Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3628 Films to Buy & Rent
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…
Little Rascals, The (1929-1938)
- Highlights from the classic 30s movie serial starring a band of young rapscallions up to adventurous and inventive trouble.
On tape, 6 episodes:…
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…
New Gentlemen, The (Les Nouveaux Messiers) (1929)
- Dir. Jacques Feyder
Feat. Albert Prejean
- A satirical French silent film, which uses a number of inventive visual techniques to comic effect. A dancer at the Paris Opera is the mistress of an…
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…
Queen Kelly (1929)
- Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron…
- Star/producer Gloria Swanson fired her director before this picture was even half completed, but this 'shortened' epic about a sex scandal in…
Silly Symphonies (1929-1939)
- An exemplary collection of 31 animated musical shorts from the astonishing heyday of the Walt Disney empire. With animation that is sometimes rough…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus…
- Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
Alfred Hitchcock Silent Double (The Manxman, The Ring) (1928-1929)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Two silent films from Hitchcock's early career.