Search results for "1928"
So This Is Love

So This Is Love

So This Is Love
IMDb: 5.4
56

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp….

Genre: Comedy, Romance
The Telltale Heart

The Telltale Heart

The Telltale Heart
IMDb: 6.9
24

An insane man first loves then grows to hate his neighbor, an old man whose penetrating gaze unnerves the insane man. He plans a perfect crime and executes it one…

Genre: Drama, Horror
Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz

Pan Tadeusz
IMDb: 5.9
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
Gow the Head Hunter

Gow the Head Hunter

Gow the Head Hunter
IMDb: 6
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
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
Daredevils

Daredevils

Daredevils
IMDb: 6.6
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…

Genre: Drama, War
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: 7.1
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
Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History

Verdun: Visions of History
IMDb: 7.3
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.

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark

Noah’s Ark
IMDb: 6.7
135

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Genre: Drama, War
The Last Warning

The Last Warning

The Last Warning
IMDb: 6.8
89

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the…

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona

In Old Arizona
IMDb: 5.5
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: Western
L’Argent

L’Argent

L’Argent
IMDb: 7.5
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
The Wind

The Wind

The Wind
IMDb: 8
76

When Letty Mason relocates to West Texas, she finds herself unsettled by the ever-present wind and sand. Arriving at her new home at the ranch of her cousin, Beverly, she…

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.

Underground

Underground

Underground
IMDb: 7.3
93

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, Romance
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
Street Angel

Street Angel

Street Angel
IMDb: 7.3
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 Willie

Steamboat Willie

Steamboat Willie
IMDb: 7.5
8

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

Genre: Animation, Comedy
Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

Steamboat Bill, Jr.
IMDb: 7.8
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 a child.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Spies

Spies

Spies
IMDb: 7.5
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.

Genre: Romance, Thriller
Speedy

Speedy

Speedy
IMDb: 7.6
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: Comedy
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
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 Racket

The Racket

The Racket
IMDb: 6.6
84

A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.

Genre: Crime, Drama
Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia

Storm Over Asia
IMDb: 7
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, History, War
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
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 Pace That Kills

The Pace That Kills

The Pace That Kills
IMDb: 6.9
64

Young farmboy leaves for the big city to get a job and find his sister; both of them get involved with drug dealers and become opium/cocaine addicts.

Genre: Drama
Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters

Our Dancing Daughters
IMDb: 6.7
84

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.

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
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
The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs

The Man Who Laughs
IMDb: 7.6
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, Romance
Lonesome

Lonesome

Lonesome
IMDb: 7.7
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: Drama, Romance
The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range

The Law of the Range
IMDb: 2.1
60

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

Genre: Western
The Last Command

The Last Command

The Last Command
IMDb: 7.9
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.

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port

A Girl in Every Port
IMDb: 6.5
78

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

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden

The Garden of Eden
IMDb: 6.7
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, Romance
Four Sons

Four Sons

Four Sons
IMDb: 7.2
96

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. Preserved by the Academy Film…

Genre: Drama, War
The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife

The Farmer’s Wife
IMDb: 5.8
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
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