Movies released in 1921

My Boy

61/100

An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.

Little Lord Fauntleroy

73/100

An American boy turns out to be the long-lost heir of a British fortune. He is sent to live with the cold and unsentimental lord who oversees the trust.

Vier um die Frau

64/100

The Mechanical Man

61/100

The story begins with a scientist creating a device shaped like a man that can be remote-controlled by a machine.

The Dark Road

67/100

Dr Eigil Borne is engaged to Hélène, a girl who is madly in love with him. At Hélène's birthday celebration, Eigil invites her to a cabaret, where he meets his other love, Lily, a passionate, fiery and funny dancer.

Scherben

66/100

Set during the winter, the story tells the tale of a track checker and his family who live a poverty-stricken life next to a railway line...

Enchantment

70/100

The frothy experiences of a vain little flapper. Her father induces an actor friend to become a gentlemanly cave man and the film becomes another variation of the 'Taming of the Shrew' ... See full summary »

Hintertreppe

69/100

A crippled mailman is in love with a maid who lives in the same building he does in one of the city's poor neighborhoods...

Johan

71/100

On a farm in up-country Sweden, an enigmatic stranger comes to a conservative peasant community and seduces a farmer's wife.

Through the Back Door

70/100

When her mother remarries, a young Belgian girl is left behind with her nurse, but when Germany invades the country, she is sent to America to find her mother.

La terre

68/100

As Jean is walking across the countryside in search of work, he helps and befriends a young woman, Françoise...

Mad Love

69/100

Adventures of Tarzan

65/100

Tarzan spurns the love of La, Queen of Opar. When he isn't trying to keep the Bolshevik Rokoff and Clayton (pretender to the Greystoke estate) from reaching Opar, he is attacked ... See full summary »

Dream Street

60/100

Three men in London compete for the love of a dance-hall girl.

The Sea Lion

68/100

A cinematic classic from 1921.

Rojô no reikion

69/100

Buried Treasure

81/100

Strung around the idea of reincarnation, this film goes back in time to the days of the Spanish galleons and pirates burying their treasure; treasure to be found centuries later.

Ducks and Drakes

74/100

Heiress Teddy Simpson avoids boredom by calling random men to flirt despite having a fiance, Rob Winslow. Trouble arises when she meets a few of them and they expect to marry her. She must ... See full summary »

Jánosík

66/100

The story of the Slovak highwayman and folk hero Juraj Janosik.

The Sky Pilot

74/100

The sky pilot is a preacher who helps Gwen walk again after a near-fatal accident.

Cud nad Wisla

53/100

Quiet and monotonous life in the countryside is abruptly interrupted by the moving front of the Polish-Russian war.

Dracula's Death

75/100

A girl has frightening visions after visiting an insane asylum where one of the inmates claims to be Drakula and she can not be sure whether they were a nightmare or real.

Forbidden Fruit

72/100

Mary Maddock becomes a seamstress after her husband Steve wastes their money on booze. Her employer...

Der Ankömmling aus der Finsternis

63/100

Richard Bor brings his neighbor, the landowner Drazicky, an old book. The latter tries in vain to persuade his wife Dagmar to leave. In the book Drazicky finds the story of the Mystery of ... See full summary »

Jesse James Under the Black Flag

69/100

Shows James' joining of the Quantrill's raiders, a guerrilla force which fought against union sympathizers during the Civil War. James takes allegiance to the Black Flag, the raiders' ... See full summary »