The Phantom Carriage (1921)

The Phantom Carriage (1921) poster
Rating: ★★★
Death's Carriage Driver

Silent film whose greatest footnote is that it was Ingmar Bergman’s favourite film. Has some extraordinary fantastic images, even if these are technically primitive today. Less effective is the modern attempts to view it as a ghost story, when it is more a morality play akin to A Christmas Carol

Destiny (1921)

Destiny (1921) poster
Rating: ★★★
Death Incarnates Lovers Throughout History

An early Fritz Lang film clearly influenced by D.W. Griffith’s Intolerance in which Death offers a woman visions of her and her lover reincarnated throughout different eras of history

L’Atlantide (1921)

L'Atlantide (1921) poster
Rating: ★★★★
Lost World/Immortal Queen

The first and best film version of a classic story about an expedition finding the city ruled by an immortal queen in the desert. This was shot in the real locations and comes with a stunning sense of expansiveness