Silent films that are still easy watches

Faust
Any Keaton
Metropolis
Sunrise

Metropolis is beginner? It's great, but try selling a 2 and a half hour silent film to someone who's never watched one before.

>>81909909
Mabuse is 5h

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Haxan

>>81909787
>Caligari is no longer scary
Get out

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>>81909787

>>81910013
It's not? And that's no shame, it's literally the first horror film, and I love it - the scares have dated but the entertainment value hasn't. It's still spooky. I'd recommend it as a beginner horror for kids if I had faith in any child sitting through a silent film.

>>81909909

First time I saw it thought I'd misread the length as 1.5 hours rather than 150 minutes.

The film is pretty much constantly engaging you on some level. You're thinking about previous scenes, you're noticing small stuff that has been referenced in other films, you're seeing cool shit and so on. So those two and half hours goes by fairly quickly.

I mean, if you can tolerate silent B&W films, metropolis is an absolutely fantastic experience.

>>81910175
I do love it and you have a fair point. I watched it first time when I'd already seen a few silent films, so maybe I'm underestimating its accessibility a bit.

>>81909909
But from narrative perspective it's pretty accessible and hasn't aged so badly so it should be engaging enough even for a beginner.

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It's great

Man With A Movie Camera

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>Ctrl F - no The General

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les vampires is entertaining as fuck
people act like it's a 10 hour long movie but it's not, it's a series of really short movies you can watch like a tv show and it's great, just endless double crosses and plot twists and amoral catsuited burglars fucking shit up

>>81911232
Someone said "any Keaton" earlier

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rififi

rififi has like a 30min heist sequence which is totally silent

film hasnt aged a day

>>81911386
it's not a silent film
just having a worldless sequence doesn't count

>>81909787
Everything by Laurel & Hardy.

>>81911945
some of their stuff isn't silent