1Sherlock Jr.
TMDB8.0
1924·1.2K votes
A film projectionist longs to be a detective, and puts his meager skills to work when he is framed by a rival for stealing his girlfriend's father's pocketwatch.
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2The General
TMDB7.9
1926·1.4K votes
During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.
3One Week
TMDB7.9
1920·326 votes
Newlyweds receive a build-it-yourself house as a wedding gift—and the house can, supposedly, be built in "one week". A rejected suitor secretly re-numbers packing crates, and the husband struggles to assemble the house according to this new 'arrangement' of its parts.
4The Cameraman
TMDB7.8
1928·437 votes
A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.
5Steamboat Bill, Jr.
TMDB7.6
1928·392 votes
The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he's not seen since he was a child.
6Seven Chances
TMDB7.5
1925·327 votes
Struggling stockbroker Jimmie Shannon learns that, if he gets married by 7 p.m. on his 27th birthday -- which is today -- he'll inherit $7 million from an eccentric relative.
7Our Hospitality
TMDB7.5
1923·320 votes
A young man falls for a young woman on his trip home; unbeknownst to him, her family has vowed to kill every member of his family.
8The Scarecrow
TMDB7.5
1920·166 votes
Two farmhands compete for the love of the farmer's daughter.
9The Goat
TMDB7.2
1921·174 votes
A series of misadventures occur when Buster is mistaken for a criminal on the lam.
10Cops
TMDB7.2
1922·228 votes
Buster Keaton gets involved in a series of misunderstandings involving a horse and cart. Eventually he infuriates every cop in the city when he accidentally interrupts a police parade.
11The High Sign
TMDB7.2
1921·125 votes
Buster is thrown off a train near an amusement park. There he gets a job in a shooting gallery run by the Blinking Buzzards mob. Ordered to kill a businessman, he winds up protecting the man and his daughter by outfitting their home with trick devices.
12The Navigator
TMDB7.1
1924·279 votes
The wealthy and impulsive Rollo Treadway decides to propose to his beautiful socialite neighbor, Betsy O'Brien. Although Betsy turns Rollo down, he still opts to go on the cruise that he intended as their honeymoon. When circumstances find both Rollo and Betsy on the wrong ship, they end up having adventures on the high seas.
13Neighbors
TMDB7.1
1920·158 votes
The Romeo and Juliet story played out in a tenement neighborhood with Buster and Virginia's families hating each other over the fence separating their buildings.
14Go West
TMDB6.9
1925·153 votes
With little luck at keeping a job in the city a New Yorker tries work in the country and eventually finds his way leading a herd of cattle to the West Coast.
15Hard Luck
TMDB6.9
1921·101 votes
A down on his luck young man makes several attempts at committing suicide but fails them too. He then finds himself becoming more confident through a series of petty adventures, to such an extent that this becomes his undoing.
16The Play House
TMDB6.8
1921·143 votes
Upon waking from the dream of a theater peopled entirely by numerous Buster Keatons, a lowly stage hand causes havoc everywhere he works.
17Three Ages
TMDB6.8
1923·141 votes
The rituals of courtship, romantic rivalry, and love play out three times as a man vies with a villain for the girl. In the Stone Age, the rivalry is set off by dinosaurs, a turtle used as a ouija board, and a round of golf with stones. In ancient Rome, the men display their brawn through a chariot race, using dogs instead of horses. In contemporary times, the man finds himself overcome by modernity, including a very fragile car.
18Battling Butler
TMDB6.8
1926·105 votes
A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.
19The Electric House
TMDB6.8
1922·109 votes
Botany major Buster mistakenly graduates in electrical engineering and is hired to wire a new home.
20Convict 13
TMDB6.7
1920·138 votes
A young golfer is mugged by an escaped convict and finds himself in a prison where he foils a jailbreak.