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

Genre: Documentary

The Cocoanuts

IMDb: 6.8

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

Genre: Comedy, Music

The Canary Murder Case

IMDb: 5.9

A beautiful showgirl, name “the Canary” is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed “the Canary”. All the suspects…

Genre: Crime, Mystery

Bulldog Drummond

IMDb: 6.3

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…

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Broadway

IMDb: 6.2

105

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Genre: Crime, Music

The Broadway Melody

IMDb: 5.5

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

Follow the adventures and misadventures of Penny, a 14-year-old African American girl who’s doing her best to navigate through the early years of teen-dom. Penny’s every encounter inevitably spirals into…

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Kids

Black and Tan

IMDb: 6.5

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…

Genre: Drama, Music

Berth Marks

IMDb: 6.9

Stan and Ollie are musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville.

Genre: Comedy

The Black Watch

IMDb: 5.6

Captain Donald King is sent to India to carry out a secret mission while the Black Watch, his regiment, leaves for France at the outbreak of the First World War.

Genre: Adventure, Drama, War

Behind That Curtain

IMDb: 4.8

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John…

Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller

Asphalt

IMDb: 7.4

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…

Genre: Drama

L’Argent

IMDb: 7.5

165

Adapted from the novel L’Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Genre: Drama

West of Zanzibar

IMDb: 7.2

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

Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller

The Wind

IMDb: 8

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller, Western

Underground

IMDb: 7.3

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…

Genre: Drama, Romance

The Trail of ’98

IMDb: 7

Fortune hunters from all over the country rushing to the Klondike in 1897 to seek their fortunes in the gold are tested by hardships of the journey.

Genre: Action, Adventure

That Certain Thing

IMDb: 6.3

Gold-digger Molly marries the heir to a fortune, but things go badly when he is disinherited and starts working as a ditch digger.

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Street Angel

IMDb: 7.3

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

Steamboat Willie

IMDb: 7.4

Mickey Mouse, piloting a steamboat, delights his passenger, Minnie, by making musical instruments out of the menagerie on deck.

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Steamboat Bill, Jr.

IMDb: 7.8

The just-out-of-college, effete son of a no-nonsense steamboat captain comes to visit his father whom he’s not seen since he was a child.

Genre: Comedy, Romance

Speedy

IMDb: 7.6

Speedy loses his job as a soda jerk, then spends the day with his girl at Coney Island. He then becomes a cab driver and delivers Babe Ruth to Yankee…

Genre: Comedy

Spies

IMDb: 7.5

145

The mastermind behind a ubiquitous spy operation learns of a dangerous romance between a Russian lady in his employ and a dashing agent from the government’s secret service.

Genre: Romance, Thriller

So This Is Love

IMDb: 5.6

So This is Love? was another early Frank Capra production for fledgling Columbia Pictures. The hero, dress designer Jerry McGuire (William Collier Jr.), is tired of being considered a wimp….

Genre: Comedy, Romance

The Sex Life of the Polyp

IMDb: 5.4

Dr. Benchley is addressing the Ladies Club on the subject of the reproductive habits of the polyp, a small aquatic organism. Although he is not able to display his live…

Genre: Comedy

Shiraz: A Romance of India

IMDb: 7

106

A historical romance set in the Mughal Empire. Selima is a princess-foundling raised by a potter and loved by her brother, Shiraz. She is abducted and sold as a slave…

Genre: Drama, Romance

Riley the Cop

IMDb: 5.9

In this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.

Genre: Comedy

Storm Over Asia

IMDb: 7

127

In 1918 a young and simple Mongol herdsman and trapper is cheated out of a valuable fox fur by a European capitalist fur trader. Ostracized from the trading post, he…

Genre: Drama, History, War

The Racket

IMDb: 6.6

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

Genre: Crime, Drama

The Little Match Girl

IMDb: 7.1

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,…

Genre: Drama, Fantasy

The Passion of Joan of Arc

IMDb: 8.1

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’d spoken to God, Jeanne d’Arc…

Genre: Drama, History

The Pace That Kills

IMDb: 6.9

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

The Eleventh Year

IMDb: 6.9

The film is dedicated to the achievements of the Ukrainian SSR for the eleventh anniversary of the October Revolution.

Genre: Documentary

Our Dancing Daughters

IMDb: 6.7

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

Moulin Rouge

IMDb: 6.6

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…

Genre: Drama, Music

The Man Who Laughs

IMDb: 7.6

110

Gwynplaine, son of Lord Clancharlie, has a permanent smile carved on his face by the King, in revenge for Gwynplaine’s father’s treachery. Gwynplaine is adopted by a travelling showman and…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance

Motherhood: Life’s Greatest Miracle

IMDb: 5.4

1925

In parallel stories, a social butterfly and a lower middle-class wife brace themselves for the challenge of birthing a child in the modern era.

Genre: Drama

Lonesome

IMDb: 7.7

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 Last Command

IMDb: 7.9

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.

Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War

A Girl in Every Port

IMDb: 6.5

Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young woman come between them?

Genre: Adventure, Comedy