A list of science fiction films released in the 1920s. These films include core elements of science fiction and are widely available with reviews by reputable critics or film historians.
| Title |
Director |
Cast |
Country |
Sub-Genre/Notes |
| 1920 |
| Algol |
Hans Werckmeister |
Emil Jannings, John Gottowt, Hans Adalbert Schlettow |
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| The Invisible Ray |
Harry A. Pollard |
Ruth Clifford, Jack Sherrill, Sidney Bracey |
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Serial film |
| 1921 |
| The Mechanical Man |
Andre Deed |
Gabriel Moreau, Valentina Frascaroli, Fernando Vivas-May |
 |
| 1922 |
| The Man from Beyond |
Burton L. King |
Harry Houdini, Arthur Maude, Albert Tavernier, Erwin Connelly |
|
[1] |
| 1923 |
| Black Oxen |
Frank Lloyd |
Corinne Griffith, Conway Tearle, Clara Bow |
|
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| 1924 |
| Aelita |
Yakov Protazanov |
Yuliya Solntseva, Igor Ilyinsky, Nikolai Tsereteli |
 |
|
| The Last Man on Earth |
John G. Blystone |
Buck Black, Maurice Murphy, William Steele |
|
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| L'Inhumaine |
Marcel L'Herbier |
Georgette Leblanc, Jaque Catelain, Philippe Hériat |
 |
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| 1925 |
| The Lost World |
Harry Hoyt |
Bessie Love, Lewis Stone, Wallace Beery, Lloyd Hughes, Alma Bennett |
|
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| Luch Smerti |
Lev Kuleshov |
Porfiri Podobed, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Alexandra Khokhlova |
|
[2][3] |
| Paris Qui Dort |
René Clair |
Madeleine Rodrigue, Myla Seller, Henri Rollan |
|
Sci-Fi Comedy |
| The Power God |
Francis Ford, Ben F. Wilson |
Ben F. Wilson, Neva Gerber, Mary Crane |
|
Serial film[4][5] |
| Wunder Der Schöpfung |
Hanns Walter Kornblum |
Paul Bildt, Willy Kaiser-Heyl, Theodor Loos, Oscar Marion |
|
[6] |
| 1927 |
| Metropolis |
Fritz Lang |
Alfred Abel, Gustav Froehlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Theodor Loos |
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| 1928 |
| Alraune |
Henrik Galeen |
Brigitte Helm |
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| 1929 |
| High Treason |
Maurice Elvey |
Benita Hume, Basil Gill, Jameson Thomas, Milton Rosmer |
 |
[7] |
| The Mysterious Island |
Lucien Hubbard |
Lionel Barrymore, Jane Daly, Lloyd Hughes |
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| Woman in the Moon |
Fritz Lang |
Klaus Pohl, Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Fritz Rasp |
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See also [edit]
References [edit]
- ^ Weldon, Michael (1996). The Psychotronic Video Guide. Macmillan. p. 351. ISBN 0-312-13149-6.
- ^ Gillespie, David C. (2000). Early Soviet Cinema: Innovation, Ideology and Propaganda. Wallflower Press. pp. 30–31. ISBN 1-903364-04-3.
- ^ Telotte, J. P. (1999). A Distant Technology: Science Fiction Film and the Machine Age. Wesleyan University Press. p. 35–36. ISBN 081956346 .
- ^ Rainey, Buck (1990). Those Fabulous Serial Heroines: their lives and films. Scarecrow Press. p. 53. ISBN 0-8108-1911-2.
- ^ Benson, Michael (1985). Vintage Science Fiction Films, 1896-1949. McFarland. p. 90. ISBN 0-89950-085-4.
- ^ "Wunder der Schöpfung". Edition Filmmuseum. Retrieved 2009-05-15.
- ^ Erickson, Hal. "High Treason (1929)". The New York Times. Retrieved 2009-06-07.
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