Man with a Movie Camera

Man with a Movie Camera 1929

7.84

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

1929

Plane Crazy

Plane Crazy 1929

6.30

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

1929

Pandora's Box

Pandora's Box 1929

7.50

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

1929

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou 1929

7.43

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

1929

The Broadway Melody

The Broadway Melody 1929

5.10

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognizes that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

1929

Asphalt

Asphalt 1929

7.20

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.

1929

The Iron Mask

The Iron Mask 1929

6.70

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 revolution, and has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.

1929

Diary of a Lost Girl

Diary of a Lost Girl 1929

7.40

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

1929

The Manxman

The Manxman 1929

6.00

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

1929

Coquette

Coquette 1929

5.62

A Southern belle's flirtation with a working man leads to tragedy.

1929

Woman in the Moon

Woman in the Moon 1929

7.20

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

1929

The Skeleton Dance

The Skeleton Dance 1929

7.30

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

1929

The Cocoanuts

The Cocoanuts 1929

6.47

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

1929

Blackmail

Blackmail 1929

6.60

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

1929

The Informer

The Informer 1929

6.30

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is then pursued by the other members of the organisation.

1929

Big Business

Big Business 1929

6.65

Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

1929

The Haunted House

The Haunted House 1929

6.50

Mickey seeks shelter from a storm in a house that turns out to be haunted. The skeletons command him to play the organ; they dance and play along.

1929

Lucky Star

Lucky Star 1929

7.60

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

1929

Arsenal

Arsenal 1929

6.80

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

1929

Strange Cargo

Strange Cargo 1929

6.00

On board a yacht sailing from India to Britain, the owner of the vessel is murdered by one of the passengers. (This film was produced both in full sound and silent versions, the latter for theaters that had not yet been wired for sound.)

1929