The year 1920 in film involved some significant events.
Top-grossing films (U.S.) The top five films released in 1920 by U.S. gross are as follows: { | class="wikitable sortable" style="margin:auto; margin:auto;" |+Highest-grossing films of 1920 |- ! Rank!! Title !! Distributor !! Domestic rentals |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 1 |Way Down East |United Artists | $2,000,000 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 2 |Why Change Your Wife? |Paramount | $1,046,286 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 3 |Passion (Madame DuBarry) | UFA/First National | $1,000,000 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 4 |Something to Think About | Paramount | $915,848 |- ! style="text-align:center;"| 5 |The Mark of Zorro | United Artists | $500,000<ref name=FairbanksBook>{ { cite book|first1=Jeffrey|last1=Vance|first2=Tony|last2=Maietta|title=Douglas Fairbanks|date=2008|isbn=978-0-5202-5667-5|quote=The Mark of Zorro was produced at a cost of $169,187.05 and in its initial release grossed over three times that amount domestically; it was Fairbanks' most profitable film up to that time.}}</ref> |- |}
Events
March 28 – "America's Sweetheart" Mary Pickford and "Everybody's Hero" Douglas Fairbanks marry, becoming the first supercouple of Hollywood. August – Jack Cohn, Joe Brandt and Harry Cohn form C. B. C. Film Sales Corporation which would later become Columbia Pictures. August 15 – Robert J. Flaherty arrives in northern Canada to begin filming Nanook of the North (1922). November 27 – The Mark of Zorro, starring Douglas Fairbanks, opens.
Notable films released in 1920
Austria
For a complete list see: List of Austrian films of the 1920s Anita (aka Trance), directed by Luise Kolm and Jakob Fleck; an obscure adaptation of George Du Maurier's novel TrilbyBoccaccio, directed by Michael Curtiz.The Prince and the Pauper directed by Alexander Korda.The Scourge of God directed by Michael Curtiz.The Star of Damascus directed by Michael Curtiz.
France
For a complete list see: French films of 1920Barrabas, a 12-chapter serial/ crime drama directed by Louis FeuilladeThe Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil, directed by Pierre Caron Les Morts qui parlent/ The Dead Who Speak, directed by Pierre MarodonNarayana (translates as Vishnu), directed by Leon Poirier, starring Laurence Myrga and Edmon Van Daele; based on the 1831 novel "Le Peau de Chagrin" by Honore de Balzac, with some story elements lifted from Wilkie Collins' novel The MoonstoneThe Silence, ghost film directed by Louis Delluc, starring Gabriel Signoret and Eve Francis (Delluc's wife)