Drama Movies
The Flying Scotsman (1929)

The Flying Scotsman (1929)

The Flying Scotsman (1929)
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50

The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job…

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Bulldog Drummond (1929)
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90

Bulldog Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he’s looking for when a…

The Hole in the Wall (1929)

The Hole in the Wall (1929)

The Hole in the Wall (1929)
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63

Mrs. Ramsey sent Jean Oliver to prison on a false charge. To get even, Jean (disguised as Madame Mystera) plans to kidnap her daughter and turn her into a thief….

Genre: Drama, Mystery
The Scar of Shame (1929)

The Scar of Shame (1929)

The Scar of Shame (1929)
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86

An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.

Genre: Drama
The Letter (1929)

The Letter (1929)

The Letter (1929)
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65

A planter’s wife shoots a neighbor, but tells conflicting stories of what happened.

Genre: Drama
Asphalt (1929)

Asphalt (1929)

Asphalt (1929)
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93

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…

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Genre: Drama
The Shakedown (1929)

The Shakedown (1929)

The Shakedown (1929)
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65

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.

Genre: Drama
The Younger Generation (1929)

The Younger Generation (1929)

The Younger Generation (1929)
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84

Soap-opera about a social-climbing Jewish man and his old-world parents who are heartbroken by his rejection of them. Young Morris Goldfish follows his immigrant father into business. His ruthless business…

Genre: Drama
Figaro (1929)

Figaro (1929)

Figaro (1929)
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120

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

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Genre: Drama
Why Be Good? (1929)

Why Be Good? (1929)

Why Be Good? (1929)
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84

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss’ son.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
The Broadway Melody (1929)

The Broadway Melody (1929)

The Broadway Melody (1929)
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101

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…

Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Piccadilly (1929)

Piccadilly (1929)

Piccadilly (1929)
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109

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.

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Genre: Crime, Drama
Pandora’s Box (1929)

Pandora’s Box (1929)

Pandora’s Box (1929)
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133

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…

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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Harbour Drift (1929)

Harbour Drift (1929)

Harbour Drift (1929)
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74

A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a…

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Genre: Drama
The Pace That Kills (1928)

The Pace That Kills (1928)

The Pace That Kills (1928)
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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
West of Zanzibar (1928)

West of Zanzibar (1928)

West of Zanzibar (1928)
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70

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

The Racket (1928)

The Racket (1928)

The Racket (1928)
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84

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

Genre: Crime, Drama
Noah’s Ark (1928)

Noah’s Ark (1928)

Noah’s Ark (1928)
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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 Wind (1928)

The Wind (1928)

The Wind (1928)
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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…

Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

Our Dancing Daughters (1928)

Our Dancing Daughters (1928)
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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
Daredevils (1928)

Daredevils (1928)

Daredevils (1928)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, War
Underground (1928)

Underground (1928)

Underground (1928)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
Lonesome (1928)

Lonesome (1928)

Lonesome (1928)
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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 Little Match Girl (1928)

The Little Match Girl (1928)

The Little Match Girl (1928)
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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,…

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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Street Angel (1928)

Street Angel (1928)

Street Angel (1928)
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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
Easy Virtue (1928)

Easy Virtue (1928)

Easy Virtue (1928)
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70

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John’s…

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Genre: Drama, Romance
The Desert Bride (1928)

The Desert Bride (1928)

The Desert Bride (1928)
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57

Captain Maurice de Florimont, a French Army intelligence officer, is captured by Arab nationalists while on an espionage mission. His sweetheart Diane Duval is also taken prisoner. Both are tortured…

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance
Moulin Rouge (1928)

Moulin Rouge (1928)

Moulin Rouge (1928)
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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…

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Genre: Drama, Music
Eleven P.M. (1928)

Eleven P.M. (1928)

Eleven P.M. (1928)
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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
Four Sons (1928)

Four Sons (1928)

Four Sons (1928)
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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 Garden of Eden (1928)

The Garden of Eden (1928)

The Garden of Eden (1928)
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76

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
The Last Command (1928)

The Last Command (1928)

The Last Command (1928)
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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.

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)

The Mystery of the Eiffel Tower (1928)
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132

The Mironton Brothers are part of a fairground attraction. One of them comes into a large inheritance, but the Friends of the Antenna association try to keep him from accessing…

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Genre: Drama
The Telltale Heart (1928)

The Telltale Heart (1928)

The Telltale Heart (1928)
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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
Chicago (1927)

Chicago (1927)

Chicago (1927)
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103

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927)

The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927)

The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927)
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88

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

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Genre: Drama
The Shield of Honor (1927)

The Shield of Honor (1927)

The Shield of Honor (1927)
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63

Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Genre: Crime, Drama
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)

The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)

The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
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113

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns…

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Genre: Drama
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927)

Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927)
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144

In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George’s owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her…

Genre: Drama
The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)

The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
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106

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful…

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Genre: Drama, War