1928 Movies

Four Sons

Directed by: John Ford

Starring: James Hall, Margaret Mann, Charles Morton, Francis X. Bushman Jr.

Country: United States of America

Outline: A family saga in which three of a Bavarian widow's sons go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.

The Singing Fool

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman

Outline: A singing waiter and composer (Al Jolson) loves two women (Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn), conquers Broadway and holds his dying son, singing "Sonny Boy."

The Passion of Joan of Arc

Directed by: Carl Theodor Dreyer

Starring: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.

Show People

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Marion Davies, William Haines, Dell Henderson, Paul Ralli

Country: United States of America

Outline: A young lady from Georgia goes to Hollywood in the hopes of becoming an actress.

The Patsy

Directed by: King Vidor

Starring: Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray

Country: United States of America

Outline: An awkward teenager hopelessly in love with her elder sister's boyfriend tries to make him notice her.

The Smart Set

Directed by: Jack Conway

Starring: William Haines, Jack Holt, Alice Day, Hobart Bosworth

Outline: An American polo player, arrogant and full of himself, must vindicate his actions to win the heart of a girl, Polly, after getting himself booted off the U.S. polo team.

Beggars of Life

Directed by: William A. Wellman

Starring: Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Blue Washington

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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 hobos, and steal ...

Spies

Directed by: Fritz Lang

Starring: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Willy Fritsch, Lien Deyers

Country: United States of America

Outline: 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.

Speedy

Directed by: Ted Wilde

Starring: Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth

Country: United States of America

Outline: Harold "Speedy" Swift, a fan of Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, saves from extinction the city's last horse-drawn trolley, operated by his girlfriend's grandfather.

A Woman of Affairs

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown

Country: United States of America

Outline: When two childhood sweethearts are kept from marrying, misery ensues.

Bare Knees

Directed by: Erle C. Kenton

Starring: Virginia Lee Corbin, Donald Keith, Jane Winton, Johnnie Walker

Outline: A young married woman in a small town is visited by her sister, a single "flapper" who causes a scandal in town with her bobbed hair and short skirts. She attracts the attentions of some of...

The Fall of the House of Usher

Directed by: Jean Epstein

Starring: Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard

Country: United States of America

Outline: Allan visits the sinister Usher family mansion, where his friend Roderick is painting a portrait of his sickly wife Madeline. The portrait seems to be draining the life out of Madeline, slowly leading to her death.

The Spieler

Directed by: Tay Garnett

Starring: Alan Hale, Clyde Cook, Renée Adorée, Fred Kohler

Outline: Add a Plot

The Mysterious Lady

Directed by: Fred Niblo

Starring: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Albert Pollet

Country: United States of America

Outline: An attractive Russian spy seduces an Austrian officer in order to get some important plans, but when she actually falls in love with him, both of them are placed in a dangerous situation.

Our Dancing Daughters

Directed by: Harry Beaumont

Starring: Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian

Country: United States of America

Outline: A flapper who's secretly a good girl and a gold digging floozy masquerading as an ingénue both vie for the hand of a millionaire.

Storm Over Asia

Directed by: Vsevolod Pudovkin

Starring: I. Inkizhinov, I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov

Country: United States of America

Outline: In 1918 a simple Mongolian herdsman escapes to the hills after brawling with a western capitalist fur trader who cheats him. In 1920 he helps the partisans fight for the Soviets against the...

West of Zanzibar

Directed by: Tod Browning

Starring: Lon Chaney, Lionel Barrymore, Mary Nolan, Warner Baxter

Country: United States of America

Outline: A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician's wife.

Feel My Pulse

Directed by: Gregory La Cava

Starring: Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen, William Powell, Melbourne MacDowell

Outline: A rich but hypochondriac heiress inherits a sanitarium. What she doesn't know is that it is a front for bootleggers, and a hideout for criminals on the run from the law.

Across to Singapore

Directed by: William Nigh

Starring: Ramon Novarro, Joan Crawford, Ernest Torrence, Frank Currier

Outline: Conflict ensues when a young man's childhood sweetheart becomes betrothed to his older brother.

The Trail of '98

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: Dolores del Rio, Ralph Forbes, Karl Dane, Harry Carey

Country: United States of America

Outline: Fortune hunters from all over the country rush to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

The Garden of Eden

Directed by: Lewis Milestone

Starring: Corinne Griffith, Louise Dresser, Lowell Sherman, Maude George

Outline: 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 ...

La coquille et le clergyman

Directed by: Germaine Dulac

Starring: Alex Allin, Genica Athanasiou, Lucien Bataille

Outline: Obsessed with a general's woman, a clergyman has strange visions of death and lust, struggling against his own eroticism.

A Girl in Every Port

Directed by: Howard Hawks

Starring: Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks, Maria Alba

Country: United States of America

Outline: Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?

The Michigan Kid

Directed by: Irvin Willat

Starring: Conrad Nagel, Renée Adorée, Lloyd Whitlock, Fred Esmelton

Outline: The Michigan Kid is a gambler in the backwoods of Alaska trying to make enough money to go back to his hometown and impress the girl he loves. His childhood rival for the girl happens to ...

Inflation

Outline: Inflation explores the subject of money through photographs and with with stop motion animation techniques, adding faces of people impoverished and enriched by the unpredictability of finance.