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- Das Gespenst im Opernhaus or Das Phantom der Oper (1916): Featuring the Swedish actor Nils Olaf Chrisander (1884-1947) and the Norwegian actress Aud Egede-Nissen (1893-1974, aka Aud Egede Richter). Now a lost film and is only believed to have existed because of references in other media.

- The Phantom of the Opera (1925): Featuring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Mary Philbin. For this classic silent film Universal Studios created a faithful replica of the Paris Opera House as a setting. The film was reissued in 1929 with sound effects, music and some reshot dialogue sequences (but none with Chaney). The scene in which Erik plays the organ and Christine creeps up behind him to snatch his mask off is often cited by critics and connoisseurs of film art as one of the most memorable moments in the history of film.

- Song at Midnight (Chinese: Ye ban ge sheng) (1937): Featuring Gu Menghe and Hu Ping, directed by Maxu Weibang.

- Phantom of the Opera (1943): Featuring Claude Rains as the Phantom and the singer Susanna Foster as Christine. This film re-used the same Paris Opera studio set as the original silent film and once again features the spectacular scene in which the Phantom causes the chandelier to crash down on the heads of the audience. In this version, however, horror is mostly downplayed in favour of grand operatic spectacle. And here the Phantom's facial disfigurement is caused by him having acid thrown in his face rather than him being born disfigured as in Leroux's original story. This accidental disfigurement became part of the Phantom legend, and was copied in later film versions.

- The Climax (1944). More of a follow up to the 1943 film and has little to do with the Leroux story.

- El Fantasma de la Opereta (1954): Featuring Gogo Andreu and Tono Andreu. Bears no similarity to the Leroux novel sans the title.

- El Fantasma de la Opereta (1959): Featuring German Valdes (Tin Tan) and Pedro de Aguillon.

- Phantom of the Horse Opera (1961): A Woody Woodpecker cartoon.

- The Phantom of the Opera (1962): Hammer Horror version featuring Herbert Lom and Heather Sears. This version has the Phantom playing the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Johann Sebastian Bach on the organ - which has become a cultural trope indicating tragic horror. As in the 1943 version the Phantom is disfigured by acid.

- The Mid-Nightmare, Part One (1962) and Part Two (1963) (Chinese: Ye ban ge sheng - shang ji and xia ji): Remake of the 1937 Chinese film, this time featuring Zhao Lei and Betty Loh Tih.

- Il Vampiro dell'Opera or The Monster or the Opera (1964): Featuring Giuseppe Addobbati.

- Phantom of the Paradise (1974): Also called The Phantom of the Fillmore; a rock musical directed by Brian De Palma.

- The Phantom of the Opera (1987): Featuring Aiden Grennell (Cartoon).

- The Phantom of the Opera (1989): Directed by Dwight H. Little, featuring Robert Englund and Jill Schoelen. This is a rather sadistic and gory version of the story: though in this respect it resembles the original novel more than some more romantic versions. There is a Faustian motif throughout and the film features extracts from Gounod's opera Faust - as in the original novel.

- The Phantom of the Mall: Eric's Revenge (1989): Featuring Derek Rydall.

- The Phantom of the Opera (1991): Featuring David Staller and Elizabeth Walsh.

- O Fantasma da Opera (1991): Featuring Geiso Amadeu.

- The Chipmunks - Phantom Of The Rock Opera (1991)

- The Phantom of the Ritz ([1992): Featuring Joshua Sussman.

- The Phantom Lover (1995): A second remake of the 1937 film, by Hong Kong director Ronny Yu and featuring Leslie Cheung. Title in Chinese is the same as the other versions.

- Il Fantasma dell'Opera (1998): Directed by Dario Argento, featuring Julian Sands and Asia Argento.

- Joel Schumacher's The Phantom of the Opera (2004): Adaptation of the musical by Andrew Lloyd Webber and Charles Hart musical, starring Gerard James Butler and Emmy Rossum. Patrick Wilson appears as vicomte Raoul de Chagny.

- Ye Ban Ge Sheng (2005) - TV-series