1929 Movies

The Broadway Melody

Directed by: Harry Beaumont

Starring: Bessie Love, Anita Page, Charles King, The Angeles Twins

Country: United States of America

Outline: A pair of sisters from the vaudeville circuit try to make it big time on Broadway, but matters of the heart complicate the attempt.

Say It with Songs

Directed by: Lloyd Bacon

Starring: Al Jolson, Davey Lee, Marian Nixon, Holmes Herbert

Outline: Joe 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 ...

Diary of a Lost Girl

Directed by: Georg Wilhelm Pabst

Starring: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne

Country: United States of America

Outline: After falling pregnant to a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is thrown from her home and sent to a scrict girls' reform school.

Un Chien Andalou

Directed by: Luis Buñuel

Starring: Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí

Outline: Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí present 17 minutes of bizarre, surreal imagery.

Navy Blues

Directed by: Clarence Brown

Starring: William Haines, Anita Page, Karl Dane, J.C. Nugent

Outline: On 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 ...

The Iron Mask

Directed by: Allan Dwan

Starring: Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier, Vera Lewis

Country: United States of America

Outline: King 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 ...

Asphalt

Directed by: Joe May

Starring: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann

Country: United States of America

Outline: Joe 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 ...

Arsenal

Directed by: Aleksandr Dovzhenko

Starring: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman

Country: United States of America

Outline: Set in the bleak aftermath and devastation of the World War I, a recently demobbed soldier, Timosh, returns to his hometown Kiev, after having survived a train wreck. His arrival coincides ...

The Wrecker

Directed by: Géza von Bolváry

Starring: Carlyle Blackwell, Benita Hume, Joseph Striker, Winter Hall

Outline: A director's nephew unmasks a manager as a wrecker of trains.

It's a Great Life

Directed by: Sam Wood

Starring: Rosetta Duncan, Vivian Duncan, Lawrence Gray, Jed Prouty

Outline: Casey 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 ...

Applause

Directed by: Rouben Mamoulian

Starring: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron

Country: United States of America

Outline: A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.

Finis terrae

Directed by: Jean Epstein

Starring: Gibois, Jean-Marie Laot, Malgorn, François Morin

Outline: Finis Terræ is a 1929 French silent drama film written and directed by Jean Epstein. The story centres on a small group of men harvesting seaweed off the coast of Brittany, and the problems...

Laila

Directed by: George Schnéevoigt

Starring: Mona Mårtenson, Tryggve Larssen, Harald Schwenzen, Peter Malberg

Outline: A spirited Norwegian Lass is torn between two suitors and two cultures.

Piccadilly

Directed by: Ewald André Dupont

Starring: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Cyril Ritchard

Country: United States of America

Outline: A 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.

The Charlatan

Directed by: George Melford

Starring: Holmes Herbert, Margaret Livingston, Rockliffe Fellowes, Philo McCullough

Outline: A 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 ...

Eternal Love

Directed by: Ernst Lubitsch

Starring: John Barrymore, Camilla Horn, Victor Varconi, Hobart Bosworth

Outline: In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

Evangeline

Directed by: Edwin Carewe

Starring: Dolores del Rio, Roland Drew, Alec B. Francis, Donald Reed

Outline: In Acadia, now part of the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, young Evangeline is betrothed to Gabriel. But before their wedding can take place, the British imprison the men and send them ...

Blackmail

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Starring: Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton

Country: United States of America

Outline: After killing a man in self-defence, a young woman is blackmailed by a witness to the killing.

The Virginian

Directed by: Victor Fleming

Starring: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen

Country: United States of America

Outline: A 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.

The Kiss

Directed by: Jacques Feyder

Starring: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Holmes Herbert

Country: United States of America

Outline: An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.

The Pagan

Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke

Starring: Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis

Outline: A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.

She Goes to War

Directed by: Henry King

Starring: Eleanor Boardman, John Holland, Edmund Burns, Alma Rubens

Outline: A young woman disguises herself as a man and follows her fiancéé into the trenches during World War I to find out what war is really like.

The Informer

Directed by: Arthur Robison

Starring: Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord

Outline: In Ireland, an IRA man betrays a killer to the police, thinking he is his mistress's lover.

Hell's Bells

Outline: The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

Glorifying the American Girl

Directed by: Millard Webb

Starring: Mary Eaton, Eddie Cantor, Helen Morgan, Rudy Vallee

Country: United States of America

Outline: The rise of a showgirl, Gloria Hughes, culminating in a Ziegfeld extravaganza "Glorifying the American Girl".