A list of horror films released in the 1920s.
| Title | Director | Cast | Country | Notes | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1920 | ||||||
| The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari | Robert Wiene | Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt | ||||
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | John S. Robertson | John Barrymore, Martha Mansfield | ||||
| Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde | J. Charles Haydon | Sheldon Lewis | ||||
| Genuine | Robert Wiene | Fern Andra, Hans Heinrich von Twardowski | ||||
| The Golem: How He Came Into the World | Paul Wegener, Karl Boese | Paul Wegener, Albert Steinrück | ||||
| The Head of Janus | F. W. Murnau | Conrad Veidt, Bela Lugosi | ||||
| The Penalty | Wallace Worsley, Sr. | Lon Chaney, Claire Adams | ||||
| 1921 | ||||||
| Der Muede Tod | Fritz Lang | Lil Dagover, Bernard Goetzke, Walter Janssen | ||||
| The Haunted Castle | F. W. Murnau | Arnold Korft, Lothar Mehnert | ||||
| Körkarlen | Victor Sjöström | Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström | ||||
| 1922 | ||||||
| Anita | Jacob Fleck, Luise Fleck | Lola Urban-Kneidinger, Wilhelm Klitsch, Julius Strobl | ||||
| A Blind Bargain | Wallace Worsley, Sr. | Raymond McKee, Jacqueline Logan, Fontaine La Rue | ||||
| The Ghost Breaker | Alfred Green | Wallace Reid, Lila Lee, Walter Hiers | Lost film | |||
| Häxan | Benjamin Christensen | Benjamin Christensen, Clara Pontoppidan | ||||
| The Headless Horseman | Edward D. Venturini | Will Rogers, Ben Hendricks, Lois Meredith | ||||
| Nosferatu | F. W. Murnau | Max Schreck, Gustav von Wangenheim, Greta Schröder | ||||
| One Exciting Night | D. W. Griffith | Carol Dempster, Henry Hull, Morgan Wallace | ||||
| 1923 | ||||||
| The Last Moment | J. Parker Read | Henry Hull, Doris Kenyon, Louis Wolheim | ||||
| 1924 | ||||||
| The Hands of Orlac | Robert Wiene | Conrad Veidt, Alexandra Sorina | ||||
| Waxworks | Paul Leni | Werner Krauss, Conrad Veidt, Emil Jannings, William Dieterle | ||||
| 1925 | ||||||
| Maciste all'inferno | Guido Brignone | Bartolomeo Pagano, Franz Sala, Pauline Polaire | ||||
| The Monster | Roland West | Lon Chaney, Johnny Arthur, Gertrude Olmstead | ||||
| The Phantom of the Opera | Rupert Julian | Lon Chaney, Mary Philbin, Norman Kerry | ||||
| Wolfblood: A Tale of the Forest | George Chesebro, Bruce M. Mitchell | Marguerite Clayton, Ray Hanford | ||||
| 1926 | ||||||
| The Bat | Roland West | Jack Pickford, Louise Fazenda | ||||
| Faust – Eine deutsche Volkssage | F. W. Murnau | Emil Jannings, Yvette Guilbert, Gösta Ekman | ||||
| The Magician | Rex Ingram | Alice Terry, Paul Wegener | ||||
| The Student of Prague | Henrik Galeen | Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy | ||||
| 1927 | ||||||
| The Cat and the Canary | Paul Leni | Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale | ||||
| The Gorilla | Alfred Santell | Charlie Murray, Fred Kelsey, Alice Day | ||||
| London After Midnight | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Marceline Day | Known in the UK as The Hypnotist | |||
| Metropolis | Fritz Lang | Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Rudolf Klein-Rogge | ||||
| The Spider's Web | Oscar Micheaux | Lorenzo McClane, Henrietta Loveless, Cincinnatus Major | ||||
| The Unknown | Tod Browning | Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford | ||||
| 1928 | ||||||
| Alraune | Henrik Galeen | Brigitte Helm, Paul Wegener | ||||
| The Ape | Beverly C. Rule | Gladys Walton, Ruth Stonehouse, Basil Wilson, Bradley Barke | ||||
| The Fall of the House of Usher | Jean Epstein | Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance | ||||
| The Fall of the House of Usher | James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber | Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson | ||||
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