G. Badger | John Bowers, Blanche Sweet, Lon Chaney, Barbara La Marr | |
| 1922 | A Rough Passage | Franklyn Barrett | Stella Southern, Hayford Hobbs | |
| 1922 | Silver Wings | Edwin Carewe, John Ford | Mary Carr, Lynn Hammond | |
| 1922 | Trifling Women | Rex Ingram | Barbara La Marr, Ramón Novarro | |
| 1922 | The Vermilion Pencil | Norman Dawn | Sessue Hayakawa, Ann May, Bessie Love, Sidney Franklin | |
| 1922 | The Virgin of the Seminole | Oscar Micheaux | | |
| 1922 | The Wise Kid | Tod Browning | Gladys Walton, David Butler | |
| 1922 | With Stanley in Africa | William James Craft, Edward A. Kull | George Walsh, Louise Lorraine | An 18-chapter serial. |
| 1922 | The Young Diana | Robert G. Vignola | Marion Davies, Forrest Stanley | |
| 1923 | Around the World in 18 Days | B. Reeves Eason, Robert F. Hill | William Desmond, Laura La Plante | A 12-part serial. |
| 1923 | Die Austreibung (The Expulsion) | F. W. Murnau | Carl Goetz | |
| 1923 | The Blue Lagoon | William Weston Bowden, Dick Cruikshanks | Molly Adair, Arthur Pusey, Dick Cruikshanks | Shot on the coast of Mozambique. The first adaptation of Henry De Vere Stacpoole's novel. |
| 1923 | The Courtship of Miles Standish | Frederick Sullivan | Charles Ray | Production bankrupted actor Charles Ray and nearly ended his movie career. A full size replica of the Mayflower was built for this film. |
| 1923 | The Daring Years | Kenneth Webb | Mildred Harris, Charles Emmett Mack, Clara Bow | |
| 1923 | Drakula halála (Dracula's Death or The Death of Dracula) | Károly Lajthay | Paul Askonas, Lene Myl | The first or second filmed version of the Dracula story to enter production (the existence of a 1920 Soviet film titled Drakula is in doubt), this Hungarian movie's production preceded Nosferatu by over a year, though its earliest confirmed screenings weren't until 1923. |
| 1923 | The Eternal City | George Fitzmaurice | Lionel Barrymore, Barbara La Marr, Bert Lytell | Partly shot in Rome. |
| 1923 | The Eternal Three | Marshall Neilan, Frank Urson | Hobart Bosworth, Claire Windsor, Bessie Love | Though the film is lost, a short production scene including Neilan, Bosworth, Windsor, and Raymond Griffith appears in Souls for Sale, another 1923 film featuring numerous Hollywood cameos and supposed "behind the scenes"-style filmmaking sequences. |
| 1923 | The Face on the Bar-Room Floor | John Ford | Henry B. Walthall, Ruth Clifford | |
| 1923 | The Fighting Skipper | Francis Ford | Peggy O'Day, Jack Perrin | A 15-part adventure serial. |
| 1923 | Gentle Julia | Rowland V. Lee | Bessie Love | |
| 1923 | The Ghost City | Jay Marchant | Pete Morrison | |
| 1923 | The Ghost Patrol | Nat Ross | Ralph Graves, Bessie Love | |
| 1923 | Hollywood | James Cruze | | Dozens of cameos of silent film stars playing themselves, including Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Gloria Swanson, Will Rogers, Mary Astor, Cecil B. DeMille and Charlie Chaplin. |
| 1923 | Hoodman Blind | John Ford | David Butler, Gladys Hulette | |
| 1923 | Human Wreckage | John Griffith Wray | Dorothy Davenport, Bessie Love | Early portrayal of drug addiction (then a taboo subject), based on actor Wallace Reid, Davenport's husband. |
| 1923 | Lily of the Alley | Henry Edwards | Henry Edwards, Chrissie White | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted missing films. |
| 1923 | The Oregon Trail | Edward Laemmle | Art Acord, Louise Lorraine | A Western serial in 18 episodes. |
| 1923 | Paddy the Next Best Thing | Graham Cutts | Mae Marsh, Darby Foster, Lilian Douglas | |
| 1923 | Paganini | Heinz Goldberg | Conrad Veidt, Greta Schröder | |
| 1923 | The Phantom Fortune | Robert F. Hill | William Desmond, Esther Ralston | A 12-episode serial. |
| 1923 | The Purple Dawn | Charles R. Seeling | Bessie Love, Bert Sprotte, William E. Aldrich | |
| 1923 | Ruth of the Range | Ernest C. Warde | Ruth Roland, Bruce Gordon, Lorimer Johnston | A serial comprising 15 episodes. |
| 1923 | The Santa Fe Trail | Ashton Dearholt, Robert Dillon | Jack Perrin, Neva Gerber | |
| 1923 | St. Elmo | Jerome Storm | John Gilbert, Barbara La Marr, Bessie Love | |
| 1923 | The Social Buccaneer | Robert F. Hill | Jack Mulhall, Margaret Livingston | A serial consisting of ten episodes. |
| 1923 | Three Jumps Ahead | John Ford | Tom Mix, Alma Bennett | |
| 1923 | Three Who Paid | Colin Campbell | Dustin Farnum, Bessie Love, Frank Campeau | |
| 1923 | Vanity Fair | Hugo Ballin | Mabel Ballin | Produced by Samuel Goldwyn with Prizmacolor sequence. |
| 1923 | La voyante (The Clairvoyant) | Leon Abrams, Louis Mercanton | Sarah Bernhardt, Georges Melchior, Harry Baur | This was Bernhardt's last performance, and was made while she was mortally ill. The Cinémathèque Française is rumored to have a print. |
| 1923 | Where the Pavement Ends | Rex Ingram | Ramón Novarro, Alice Terry | Filmed in Florida and Cuba. |
| 1923 | Woman to Woman | Graham Cutts | Betty Compson | The assistant director was Alfred Hitchcock. |
| 1923 | The World's Applause | William C. deMille | Bebe Daniels | |
| 1924 | The Alaskan | Herbert Brenon | Thomas Meighan, Estelle Taylor | An early role for Anna May Wong. |
| 1924 | Babbitt | Harry Beaumont | Willard Louis, Mary Alden, Carmel Myers | First film adaptation of Sinclair Lewis novel. |
| 1924 | The City of Beautiful Nonsense | Henry Edwards | Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, James Lindsay | The last copy is thought to have been destroyed in a bonfire during World War II by Edwards and White as storing it posed a fire hazard. |
| 1924 | Countess Donelli | Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Paul Hansen, Henny Porten | |
| 1924 | The Dangerous Flirt | Tod Browning | Evelyn Brent, Edward Earle | |
| 1924 | Dynamite Smith | Ralph Ince | Charles Ray, Bessie Love, Wallace Beery | |
| 1924 | Feet of Clay | Cecil B. DeMille | Rod La Rocque, Vera Reynolds, Julia Faye, Ricardo Cortez, William Boyd | This is one of astute preservationist DeMille's rare lost films. |
| 1924 | The Fortieth Door | George B. Seitz | Allene Ray, Bruce Gordon | A serial with ten episodes. |
| 1924 | Galloping Hoofs | George B. Seitz | Allene Ray, Johnnie Walker | A ten-part Western serial. |
| 1924 | The Girl in the Limousine | Larry Semon, Noel M. Smith | Oliver Hardy | |
| 1924 | Hearts of Oak | John Ford | Hobart Bosworth, Pauline Starke | |
| 1924 | Into the Net | George B. Seitz | Edna Murphy, Jack Mulhall | A serial with ten episodes. |
| 1924 | Joe | Beaumont Smith | Arthur Tauchert, Marie Lorraine | Lorraine's film debut. |
| 1924 | The Treasure of Atahualpa (El tesoro de Atahualpa) | Augusto San Miguel | Augusto San Miguel, Evelina Orellana, Anita Cortés, Julieta Stanford | First Ecuadorian feature film. |
| 1924 | Leatherstocking | George B. Seitz | Edna Murphy, Harold Miller | A ten-part serial. |
| 1924 | Married Flirts | Robert Vignola | Pauline Frederick, Mae Busch, Conrad Nagel | |
| 1924 | Merton of the Movies | James Cruze | Glenn Hunter, Viola Dana | Named by the New York Times as one of the ten best films of 1924. |
| 1924 | Miami | Alan Crosland | Betty Compson, Hedda Hopper | |
| 1924 | Miss Suwanna of Siam | Henry MacRae | Sa-ngiam Navisthira, Yom Mongkolnat, Mongkol Sumonnat | Some promotional materials and other ephemera are held by the Thailand National Film Archive. |
| 1924 | My Husband's Wives | Maurice Elvey | Shirley Mason | |
| 1924 | Pokhozdeniya Oktyabriny (The Adventures of Oktyabrina) | Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Zinaida Torkhovskaya, Yevgeni Kumeiko | A Soviet film believed to have been lost in a 1925 fire. |
| 1924 | Reveille | George Pearson | Betty Balfour | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
| 1924 | The Silent Watcher | Frank Lloyd | Glenn Hunter, Bessie Love | |
| 1924 | The Snob | Monta Bell | John Gilbert, Norma Shearer, Conrad Nagel | |
| 1924 | So Big | Charles Brabin | Colleen Moore | |
| 1924 | A Son of Satan | Oscar Micheaux | Andrew Bishop, Lawrence Chenault, Shingzie Howard, Edna Morton | Ran into distribution problems when state censorship boards rejected the film based on its contents. |
| 1924 | Sundown | Laurence Trimble, Harry O. Hoyt | Bessie Love | |
| 1924 | Ten Scars Make a Man | William Parke | Allene Ray, Jack Mower | A ten-part serial. |
| 1924 | Tess of the d'Urbervilles | Marshall Neilan | Blanche Sweet, Conrad Nagel, Stuart Holmes | |
| 1924 | Those Who Dance | Lambert Hillyer | Blanche Sweet, Bessie Love, Warner Baxter | |
| 1924 | Tongues of Flame | Joseph Henabery | Thomas Meighan, Bessie Love | |
| 1924 | Torment | Maurice Tourneur | Bessie Love, Owen Moore, Jean Hersholt | |
| 1924 | Trouble Brewing | James D. Davis, Larry Semon | Larry Semon, Carmelita Geraghty, Oliver Hardy | |
| 1924 | Wanderer of the Wasteland | Irvin Willat | Jack Holt, Noah Beery, Billie Dove | First western filmed in Technicolor. |
| 1924 | The Way of a Man | George B. Seitz | Allene Ray, Harold Miller | A serial composed of ten episodes. |
| 1924 | White Man | Louis J. Gasnier | Alice Joyce, Kenneth Harlan, Walter Long (actor) | Clark Gable made his first film appearance in a minor role in this jungle adventure. |
| 1924 | Who Is the Man? | Walter Summers | John Gielgud, Isobel Elsom | Gielgud's screen debut. On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list. |
| 1924 | Wine | Louis J. Gasnier | Clara Bow, Robert Agnew, Walter Long | Clara Bow's first starring role. |
| 1924 | The Wolf Man | Edmund Mortimer | John Gilbert, Norma Shearer | |
| 1924 | Wolves of the North | William Duncan | William Duncan, Edith Johnson | A ten-chapter serial. |
| 1924 | The Woman on the Jury | Harry Hoyt | Sylvia Breamer, Bessie Love | |
| 1924 | The World of Wonderful Reality | Henry Edwards | Henry Edwards, Chrissie White, James Lindsay, Henry Vibart | Last copy is thought to have been destroyed in a bonfire during World War II by Edwards and White as storing it posed a fire hazard. |