1927 Movies

The Gaucho

Directed by: F. Richard Jones

Starring: Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern, Gustav von Seyffertitz

Country: United States of America

Outline: A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich ...

When a Man Loves

Directed by: Alan Crosland

Starring: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse

Outline: A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.

The Jazz Singer

Directed by: Alan Crosland

Starring: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer

Country: United States of America

Outline: The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.

Metropolis

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge

Country: United States of America

Outline: In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Sunrise

Directed by: F.W. Murnau

Starring: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing

Country: United States of America

Outline: An allegorical tale about a man fighting the good and evil within him. Both sides are made flesh - one a sophisticated woman he is attracted to and the other his wife.

Sadie Thompson

Directed by: Raoul Walsh

Starring: Lionel Barrymore, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley

Country: United States of America

Outline: A prostitute seeking a fresh start becomes the obsession of a religious extremist.

West Point

Directed by: Edward Sedgwick

Starring: William Haines, Joan Crawford, William Bakewell, Neil Neely

Country: United States of America

Outline: Wealthy Brice Wayne enters West Point and, though he does well on the football field, angers fellow cadets with his arrogance. Disciplined by the coach he yells "To hell with the Corps!" ...

Spring Fever

Directed by: Edward Sedgwick

Starring: William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K. Arthur, George Fawcett

Outline: To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.

Napoleon

Directed by: Abel Gance

Starring: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky

Country: United States of America

Outline: A film about the French general's youth and early military career.

My Best Girl

Directed by: Sam Taylor

Starring: Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield

Country: United States of America

Outline: A department store's stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store's manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.

The Beloved Rogue

Directed by: Alan Crosland

Starring: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt

Country: United States of America

Outline: François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

The Love of Jeanne Ney

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Starring: Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp, Brigitte Helm

Country: United States of America

Outline: In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she...

Brave Heart

Directed by: Gaia

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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney

Country: United States of America

Outline: A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.

Chicago

Directed by: Frank Urson

Starring: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford, Robert Edeson

Country: United States of America

Outline: Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she finagles her way out ...

Rubber Tires

Directed by: Alan Hale

Starring: Bessie Love, Erwin Connelly, Frank Coghlan Jr., May Robson

Outline: The Stack family of New York City has fallen on difficult financial times. Pa Stack squandered the family's money by buying a home in Newhall, California, hoping that there would be oil on the land.

Dress Parade

Directed by: Donald Crisp

Starring: William Boyd, Bessie Love, Hugh Allan, Walter Tennyson

Outline: An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands

Directed by: Walter Summers

Starring: Roger Maxwell, Craighall Sherry, Hans von Slock

Outline: Dramatic reconstruction of two 1914 naval battles off Coronel and the Falkland Islands.The first a defeat of the British by Vice Admiral Maximilian von Spee, the second a retaliation by the British under vice Admiral Sturdee.

The Cat and the Canary

Directed by: Paul Leni

Starring: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall

Country: United States of America

Outline: Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.

Running Wild

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

Starring: W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan

Outline: Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his ...

College

Directed by: James W. Horne, Buster Keaton

Starring: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin

Country: United States of America

Outline: To reconcile with his girlfriend, a bookish college student tries to become an athlete.

The Yankee Clipper

Directed by: Rupert Julian

Starring: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Frank Coghlan Jr., John Miljan

Outline: What starts as race from China to Boston to earn coveted tea trade contract on the high seas turns into dangerous journey with typhoon, mutiny, and no fresh water.

The Chess Player

Directed by: Raymond Bernard

Starring: Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin, Édith Jéhanne, Camille Bert

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.

The Drop Kick

Directed by: Millard Webb

Starring: Richard Barthelmess, Barbara Kent, Dorothy Revier, Eugene Strong

Outline: College football player Jack Hamill finds his reputation on the line when he pays an innocent visit to a woman whose husband kills himself.

The Show

Directed by: Tod Browning

Starring: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly

Country: United States of America

Outline: Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.