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Best Movies of 1925, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
31 films from 1925 are in our catalog; the 31 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Gold Rush ('1925), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Battleship Potemkin, 7.9 on IMDb against 97 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Gold Rush '1925 | Comedy / Drama | 8.1 | 98% | 90 | 8.0 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 2 | Battleship Potemkin '1925 | Drama / War | 7.9 | 100% | 97 | 7.6 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 3 | The Big Parade '1925 | Romance / War / Drama | 7.9 | 100% | - | 7.6 | King Vidor |
| 4 | Seven Chances '1925 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 94% | - | 7.5 | Buster Keaton |
| 5 | Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ '1925 | Drama / Romance / Action | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.3 | Fred Niblo |
| 6 | Strike '1925 | Drama | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 7 | The Phantom of the Opera '1925 | Horror | 7.5 | 90% | - | 7.1 | Rupert Julian |
| 8 | The Freshman '1925 | Comedy / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.0 | Sam Taylor |
| 9 | Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life '1925 | Documentary | 7.7 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Ernest B. Schoedsack |
| 10 | Variety '1925 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.4 | 100% | - | 6.7 | E.A. Dupont |
| 11 | The Iron Horse '1925 | Western / Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 73% | - | 6.8 | John Ford |
| 12 | The Merry Widow '1925 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 13 | Lady Windermere's Fan '1925 | Comedy / Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 14 | Go West '1925 | Comedy / Western | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Buster Keaton |
| 15 | The Unholy Three '1925 | Crime / Thriller / Drama | 7.1 | 88% | - | 6.7 | Tod Browning |
| 16 | The Crazy Ray '1925 | Comedy / Sci-Fi | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | René Clair |
| 17 | Joyless Street '1925 | Drama | 7.1 | 67% | - | 6.8 | G.W. Pabst |
| 18 | Chess Fever '1925 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.4 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 19 | The Late Mathias Pascal '1925 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Marcel L'Herbier |
| 20 | Orochi '1925 | Drama / Action | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Buntarō Futagawa |
| 21 | Master of the House '1925 | Drama | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.9 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 22 | The Lost World '1925 | Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Harry O. Hoyt |
| 23 | Maciste in Hell '1925 | Fantasy / Horror / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.7 | Guido Brignone |
| 24 | Whirlpool of Fate '1925 | Romance / Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 6.6 | Jean Renoir |
| 25 | Kino-Pravda No. 21: Lenin Kino-Pravda. A Film Poem About Lenin '1925 | Documentary | 6.2 | - | - | 5.5 | Dziga Vertov |
| 26 | The Eagle '1925 | Romance / Comedy | 6.6 | 83% | - | 6.4 | Clarence Brown |
| 27 | Body and Soul '1925 | Drama | 6.2 | - | - | 6.3 | Oscar Micheaux |
| 28 | The Monster '1925 | Comedy / Horror / Mystery | 6.2 | - | - | 5.7 | Roland West |
| 29 | Gus Visser and His Singing Duck '1925 | - | 5.4 | - | - | 5.0 | Theodore Case |
| 30 | The Pleasure Garden '1925 | Drama / Romance | 5.8 | - | - | 5.3 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 31 | The Wizard of Oz '1925 | Comedy / Fantasy | 4.9 | - | - | 5.5 | Larry Semon |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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