Movies by Year - 1929 (254)Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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AlibiChick Williams, a prohibition gangster, rejoins his mob soon after being released from prison. When a policeman is murdered during a robbery, he falls under suspicion. The gangster took Joan, a policeman's daughter, to the theater, s | 1929 | Roland West | Action, Crime, Romance | 5.8 (783 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Angora LoveStanley and Oliver are adopted by a runaway goat, whose noise and aroma in turn get the goat of their suspicious landlord. Attempts to bathe the smelly animal result in a waterlogged free-for-all. | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (871 votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
ApplauseA burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager. | 1929 | Rouben Mamoulian (*) | Drama, Musical | 7.1 (1.4K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
ArsenalA soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists. | 1929 | Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Drama, War | 7.2 (2.1K votes) | 70 | 20220723 |
Ask DadA young boy falls for his widowed father's efficient secretary, who has more sense than them both. | 1929 | Hugh Faulcon | Comedy, Short | 6.0 (89 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
AsphaltJoe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to its characters, and the ability to take a sim | 1929 | Joe May | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.4 (1.5K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
AsteroAt the foot of Mount Chelmos, under the clear blue sky of the untamed Greek countryside, Thimios and Astero exchange vows of everlasting devotion. But, a wealthy suitor claims her, and the sun has now dimmed. Are they meant to be tog | 1929 | Dimitris Gaziadis | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (75 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Atlantic [Titanic - Disaster in the Atlantic]On its maiden voyage in April 1912, the supposedly unsinkable RMS Titanic hits an iceberg in the Atlantic Ocean. | 1929 | Ewald André Dupont | Drama | 5.2 (281 votes) | 90 | 20240511 |
Bacon GrabbersThe novice repo men, Stan and Ollie, are sent to serve a summons to a tough customer who hasn't paid for a radio, as canines, a rifle, and a steamroller threaten to put an end to their ambitions. Just how hard is it to get the job do | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster | Comedy, Short | 7.0 (694 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Behind That CurtainEve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham. | 1929 | Irving Cummings | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 4.8 (472 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Berth MarksTaking the train to a show in Pottsville, musicians Stanley and Oliver run into trouble once settled in their sleeping car berth. | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster | Short, Comedy | 7.0 (1.4K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Big BusinessOllie and Stanley are two Christmas Tree sales reps who get into one of their usual mutual-destruction fights with a disgruntled homeowner. | 1929 | James W. Horne, Leo McCarey | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.7 (3.1K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Big NewsA reporter's marriage is jeopardized by his drinking and he finds himself accused of a murder he didn't commit. | 1929 | Gregory La Cava (*) | Comedy, Crime, Mystery | 5.5 (260 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Bishop Murder Case, TheWhen the body of a man nicknamed "Cock Robin" is found with an arrow in the heart on an archery range along with a chess bishop as a clue, Philo Vance investigates. | 1929 | David Burton, Nick Grinde | Drama, Mystery | 6.1 (678 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Black Watch, TheCaptain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there. | 1929 | John Ford (*) | Adventure, Drama | 5.7 (312 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
BlackmailAfter killing a man in self-defense, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing. | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.0 (10.5K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Bled, LeA young French woman who inherits her uncle's property in Algeria finds herself schemed against by her envious cousins, and romanced by a handsome but previously irresponsible young man who works for his uncle on a neighbouring farm. | 1929 | Jean Renoir (*) | Adventure | 6.4 (105 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Bouncing BabiesWith Wheezer's new baby brother getting all the attention, he tries to send the baby back. | 1929 | Robert F. McGowan | Comedy, Family, Short | 7.1 (194 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Boxing GlovesHarry and Farina promote a boxing match between Joe and Chubby. | 1929 | Robert A. McGowan | Comedy, Family, Short | 7.0 (177 votes) | 17 | 20211228 |
BroadwayA naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder. | 1929 | Pál Fejös | Crime, Music, Romance | 6.2 (391 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Broadway BabiesA Chorus girl who is in love with her stage manager is led to believe that he is in love with another young woman, so, she agrees to marry a bootlegger instead. | 1929 | Mervyn LeRoy (*) | Drama | 6.2 (195 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Broadway Melody, TheA pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt. | 1929 | Harry Beaumont | Drama, Musical, Romance | 5.7 (7K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Brother [Brüder]A dockworker joins a strike, and comes into conflict with his police officer brother. | 1929 | Werner Hochbaum | Drama | 6.6 (50 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Bulldog DrummondA bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman, whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers. | 1929 | F. Richard Jones | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.4 (1K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen AbenteurersCagliostro, an Italian adventurer rises through the French aristocracy on account of his magical tricks, medical knowledge and ability to foretell the future. When he falls from grace after a divination that predicts a dire future fo | 1929 | Richard Oswald | Horror, Thriller | 6.5 (124 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Canary Murder Case, TheA beautiful showgirl, nicknamed 'the Canary', is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and soon ends up dead. But who killed 'the Canary'. All the suspects who knew her had been used by her. The only witness to the cr | 1929 | Malcolm St. Clair, Frank Tuttle | Mystery | 6.0 (680 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Captain Fracasse [Le capitaine Fracasse]Capt. Fracasse, a down-on-his-luck nobleman, gives shelter at his estate one night to a troupe of traveling actors. He falls in love with Isabelle, an actress with the group. The next day, as they prepare to leave, he decides to join | 1929 | Alberto Cavalcanti, Henry Wulschleger | Adventure, Drama | 6.7 (195 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Charlatan, TheA woman goes to a sideshow fortune-teller to have her fortune told, and is astonished when the man looks into his crystal ball and goes into great detail about events in her past that few people ever knew about. Shaken, she leaves an | 1929 | George Melford | Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 7.4 (38 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Charming SinnersSet in London, Kathryn Miles's marriage is threatened when she discovers her husband's longstanding affair with her best friend but surprises everyone when she uses it to create a new life for herself. | 1929 | Robert Milton, Dorothy Arzner | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (84 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Chinatown NightsJoan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with him causes him to realize he is | 1929 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (112 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
City Butterfly [Großstadtschmetterling]Made at the height of Anna May Wong's fame in Europe, Pavement Butterfly was a coproduction between Germany and Britain and filmed on location in Nice, France. In this silent film, Wong plays a dancer in the French Riviera who, af... | 1929 | Richard Eichberg | Drama | 7.3 (59 votes) | 102 | 20231231 |
Cock-Eyed World, TheTwo Marines are sent to South Sea island where they fight over a local island girl. | 1929 | Raoul Walsh (*) | Comedy, Musical | 5.8 (77 votes) | 118 | 20211228 |
Coconuts, TheDuring the Florida land boom, The Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land, thwart a jewel robbery, and generally act like themselves. | 1929 | Robert Florey, Joseph Santley | Adventure, Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (7.5K votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
Condemned!Suave thief Colman is sent to Devil's Island, where he becomes romantically involved with the wife of sadistic warden Digges. | 1929 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama | 6.4 (424 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
CoquetteA flirtatious Southern belle is compromised with one of her suitors. | 1929 | Sam Taylor | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (2.2K votes) | 76 | 20220414 |
Cottage on Dartmoor, AA former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison. | 1929 | Anthony Asquith | Crime, Drama | 7.6 (1.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Crazy FeetCharley intervenes in a fight between Eddie and Thelma inside her small car. Cop Kennedy misinterprets things, and Charley hides in the theatre Thelma is rehearsing in. Charley replaces Eddie as Thelma's partner in an artistic dan... | 1929 | Warren Doane | Comedy, Short | 8.1 (26 votes) | 20 | 20240530 |
Dance HallA dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he's in love with her. | 1929 | Melville W. Brown | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.2 (106 votes) | 59 | 20211228 |
Dance of Life, TheA vaudeville comic and a pretty young dancer aren't having much luck in their separate careers, so they decide to combine their acts and in order to save money on the road, they get married. | 1929 | John Cromwell, A. Edward Sutherland | Drama | 6.6 (318 votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
Dance of the Paroxysms, The [A dança dos paroxismos]A surreal short film in which a young man embarks on a journey through villages and the countryside. | 1929 | Jorge Brum do Canto | Unknown | 6.7 (124 votes) | 46 | 20230328 |
Dangerous CurvesA young bareback rider in a circus is in love with a trapeze artist, but he has two problems: he drinks too much and he's fallen under the spell of a "vamp" who's nothing but trouble for him. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama | 5.8 (142 votes) | 75 | 20220723 |
Days of Youth [Gakusei romansu - Wakaki hi]Two friends try and court the same woman. | 1929 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (535 votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
Delightful Rogue, TheLastro (Rod La Rocque), a rogue pirate sails to Tapit where he encounters Nydra (Rita La Roy), an Americana singer in a waterfront dive, who is the object of of the jealous affections on Harry Beall (Charles Byer). The latter soon fi | 1929 | Lynn Shores, Leslie Pearce | Adventure, Romance | 5.7 (59 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
Desert NightsA con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water. | 1929 | William Nigh | Drama | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Desert Song, TheThe Desert Song is a 1929 American Pre-Code operetta film directed by Roy Del Ruth and starring John Boles, Louise Fazenda, and Myrna Loy. | 1929 | Roy Del Ruth | Action, Musical, Romance | 6.7 (108 votes) | 123 | 20220414 |
Devil-May-CareA Bonapartist falls for a Royalist. | 1929 | Sidney Franklin | Music, Romance, War | 6.3 (140 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Diary of a Lost Girl [Tagebuch einer Verlorenen]After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school. | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Drama | 7.9 (4.4K votes) | 79 | 20211228 |
DisraeliPrime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the Suez Canal. | 1929 | Alfred E. Green | Biography, Drama, History | 6.1 (1.2K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Divine Voyage, The [La divine croisière]A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific. | 1929 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Unknown | 6.6 (68 votes) | 0 | 20230126 |
Dom na vulkaneAn old, boring technician remembers a cruelly suppressed strike of oil industry workers in Baku. | 1929 | Amo Bek-Nazaryan | Drama | 7.0 (19 votes) | 63 | 20230715 |
Double WhoopeeStanley and Oliver, in their new jobs as footman and doorman at a ritzy hotel, wreak their usual havoc on the guests, including partially undressing a swanky blonde guest and repeatedly escorting a haughty Prussian nobleman into an e | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster | Comedy, Short | 7.0 (1.2K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
DynamiteWealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees to a financial settlement. But Cynthia's wea | 1929 | Cecil B. DeMille (*) | Drama | 7.0 (429 votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
End of the Earth [Finis terrae]On an island off the coast of Brittany four isolated men collect seaweed. Two young best friends have a quarrel and when one's thumb becomes infected his friend must risk his life on the ocean to bring him to the doctor. | 1929 | Jean Epstein | Drama | 7.3 (573 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
ErotikonA young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life. | 1929 | Gustav Machatý | Drama, Romance | 7.1 (582 votes) | 85 | 20220806 |
Eternal loveIn the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another. | 1929 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (513 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Figaronan | 1929 | Tony Lekain, Gaston Ravel | Drama | 6.4 (17 votes) | 120 | 20220723 |
FlightA Marine flyer and his flight school mentor fall for the same beautiful nurse. | 1929 | Frank Capra (*) | Action, Adventure, Romance, War | 6.0 (353 votes) | 110 | 20231013 |
Flying Fleet, TheThe story follows six midshipmen after they graduate from Annapolis. Their goal is to become U.S. Navy pilots and three of them are eliminated at the San Diego Naval Base. The remaining three undergo grueling weeks of training at Pen | 1929 | George W. Hill | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (282 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Flying Fool, TheA man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she's the real thing or just trying to take advantage of him. Unfortunately, he winds up falling in love with her himself. | 1929 | Tay Garnett | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War | 5.3 (84 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Flying Scotsman, TheA young fireman on the Flying Scotsman train falls in love with the beautiful daughter of the driver who is about to retire. The young fireman has replaced another named Crow who was sacked for drinking on the job and is planning to | 1929 | Castleton Knight | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (128 votes) | 50 | 20211228 |
Four Feathers, TheWhen British officer Harry resigns from his regiment, he is labeled a coward by his family and friends. Harry receives four white feathers as a mark of a coward. In order to redeem himself and win the heart of his fiancé back and the | 1929 | Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, Ernest B. Schoedsack | Adventure, Drama, Romance, War | 6.9 (302 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
Fragment of an Empire [Oblomok imperii]A story of a man who loses his memory during the First World War, regains it 10 years after the Russian Revolution and returns home to a new and alien St. Petersburg. | 1929 | Fridrikh Ermler | Drama | 7.3 (397 votes) | 96 | 20211228 |
General CrackNobleman marries a gypsy woman but when at court he falls in love with a princess. | 1929 | Alan Crosland | Action, Drama, History, Romance, War | 7.8 (58 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Gentlemen of the PressA driven newspaperman misses out on the joys and sorrows of ordinary life. | 1929 | Millard Webb | Drama | 6.7 (89 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Girl in the Show, TheBessie Love stars as an actress touring in a fifth-rate company of UNCLE TOM'S CABIN. While playing in a hick town in Kansas, the local league of do-gooders discovers there's a child traveling with the show. They think it's Bessie Love, who plays Little Eva in the show, but it's really her kid sister (Nanci Price). The local undertaker (Jed Prouty) takes a shine to Bessie so she strings him along so they can get out of town with the kid sister. But in the next town, the company gets stranded when the manager (Ford Sterling) absconds with what little money there is.Prouty has been following the touring company and helps them stage a benefit show for local flood victims if Bessie will abandon the stage and marry him. She agrees but the new manager (Raymond Hackett) secretly decides to use the kid sister as Little Eva. When Bessie finds out, she stuffs the kid full of chocolates so she gets sick and can't go on. Realizing how much she loves acting, so dumps Prouty because the show must go on.Based on a Broadway play, EVA THE FIFTH, this is a solid early talkie vehicle for Love and she's quite good. The supporting case is also good, although Price is a bit much. Co-stars include Edward Nugent, Mary Doran, Lucy Beaumont, and Ethel Wales.Historically this film is interesting because up through the Great Depression, plays based on UNCLE TOM'S CABIN famously toured the boonies of America and had for more than 50 years. These touring shows were called ""Tommers"" and took great liberties with the original novel by Harriet Beecher Stowe.Worth a look. | 1929 | Edgar Selwyn | Comedy | 5.2 (137 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Glorifying the American GirlThe rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl". | 1929 | Millard Webb | Comedy, Drama, Musical | 5.8 (711 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Going Ga-GaAnita and Marion realize that an abandoned baby they sneaked into an orphanage was kidnapped from a millionaire. For the reward, they proceed to break into the institution at night, dressed as men to beat curfew, to get the kid ou... | 1929 | James W. Horne, Gilbert Pratt | Short, Comedy | 6.5 (34 votes) | 20 | 20240801 |
Great Divide, TheSteven Ghent has decided to sell the mine he's owned for fifteen years, located at the border of Mexico where the Great Divide ends. When the representatives are delayed for a few days, he visits the annual Fiesta for the last time, | 1929 | Reginald Barker | Western | 5.2 (137 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Great Gabbo, TheAn insanely, egocentric ventriloquist, even though he is possessed by his wooden dummy, is in love with a dancer who is in love with another. The dummy gives advice to the ventriloquist. | 1929 | James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.1 (868 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Greene Murder Case, TheAt the end of each year, the extremely wealthy but odious Greene family gets together at the spooky old family castle to establish terms of a will, though they despise each other. This year, they start being mysteriously murdered one | 1929 | Frank Tuttle | Mystery | 6.5 (370 votes) | 69 | 20211228 |
Half MarriageA young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she's been studying art and encourage the attentions of Tom, a p | 1929 | William J. Cowen | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (145 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Half Way to HeavenNick, the "swing" man in a trapeze troupe, loves Greta Nelson, the girl in the act; and Tony, the "flyer," incurs his enmity as Greta seems to favor him; thus Nick fails to catch Tony, and Tony is killed. Ned Lee, a novice, reports f | 1929 | George Abbott | Drama, Romance | 6.8 (58 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
HallelujahA sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city. | 1929 | King Vidor (*) | Drama, Musical | 6.8 (1.8K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Happy DaysMargie, singer on a showboat, decides to try her luck in New York inspite of being in love with the owners grandson. She is successful, but suddenly she hears that the showboat is in deep financial trouble, and she calls all the boat | 1929 | Benjamin Stoloff | Musical | 5.6 (165 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Harbor Drift [Jenseits der Straße - Eine Tragödie des Alltags]The quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences. | 1929 | Leo Mittler | Drama | 7.5 (109 votes) | 54 | 20211228 |
Hate Ship, TheThe son of a murdered Russian count invites the suspects on a revenge cruise. | 1929 | Norman Walker | Mystery | 6.4 (19 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Hell's HeroesThree bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers. | 1929 | William Wyler (*) | Western | 7.2 (773 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Her Private AffairHer Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. It is a sound film using the RCA Photophone sound-on-film sound system. | 1929 | Paul L. Stein | Drama | 5.2 (141 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Her Skeleton in the Closet [Ihr dunkler Punkt]When registering in a Berlin hotel, the beautiful Lilian realizes that she apparently has a doppelganger: She is arrested as a wanted jewel thief. Lilian decides to find the woman who is preparing her next coup in Nice. | 1929 | Johannes Guter | Unknown | 7.1 (16 votes) | 0 | 20240715 |
High TreasonWomen unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war. | 1929 | Maurice Elvey | Sci-Fi | 6.1 (157 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
High VoltageA busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law. | 1929 | Howard Higgin | Drama | 5.3 (359 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
His Head [Sa tête]Jean Bonard, the only son of a widow, goes to visit his mother in the small village where she lives. However, in the early hours of the morning the police arrive to arrest him and take him to court charged with the murder of a ban... | 1929 | Jean Epstein | Short, Crime, Drama | 5.7 (20 votes) | 36 | 20220723 |
Histoire de détective A story that is built up with filmed documents in an experimental fashion. | 1929 | Charles Dekeukeleire | Thriller | 6.3 (98 votes) | 50 | 20240820 |
Hole in the Wall, TheMrs. 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. Love entanglements with a gangster known as "The Fox" and newspaperman | 1929 | Robert Florey | Drama, Mystery | 5.7 (182 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Hollywood Revue of 1929, TheAn all-star revue featuring MGM contract players. | 1929 | Charles Reisner, Christy Cabanne, Norman Houston | Comedy, Music | 5.7 (2K votes) | 130 | 20211228 |
Hoose-Gow, TheStanley and Oliver protest that they were only bystanders to the raid, but are hauled off to a prison labor camp anyway. They proceed with their usual mayhem, Stanley getting his pick stuck in Oliver's coat, Oliver chopping down a tr | 1929 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
Hound of the Baskervilles, The [Der Hund von Baskerville]After the mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville, Sherlock Holmes is called in to solve the mystery. | 1929 | Richard Oswald | Crime, Horror, Mystery | 6.8 (171 votes) | 65 | 20220423 |
Hour with Chekhov, An [Chiny i lyudi]From his early silent works, the great Russian film director, Herr Yakov Protazanov, made literary adaptations from equally great Russian writers, as is the case with ""Chiny I Lyudi"" ( Ranks And People ) (1929) in which three short stories by Chekhov, ""Anna On The Neck"", ""Death Of A Petty Official"" and ""Chameleon"" were assembled for the silent screen. | 1929 | Yakov Protazanov, Mikhail Doller | Comedy | 7.1 (48 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Howdy BroadwayA college band performs in a speakeasy, where a raid results in the expulsion of the bandleader, but later he manages to land a Broadway gig. | 1929 | Charles J. Hunt | Comedy, Musical | 4.3 (29 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Hurdy GurdyOn an ethnically-diverse New York street, German, Irish, Italian, and Jewish neighbors relax on a hot day by sitting on their fire escapes. The men read or sleep, but their wives gossip about a beautiful blonde tenant and her myst... | 1929 | Hal Roach | Comedy, Short | 6.1 (27 votes) | 20 | 20240530 |
I Graduated, But... [Daigaku wa detakeredo]Feeling the position to be beneath him, a college graduate turns down a receptionist job, but soon finds it necessary to fool his mother and fiancé into thinking that he is employed. | 1929 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (444 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
I Kiss Your Hand Madame [Ich küsse Ihre Hand, Madame]Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he is a waiter, she thinks Lerksi lies and thr | 1929 | Robert Land | Drama | 6.0 (160 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Idle Rich, TheMillionaire 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), is happy for Joan, but reluctant to take charity f | 1929 | William C. de Mille | Comedy | 5.8 (137 votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
Informer, TheIn Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover. | 1929 | Arthur Robison | Drama | 7.1 (240 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Iron Mask, TheKing Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be ra | 1929 | Allan Dwan | Adventure, Drama, History, Romance | 7.0 (1.3K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
It's a Great LifeCasey and Babe are sisters who work in a department store and each year the store puts on a show. As expected, things are going wrong with every act until Casey comes out to help Babe with her song. They are a hit, but in the final a | 1929 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (300 votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
Jazz HeavenA Southern songwriter brings his piano to New York and meets a girl who works on Tin Pan Alley | 1929 | Melville W. Brown | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (137 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Juno and the PaycockDuring the Irish Civil War in 1922, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values are. | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Comedy, Drama | 4.7 (2.3K votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Kingdom of Rye, The [Rågens rike]Karin gets attacked on her way to the Saturday dance, but her loved one Markus saves her. | 1929 | Ivar Johansson | Drama | 6.1 (11 votes) | 81 | 20220315 |
Kiss, TheAn unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted. | 1929 | Jacques Feyder | Romance, Drama | 6.8 (1.1K votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Korkein voitto [The Highest Prize]nan | 1929 | Carl von Haartman | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.0 (73 votes) | 89 | 20220414 |
Lady Lies, TheMuch to the disapproval of his snooty children, a wealthy widowed attorney takes up with a beautiful but "lower-class" woman. | 1929 | Hobart Henley | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (95 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Lady of the PavementsKarl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee, Diane, has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her. Outraged, Diane decides to grant him his wish, and enlists the s | 1929 | D.W. Griffith (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.0 (100 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
LailaA spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures. | 1929 | George Schnéevoigt | Drama, Romance | 7.4 (257 votes) | 165 | 20211228 |
LambchopsGeorge and Gracie enter an elegant drawing room, looking everywhere for something. Turns out, they're looking for the audience, and when George spots the camera, they start in on their patter. Gracie wants to convince George that she | 1929 | Murray Roth | Comedy, Short | 6.7 (448 votes) | 8 | 20211228 |
Last of Mrs. CheyneyAt an elegant gathering of English nobility, young widow Fay Cheyney wins with her beauty, musicality and clever repartee. Cheyney, however, is not who she claims to be. | 1929 | Sidney Franklin | Comedy, Drama | 6.1 (508 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
Last Performance, TheA middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief. | 1929 | Pál Fejös | Drama, Horror, Romance | 6.7 (384 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Laughing Lady, TheA society woman wrongly -- and very publicly -- accused of infidelity is dropped by her friends, spurned by her husband, and faced with the loss of her child. | 1929 | Victor Schertzinger | Drama | 6.8 (50 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Lazy DaysThe gang enter their little brothers and sisters in a baby contest. | 1929 | Robert F. McGowan | Family, Comedy, Short | 6.6 (133 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Letter, TheJeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). Robert decides to go out for the evening to p | 1929 | Jean de Limur | Drama | 6.7 (696 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
LibertyWith the police hot on their trail, Stan and Ollie attempt to change clothes in their getaway car, only to find themselves struggling to balance atop the girders of an unfinished skyscraper. Will they return to ground level in one pi | 1929 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short, Family | 7.6 (1.7K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Lighthouse Keepers, The [Gardiens de phare]Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany;the young man is ill. | 1929 | Jean Grémillon | Drama | 7.4 (171 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Locked Door, TheOn her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene. | 1929 | George Fitzmaurice | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (512 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Love Parade, TheThe queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying. | 1929 | Ernst Lubitsch (*) | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 7.0 (2.3K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
Love Trap, TheA chorus girl loses her job and thus the room she owes back rent on, and ends up being rescued from the street by a dashing rich man. But his family isn't over-accepting of chorus girls joining their family. | 1929 | William Wyler (*) | Comedy | 6.4 (204 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
Lucky StarMary, 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 is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, a | 1929 | Frank Borzage (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.8 (1.3K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Madame XA young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three. | 1929 | Lionel Barrymore | Drama | 5.9 (492 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Man and the Moment, TheRelentlessly pursued by gold digger Viola Hatfield (Gwen Lee), millionaire Michel Towne (Rod La Rocque) decides to put her off through a marriage of convenience. Based on a story by Elinor Glyn. | 1929 | George Fitzmaurice | Comedy, Romance | 7.5 (31 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Man I Love, TheAn arrogant boxer named Dum-Dum Brooks romances beautiful Celia Fields, but then falls for temptress Sonia Barondoff on the eve of the big fight. | 1929 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.2 (85 votes) | 70 | 20240303 |
Man with a Movie Camera [Chelovek s kino-apparatom - Prokofiev Soundtrack]A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention. | 1929 | Dziga Vertov (*) | Documentary, Music | 8.4 (24.2K votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler A Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him. | 1929 | Viktor Tourjansky | Drama | 7.3 (71 votes) | 124 | 20240910 |
Manxman, TheA fisherman and a rising young lawyer, who grew up as brothers, fall in love with the same girl. | 1929 | Alfred Hitchcock (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.2 (2.9K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
MarianneDuring World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman. | 1929 | Robert Z. Leonard | Drama, Musical, Romance, War | 6.3 (1.2K votes) | 111 | 20211228 |
Marriage Playground, TheA husband and wife have several children from their previous marriages and now they want to get divorced. The kids don't want to be separated and the oldest daughter and her boyfriend try to keep them together. | 1929 | Lothar Mendes | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 6.0 (112 votes) | 70 | 20240201 |
Matchmaking MammaThis marriage is the second for both Mr. & Mrs. Cornelius McNitt. His social-climbing second wife has recruited Clifford Figfield to stage and direct a charity pageant, which is more a means for her to hobnob with the social elite, a | 1929 | Harry Edwards | Comedy, Short | 6.2 (109 votes) | 23 | 20211228 |
Men O'WarOn shore leave from the Navy, seamen Stanley and Oliver want to treat two attractive single girls to a glass of soda in the park but only have enough change for three sodas. | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster | Short, Comedy, Family | 7.3 (1.3K votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Mexicali RoseA drama set in a border town gambling saloon. The owner falls in love with a promiscuous young girl. When she has an affair with another, he tosses her out of town. She gets revenge by marrying his younger brother. | 1929 | Erle C. Kenton | Drama, Romance | 5.6 (202 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Mickey's Brown DerbyFind showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! | 1929 | Albert Herman | Comedy, Short | 5.2 (9 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Mickey's Great IdeaFind showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! | 1929 | Albert Herman | Comedy, Short | 3.2 (10 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Mickey's MenagerieFind showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! | 1929 | Albert Herman | Comedy, Short | nan | 0 | 20211228 |
Mickey's Mix-UpFind showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! | 1929 | Albert Herman | Comedy, Short | 3.8 (11 votes) | 18 | 20211228 |
Mighty, TheA gangster's henchman becomes a hero after he is drafted to serve in the Great War. | 1929 | John Cromwell | Action, Drama | 6.5 (69 votes) | 75 | 20230619 |
Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux, The [La vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin]The story of Sainte Thérèse De Lisieux aka De L'Enfant Jesus; her short life in her convent, her moments of doubt and fear, her sufferings and her death of tuberculosis. | 1929 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Biography, Drama, History | 6.9 (37 votes) | 113 | 20230424 |
Miss Else [Fräulein Else]A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace. | 1929 | Paul Czinner | Drama | 6.9 (157 votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Moan and Groan, Inc.The gang ignores the warning of a local cop and goes exploring in a haunted house. | 1929 | Robert F. McGowan | Family, Comedy, Short | 6.4 (116 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Monte CristoAfter greedy men have Edmound Dantes unjustly imprisoned for 20 years for innocently delivering a letter entrusted to him, he escapes to get his revenge on them | 1929 | Henri Fescourt | Adventure | 6.9 (141 votes) | 223 | 20211228 |
MontparnasseCome take an avant-garde walk in the Montparnasse of the late 1920's. This district of Paris, filmed in a most unusual way, shows how dedicated it is to art. Visit its art galleries and exhibitions, take a glimpse of famous painte... | 1929 | Eugene Deslaw | Short | 6.4 (144 votes) | 17 | 20230806 |
Mother Hummingbird [Maman Colibri]Baroness Irène de Rysbergue, neglected by her gloomy husband, is preparing for the ball. Admiring her feather-trimmed dress, her young son nicknames her "Maman Colibri". | 1929 | Julien Duvivier (*) | Drama | 6.9 (74 votes) | 75 | 20220723 |
Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness [Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück]Mutter Krause and her children live in the poorer section of Berlin's Wedding district. The film depicts the cruelty of poverty and communism as a rescuing force that reaches Mutter Krause and the child too late. | 1929 | Phil Jutzi | Drama | 7.4 (287 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
My Grandmother [Chemi bebia]The protagonist, a lazy pen-pusher, gets the sack for his bureaucratic idleness, and learns that the way back into the job market depends on getting a letter of recommendation from a "grandmother". | 1929 | Kote Mikaberidze | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (304 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu, TheDuring the Boxer Rebellion in China during the early 20th century, in which a Chinese secret society attacked all westerners and anyone who associated with them, Dr. Fu Manchu's wife and child are killed by foreigners. Enraged, he vo | 1929 | Rowland V. Lee | Crime, Romance, Thriller, War | 6.4 (239 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Mysterious IslandOn a volcanic island near the kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island's inhabitants. Dakkar, his daughter Sonia and her fiance, engineer Nicolai Ro | 1929 | Lucien Hubbard, Benjamin Christensen, Maurice Tourneur | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi | 6.1 (643 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Napoleon auf St. HelenaNapoleon is sentenced to exile on the prison island. | 1929 | Lupu Pick | Drama | 6.5 (43 votes) | 100 | 20240303 |
Navy BluesOn shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this, and in the ensuing argument she | 1929 | Clarence Brown | Comedy, Drama | 5.4 (556 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
New Babylon, The [Novyy Vavilon]In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the lo | 1929 | Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Drama, History | 7.3 (826 votes) | 120 | 20211228 |
New Gentlemen, The [Les Nouveau Messieurs]A theater electrician's love to a ballet dancer is tested when he is elected minister. | 1929 | Jacques Feyder | Comedy | 6.8 (175 votes) | 135 | 20211228 |
New York NightsA chorus girl with marital woes is pursued by a gangster. | 1929 | Lewis Milestone | Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.7 (221 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Night ParadeBobby Martin, a young middleweight champion boxer, is an honest and decent fighter. However, on the eve of his biggest fight, he becomes entangled in the snare of a dishonest woman and ends up framed. | 1929 | Malcolm St. Clair | Drama | 5.7 (122 votes) | 71 | 20230715 |
Nothing But The TruthA young man bets $10,000 that he can tell for 24 hour nothing but the truth. | 1929 | Victor Schertzinger | Action, Comedy, Romance | 6.5 (74 votes) | 78 | 20211228 |
Oh, YeahA couple of roving vagabonds hitch a freight to the railroad town of Linda, and between bouts with the fright-yard bulls and other drifters, find romance in the persons of two waitresses at the camp restaurant. American-slang rules t | 1929 | Tay Garnett | Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance | 5.5 (55 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Old and New100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village. | 1929 | Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein | Drama | 7.3 (1.5K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
On with the Show!A musical advertised as the first 100% natural color, all-singing production. The plot concerns a wide-eyed former hatcheck girl who takes the place of a rebellious star. | 1929 | Alan Crosland | Comedy, Musical, Romance | 5.9 (328 votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
Opry House, TheMickey Mouse runs a cheap opera house and performs on stage as a snake charmer, a belly dancer and a long-haired pianist. | 1929 | Ub Iwerks, Walt Disney | Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Music | 6.3 (458 votes) | 6 | 20211228 |
Our Modern MaidensA flapper charms a diplomat to procure her fiancé a career opportunity, while the fiancé starts a relationship with her best friend. | 1929 | Jack Conway | Drama, Comedy | 6.0 (855 votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Pagan, TheA carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself. | 1929 | W.S. Van Dyke (*) | Drama, Music, Romance | 6.9 (383 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Painted FacesA vaudeville performer is murdered backstage and another performer is tried for the crime. | 1929 | Albert S. Rogell | Crime, Mystery | 6.1 (65 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
Pair of Tights, ATwo girls are invited by one of the girls boy-friend's tight boss for dinner. On the way they stop for a cheap ice-cream. But swinging doors, ventilators, cops and a brat make it nearly impossible to get the ice cream even close to t | 1929 | Hal Yates | Short, Comedy | 7.7 (128 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Pandora's BoxThe rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her. | 1929 | Georg Wilhelm Pabst (*) | Crime, Drama, Romance | 7.8 (10.5K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
Paris BoundPre-Code early-talkie film version of Philip Barry's Broadway hit chronicles the first five years of marriage between James and Mary Hutton, and the two paramours they deserted who wait patiently - and manipulatively - in the wings. | 1929 | Edward H. Griffith | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (124 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Peach Skin [Peau de pêche]An orphan from Montmartre is sent to the countryside by his foster parents. Ten years later he returns in search of a girl he once knew. | 1929 | Jean Benoît-Lévy, Marie Epstein | Drama | 7.2 (54 votes) | 89 | 20211228 |
Perfect DayThe boys and their wives are preparing for a drive to a Sunday picnic but infighting is ruining their plans and a sudden feud with a next-door neighbor completes the disaster. | 1929 | James Parrott | Short, Comedy | 7.2 (1.6K votes) | 19 | 20211228 |
Phantom in the House, TheA man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife. | 1929 | Phil Rosen (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller | 5.1 (123 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
PiccadillyA young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act which soon leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love and murder. | 1929 | Ewald André Dupont | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (1.6K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
Pipe of Communard [Komunaris chibukhi]A Russian telling of the 1871 "Paris Commune", the first proletariat government in history. | 1929 | Kote Marjanishvili | Action, Drama | 6.0 (47 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Pointed HeelsBig-name musical performers experience everyday problems and disappointments during their offstage hours. | 1929 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy, Musical | 6.0 (123 votes) | 61 | 20211228 |
Rabmadár [Prisoner No 7; Achtung! - Kriminalpolizei!]Rabmadár ('Prisoner Number Seven') is a young lady who was set up to help her lover steal, but she got nabbed and jailed. Her only wish is to see her sweetheart again, and she finally persuades the prison doctor to let her out for... | 1929 | Lajos Lázár, Paul Sugar | Unknown | 6.8 (46 votes) | 119 | 20231231 |
Racketeer, TheA dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite. | 1929 | Howard Higgin | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.4 (407 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Railroadin'The gang gets in trouble at a railroad yard. | 1929 | Robert F. McGowan | Comedy, Family, Short | 6.7 (115 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Red Nichols and His Five PenniesRed Nichols and His Five Pennies (1929) *** (out of 4) Entertaining, 9-minute short from Vitaphone/Warner has Red Nichols and his ""Five Pennies"" doing songs including China Boy, Nobody's Sweetheart, Ida Sweet as Apple Cider and Who Cares?. If you're familiar with Nichols and his band then you're going to know that they perform some really fast jazz and the entire strength of their band seems to be that they enjoy starting off slow before just going and going for a feverish, fast pace and this is what they do best. I've seen a number of their shorts and each time they have no troubles impressing me and this here is no exception. The highlight of the film has to be Sweetheart, which also features Eddie Condon singing. Condon does two numbers and both are them are quite good as his voice perfectly mixes with the music. The ""directing"" isn't all that special as the visuals are quite lazy as the group are just pretty much in one spot and perform their act while the camera stays still and records it. There are a few edits here and there but you can tell that the budget was very low. Fans of this short should also check out 1936's RED NICHOLS & HIS WORLD FAMOUS PENNIES. | 1929 | Murray Roth | Short, Music | 5.5 (21 votes) | 0 | 20211228 |
Return of the Rat, TheRich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat," but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honor, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a ri... | 1929 | Graham Cutts | Crime, Romance | 7.0 (34 votes) | 84 | 20220723 |
RhythmsThe film may be lost but one production number, the title track, survives. It was accidentally edited into Vivian Duncan's private print of IT'S A GREAT LIFE (MGM 1929) and has made the rounds on video through various collectors. The color has held up well but the production values are rather like a big studio's B picture. It would be interesting to see what the film was like in it's entirety. I can't imagine Leo McCarey directing a bomb so I imagine it was a decent little film. At 75 minutes it was quite short by modern standards, although Mae West's SHE DONE HIM WRONG was only 66 minutes and there's no arguing over it's place in movie history. | 1929 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance | 6.8 (13 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Rio RitaCapt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit. | 1929 | Luther Reed | Western | 6.1 (738 votes) | 140 | 20211228 |
The River of RomanceMississippi, 1830s: Tom, brought up by quakers, refuses a challenge to a duel and is deemed a coward. In the company of gambler Orlando he learns that bravery is greatly enhanced by make-believe: he becomes the ‚notorious Colonel ... | 1929 | Richard Wallace | Drama, Mystery, Romance | 5.2 (49 votes) | 78 | 20240930 |
Romance Of Seville, TheA betrothed artist loves a girl engaged to a jewel thief. | 1929 | Norman Walker | Romance | 5.2 (32 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Sailor's HolidaySailors Pike and Shorty are on leave when a street woman swindles them out of some money by telling them she is looking for her long-lost brother, a sailor. Later Pike and Shorty are accosted by Molly Jones, whose brother, Ethelbert, | 1929 | Fred C. Newmeyer | Comedy | 5.6 (38 votes) | 58 | 20211228 |
Saint Joan the Maid [La merveilleuse vie de Jeanne d'Arc]nan | 1929 | Marco de Gastyne | Drama | 7.2 (89 votes) | 125 | 20220414 |
SallySally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. Working as a waitress, she goes from job to job... | 1929 | John Francis Dillon | Musical | 6.1 (351 votes) | 103 | 20220723 |
SaluteWest Point Cadet John and Annapolis Midshipman Frank focus their fraternal rivalry on the big Army-Navy football game. | 1929 | David Butler, John Ford | Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.4 (204 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Saturday Night Kid, TheMayme and sister Janie are salesgirls in Ginsberg's Department Store. Mayme is in love with store clerk Bill, but Janie tries to steal him from her. Hazel, another salesgirl, is Jean Harlow's first credited role. | 1929 | A. Edward Sutherland | Comedy | 6.0 (249 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Say It with SongsJoe Lane kills another man in a fistfight after learning that the man has made improper advances towards his wife. Joe goes to prison for the murder. When Joe gets out of prison, he visits his son "Little Pal" at school. Little Pal t | 1929 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Drama, Musical | 5.0 (138 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Scar of Shame, TheAn educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her. However, once he "saves" her, he won't let his new wife meet his m | 1929 | Frank Peregini | Crime, Drama, Romance | 6.2 (374 votes) | 68 | 20211228 |
Seduction [Erotikon]A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life. | 1929 | Gustav Machatý | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (562 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Self Seeker, The [Shkurnyk]An opportunistic Kyivan Apollon Shmyguyev, whose peaceful bourgeois life is interrupted by the civil war, decides to wait out the trouble in the South of Ukraine, which is under the rule of the Russian White Army. After gathering lef | 1929 | Nikolai Shpikovsky | Comedy | 6.9 (34 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Seven Footprints to SatanA young man of society wants to make an expedition to Africa, but his fiancée asks him for help about one of her fathers guests shortly before his planed departure. Her suspects about that guest were serious, this man tries to steal | 1929 | Benjamin Christensen | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance | 6.6 (402 votes) | 60 | 20211228 |
Seven Keys to BaldpateA writer, looking for some peace and quiet in order to finish a novel, takes a room at the Baldpate Inn. Peace and quiet are last things he gets, though, as there are some very strange things going on at the establishment. | 1929 | Reginald Barker | Comedy, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (354 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Shakedown, TheDave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches. Dave's life on the margins changes after he me | 1929 | William Wyler (*) | Drama, Sport | 6.5 (218 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Ship of Lost Men, The [Das Schiff der verlorenen Menschen]Vela, cynical captain of a slow, decrepit sailing ship, sells passage out of Germany to fugitives. His crew are no angels either. Cheyne, a young American doctor visiting the ship, is shanghaied on a 3-month voyage to Brazil when ... | 1929 | Maurice Tourneur | Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (131 votes) | 121 | 20240222 |
Show BoatA mostly silent version of Edna Ferber's original novel, with some songs from the musical as a last-minute addition | 1929 | Harry A. Pollard, Arch Heath | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.3 (278 votes) | 147 | 20211228 |
Show of Shows, TheIt's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice and offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era. For the first time, they can be heard in a gaudy, grandiose music comedy revue. | 1929 | John G. Adolfi | Musical | 5.9 (432 votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
Single Standard, TheWealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party. After refusing Tommy Hewlett's wedding proposal, she has her driver driver her to a lonely place, where they have a one-night stand and return to the party, where she witnesses her driver com | 1929 | John S. Robertson | Drama, Romance | 6.7 (583 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Small TalkThe gang is taken from an orphanage & adopted by society matrons. | 1929 | Robert F. McGowan | Comedy, Family, Short | 6.2 (140 votes) | 25 | 20211228 |
Snappy SneezerCharley falls in love with Thelma, but his attack of hay fever alienates her father. | 1929 | Warren Doane | Comedy, Short | 6.8 (32 votes) | 20 | 20240530 |
So Long LettyUncle Claude comes to the Ardmore Beach Hotel to see Tommy and his wife. At the hotel, with his two granddaughters Ruth and Sally, Uncle Claude meets a wise talking employee named Letty which causes him to leave the Hotel. When he fi | 1929 | Lloyd Bacon (*) | Comedy, Musical | 6.1 (173 votes) | 64 | 20211228 |
So This is CollegeBiff and Eddie are the best of friends. They are college seniors, roommates at the fraternity, and star teammates on the USC football team. Then a flapper named Babs enters the picture. Biff considers Babs his girl, and she does like | 1929 | Sam Wood (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport | 5.5 (245 votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
Song Writers' Revue, TheThis short showcases composers and lyricists of songs that are now considered standards of American popular music. For the complete list of songs performed, check the soundtrack listing. For several of these song writers, this is ... | 1929 | Sammy Lee | Short, Music | 5.9 (130 votes) | 20 | 20240530 |
Spite MarriageAn unimpressive but well intending man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous. | 1929 | Edward Sedgwick, Buster Keaton | Comedy | 7.0 (2.1K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
Squall, TheThe activities of Nubi (Myrna Loy), a minx-like, Hungarian gypsy girl who, while on the run from her abusive husband, takes shelter in a farmhouse, where she seduces and holds in thrall all the male members of the family. | 1929 | Alexander Korda | Drama, Music, Romance | 4.8 (398 votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
Stepping OutCharley goes out for an evening on the town without his wife. | 1929 | Warren Doane | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (17 votes) | 20 | 20240530 |
Straightforward Boy, A [Tokkan kozô]A kidnapped boy proves to be more than his abductor can handle. | 1929 | Yasujirô Ozu (*) | Short, Comedy | 6.2 (547 votes) | 38 | 20211228 |
Strassenbekanntschaftennan | 1929 | Josef Medeotti-Bohác, Alwin Neuß | Unknown | nan | 0 | 20220315 |
Street GirlA homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life. | 1929 | Wesley Ruggles | Drama, Musical, Romance | 6.2 (415 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
Strong Man, A [Mocny czlowiek]Journalist Henryk Bielecki is not very talented but he desperately wants to become a famous writer. Nothing will stop him from making his dreams come true. | 1929 | Henryk Szaro | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.0 (260 votes) | 77 | 20240323 |
Strongest, The [Den starkaste]Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season's seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship "Viking". Ole is interested in the daughter of the house, Ingeborg. | 1929 | Axel Lindblom, Alf Sjöberg | Drama | 6.8 (60 votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
Studio Murder Mystery, ThePhilandering actor Richard Hardell is murdered at a movie studio. His jealous wife Blanche, his director Rupert Borka, and a girl he mistreated, Helen MacDonald, all have substantial reasons for having wanted him dead. | 1929 | Frank Tuttle | Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance | 5.6 (162 votes) | 62 | 20211228 |
Sunny Side UpMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage h | 1929 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical | 6.6 (415 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
Sunnyside UpMolly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less happy, since his fiancée Jane won't discourage h | 1929 | David Butler | Comedy, Musical | 6.6 (416 votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
SweetieA chorus girl inherits a men's college where her boyfriend is a star football player. | 1929 | Frank Tuttle | Music, Romance, Sport | 6.7 (79 votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
SyncopationThis is RKO's first sound musical. It centers on a pair of vaudevillians who are quite close on and off the stage until a dashing millionaire comes around and begins wooing the female partner. | 1929 | Bert Glennon | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 7.4 (69 votes) | 83 | 20211228 |
Tal Henry and His North CaroliniansThe title orchestra play three popular tunes of the day. | 1929 | Unknown | Short, Music | 6.4 (50 votes) | 9 | 20211228 |
Talk of Hollywood, TheSchlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring the sensation of Paris (with a | 1929 | Mark Sandrich (*) | Comedy, Drama, Music | 5.4 (107 votes) | 70 | 20211228 |
Taming of the Shrew, TheIn sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong Katherine, is betrothed. This task seems im | 1929 | Sam Taylor | Comedy, Romance | 6.3 (576 votes) | 63 | 20211228 |
Tanned LegsPeggy and Bill are high society lovebirds, but their marriage plans are put on hold while Peggy spends most of her summer straightening out her wayward parents and her unlucky-in-love sister Janet. Mama and Papa are set to rights fai | 1929 | Marshall Neilan | Comedy, Musical | 5.5 (173 votes) | 71 | 20211228 |
That's My WifeOliver stands to inherit a large fortune from his rich Uncle Bernal, with the condition that he be happily married. But when Mrs. Hardy walks out just before Uncle Bernal is due for a visit, Stanley is pressed into duty (and into dra | 1929 | Lloyd French | Comedy, Short | 6.9 (715 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Their Own DesireLally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on vacation she meets Jack, who succeeds in stealin | 1929 | E. Mason Hopper | Drama, Romance | 5.9 (685 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
They Go Boom!Stanley's attempts to treat Oliver's cold include dropping a swab down his friend's throat, applying a mustard plaster to his rump, and inflating the air mattress from the gas jet until it has Oliver pressed against the ceiling. | 1929 | James Parrott | Comedy, Short | 7.2 (1.1K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
They Had to See ParisOklahoma 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 right kind of people." Pike and his grown son and daughter soo | 1929 | Frank Borzage (*) | Comedy | 5.8 (172 votes) | 95 | 20220414 |
Thirteenth Chair, TheAlthough his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance participants had a reason and a means to kil | 1929 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Mystery | 5.8 (636 votes) | 72 | 20211228 |
Three Loves [Die Frau, nach der man sich sehnt]On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a maske... | 1929 | Curtis Bernhardt | Drama | 6.7 (293 votes) | 76 | 20240222 |
Throw of Dice, A [Prapancha Pash]Two neighboring Indian kingdoms are ruled by cousins - King Ranjit and King Sohat. Unbeknownst to Ranjit, Sohat is plotting to seize control of his kingdom. | 1929 | Franz Osten | Adventure, Drama, Romance | 6.5 (860 votes) | 74 | 20211228 |
ThunderboltA 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 with Thunderbolt's girl. Thunderbolt hopes to stave off the execution | 1929 | Josef von Sternberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir, Music, Romance | 6.5 (671 votes) | 85 | 20211228 |
Tide of EmpireCalifornia's gold dicovery in 1848 draws a "tide of empire" to the area, which becomes ripe for bandits. | 1929 | Allan Dwan | Western | 6.2 (206 votes) | 73 | 20211228 |
Tokyo March [Tôkyô kôshinkyoku]A classic melodramatic love tragedy addressing social inequality in feudal Japan, depicted in Kenji Mizoguchi's typical style. The nostalgic scenes of 1920s Tokyo provides a valuable visual experience set against the background of th | 1929 | Kenji Mizoguchi (*) | Drama | 6.6 (300 votes) | 101 | 20211228 |
Trespasser, TheThe trial and tribulations of a strong-willed woman who elopes and gives birth out of wedlock without telling her ex-husband. | 1929 | Edmund Goulding | Drama | 6.6 (1.3K votes) | 90 | 20211228 |
Trial of Mary Dugan, TheMary Dugan, a Broadway showgirl, is charged with murder in the knifing death of her wealthy lover, and goes on trial for her life. When her defense counsel appears to bungle his job, Mary's brother Jimmy, a newly licensed attorney, j | 1929 | Bayard Veiller | Drama | 6.3 (137 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
TurksibResisting the character-driven narrative adhered to by the rest of the world's filmmakers, Victor Turin formulated a grand, elemental drama centered around the struggle for survival in Asia, from the arid plains of Turkestan to the i | 1929 | Victor A. Turin | Documentary | 7.2 (403 votes) | 57 | 20211228 |
Two-Buldi-Two [Dva-Buldi-dva]A story of circus performers during World War II. | 1929 | Nina Agadzhanova, Lev Kuleshov | Drama | 6.7 (36 votes) | 55 | 20211228 |
Un Chien AndalouLuis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 16 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery. | 1929 | Luis Buñuel (*) | Short, Fantasy, Horror | 7.7 (48.8K votes) | 16 | 20211228 |
Unaccustomed As We AreWhen Mrs. Hardy refuses to cook supper, Mr. Hardy decides to cook it for himself and for Mr. Laurel but things go wrong during a jealous mix-up with the next-door married couple. | 1929 | Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (1.2K votes) | 21 | 20211228 |
Unholy Night, TheOn a dark foggy London night, someone tries to strangle Lord Montague, but he escapes. Only to discover the four other men who did get killed were old regimental comrades in Gallipoli. When Scotland Yard gets Monty to gather the othe | 1929 | Lionel Barrymore | Mystery, Thriller | 5.7 (313 votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
UntamedWhen her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company. Her guardians Ben and Howard send her to New York for civilizing but on the way she meets Andy, wonderful in every way but weal | 1929 | Jack Conway | Drama | 5.0 (621 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Vagabond Lover, TheA zany musical about an amateur musician in search of work who impersonates a big band leader. | 1929 | Marshall Neilan | Comedy, Musical | 5.3 (243 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Valiant, TheAfter killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law, under a false name intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his conviction breaks, the drifter's sister and m | 1929 | William K. Howard | Drama | 6.0 (423 votes) | 66 | 20211228 |
Very Idea, TheA Eugenics expert convinces his sister and her husband, a barren couple, to adopt the offspring of his carefully selected "thoroughbreds": the family's chauffeur and maid who themselves are engaged. | 1929 | Frank Craven, Richard Rosson | Comedy | 5.2 (54 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
Virginian, TheA 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. | 1929 | Victor Fleming (*) | Romance, Western | 6.9 (752 votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
Voice of the City, TheAn escaped convict and the detective tasked with hunting him down end up working in parallel to clear the convict's name and nab the gangsters that framed him. | 1929 | Willard Mack | Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.9 (79 votes) | 81 | 20211228 |
WaterlooWaterloo is a German made movie that depicts the soldiers of Belgium + The Netherlands; Brunswick; England, Ireland, Scotland + Wales; Hanover; Nassau; and Prussia's victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. | 1929 | Karl Grune | Drama, History, War | 6.5 (47 votes) | 120 | 20240210 |
Weary RiverA gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound. | 1929 | Frank Lloyd | Drama | 6.1 (482 votes) | 86 | 20211228 |
Welcome DangerHarold Bledsoe, a botany student, is called back home to San Francisco, where his late father had been police chief, to help investigate a crime wave in Chinatown. | 1929 | Clyde Bruckman, Malcolm St. Clair | Comedy | 6.0 (747 votes) | 113 | 20211228 |
Where East Is EastWhen an animal trapper in Indo-China finds that his daughter's fiancé is being successfully seduced by her estranged mother, he takes appropriate action. | 1929 | Tod Browning (*) | Drama, Romance, Thriller | 6.6 (639 votes) | 65 | 20211228 |
White Hell of Pitz Palu [Die Weisse Hölle vom Piz Palü]A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him. | 1929 | Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (991 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Why Be GoodA flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss. | 1929 | William A. Seiter (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (416 votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
Wild OrchidsA prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered. | 1929 | Sidney Franklin | Romance, Drama | 6.6 (681 votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
Wild Party, TheWild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue her. Gossip linking the two escalates until | 1929 | Dorothy Arzner | Drama, Romance | 6.4 (476 votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
Wise GirlsThe father of three grown daughters tries to keep his sanity, even after his free-spirited middle daughter rebelliously marries a poor plumber. | 1929 | E. Mason Hopper, Elliott Nugent | Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance | 5.3 (123 votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
Wolf Song, TheIn 1840, Sam Lash heads west for adventure. He meets up with some Mountain Men, and they head for the Rockies to trap beavers and cats. In Taos he meets Lola, a beautiful Mexican girl from a proud and rich family. They fall in love a | 1929 | Victor Fleming (*) | Drama, Western | 6.8 (103 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Woman and the Puppet, The [La femme et le pantin]Womanizer Don Mateo helps a girl in a train when attacked by a other woman. This girl, Conchita - a cigarette maker, soon visits the rich Don Mateo at his palace in Sevillia. He falls for her, but she likes to play with him. Somet... | 1929 | Jacques de Baroncelli | Drama | 7.2 (103 votes) | 110 | 20220723 |
Woman Happy, Woman Unhappy [Gore i radost zhenshchiny]nan | 1929 | Grigoriy Roshal | Drama | nan | 0 | 20220414 |
Woman in the Moon [Frau Im Mond]A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there. | 1929 | Fritz Lang (*) | Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.3 (3.4K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
Woman to WomanAn amnesiac officer weds a barren socialite and adopts his son by a French ballerina. | 1929 | Victor Saville | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (104 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |
Woman TrapDan, a tough police captain, and Ray, a hardened criminal, are estranged brothers. When Ray faces capture, Kitty, the sister of Ray's ex-partner, offers to help him escape because she sees an opportunity for revenge against Dan. | 1929 | William A. Wellman (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Romance | 5.8 (65 votes) | 82 | 20211228 |
Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna, The [Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna]Nina Petrovna, the mistress of a wealthy Cossack, falls in love with a young cadet. Their happiness is short-lived. | 1929 | Hanns Schwarz | Drama | 7.1 (248 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
Wrecker, TheA director's nephew unmasks a manager as a wrecker of trains. | 1929 | Géza von Bolváry | Crime, Drama | 7.1 (68 votes) | 74 | 20220723 |
Wrong AgainAmong the horses stable hands Stanley and Oliver are tending is a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about it being t | 1929 | Leo McCarey (*) | Comedy, Short | 7.1 (918 votes) | 20 | 20211228 |
Younger Generation, TheSoap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. | 1929 | Frank Capra (*) | Drama, Romance | 6.3 (306 votes) | 75 | 20211228 |