A list of fantasy films released before the 1930s.
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1903 • 1904 • 1910 • 1911 • 1915 • 1917 • 1918 • 1920 • 1921 • 1922 • 1924 • 1925 • 1926 |
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| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
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| 1903 | ||||||
| The Infernal Boiling Pot | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | Short film | |||
| 1904 | ||||||
| The Impossible Voyage | Georges Méliès | Georges Méliès | Short film | |||
| 1910 | ||||||
| The Wonderful Wizard of Oz | Short film | |||||
| 1911 | ||||||
| L'Inferno | Short film | |||||
| 1915 | ||||||
| The Story of a Story | Tod Browning | Short film | ||||
| 1917 | ||||||
| Flames | Maurice Elvey | Douglas Munro, Owen Nares, Edward O'Neill | Silent film | |||
| 1918 | ||||||
| The Blue Bird | Maurice Tourneur | Emma Lowry, Robin Macdougall, William J. Gross | Silent film | |||
| Tarzan of the Apes | Elmo Lincoln | Silent film | ||||
| The Ghost of Slumber Mountain | Stop motion | |||||
| 1920 | ||||||
| Körkarlen | Victor Sjöström | Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström, Astrid Holm | Silent film | |||
| 1921 | ||||||
| Der müde Tod | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Walter Janssen, Bernhard Goetzke | Silent film | |||
| L'Atlantide | Silent film | |||||
| 1922 | ||||||
| Paris Qui Dort | René Clair | Madeleine Rodrigue, Myla Seller, Henri Rollan | Silent film | |||
| Phantom | F.W. Murnau | Hans Heinrich Von Twardowski, Frida Richard, Aud Egede Nissen | Silent film | |||
| 1924 | ||||||
| Dante's Inferno | Henry Otto | Lawson Butt, Howard Gaye, Ralph Lewis | Silent film | |||
| Die Nibelungen: Siegfried | Fritz Lang | Paul Richter, Margarete Schön, Hanna Ralph | Silent film | |||
| Die Nibelungen: Kriemhilds Rache | Fritz Lang | Rudolf Rittner, Margarete Schön, Hans Adalbert Schlettow | Silent film | |||
| The Enchanted Cottage | John S. Robertson | Richard Barthelmess, May McAvoy, Ida Waterman | Silent film | |||
| Peter Pan | Herbert Brenon | Betty Bronson, Ernest Torrence, Cyril Chadwick | Silent film | |||
| The Thief of Bagdad | Raoul Walsh | Douglas Fairbanks, Snitz Edwards, Julanne Johnston | Silent film | |||
| Waxworks | Paul Leni | Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, William Dieterle | Silent film | |||
| 1925 | ||||||
| The Lost World | Harry Hoyt, William Dowling | Bessie Love, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery | Silent film | |||
| She | Leander de Cordova, G.B. Samuelson | Betty Blythe | Silent film | |||
| Wizard of Oz | Larry Semon | Larry Semon, Bryant Washburn, Dorothy Dwan | Silent film | |||
| 1926 | ||||||
| Adventures of Prince Achmed | Lotte Reiniger | Animated film | ||||
| Faust | F.W. Murnau | Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn | Silent film | |||
| A Kiss for Cinderella | Herbert Brenon | Betty Bronson, Tom Moore, Esther Ralston | Silent film | |||
| The Sorrows of Satan | D.W. Griffith | Adolphe Menjou, Ricardo Cortez, Carol Dempster | Silent film | |||
| The Student of Prague | Henrik Galeen | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss | Silent film | |||
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