Search results for "1929"
Figaro

Figaro

Figaro
IMDb: 6.9
120

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

Genre: Drama
The Letter

The Letter

The Letter
IMDb: 6.6
65

A plantation owner’s wife goes on trial for shooting a man she says attacked her, but a handwritten letter reveals otherwise.

Genre: Drama
Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond
IMDb: 6.3
90

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he’s looking for when a…

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah
IMDb: 6.7
100

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Genre: Drama, Music
They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris

They Had to See Paris
IMDb: 5.8
82

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get “culture” and meet “the…

Genre: Comedy
Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt

Thunderbolt
IMDb: 6.4
91

A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love…

Genre: Crime, Drama
So This Is College

So This Is College

So This Is College
IMDb: 5.4
98

Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Steel Road

The Steel Road

The Steel Road
IMDb: 7.2
78

Bold and exhilarating documentary account of the building of the Turkestan-Siberian railway, presented as a heroic triumph of Soviet progress over natural adversity.

Genre: Documentary
The Quitter

The Quitter

The Quitter
IMDb: N/A
60

Neal Abbott (Ben Lyon), a disgraced surgeon, regains his self-respect after operating on and saving the life of cafe-owner Duffy Thompson (Fred Kohler).

Genre: Drama, Romance
Untamed

Untamed

Untamed
IMDb: 5.4
86

In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for…

Genre: Drama
The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew
IMDb: 6.3
63

Adapted from Shakespeare’s play: Baptista Minola, a wealthy resident of Padua, is the father of Katherine and Bianca. The younger daughter, Bianca, is charming and has many suitors. But her…

Genre: Comedy
The Manxman

The Manxman

The Manxman
IMDb: 6.2
100

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Flight

Flight

Flight
IMDb: 6
116

Two Marine pilots in love with the same girl are assigned a mission to find a notorious bandit in Nicaragua. This early talkie from director Frank Capra, released in 1929,…

Genre: Action, Adventure
Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon
IMDb: 7.3
170

A scientist discovers that there’s gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there’s too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

The Virginian

The Virginian

The Virginian
IMDb: 6.7
91

A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.

Genre: Western
Joy Street

Joy Street

Joy Street
IMDb: N/A
69

Mimi, an unsophisticated American girl attending an exclusive Swiss boarding school, unexpectedly inherits a large fortune. Returning to the United States she quickly begins to live a wild and reckless…

Genre: Drama
A Hollywood Star

A Hollywood Star

A Hollywood Star
IMDb: 6.1
18

Sennett’s studio had been mocking cowboy movies for more than a decade, and the introduction of sound gave them more things to make fun of. There are also the issues…

Genre: Comedy
The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo

The Great Gabbo
IMDb: 6
94

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman

The Flying Scotsman
IMDb: 6.2
50

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job…

Genre: Crime, Drama
The White Hell of Pitz Palu

The White Hell of Pitz Palu

The White Hell of Pitz Palu
IMDb: 7.3
150

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Piccadilly

Piccadilly

Piccadilly
IMDb: 7.1
109

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
IMDb: 6
94

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Plowboy

The Plowboy

The Plowboy
IMDb: 5.6
7

Mickey flirts with Minnie on the farm, but she spurns him – making him look bad in the eyes of his helper, Horace Horsecollar.

Genre: Animation, Comedy
The Idle Rich

The Idle Rich

The Idle Rich
IMDb: 5.8
80

Millionaire William van Luyn falls in love with his secretary Joan Thayer and marries her. Her family, part of “the great middle class” (as blowhard nephew Henry keeps reminding us),…

Genre: Comedy
The Scar of Shame

The Scar of Shame

The Scar of Shame
IMDb: 6.3
86

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Genre: Drama
The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall

The Hole in the Wall
IMDb: 5.7
63

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief….

Genre: Drama, Mystery
On With the Show!

On With the Show!

On With the Show!
IMDb: 5.8
104

With unpaid actors and staff, the stage show Phantom Sweetheart seems doomed. To complicate matters, the box office takings have been robbed and the leading lady refuses to appear. Can…

Genre: Music, Romance
The Informer

The Informer

The Informer
IMDb: 7.2
83

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

Genre: Drama
The Shakedown

The Shakedown

The Shakedown
IMDb: 6.7
65

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.

Genre: Drama
Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera
IMDb: 8.3
68

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

Genre: Documentary
Drifters

Drifters

Drifters
IMDb: 6.7
49

A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.

Genre: Documentary
Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger

Welcome Danger
IMDb: 5.9
115

A gentle botany student has to toughen up to replace his father as chief of police.

Genre: Comedy
Tarzan the Tiger

Tarzan the Tiger

Tarzan the Tiger
IMDb: 5.3
266

After Tarzan’s estate is destroyed by Arabs Jane is sold into slavery by a man posing as a friendly scientist. Tarzan develops amnesia after a blow to the head. When…

Genre: Adventure
Speedway

Speedway

Speedway
IMDb: 6.2
76

Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Mother Hummingbird

Mother Hummingbird

Mother Hummingbird
IMDb: 7
120

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son’s military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Black Watch

The Black Watch

The Black Watch
IMDb: 5.6
92

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War
Asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt
IMDb: 7.4
93

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May’s Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant…

Genre: Drama
The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles
IMDb: 6.4
66

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery
Lucky Star

Lucky Star

Lucky Star
IMDb: 7.6
99

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Wild Waves

Wild Waves

Wild Waves
IMDb: 5.8
7

Mickey Mouse is a singing lifeguard. Minnie Mouse is the damsel he must rescue before she is swept out to sea.