Juno and the Paycock (1930)
During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they…
Golden Dawn (1930)
Dawn, a young white girl who has been kidnapped in infancy and reared by Mooda, an African woman who operates a canteen in the German cantonment, meets and falls in…
The Big House (1930)
Convicted of manslaughter for a drunken driving accident, Kent Marlowe is sent to prison, where he meets vicious incarcerated figures who are planning an escape from the brutal conditions.
The Florodora Girl (1930)
A chorus girl gets bad advice from her fellow chorines in handling a rich suitor who assumes she is a gold digger.
All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)
When a group of idealistic young men join the German Army during the Great War, they are assigned to the Western Front, where their patriotism is destroyed by the harsh…
Ladies of Leisure (1930)
Kay Arnold is a gold digger who wanders from party to party with the intention of catching a rich suitor. Jerry Strong is a young man from a wealthy family…
Redemption (1930)
In Russia in the early 1900s, Fedya, a handsome, self-indulgent womanizer, falls in love with and marries Lisa, his friend Victor’s fiancée. Fedya quickly tires of domestic life and resumes…
The Ghost That Never Returns (1930)
The rebel leader Jose Real is allowed to leave prison for one day to visit his family. But it is a ruse to make him reveal the whereabouts of his…
Son of the Gods (1930)
The popular Caucasian-looking son (Richard Barthelmess) of a wealthy Chinese businessman lives away from his widowed father and passes as white, but experiences prejudice, rejection, insult, and heartache when the…
Mamba (1930)
August Bolte, the richest man in a settlement in German East Africa in the period before World War I, is called “Mamba” by the locals, which is the name of…
They Learned About Women (1930)
Jack and Jerry are doing okay between profession baseball and Vaudeville. That is, until love and gold-diggers get in the way.
The Woman Racket (1930)
During a raid, a cop lets a pretty speakeasy employee escape and later begins dating her. Although she loves him, his salary and dull life leave her wanting.
City Girl (1930)
A waitress from Chicago falls in love with a man from rural Minnesota and marries him, with the intent of living a better life – but life on the farm…
Halka (1930)
New York Nights (1929)
Show girl Jill Deverne is married to song writer Fred Deverne, and everyone is involved in the Broadway night life and endless parties. Jill is being pursued by a gangster,…
Navy Blues (1929)
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…
Black and Tan (1929)
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with…
Untamed (1929)
In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for…
So This Is College (1929)
Scheming coed Babs comes between college buddies Eddie and Biff.
Fragment of an Empire (1929)
Director Frederick Ermler’s last silent feature and the last of four collaborations with actor Fiodor Nikitin. Nikitin plays an officer who spends a decade after the Great War as a…
The Informer (1929)
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.
Woman in the Moon (1929)
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.
Speedway (1929)
Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him…
The Mysterious Island (1929)
On a volcanic island near the Kingdom of Hetvia rules Count Dakkar, a benevolent leader and scientist who has eliminated class distinction among the island’s inhabitants. Dakkar, his sister Sonia…
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
The Great Gabbo (1929)
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
St. Louis Blues (1929)
In this all-black cast short, legendary blues singer Bessie Smith finds her gambler lover Jimmy messin’ with a pretty, younger woman; he leaves and she sings the blues, with chorus…
Hallelujah (1929)
A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.
Lucky Star (1929)
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…
Madame X (1929)
A young, unfaithful wife and mother is thrown out by her cold, unforgiving husband, the Attorney General of France. She is barred from ever seeing her three year old son…
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929)
There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy…
Thunderbolt (1929)
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love…
The Divine Voyage (1929)
The Flying Scotsman (1929)
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…
Bulldog Drummond (1929)
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)
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….