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Best Fantasy Movies of the 1920s, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
34 fantasy films from the 1920s are in our catalog; the 34 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Faust (1926), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.0.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Faust '1926 | Fantasy / Drama / Horror | 8.1 | 91% | - | 7.9 | F. W. Murnau |
| 2 | The Phantom Carriage '1921 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.7 | Victor Sjöström |
| 3 | Die Nibelungen: Siegfried '1924 | Drama / Fantasy | 8.1 | 93% | - | 7.8 | Fritz Lang |
| 4 | Nosferatu '1922 | Horror / Fantasy | 7.8 | 97% | - | 7.6 | F. W. Murnau |
| 5 | The Adventures of Prince Achmed '1926 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.5 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 6 | Die Nibelungen: Kriemhild's Revenge '1924 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.9 | 89% | - | 7.6 | Fritz Lang |
| 7 | Un Chien Andalou '1929 | Fantasy / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 8 | The Thief of Bagdad '1924 | Romance / Fantasy | 7.7 | 97% | - | 7.3 | Raoul Walsh |
| 9 | Destiny '1921 | Drama / Fantasy / Thriller | 7.6 | 79% | - | 7.4 | Fritz Lang |
| 10 | The Play House '1921 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.4 | - | - | 6.9 | Edward F. Cline |
| 11 | Entr'acte '1924 | Comedy / Fantasy | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | René Clair |
| 12 | The Golem: How He Came into the World '1920 | Fantasy / Horror | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Carl Boese |
| 13 | The Little Match Girl '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Jean Renoir |
| 14 | Zvenigora '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.3 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| 15 | Peter Pan '1924 | Fantasy | 7.1 | 98% | - | 6.9 | Herbert Brenon |
| 16 | The Seashell and the Clergyman '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Germaine Dulac |
| 17 | The Lost World '1925 | Fantasy / Drama / Romance / Horror / Sci-Fi / Thriller | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.7 | Harry O. Hoyt |
| 18 | Maciste in Hell '1925 | Fantasy / Horror / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.7 | Guido Brignone |
| 19 | Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend: The Pet '1921 | Fantasy / Animation | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Winsor McCay |
| 20 | A Daughter Of Destiny '1928 | Drama / Fantasy / Sci-Fi / Horror | 6.2 | - | - | 6.4 | Henrik Galeen |
| 21 | Egged On '1926 | Fantasy / Comedy / Sci-Fi / Animation | 6.6 | - | - | 6.3 | Charles R. Bowers |
| 22 | The Magician '1926 | Drama / Horror / Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.1 | Rex Ingram |
| 23 | Ballet Mécanique '1924 | Fantasy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Fernand Léger |
| 24 | Waxworks '1924 | Fantasy / Horror | 6.6 | - | - | 6.4 | Leo Birinski |
| 25 | The Frogs Who Wanted a King '1922 | Animation / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.1 | Władysław Starewicz |
| 26 | The Pearl '1929 | Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.2 | Henri d'Ursel |
| 27 | Salomé '1923 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 6.6 | 67% | - | 6.3 | Charles Bryant |
| 28 | Cinderella '1922 | Animation / Fantasy / Romance | 6.9 | - | - | 6.6 | Lotte Reiniger |
| 29 | The Lump '1929 | Animation / Fantasy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.3 | Yasuji Murata |
| 30 | Phantom '1922 | Drama / Romance / Fantasy | 6.7 | 43% | - | 6.8 | F. W. Murnau |
| 31 | Leaves from Satan's Book '1920 | Drama / Fantasy / Horror | 6.6 | - | - | 6.1 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 32 | Aelita: Queen of Mars '1924 | Sci-Fi / Drama / Fantasy | 6.3 | 100% | - | 6.0 | Yakov Protazanov |
| 33 | Glumov's Diary '1923 | Fantasy / Comedy | 5.6 | - | - | 5.1 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 34 | 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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Directors on this list
F. W. Murnau Victor Sjöström Fritz Lang Luis Buñuel Raoul Walsh Edward F. Cline René Clair Jean Renoir Winsor McCay Władysław Starewicz Carl Theodor Dreyer Sergei Eisenstein
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Emil Jannings Buster Keaton Edward F. Cline Lewis Stone Conrad Veidt