Search results for "1928"
Champagne

Champagne

Champagne
IMDb: 5.4
105

A spoiled heiress defies her millionaire father by running off to France to pursue her lover. Things don’t go entirely as planned.

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life

Beggars of Life
IMDb: 7.5
82

After killing her treacherous step-father, a girl tries to escape the country with a young vagabond. She dresses as a boy, they hop freight trains, quarrel with a group of…

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year
IMDb: 7
52

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.

Genre: Documentary
The Finishing Touch

The Finishing Touch

The Finishing Touch
IMDb: 7.2
21

Stan and Ollie are hired to build a house in just one day. When they are done, a bird lands on the house and it collapses. Naturally, the owner wants…

Genre: Comedy
Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark
IMDb: 6.6
135

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Genre: Drama, History, War
Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop

Riley the Cop
IMDb: 6
68

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Genre: Comedy
You’re Darn Tootin’

You’re Darn Tootin’

You’re Darn Tootin’
IMDb: 6.6
21

Members of a municipal band, Stanley and Oliver seem to be always following someone else’s lead, rather than that of the temperamental conductor.

Genre: Comedy
The Last Command

The Last Command

The Last Command
IMDb: 7.9
88

A former Imperial Russian general and cousin of the Czar ends up in Hollywood as an extra in a movie directed by a former revolutionary.

Yacht of the Seven Sins

Yacht of the Seven Sins

Yacht of the Seven Sins
IMDb: 6.3
81

The ship-owner Herr Reeder Roberts organizes a world trip on his luxury liner “Yoshiwara”. Aboard are millionaires and famous artists, but also criminals. The manager of the ship-owner, Stefan Martini,…

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Trail of ’98

The Trail of ’98

The Trail of ’98
IMDb: 7
87

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Genre: Action, Adventure
Leave ‘Em Laughing

Leave ‘Em Laughing

Leave ‘Em Laughing
IMDb: 6.7
22

Stan complains of a toothache and he and Ollie visit the dentist. Ollie gets his teeth pulled by mistake. Under the influence of laughing gas, they leave and cause much…

Genre: Comedy
Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 7.3
93

A working-class love story set in and around the London Underground of the 1920s. Two men – gentle Bill and brash Bert – meet and are attracted to the same…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Lonesome

Lonesome

Lonesome
IMDb: 7.7
70

Two lonely people in the big city meet and enjoy the thrills of an amusement park, only to lose each other in the crowd after spending a great day together….

Genre: Drama, Romance
West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar

West of Zanzibar
IMDb: 7.2
70

A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.

L’Argent

L’Argent

L’Argent
IMDb: 7.5
165

Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Genre: Drama
Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 6.9
127

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he…

Genre: Drama, History, War
The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc
IMDb: 8.1
81

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc…

Genre: Drama, History
Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History
IMDb: 7.3
151

A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.

The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl
IMDb: 7.1
38

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on New Year’s Eve. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Flying Elephants

Flying Elephants

Flying Elephants
IMDb: 5.9
17

Cavemen Stan and Ollie vie for the affections of a stone-age beauty.

Genre: Comedy
Street Angel

Street Angel

Street Angel
IMDb: 7.3
102

A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Last Warning

The Last Warning

The Last Warning
IMDb: 6.8
89

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the…

The Circus

The Circus

The Circus
IMDb: 8.1
72

Charlie, a wandering tramp, becomes a circus handyman – soon the star of the show – and falls in love with the circus owner’s stepdaughter.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Habeas Corpus

Habeas Corpus

Habeas Corpus
IMDb: 6.6
20

Loony scientist hires Laurel and Hardy to raid the cemetery to keep him supplied with dead bodies for his experiments.

Genre: Comedy
We Faw Down

We Faw Down

We Faw Down
IMDb: 6.8
20

Stan & Ollie attempt to fool their wives by sneaking out to a poker game, but instead get involved with two flirty ladies, one of whom is the girlfriend of…

Genre: Comedy
Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge

Moulin Rouge
IMDb: 6.6
137

An odd and tightly directed tale of a singer/dancer at the Moulin Rouge, who meets her daughter’s fiance, only to have him fall obsessively in love with her and she…

Genre: Drama, Music
13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square
IMDb: 6.3
66

In this comedy, a wealthy matron is terribly upset when she learns that her socialite son is planning to marry a blue collar girl.

Genre: Comedy, Crime
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
IMDb: 7.8
70

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was a child.

The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York

The Docks of New York
IMDb: 7.5
76

A blue-collar worker on New York’s depressed waterfront finds his life changed after he saves a woman attempting suicide.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue
IMDb: 5.4
70

Unjustly accused of adultery in a scandalous divorce, Larita Filton flees to the French Riviera. She soon falls in love with a young Englishman, John Whittaker, and begins anew under…

Genre: Drama, Romance
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
IMDb: 7.4
115

Sergei M. Eisenstein’s docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein’s ‘Soviet Montage’ style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several…

Genre: Drama, History
Should Married Men Go Home?

Should Married Men Go Home?

Should Married Men Go Home?
IMDb: 6.7
20

Mrs. Hardy throws Ollie and Stan out of the house. They try to impress two young ladies at a golf course and end up fighting with other golfers.

Genre: Comedy
Tropic Madness

Tropic Madness

Tropic Madness
IMDb: N/A
65

Herbert Pomeroy’s wife Juanita spends his money extravagantly and irresponsibly, finally driving him to bankruptcy. Desperate, he sends his son Frankie to live with his friend Henderson, a South Seas…

Genre: Drama
The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower
IMDb: 6.9
132

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing…

Genre: Drama
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 7.2
96

A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow’s sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany’s eventual opponent. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
Spies

Spies

Spies
IMDb: 7.5
145

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government’s secret service.

Genre: Romance, Thriller
In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
IMDb: 5.5
95

Army Sergeant Mickey Dunn sets out in pursuit of the Cisco Kid, a notorious if kind-hearted and charismatic bandit of the Old West. The Kid spends much of his loot…

Genre: Western
The Racket

The Racket

The Racket
IMDb: 6.5
84

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Genre: Crime, Drama
From Soup to Nuts

From Soup to Nuts

From Soup to Nuts
IMDb: 6.7
18

Inexperienced waiters (Laurel & Hardy) are hired for a swank dinner party.

Genre: Comedy
Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars
IMDb: 7.2
103

The husband and wife acting team of Mae Feather and Julian Gordon is torn apart when he discovers she is having an affair with the screen comedian Andy Wilks.

Genre: Drama