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Remarkable Silent Movies (1929-1923)

by quietgiant2 • Created 14 years ago • Modified 1 year ago
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Silent Movies: Early Years (1922-1913)
http://www.imdb.com/list/2xCO09_vqTY/

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http://www.imdb.com/list/bYIj1hd1_8M/

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  • Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)

    1. Diary of a Lost Girl

    19291h 19mNot Rated
    7.8 (5K)
    After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
    DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksJosef RovenskýFritz Rasp
  • Lew Cody, Marceline Day, and Aileen Pringle in A Single Man (1929)

    2. A Single Man

    19291h
    7.5 (41)
    Robin Worthington (Lew Cody), a middle-aged man attracted by a young woman, at first avoids her, then falls for her. He undergoes a profound change in temperament, but in the end he marries his secretary, Mary Hazeltine (Aileen Pringle), who had gone away plain and come back strikingly beautiful and wearing the latest new fashions.
    DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsLew CodyAileen PringleMarceline Day
  • The Lighthouse Keepers (1929)

    3. The Lighthouse Keepers

    19291h 22m
    7.4 (235)
    Two lighthouse keepers (the father and the son) are to spend one entire month in the middle of the sea near the coasts of Brittany; the young man is ill.
    DirectorJean GrémillonStarsPaul FrometGeymond VitalGenica Athanasiou
  • Betty Amann in Asphalt (1929)

    4. Asphalt

    19291h 34mNot Rated
    7.4 (1.8K)
    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 its characters, and the ability to take a simple and essentially melodramatic story and turn it into something more complex and inherently cinematic.
    DirectorJoe MayStarsAlbert SteinrückElse HellerGustav Fröhlich
  • Yelena Kuzmina and Iosif Gerasimovich in The New Babylon (1929)

    5. The New Babylon

    19292h
    7.2 (960)
    In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a tamer form of Republicanism. How could the love story between a young sales girl and a soldier unable to decide if he was pro or against the radical fashion? Two short months were needed for the answer to be found - in blood and tears, and under rain that washes all past memories. Any day, a New Babylon shop will open with frilly things for the bourgeois girls. The washerwomen will be there to wash them.
    DirectorsGrigoriy KozintsevLeonid TraubergStarsDavid GutmanYelena KuzminaAndrei Kostrichkin
  • Synthetic Sin (1929)

    6. Synthetic Sin

    19291h 12m
    7.2 (58)
    Famed playwright Donald's latest work flopped because fiancée Betty is too unsophisticated to play the lead. It's time for the flower of Magnolia Gap, Virginia to travel to Gotham for some experience. However, her next-door neighbors are gangsters.
    DirectorWilliam A. SeiterStarsColleen MooreAntonio MorenoEdythe Chapman
  • Brigitte Helm and Ivan Mozzhukhin in Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler (1929)

    7. Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler

    19292h 4m
    7.3 (79)
    A Parisian playboy living beyond his means falls in love with a beautiful society woman fleeing her husband. He turns to robbing and swindling the wealthy to pay for their lavish lifestyle but his past finally catches up with him.
    DirectorViktor TourjanskyStarsIvan MozzhukhinBrigitte HelmHeinrich George
  • Vsevolod Pudovkin, Grigory Borisov, and Pyotr Zhukov in The Living Corpse (1929)

    8. The Living Corpse

    19291h 22m
    7.1 (166)
    Fjodor Protassow wants to divorce his wife, so that she can be happy with another man. But the church won't allow a divorce, so he fakes his own death, becoming a "living corpse".
    DirectorFyodor OtsepStarsVsevolod PudovkinMaria JacobiniViola Garden
    aka Der Lebende Leichnam
  • Eugen Hersch in Woman in the Moon (1929)

    9. Woman in the Moon

    19291h 35mNot Rated
    7.2 (4.1K)
    A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
    DirectorFritz LangStarsWilly FritschGerda MaurusKlaus Pohl
  • Louise Brooks and József Bottlik in Pandora's Box (1929)

    10. Pandora's Box

    19291h 49mNot Rated
    7.7 (12K)
    The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
    DirectorGeorg Wilhelm PabstStarsLouise BrooksFritz KortnerFrancis Lederer
  • Den starkaste (1929)

    11. Den starkaste

    19291h 46m
    6.8 (100)
    Skipper Larsen and his assistant Ole, are planning the season's seal and bear-hunting trip to Spetzbergen with the ship "Viking". Ole is interested in the daughter of the house, Ingeborg.
    DirectorsAxel LindblomAlf SjöbergStarsAnders HenriksonGun HolmqvistBengt Djurberg
  • Vladimir Stenberg and Georgii Stenberg in Arsenal (1929)

    12. Arsenal

    19291h 10mNot Rated
    7.2 (2.4K)
    A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
    DirectorAleksandr DovzhenkoStarsSemyon SvashenkoGeorgi KhorkovAmvrosi Buchma
  • Albert Bassermann, Elisabeth Bergner, Paul Czinner, Grit Hegesa, Else Heller, Adele Sandrock, Arthur Schnitzler, Albert Steinrück, and Jack Trevor in Fräulein Else (1929)

    13. Fräulein Else

    19291h 30m
    7.0 (185)
    A young woman reluctantly decides to compromise her values in order to save her family from bankruptcy and disgrace.
    DirectorPaul CzinnerStarsElisabeth BergnerAlbert BassermannAlbert Steinrück
  • The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929)

    14. The Bridge of San Luis Rey

    19291h 26m
    6.8 (110)
    A rope bridge over a gorge in the Peruvian Andes snaps, sending five people plunging to their deaths. A priest sets out to find out more about the life of each of the victims.
    DirectorCharles BrabinStarsLili DamitaErnest TorrenceRaquel Torres
  • Buster Keaton in Spite Marriage (1929)

    15. Spite Marriage

    19291h 16mPassed
    6.9 (2.7K)
    An unimpressive but well intending 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 is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.
    DirectorsEdward SedgwickBuster KeatonStarsBuster KeatonDorothy SebastianEdward Earle
  • Iosif Gerasimovich in The General Line (1929)

    16. The General Line

    19292h 1mNot Rated
    7.2 (1.8K)
    100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
    DirectorsGrigoriy AleksandrovSergei EisensteinStarsMarfa LapkinaM. IvaninKonstantin Vasilyev
  • Rotaie (1929)

    17. Rotaie

    19291h 31m
    6.9 (149)
    A young honeymooning couple are lured away to a seaside resort by a high-society sleazeball, who has plans to seduce the girl, while at the same time her hubby in desperation stakes all his money on the roulette wheels.
    DirectorMario CameriniStarsKäthe von NagyMaurizio D'AncoraDaniele Crespi
  • John Barrymore and Camilla Horn in Eternal Love (1929)

    18. Eternal Love

    19291h 11mPassed
    6.7 (602)
    In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.
    DirectorErnst LubitschStarsJohn BarrymoreCamilla HornVictor Varconi
  • Richard Dix in Redskin (1929)

    19. Redskin

    19291h 22m
    6.8 (238)
    Wing Foot (Richard Dix), a Navajo, is educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story, he experiences prejudice from both the whites because of his race and the Navajos, who disown him because of his upbringing. Thus, Wing Foot is looked upon as neither Indian nor white, but simply a "redskin."
    DirectorVictor SchertzingerStarsRichard DixJulie CarterTully Marshall
  • Conrad Veidt in The Last Performance (1929)

    20. The Last Performance

    19291h 8m
    6.6 (523)
    A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant, who is in love with his young protege', who turns out to be a bum and a thief.
    DirectorPál FejösStarsConrad VeidtMary PhilbinLeslie Fenton
  • William Haines in Speedway (1929)

    21. Speedway

    19291h 16mPassed
    6.2 (747)
    Love and skullduggery are set against the backdrop of the Indianapolis 500.
    DirectorHarry BeaumontStarsWilliam HainesAnita PageErnest Torrence
  • Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova, Dziga Vertov, Vladimir Stenberg, and Georgii Stenberg in Man with a Movie Camera (1929)

    22. Man with a Movie Camera

    19291h 8mNot Rated96Metascore
    8.3 (29K)
    A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
    DirectorDziga VertovStarsMikhail KaufmanElizaveta Svilova
  • Maria Falconetti in The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

    23. The Passion of Joan of Arc

    19281h 54mPassed98Metascore
    8.1 (65K)
    In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy, and the ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force her to recant her claims of holy visions.
    DirectorCarl Theodor DreyerStarsMaria FalconettiEugene SilvainAndré Berley
  • Eleanor Boardman and James Murray in The Crowd (1928)

    24. The Crowd

    19281h 38mNot Rated
    8.0 (9.7K)
    The life of a man and woman together in a large, impersonal metropolis through their hopes, struggles, and downfalls.
    DirectorKing VidorStarsEleanor BoardmanJames MurrayBert Roach
  • Charles Chaplin in The Circus (1928)

    25. The Circus

    19281h 12mG90Metascore
    8.1 (37K)
    The Tramp finds work and the girl of his dreams at a circus.
    DirectorCharles ChaplinStarsCharles ChaplinMerna KennedyAl Ernest Garcia

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