Short List of the Top Twenty

Top Grossing Films

1. The Million Dollar Mystery (Dir. Howell Hansel, a 23-chapter film serial starring  Florence La Badie, Marguerite Snow, James Cruze and Frank Farrington)

2. The Squaw Man (Dir. Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille, a Western drama starring Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston)

Source: Wikipedia "1914 in Film" citing Birchard, Robert S. Cecile B. DeMille's Hollywood (Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky, 2004) pp. 1 - 13.

Most Popular Feature Films Released in 1914

1. Tillie's Punctured Romance (Dir. Mack Sennett, starring Charles Chaplin, Marie Dressler, Mabel Normand)

2. Photo-Drama of Creation (Dir. Charles Taze Russell, a four-part eight-hour Christian film combined with synchronized sound, music and color slides, shown for free and seen by 9 million people in America and Europe)

3. The Squaw Man (Dir. Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille, starring Dustin Farnum, Monroe Salisbury, Winifred Kingston)

4. Cabiria (Dir. Giovanni Pastrone, an Italian film epic starring Italia Almirante-Manzini, Lidia Quaranta, Bartolomeo Pagano)

5. His Majesty, The Scarecrow of Oz reissued in 1915 as The New Wizard of Oz (Dir. L. Frank Baum, starring Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Pierre Couderc)

6. Judith of Bethulia (Dir. D.W. Griffith, starring Blanche Sweet, Henry B. Walthall, Mae Marsh, Lillian Gish)

7. Fantômas IV: Fantoms Against Fantômas (Dir. Louis Feulliade, the fourth episode in a series of French gothic "phantom" films based on the popular Fantômas novels by Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre , starring Rene Navarre, Georges Melchior, Laurent Morleas)

8. The Perils of Pauline (Dir. Louis J. Gasnier, Donald MacKenzie, starring Pearl White, Crane Wilbur, Paul Panzer)

9. Fantômas V: Le Faux Magistrat (Dir. Louis Feuillade, the fifth and final episode of the popular French Fantômas series, starring Rene Navarre, Georges Melchior, Mesnery)

10. The Patchwork Girl of Oz (Dir. J. Farrell MacDonald, starring Violet MacMillan, Frank Moore, Raymond Russell)

11. In the Land of the Head Hunters (Dir. Edward S. Curtis, a fictionalized telling of the story of the Kwakiutl peoples of British Columbia, acted entirely by Native North Americans, starring Maggie Frank)

12. The Avenging Conscience: or "Thou Shalt Not Kill" (Dir. D.W. Griffith, starring Henry B. Walthall, Spottiswoode Aitken, Blanche Sweet)

13. The Jungle (Dir. George Irving, Jack Pratt, a silent film adaptation of Upton Sinclair's book by the same name, starring George Nash, Gail Kane, Julia Hurley)

14. The Aftermath (Starring Owen Moore, Virginia Pearson and Harry von Meter)

15. Cinderella (Dir. James Kirkwood, starring Mary Pickford, Owen Moore, Isabel Vernon)

16. The Escape (Dir. D.W. Griffith, starring Donald Crisp, F.A. Turner, Robert Harron)

17. A Florida Enchantment (Dir. Sidney Drew, a Vitagraph photo play based on a gender-bending fantasy written in 1896 by Fergus Redmond and Archibald Clavering Gunter, starring Sidney Drew, Edith Storey, Charles Kent)

18. The Life of General Villa (Dir. Christy Cabanne, Raoul Walsh, an action-drama based on the 1913-1914 Mexican Revolution led by Pancho Villa, starring Pancho Villa as himself, Irene Hunt, W.H. Lawrence, Walter Long)

19. The Mysterious X (Det hemmelighedsfulde X, Dir. Benjamin Christensen, a Danish film drama starring Benjamin Christensen, Karen Caspersen, Otto Reinwald)

20. Brewster's Millions (Dir. Oscar Apfel, Cecil B. DeMille, an adaptation of the 1902 comedy written by George Barr McCutcheon, starring Edward Abeles, Joseph Singleton, Sydney Deane)

Source: "Most Popular Feature Films Released in 1914"  Internet Movie Database