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Rental > Classics > Silent Cinema: 114 Films to Rent on DVD
- Spies (Spione) (1928)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Willy Fritsch
- Post WWI Europe provides a volatile backdrop for this silent spy–saga, whose brilliant visual flourishes and 'house–of–mirrors'…
- Steamboat Bill Jr (1928)
- Dir. Charles Riesner
Feat. Buster Keaton, Ernest Torrence, Tom McGuire
- One of Buster Keaton's best films begins as sly farce, with his wimpish city–slicker meekly tussling with a thuggish steamboat–captain…
- Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
- An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…
- Street Angel (1928)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
- Janet Gaynor radiates as a streetwalker whose love for an Italian painter is jeopardized by her past brushes with the law. As with 7th HEAVEN, dir.…
- Un Chien Andalou (1928)
- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali
- Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
- 7th Heaven (Seventh Heaven) (1927)
- Dir. Frank Borzage
Feat. Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell
- Eternal lovers Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell endure spiritual turmoil and the ravages of war in this beautiful silent era classic, remarkable for…
- College (1927)
- Dir. James W. Horne
Feat. Buster Keaton
- Buster Keaton goes to college where he tries to win the girl of his dreams by proving himself in the sports arena. An ideal set up for 'Stoneface' to…
- End of St. Petersburg, The (1927)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov
- The tensions that exploded with the 'October Revolution' in Russia, 1917 are schematised here using understated characterisations (of workers and…
- Gaucho, The (1927)
- Dir. F. Richard Jones
Feat. Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay
- Prime Douglas Fairbanks adventure with the dashing swordsman fighting to save a city from a sadistic general.
- Napoleon (1927)
- Dir. Abel Gance
Feat. Albert Dieudonne
- Renowned silent epic treats the life of the French general and emperor as a melodramatic spectacle of the highest order, with a…