1925 in film

Top-grossing films (U.S.)

Events

• June 26: Charlie Chaplin's The Gold Rush premieres. It is voted the best film of the year by critics in The Film Daily annual poll
• September 25: Ufa-Palast am Zoo in Berlin rebuilt as Germany's largest cinema reopens.
• November 5: MGM's war drama film The Big Parade is released. It is a massive commercial success, becoming the highest-grossing picture of the 1920s in the United States.
• December 30: MGM's biblical epic Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ premieres in New York City. It is the most expensive silent film ever made, costing $4 million
• Hong Shen publishes the film script Mrs. Shentu in the Shanghai magazine Eastern Miscellany. It is never filmed, but is considered a milestone in film history for being the first published film script in China. Hong also directs his first film, Young Master Feng, at Mingxing Film Company in this year.

  Notable films released in 1925

A

• Ang Pagtitipid, directed by José Nepomuceno –
• Are Parents People?, directed by Malcolm St. Clair, starring Adolphe Menjou

  B

• The Battleship Potemkin , directed by Sergei Eisenstein –
• The Bells , directed by and starring Harry Southwell
• Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, directed by Fred Niblo, starring Ramón Novarro, May McAvoy and Francis X. Bushman
• The Big Parade, directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
• The Blackguard , directed by Graham Cutts –
• Braveheart, directed by Alan Hale Sr., starring Rod La Rocque

  C

• Chess Fever , directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin –
• Chronicles of the Gray House, directed by Arthur von Gerlach, starring Lil Dagover
• The Circle, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Eleanor Boardman
• Classified, directed by Alfred Santell, starring Corinne Griffith
• Cobra, directed by Joseph Henabery, starring Rudolph Valentino and Nita Naldi
• Corazón Aymara , directed by Pedro Sambarino –
• Curses!, directed by William Goodrich and Grover Jones

  D

• The Dark Angel, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Ronald Colman and Vilma Bánky
• Déclassé, directed by Robert G. Vignola, starring Corinne Griffith and Lloyd Hughes
• Dr. Pyckle and Mr. Pryde, directed by Scott Pembroke and Joe Rock, starring Stan Laurel
• Don Q, Son of Zorro, directed by Donald Crisp, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Mary Astor

  E

• The Eagle, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky

  F

• The Farmer from Texas , directed by Joe May, starring Lillian Hall-Davis and Willy Fritsch –
• Feu Mathias Pascal , directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Ivan Mosjoukine –
• Fifty-Fifty, directed by Henri Diamant-Berger, starring Hope Hampton, Lionel Barrymore and Louise Glaum
• The Freshman, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer and Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd

  G

• Go West, starring and directed by Buster Keaton
• The Gold Rush, a Charlie Chaplin film
• The Goose Woman, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Louise Dresser, Jack Pickford and Constance Bennett
• Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life, directed by Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack
• The Green Archer, a 10-chapter serial directed by Spencer Gordon Bennet, starring Allene Ray and Walter Miller, based on the 1923 novel by Edgar Wallace

  H

• The Haunted Honeymoon, directed by Fred Guiol and Ted Wilde, starring Glenn Tryon
• The Heart Breaker, directed by Benjamin Stoloff
• His People, directed by Edward Sloman, starring Rudolph Schildkraut
• His Supreme Moment, directed by George Fitzmaurice, starring Blanche Sweet and Ronald Colman
• El Húsar de la Muerte , starring and directed by Pedro Sienna –

  I

• Isn't Life Terrible?, directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charley Chase and Oliver Hardy

  J

• Joyless Street , directed by G. W. Pabst, starring Greta Garbo, Werner Krauss and Asta Nielsen –

  K

• The King on Main Street, directed by Monta Bell, starring Adolphe Menjou and Bessie Love
• A Kiss For Cinderella, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Esther Ralston

  L

• The Lady, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Norma Talmadge
• Lady of the Night, directed by Monta Bell, starring Norma Shearer
• Lazybones, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Madge Bellamy, Buck Jones and ZaSu Pitts
• Lady Windermere's Fan, directed by Ernst Lubitsch, starring Ronald Colman and May McAvoy
• Lights of Old Broadway, directed by Monta Bell, starring Marion Davies and Conrad Nagel
• Little Annie Rooney, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford and William Haines
• Living Buddhas , directed by Paul Wegener, starring Paul Wegener and Asta Nielsen
• The Lost World, directed by Harry O. Hoyt, starring Bessie Love, Lewis Stone and Wallace Beery, based on the 1912 novel by Arthur Conan Doyle
• Lovers in Quarantine, directed by Frank Tuttle, starring Bebe Daniels and Harrison Ford
• The Lucky Horseshoe, directed by John G. Blystone, starring Tom Mix

  M

• Maciste in Hell , directed by Guido Brignone –
• Madame Behave, directed by Scott Sidney, starring Julian Eltinge and Ann Pennington
• Madame Sans-Gêne, directed by Léonce Perret, starring Gloria Swanson
• The Marriage of the Bear , directed by Vladimir Gardin and Konstantin Eggert, based on the 1869 novella Lokis by Prosper Mérimée –
• Master of the House , directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer –
• Men and Women, directed by William C. deMille, starring Richard Dix
• The Merry Widow, directed by Erich von Stroheim, starring Mae Murray and John Gilbert
• Miracles of Love, directed by Vicente Salumbides, starring Dimples Cooper –
• Les Misérables, directed by Henri Fescourt –
• The Monster, directed by Roland West, starring Lon Chaney and Johnny Arthur, based on the 1924 play by Crane Wilbur
• The Mystic, directed by Tod Browning, starring Aileen Pringle and Conway Tearle

  O

• Old Clothes, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan and Joan Crawford
• Orochi, directed by Buntarō Futagawa, starring Tsumasaburō Bandō –

  P

• Pampered Youth, directed by David Smith
• The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge , written and directed by René Clair –
• The Phantom of the Opera, directed by Rupert Julian, starring Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry and Mary Philbin, based on the 1910 novel by Gaston Leroux
• The Plastic Age – directed by Wesley Ruggles, starring Clara Bow and Gilbert Roland
• The Pleasure Garden, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Virginia Valli and Carmelita Geraghty –
• Prem Sanyas , directed by Franz Osten and Himanshu Rai –
• Pretty Ladies, directed by Monta Bell, starring ZaSu Pitts
• Proud Flesh, directed by King Vidor, starring Eleanor Boardman and Harrison Ford

  R

• The Rag Man, directed by Edward F. Cline, starring Jackie Coogan
• The Rat, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Ivor Novello, Mae Marsh and Isabel Jeans –
• The Red Head , directed by Julien Duvivier –
• Red Heels , directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita –
• Red Hot Tires, directed by Erle C. Kenton, starring Monte Blue and Patsy Ruth Miller
• The Road to Yesterday, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Joseph Schildkraut and William Boyd

  S

• Sally, Irene and Mary directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Constance Bennett, Joan Crawford, Sally O'Neil and William Haines
• Sally of the Sawdust, directed by D. W. Griffith, starring Carol Dempster and W. C. Fields
• Seven Chances, a Buster Keaton film
• Seven Keys to Baldpate, directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, starring Douglas MacLean, based on the 1913 novel by Earl Derr Biggers
• She, directed by Leander de Cordova and G. B. Samuelson, starring Betty Blythe –
• Smouldering Fires, directed by Clarence Brown, starring Pauline Frederick and Laura La Plante
• Spook Ranch, directed by Edward Laemmle, starring Hoot Gibson
• Stella Dallas, directed by Henry King, starring Ronald Colman, Belle Bennett and Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
• The Street of Forgotten Men, directed by Herbert Brenon
• Strike , directed by Sergei Eisenstein –
• The Swan, directed by Dimitri Buchowetzki, starring Frances Howard, Adolphe Menjou and Ricardo Cortez