# List of lost films

For this list of lost films, a lost film is defined as one of which no part of a print is known to have survived. For films in which any portion of the footage remains (including trailers), see List of incomplete or partially lost films.

## Reasons for loss

Films may go missing for a number of reasons. One major contributing factor is the common use of nitrate film until the early 1950s. This type of film is highly flammable, and there have been several devastating fires, such as the 1914 Lubin vault fire, the Universal Pictures fire in 1924, the Warner Bros. First National fire in 1933, the British and Dominions Imperial Studios fire in 1936, and the 1937 Fox vault fire, the 1965 MGM vault fire.
Black-and-white film prints judged to be otherwise worthless were sometimes incinerated to salvage the meager scrap value of the silver image particles in their emulsions. Silent films in particular were once seen as having no further commercial value and were simply junked to clear out expensive storage space. Occasionally, a studio would remake a film and destroy the earlier version. Films have also disappeared when production companies went bankrupt.

## Statistics on lost films

Martin Scorsese's Film Foundation claimed in 2017 that "half of all American films made before 1950 and over 90% of films made before 1929 are lost forever". Deutsche Kinemathek estimates that 80–90% of silent films are gone; the film archive's own list contains over 3,500 lost films.
A study by the Library of Congress of 2013 states that 75% of all silent films are lost. While others dispute whether the percentage is quite that high, it is impractical to enumerate here any but the more notable and those which can be sourced.
For example, roughly 200 out of over 500 Méliès films and 350 out of over 1,000 of Alice Guy's films survive. Of the roughly 1,100 films made in India between 1912 and 1931, only 29 are known to have survived.

## Notable lost films

Amongst the films commonly mourned among critics and film historians are early films by noted directors and films of unique cultural importance. The Mountain Eagle is the second film directed by Alfred Hitchcock in 1926; the silent melodrama has been described by the British Film Institute as their "most wanted" lost film. London After Midnight, starring Lon Chaney and directed by Tod Browning in 1927, was a silent-era mystery-thriller pseudo-vampire film that is now considered to be the "holy grail" of lost films by collectors. Hollywood, a 1923 silent comedy film directed by James Cruze, featured over 30 cameo appearances from major stars of the day, including Roscoe "Fatty" Arbuckle, Charlie Chaplin, Mary Astor and Pola Negri, but no footage exists.

## Silent films
### 1890s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1895 | Young Griffo vs. Battling Charles Barnett | Otway Latham | Young Griffo, Charles Barnett | First American film shown to a paying audience |
| 1896 | Arrivée d'un train gare de Vincennes | Georges Méliès | | A French short documentary |
| 1896 | L'Arroseur (a.k.a. Watering the Flowers) | Georges Méliès | | A short comedy |
| 1896 | Barque sortant du port de Trouville | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Bateau-mouche sur la Seine | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Bébé et fillettes | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Les Blanchisseuses | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Bois de Boulogne (Porte de Madrid) | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Bois de Boulogne (Touring Club) | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Boulevard des Italiens | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Campement de bohémiens (The Bohemian Encampment) | Georges Méliès | | A short documentary |
| 1896 | Les chevaux de bois | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Le chiffonnier (The Rag-Picker) | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Couronnement de la rosière | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Déchargement de bateaux | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Jardinier brûlant des herbes | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Jetée et Plage de Trouville (first and second parts) | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Jour de marché à Trouville | Georges Méliès | | |
| 1896 | Gestoorde hengelaar | M.H. Laddé | Lion Solser, Piet Hesse | The first Dutch fictional film |
| 1896 | La Fée aux Choux | Alice Guy Blache | | The first narrative film directed by a woman |
| 1896 | Spelende kinderen | M.H. Laddé | | |
| 1896 | Zwemplaats voor Jongelingen te Amsterdam | M.H. Laddé | | |
| 1898 | Ten Years in Manitoba | James Freer | | Documentary film. First film known to have been directed by a Canadian. |

### 1900s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1900 | Solser en Hesse | M.H. Laddé | Lion Solser, Piet Hesse | The first film with this title, featuring the Dutch comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse |
| 1902 | The Adventures of the Cabman | Kazimierz Prószyński | | The first Polish fiction film |
| 1903 | Hiawatha, the Messiah of the Ojibway | Joe Rosenthal | | Believed to be the first Canadian fiction film |
| 1906 | Solser en Hesse | M.H. Laddé | Lion Solser, Piet Hesse | The second film with this title, featuring the Dutch comedians Lion Solser and Piet Hesse |
| 1907 | Salaviinanpolttajat | Louis Sparre, Teuvo Puro | Teppo Raikas, Teuvo Puro, Jussi Snellman, Eero Kilpi, Axel Rautio | The first Finnish fiction film. Some sources also consider it to be the first Russian fiction film, as Finland was a part of the Russian Empire until 1917. |
| 1908 | A Christmas Carol | | Tom Ricketts | The first American film adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous 1843 novella of the same name. |
| 1908 | Barcarola | Júlio Ferrez | Antônio Cataldi | A short Brazilian film based on The Tales of Hoffmann, an 1881 opéra fantastique composed by Jacques Offenbach. Following its premiere in Rio de Janeiro, the short was screened on eight known occasions between 1908 and 1909 in Rio Branco. |
| 1908 | The Fairylogue and Radio-Plays | Francis Boggs, Otis Turner | L. Frank Baum, Romola Remus | First adaptation of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz and several of its sequels. Shown only in roadshow engagements as part of a live theater presentation, the print decomposed and was discarded. |
| 1908 | La Tosca | André Calmettes | Sarah Bernhardt, Pierre Berton, Félicia Mallet | The second film starring Bernhardt, the best known stage actress of the 1880s–1900s. Based on the play by Victorien Sardou that was adapted into an opera by Giacomo Puccini. |

### 1920s
## Sound films

    From 1929 on, films are "all-talking" unless otherwise specified.

### 1920s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1928 | 4 Devils | F.W. Murnau | Janet Gaynor | Fox Studios' print was reportedly borrowed by actress Mary Duncan, who played a supporting role in the film, but its whereabouts are now unknown. |
| 1928 | Gang War | Bert Glennon | Jack Pickford | Released with the Mickey Mouse short Steamboat Willie, the film was a failure and became lost. |
| 1928 | Heart Trouble | Harry Langdon | Harry Langdon | Langdon's last silent feature received little promotion in the United States, with fewer than 100 prints struck. There were reported showings in Australia in 1931. |
| 1928 | The Home Towners | Bryan Foy | Doris Kenyon, Richard Bennett | Warner Bros.' third all-talking feature |
| 1928 | Melody of Love | Arch Heath | Walter Pidgeon, Mildred Harris | Universal's first sound feature |
| 1928 | On Trial | Archie Mayo | Pauline Frederick, Lois Wilson, Bert Lytell | Warner Bros.' fourth all-talking feature |
| 1928 | Tenderloin | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel | Second feature film to have synchronized dialogue sequences, part-talkie |
| 1928 | Women They Talk About | Lloyd Bacon | Irene Rich | A part-talkie released by Warner Bros. |
| 1929 | The Argyle Case | Howard Bretherton | Thomas Meighan, H. B. Warner, Lila Lee, Gladys Brockwell | Silent veteran Brockwell died in a traffic accident shortly after making this film. |
| 1929 | The Aviator | Roy Del Ruth | Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller | |
| 1929 | The Awful Truth | Marshall Neilan | Ina Claire | |
| 1929 | College Love | Nat Ross | George J. Lewis, Eddie Phillips | |
| 1929 | Dark Streets | Frank Lloyd | Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee | Jack Mulhall's character is the first attempt at dual role double exposure photography in a talking film. |
| 1929 | Evidence | John G. Adolfi | Pauline Frederick, Conway Tearle | |
| 1929 | Fancy Baggage | John G. Adolfi | Audrey Ferris, Myrna Loy | A part-talkie from Warner Bros. |
| 1929 | Footlights and Fools | William A. Seiter | Colleen Moore | Part-Technicolor. |
| 1929 | The Forward Pass | Edward F. Cline | Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Loretta Young | |
| 1929 | Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 | David Butler | John Breeden, Lola Lane | Multicolor sequences |
| 1929 | Frozen Justice | Allan Dwan | Lenore Ulric | |
| 1929 | The Gamblers | Michael Curtiz | H. B. Warner, Lois Wilson | |
| 1929 | Hearts in Exile | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Grant Withers | |
| 1929 | Honky Tonk | Lloyd Bacon | Sophie Tucker, Lila Lee | This was Tucker's film debut. The complete soundtrack survives. |
| 1929 | The Hottentot | Roy Del Ruth | Edward Everett Horton, Patsy Ruth Miller | |
| 1929 | Is Everybody Happy? | Archie Mayo | Ted Lewis, Ann Pennington | |
| 1929 | Jealousy | Jean de Limur | Jeanne Eagels, Fredric March | |
| 1929 | Love, Live and Laugh | William K. Howard | George Jessel, Lila Lee | |
| 1929 | The Love Racket | William A. Seiter | Dorothy Mackaill, Sidney Blackmer | |
| 1929 | Lucky in Love | Kenneth S. Webb | Morton Downey, Betty Lawford | All-talking |
| 1929 | Madonna of Avenue A | Michael Curtiz | Dolores Costello, Grant Withers | |
| 1929 | Melody Lane | Robert F. Hill | Eddie Leonard, Josephine Dunn | Universal's first fully talking musical |
| 1929 | The Painted Angel | Millard Webb | Billie Dove, Edmund Lowe | |
| 1929 | Paris | Clarence G. Badger | Irene Bordoni, Jack Buchanan | Technicolor sequences. |
| 1929 | Queen of the Night Clubs | Bryan Foy | Texas Guinan, Lila Lee | |
| 1929 | Red Hot Rhythm | Leo McCarey | Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford | Multicolor sequences. |
| 1929 | The Sacred Flame | Archie Mayo | Pauline Frederick, Conrad Nagel | |
| 1929 | Skin Deep | Ray Enright | Monte Blue, Betty Compson | |
| 1929 | Smiling Irish Eyes | William A. Seiter | Colleen Moore | Part-Technicolor. |
| 1929 | A Song of Kentucky | Lewis Seiler | Lois Moran, Joseph Wagstaff | |
| 1929 | South Sea Rose | Allan Dwan | Lenore Ulric, Charles Bickford | |
| 1929 | Speakeasy | Benjamin Stoloff | Paul Page, Lola Lane | |
| 1929 | Stark Mad | Lloyd Bacon | Louise Fazenda, H. B. Warner | Released in both silent and all-talking version; both are lost. However Vitaphone disc soundtracks of both the trailer and excerpts of the film were spotted in UCLA's Archive in October 2023 by Ray Langstone. |
| 1929 | The Time, the Place and the Girl | Howard Bretherton | Grant Withers, Betty Compson | |
| 1929 | The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple | Zhang Shichuan | Hu Die | The film ran for 27 hours total. |

### 1930s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1930 | An Elastic Affair | Alfred Hitchcock | | Short film made by Hitchcock for an awards ceremony at the London Palladium in January 1930 |
| 1930 | The Big Party | John G. Blystone | Sue Carol, Dixie Lee | |
| 1930 | Cock o' the Walk | Walter Lang | Joseph Schildkraut, Myrna Loy | |
| 1930 | Noli Me Tángere | Jose Nepumuceno | | The 1930 version of Noli Me Tángere was directed by Jose Nepumuceno based on the novel written by Dr. Jose Rizal with a synchronized soundtrack. |
| 1930 | The Cave of the Silken Web II | Dan Duyu | Yin Mingzhu | Silent. Chinese film. Original title: 续盘丝洞 (Xù pán xī dong). Sequel to the 1927 The Cave of the Silken Web (which itself had been thought to have been lost, but was rediscovered in 2013) |
| 1930 | College Lovers | John G. Adolfi | Marion Nixon, Jack Whiting | Musical comedy. Six Vitaphone discs containing elements of the soundtrack are held at UCLA and were discovered in October 2023. |
| 1930 | Fellers | Austin Fay, Arthur Higgins | Arthur Tauchert, Les Coney | An Australian comedy |
| 1930 | Kismet | John Francis Dillon | Otis Skinner, Loretta Young | A lavish costume drama in the early widescreen process known as Vitascope. The complete soundtrack exists on Vitaphone discs. |
| 1930 | Let's Go Places | Frank R. Strayer | Frank Richardson, Dixie Lee | |
| 1930 | Lord Richard in the Pantry | Walter Forde | Richard Cooper, Dorothy Seacombe | Included on the British Film Institute's "75 Most Wanted" list of lost British feature films |
| 1930 | Murder Will Out | Clarence C. Badger | Jack Mulhall, Lila Lee, Noah Beery | Another early lost sound film from Warner Brothers Studios. |
| 1930 | One Mad Kiss | Marcel Silver | José Mojica, Antonio Moreno | |
| 1930 | Song of the Flame | Alan Crosland | Bernice Claire, Noah Beery | All-Technicolor musical drama, the first color film featuring widescreen, and Academy Award nominee for Best Sound. Sound discs for five of the nine reels exist. |
| 1931 | Alam Ara | Ardeshir Irani | Master Vithal, Zubeida, Jilloo, Sushila, Prithviraj Kapoor | The first Indian sound film |
| 1931 | Deadlock | George King | Stewart Rome, Marjorie Hume, Warwick Ward | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list |
| 1931 | Hobson's Choice | Thomas Bentley | James Harcourt, Viola Lyel, Frank Pettingell | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1931 | Kalidas | H. M. Reddy | T. P. Rajalakshmi, P. G. Venkatesan, L. V. Prasad | First sound film in Telugu cinema, Tamil cinema, as well as in South Indian cinema |
| 1931 | Peludópolis | Quirino Cristiani | | Argentine production; the world's first animated feature film with sound, using a primitive sound-on-disc system |
| 1931 | The Bells | Harcourt Templeman | Donald Calthrop, Jane Welsh, Edward Sinclair, O.B. Clarence, Wilfred Shine, Ralph Truman, Anita Sharp-Bolster | The film was originally released with a film score written by Gustav Holst, the only film score by Holst. |
| 1931 | Two Crowded Hours | Michael Powell | John Longden, Jane Welsh, Jerry Verno | Powell's directorial debut |
| 1932 | Charlie Chan's Chance | John G. Blystone | Warner Oland | Sixth film of the Charlie Chan series and third with Warner Oland |
| 1932 | Men of Tomorrow | Zoltan Korda, Leontine Sagan | Maurice Braddell, Joan Gardner | Robert Donat's film debut; on the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1932 | The Night of Decision | Dimitri Buchowetzki | Conrad Veidt, Olga Chekhova, Peter Voß | |
| 1932 | The Missing Rembrandt | Leslie S. Hiscott | Arthur Wontner | Second film in the Sherlock Holmes series |
| 1932 | Speed Demon | D. Ross Lederman | William Collier Jr. | |
| 1933 | Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka | Kenzō Masaoka | | First sound anime |
| 1933 | Ang Aswang | George Mauser | Celia Xerxes Burgos, Luis Ayesa, Arturo Sawanson | The first ever Filipino talkie film and an early example of horror genre movies based on Philippine mythology, featuring a creature called Aswang or a Ghoul. The film opened to acclaim at the Lyric on January 1, 1933, then at the Tivoli on January 4. Unfortunately, according to some observers, the sound was sometimes out of sync and inaudible. |
| 1933 | The Big Brain | George Archainbaud | George E. Stone Phillips Holmes Fay Wray | |
| 1933 | Convention City | Archie Mayo | Joan Blondell Dick Powell Adolphe Menjou Mary Astor | A pre-Code film produced by First National–Warner Bros. |
| 1933 | Hotel Variety | Raymond Cannon | Hal Skelly Olive Borden Charlotte Walker | |
| 1933 | Night in the City | Fei Mu | Ruan Lingyu Jin Yan | Fei Mu's debut |
| 1933 | Racetrack | James Cruze | Leo Carrillo Junior Coughlan Kay Hammond | |
| 1933 | Two Minutes Silence | Paulette McDonagh | Frank Bradley, Campbell Copelin, Marie Lorraine | Australia's first anti-war movie |
| 1933 | Wasei Kingu Kongu | Torajiro Saito | Isamu Yamaguchi | Japanese short film based on King Kong |
| 1934 | Jail Birds of Paradise | Al Boasberg | Dorothy Appleby, Moe Howard, Curly Howard | The only lost Three Stooges film |
| 1934 | Murder at Monte Carlo | Ralph Ince | Errol Flynn | Flynn's debut film in the UK |
| 1934 | Ragazzo | Ivo Perilli | Costantino Frasca, Isa Pola, Osvaldo Valenti | Screening was banned by Fascist authorities before the premiere, and the film was subsequently stored at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. During the Germans' retreat in 1944, the center was looted and set on fire. |
| 1934 | The Scarab Murder Case | Michael Hankinson | Wilfrid Hyde-White | A Philo Vance film |
| 1935 | The Magic Shoes | Claude Flemming | Peter Finch | Completed, but never released |
| 1935 | Obeah! | F. Herrick Herrick | Jean Brooks, Phillips Lord | Released in February 1935 |
| 1936 | The Oregon Trail | Scott Pembroke | John Wayne | Stills were found in 2013 |
| 1936 | The Adventures of Pinocchio | Raoul Verdini, Umberto Spano | | Unfinished film intended to be the first animated feature film from Italy. Only the original script and a couple of still frames survive. |
| 1937 | Terang Boelan | Albert Balink | Rd. Mochtar, Roekiah | Romance film from the Dutch East Indies; the colony's biggest commercial success |
| 1938 | The King Kong That Appeared in Edo | Sōya Kumagai | Eizaburo Matsumoto | Likely lost during World War II |
| 1938 | Nad Niemnem | Wanda Jakubowska and Karol Szolowski | | The Nazi regime liked the artistic value of the movie, but could not allow the screening of a picture so firmly rooted in Polish history. It was dubbed and re-edited, changing it to pro-German propaganda. Stefan Dekierowski informed the Polish underground, and the remaining three copies (out of five total) were hidden in winter 1939; the movie is believed to be lost. |
| 1939 | The Good Old Days | Roy William Neill | Max Miller, Hal Walters, Kathleen Gibson | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1939 | Secreto de confesión | | | Lost during the bombing of Manila during World War II |

### 1940s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1940 | Harta Berdarah | R Hu, Rd Ariffien | Zonder, Soelastri | Indonesian action film. Screened until at least July 1944 |
| 1940 | Kedok Ketawa | Jo An Djan | Fatimah, Basoeki Resobowo, Oedjang | Union Films' first production. Screened until at least August 1944 |
| 1941 | Asmara Moerni | Rd Ariffien | Adnan Kapau Gani, Djoewariah, S. Joesoef | Indonesian romance film. Screened until at least November 1945 |
| 1941 | Bajar dengan Djiwa | R Hu | A Bakar, Djoewariah, O Parma, Oedjang, RS Fatimah, Soelastri, Zonder | Indonesian drama film. Screened until at least October 1943 |
| 1941 | Soeara Berbisa | R Hu | Raden Soekarno, Ratna Djoewita, Oedjang, Soehaena | Screened until at least February 1949, longer than any other Union Films production, and the only Union picture known to have been shown post-World War II |
| 1941 | Wanita dan Satria | Rd Ariffien | Djoewariah, Ratna Djoewita, Hidajat, Z. Algadrie, Moesa | |
| 1941 | Mega Mendoeng | Boen Kim Nam | Raden Soekarno, Oedjang, Boen Sofiati, Soehaena | Union Films' final production before the studio closed ahead of the impending Japanese occupation |
| 1942 | The Battle of Hong Kong | Shigeo Tanaka | Ichirô Izawa, Kiyo Kuroda, Yasushi Nagata, Jun Usami, Masao Wakahara | Produced by the Japanese Dai Nippon Film Company during the Japanese occupation of Hong Kong |
| 1943 | Squadron Leader X | Lance Comfort | Eric Portman, Ann Dvorak | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1944 | Red Sky at Morning | Hartney Arthur | Peter Finch, John Alden | |
| 1945 | Flight from Folly | Herbert Mason | Patricia Kirkwood, Hugh Sinclair | Screen debut of stage star Kirkwood. On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1945 | We Accuse | Joseph H. Zarovich | Everett Sloane, narr. | One of the first feature-length American Holocaust documentaries released after Liberation, with narration scripted by John Bright, screenwriter for The Public Enemy (1931) and She Done Him Wrong (1933) |
| 1948 | The Betrayal | Oscar Micheaux | | The director's final production |

### 1960s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1960 | Linda | Don Sharp | Carol White, Alan Rothwell | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1962 | Bulgasari | Kim Myeong-je | Choi Moo-ryong, Um Aing-ran | Believed to be the first South Korean monster film, as well as the first to use special effects. The film is one of the most sought-after lost films in the kaiju genre. |
| 1962 | The Weird Ones | Pat Boyette | | |
| 1963 | Andy Warhol Films: Jack Smith Filming Normal Love | Andy Warhol | Jack Smith | This home movie, which may have been Warhol's first film, was seized by the New York City police in March 1964 and has since disappeared. |
| 1963 | Farewell Performance | Robert Tronson | David Kernan, Frederick Jaeger, Delphi Lawrence | On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films. Two excerpts from one reel of footage were posted on youtube by a private collector in January 2024 and confirmed to be from the film by members of the Joe Meek Society and lost TV/film enthusiast Ray Langstone. |
| 1966 | Gogola | Balwant Dave | | An Indian Hindi-language monster film. Following in the vein of such Japanese kaiju films as those in the Godzilla series, the plot of Gogola concerns a giant creature that emerges from the sea to terrorize Mumbai. Posters, lobby cards featuring promotional stills, and its soundtrack have survived. |
| 1967 | Batman Fights Dracula | Leody M. Diaz | Jing Abalos, Dante Rivero | A Filipino parody made without the permission of DC Comics, which owns the copyright for the character of Batman |
| 1969 | Boys | Arthur J. Bressan Jr. | | One of Bressan's first films, this gay adult production is identified as a lost film by the co-hosts of the podcast Ask Any Buddy. |

### 1970s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes |
| 1972 | Lash of Lust | George Sheaffer | Gary Kent, Bambi Allen, Rene Bond, George Buck Flower | Filmed in 1969 on the Spahn Ranch while the Manson Family was in residence and shortly before the commission of the Tate-LaBianca Murders. |
| 1972 | Midnight Geisha Boy | Dick Martin | Mark Richards, Ken Hill, Sammy Bond, Garth Lennox, Ray Revel | All copies of this gay-themed adult film were confiscated in a raid of Jaguar Productions' office by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Apart from a trailer, no known film elements have survived. |
| 1972 | Nobody Ordered Love | Robert Hartford-Davis | Ingrid Pitt, Tony Selby | All known prints believed destroyed upon the director's death at his request. On the BFI 75 Most Wanted list of lost films |
| 1973 | Prem Parbat | Ved Rahi | Satish Kaul, Hema Malini | According to the film's director, the print of the film has long since degraded to the point of being unusable. |
| 1973 | Romusha | Herman Nagara | Rofi'ie Prabancana, A. Hamid Arief | This film about Japanese war crimes in occupied Indonesia was destroyed just before its release by the period regime, following a protest from the Japanese embassy. |
| 1974 | Every Nigger Is a Star | Calvin Lockhart | Calvin Lockhart, Alfred Fagon | Lost film about a man's journey to return to his home of Jamaica, where he meets famous reggae bands of the time, including Inner Circle. However, the soundtrack has survived, and has gained mainstream attention due to the title track being sampled on rapper Kendrick Lamar's album To Pimp a Butterfly and for being featured in the 2016 film Moonlight. |
| 1974 | Him | Ed D. Louie | Tava | Gay pornographic film about a man who develops an erotic fixation with the life of Jesus Christ. Has been erroneously described as a hoax. |
| 1975 | Levi & Leather | Mother Goose | | Also known as Levi's N' Leather. A fetish-themed gay pornographic film that premiered over Thanksgiving weekend of 1975 in San Francisco, on a double bill with the Roger Earl film Born to Raise Hell. The podcast Ask Any Buddy notes that it is a lost film. |
| 1977 | Kissa Kursi Ka | Amrit Nahata | Shabana Azmi, Utpal Dutt | The plot revolved around a corrupt and evil politician Gangaram or Gangu, played by Manohar Singh, trying to woo personified public, depicted as mute and helpless looking (Shabana Azmi). The film was a satire on the politics of Indira Gandhi and her son Sanjay Gandhi and was banned by the Indian Government during the Emergency period and all prints were confiscated. Subsequently, all the prints and the master-print of the film at Censor Board office were picked up, later brought to Maruti factory in Gurgaon, where they were burned |
| 1978 | Tadhana | Nonoy Marcelo | Pandy Aviado, Estrella Kuenzler | A first-ever Philippine feature-length animated film presents a satirical, humorous and poignant view of the Philippines' history of Spanish colonisation through highly original and surreal vignettes fusing art, mythology and music. During the premiere, the original 35mm film reel mysteriously disappeared but only a few copies surrounding elsewhere in the Philippines, particularly Teddy Co. and Mowelfund Film Institute. |
| 1979 | Looking for the Amazons | Rita Moreira and Norma Bahia Pontes | | Only some excerpts had survived by 2020 because Moreira had self-admittedly disposed of her only copy due to having "too much lines". |
| 1979 | Njattadi | Bharath Gopi | Bharat Murali, K.N. Sreenivasan, Sunil, Girija and Kalamandalam Devaki | The film is based on the life of the protagonist Unni, who is moved by Naxalite ideas. It was banned by the censor board because of the portrayal of Naxal ideas. The film was screened only twice and its print is now lost. |
| 1970s | Just another crime, next door this time | Rita Moreira and Norma Bahia Pontes | | Part of the duo's Living in New York City series; no print could be found in 2020. |
| 1970s | The Kid at Times Square and the Bird on Broadway | Rita Moreira and Norma Bahia Pontes | | Part of the duo's Living in New York City series; no print could be found in 2020. |

### 1980s

| Year | Film | Director | Cast | Notes | Ref. |
| 1982 | Milagro sa Porta Vaga | Florencio Orbeta | Julie Vega | Religious epic film about Our Lady of Porta Vaga, a venerated Marian icon in the Philippines. No known print of the film was found aside from a lone still. | |
| 1983 | Roy del espacio | Hector López Carmona, Rafael Ángel Gil and Ulises Pérez Aguirre | José Chorena, Guillermo Coria, Juan Domingo Méndez | Animated Mexican sci-fi film. After its initial release, it was never re-released on home media and remains inaccessible aside from a number of stills. | |
| 1983-1985 | P.P. The Planetary Pal | Paul Sammon | Steve Bailey, Nanci Hunter, and Sally Marsh | Feature length parody film of E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, was fully filmed and completed but never released. | [128] [129] |
| 1988 | A Cor da Terra | Norma Bahia Pontes and Ana Porto | | No print could be found in 2020. | |