Drama Movies
Piccadilly (1929)
A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club’s main act.
Harbour Drift (1929)
The Pace That Kills (1928)
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.
West of Zanzibar (1928)
A magician seeks vengeance upon the man who paralyzed him and the illegitimate daughter he sired with the magician’s wife.
Verdun: Visions of History (1928)
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 (1928)
The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.
The Racket (1928)
A renegade police captain sets out to catch a sadistic mob boss. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The Wind (1928)
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)
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.
Daredevils (1928)
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…
Underground (1928)
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…
Lonesome (1928)
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….
The Life and Death of 9413 A Hollywood Extra (1928)
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…
Street Angel (1928)
A spirited young woman finds herself destitute and on the streets before joining a traveling carnival, where she meets a vagabond painter.
Easy Virtue (1928)
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…
The Desert Bride (1928)
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…
Moulin Rouge (1928)
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…
Eleven P.M. (1928)
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…
Four Sons (1928)
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…
The Garden of Eden (1928)
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…
The Last Command (1928)
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 Telltale Heart (1928)
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…
Chicago (1927)
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…
The Peasant Women of Ryazan (1927)
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.
The Shield of Honor (1927)
Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?
The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Uncle Tom’s Cabin (1927)
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…
The Battles of Coronel and Falkland Islands (1927)
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…
The Jazz Singer (1927)
A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film…
College (1927)
A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.
Wings (1927)
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I….
The Blood Ship (1927)
A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic…
The Unknown (1927)
On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has…
Annie Laurie (1927)
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Children of Divorce (1927)
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents’….