1929 Movies

A flapper unwittingly falls for the boss’ son.

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

One of the first sociological and ethnographic documentary films worldwide, made by the team of sociologists and students of Professor Dimitrie Gusti (1880-1955) in the village of Drăguş, Făgăraş County,…

Based on Romanian legends and folk tales about the outlaws from Carpathian Mountains. The film is the middle episode of an adventure trilogy that almost four decades ago anticipated the…

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

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…

Oklahoma mechanic Pike Peters finds himself part owner of an oil field. His wife Idy, hitherto content, decides the family must go to Paris to get “culture” and meet “the…

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…

A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman’s bedroom and winds up butler.

A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.

Joe Lane, radio entertainer and songwriter, learns that the manager of the studio, Arthur Phillips, has made improper advances to his wife, Katherine. Infuriated, Lane engages him in a fight,…

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

One of the last of the silent Sherlock films.

A Chinese doctor vows revenge against the allied troops who killed his wife and child during the Boxer Rebellion.

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

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…

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…

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

The murders start with the body of Robin. He is found with a arrow through the heart, but Vance deduces that the body was placed and not found where he…

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn’t realize is that he…

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can…

The discovery of gold in California in 1848 brings a tide of gold seekers to the area, disrupting the lives of the Guerrero family who have owned nearby Rancho Chico…

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A stenographer who works for a lawyer falls in love with and marries a wealthy young man. His family has the marraige annulled, after which she gives birth to a…

In a cantina across the border, Bob Hamlin shoots a man that threatens his friend. He and his pals escape but return that night for the dance as Bob is…

Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that “talking pictures are in their infantry,” decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starring…

A dance trophy winning young couple is temporarily split up when a playboy aviator leads the girl to believe he’s in love with her.

Molly and Bee, sweet young ‘working girls,’ live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly’s idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but…

Hugh ‘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…

The first half is a look at water rushing, pouring from a pipe, spouting, falling, moving, and churning. The second half presents reflections, particularly how patterns appear in water as…

Her Private Affair is a 1929 drama film directed by Paul L. Stein and starring Ann Harding. It was produced and distributed by the Pathé Exchange company. A silent film…

A young couple marries in secret. Judy’s afraid her parents won’t approve of Dick and she’ll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home from the city where she’s…

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Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in…

A man is blamed for a murder that was actually committed by his wife.

After a vaudeville performer is murdered backstage, framed-up evidence lead the police to arrest a troupe member. At his trial, Hermann, a Scandinavian clown known as Beppo, is the lone…

College senior Rudy Bronson forms a band with other students and decides to take them to the Long Island home of Ted Grant, his mail order saxophone teacher. Grant and…

An amnesiac officer weds a barren socialite and adopts his son by a French ballerina.

Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit “The Kinkajou” over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.

In Hungary, a prosperous and happy family of farmers take in a Gypsy girl, Nubi, when she runs away from her “cruel” master. Her fickle and seductive nature soon causes…