Search results for "1929"
Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou
IMDb: 7.7
21

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Genre: Fantasy, Horror
The Manxman

The Manxman

The Manxman
IMDb: 6.2
83

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Finis Terrae

Finis Terrae

Finis Terrae
IMDb: 7.2
80

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can…

Genre: Drama
Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage

Spite Marriage
IMDb: 7
76

An unimpressive but well-intentioned 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…

Genre: Comedy
Blackmail

Blackmail

Blackmail
IMDb: 7
86

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to…

Genre: Drama, Thriller
The Steel Road

The Steel Road

The Steel Road
IMDb: 7.2
77

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
Rain

Rain

Rain
IMDb: 7.2
12

A beautiful and evocative portrait of Ivens’ native city of Amsterdam.

Genre: Documentary
Skyscraper Symphony

Skyscraper Symphony

Skyscraper Symphony
IMDb: 5.9
9

A montage of the skyscrapers of Manhattan opens with a succession of stationary views of the upper portions of numerous buildings. This is followed by a wide variety of fluid…

Genre: Documentary
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
St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues

St. Louis Blues
IMDb: 6.5
16

In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin’ with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Romance of Seville

The Romance of Seville

The Romance of Seville
IMDb: 5.2
58

Dolores and Ramon celebrate their arranged betrothal with little enthusiasm: Dolores has a lover, and Ramon wants his freedom so that he can pursue Pepita. Having heard of Ramon’s betrothal,…

Genre: Romance
Broadway

Broadway

Broadway
IMDb: 6.2
105

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Genre: Crime, Music
Black and Tan

Black and Tan

Black and Tan
IMDb: 6.4
19

Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with…

Genre: Drama, Music
Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl

Glorifying the American Girl
IMDb: 5.8
95

The plot involves a young woman (Mary Eaton) who wants to be in the Follies, but in the meantime is making ends meet by working at a department store’s sheet…

Genre: Music
The Informer

The Informer

The Informer
IMDb: 7.1
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
Lucky Star

Lucky Star

Lucky Star
IMDb: 7.8
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
The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody
IMDb: 5.7
100

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield’s shows. When Eddie meets…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
The Shakedown

The Shakedown

The Shakedown
IMDb: 6.4
70

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

The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts
IMDb: 7
96

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Genre: Comedy, Music
Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl
IMDb: 7.9
113

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father’s pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a…

Genre: Drama
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.

Hallelujah

Hallelujah

Hallelujah
IMDb: 6.8
100

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

Genre: Drama, Music
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
Asphalt

Asphalt

Asphalt
IMDb: 7.4
93

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the…

Genre: Drama