Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Silent Cinema: 129 Films to Buy & Rent
- Silent Naruse (Flunky, Work Hard; No Blood Relation; Apart From You; Every-Night Dreams; Street Without End) (1931-1934)
- Dir. Mikio Naruse
- A collection of silent era films from renowned Japanese director Mikio Naruse, the only five from the 1930's that still exist today, featuring new…
- Tabu (1931)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Anna Chevalier
- A beautifully filmed romantic tragedy based on a simple Pacific island folk tale. Poetry and sensuality is startlingly evoked through the play of…
- City Girl (1930)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
- Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
- Earth (Zemlya) (1930)
- Dir. Alexander Dovzhenko
- One of the poetic highpoints of Soviet cinema, this sets its simple tale amid the life of a Ukrainian peasant village undergoing modernization after…
- Asphalt (1929)
- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann
- Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…
- Blackmail (1929)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood…
- Notable early thriller from Hitch, with Ondra being blackmailed by someone who knows she accidentally killed a rapist. Features good London…
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks
- Exceptional follow–up to the eye–opening PANDORA’S BOX, with Louise Brooks again provoking disorder with her unrestrained vitality and…
- Eternal Love (1929)
- Dir. Ernst Lubitsch
Feat. John Barrymore, Camilla Horn
- Made during the last days of the silent era, the legendary Ernst Lubitsch directs John Barrymore and Camilla Horn as two lovers living in the Swiss…
- Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
- Dir. Dziga Vertov
- Breath–taking moving snapshot of life in Leninist Moscow uses dissolves, split screen, slo–mo, and freeze frames to dazzlingly illustrate…
- People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…