Search results for "1928"
Gow the Head Hunter

Gow the Head Hunter

Gow the Head Hunter
IMDb: 6.4
70

Captain Edward A. Salisbury was a noted millionaire explorer and writer, whose exploration stories of the islands of the South Seas Pacific appeared often in “The National Geographic,” and other…

Genre: Documentary
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
The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl

The Little Match Girl
IMDb: 7.1
32

An impoverished girl tries to sell matches on NYE. Shivering with cold and unable to sell her wares, she sits in a sheltered nook. Striking a match to keep warm,…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters
IMDb: 6.7
84

A flapper sets her hat for a man with a hard-drinking wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year

The Eleventh Year
IMDb: 6.9
52

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

Genre: Documentary
The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range
IMDb: 2
60

Jim Lockhart is out to capture the robbing and murdering “Solitaire Kid”.

Genre: Western
Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz
IMDb: 6.1
125

Pan Tadeusz (film 1928) is a Polish historical film directed by Ryszard Ordynski based on the national epic of Poland, an 1834 poem by Adam Mickiewicz.

Genre: History, Romance
Eleven P.M.

Eleven P.M.

Eleven P.M.
IMDb: 5.8
66

A truly bizarre mixture of sentimentality, spirituality and the supernatural, Eleven P.M. follows an impoverished violinist who tries to protect a young girl from straying into a life of sin…

Genre: Drama
13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square

13 Washington Square
IMDb: 5.7
70

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
Madmen

Madmen

Madmen
IMDb: 7.5
135

Leonard Buczkowski’s feature debut in 1928 is the first Polish film super-production – made with the participation of many military formations, with innovative battle scenes, epoch-making weapons and the latest…

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
IMDb: 5.6
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: Action, Western
The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower
IMDb: 7.3
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
The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife
IMDb: 5.9
129

Successful middle-aged farmer Samuel Sweetland becomes widowed, then his daughter marries and leaves home. Deciding he wishes to remarry, Sweetland pursues some local women he considers prospects.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Champagne

Champagne

Champagne
IMDb: 5.5
93

Betty, the rebellious daughter of a millionaire, decides to marry the penniless Jean—against her father’s will—and runs away to France and lives a life of luxury on the profits from…

Genre: Comedy
Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 7.1
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, War
The Sex Life of the Polyp

The Sex Life of the Polyp

The Sex Life of the Polyp
IMDb: 5.4
11

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live…

Genre: Comedy
The Cameraman

The Cameraman

The Cameraman
IMDb: 8.1
76

A photographer takes up newsreel shooting to impress a secretary.

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
Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars

Shooting Stars
IMDb: 7.1
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
Speedy

Speedy

Speedy
IMDb: 7.7
85

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee…

Genre: Action, Comedy, Family
Spies

Spies

Spies
IMDb: 7.6
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.

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc

The Passion of Joan of Arc
IMDb: 8.1
82

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
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs
IMDb: 7.7
110

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Shiraz: A Romance of India

Shiraz: A Romance of India

Shiraz: A Romance of India
IMDb: 7
106

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave…

Genre: Drama, Romance
L’Argent

L’Argent

L’Argent
IMDb: 7.6
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
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…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History
IMDb: 7
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 Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra

The Life and Death of 9413, a Hollywood Extra
IMDb: 7.2
14

This short experimental film tells the story of a man who comes to Hollywood to become a star, only to fail and be dehumanized. He is identified by the number…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie
IMDb: 7.6
8

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Genre: Animation
Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 7.3
84

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, Thriller
Lonesome

Lonesome

Lonesome
IMDb: 7.8
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: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden
IMDb: 6.8
78

Toni Le Brun, a beautiful Viennese singer, becomes the ward of the wardrobe mistress of a Monte Carlo nightclub. Her benefactor, however, is actually a baroness incognito. Toni falls in…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Last Command

The Last Command

The Last Command
IMDb: 8
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.

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, Romance
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
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.

Genre: Drama, Mystery
Street Angel

Street Angel

Street Angel
IMDb: 7.4
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
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
IMDb: 7.9
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 little.