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Pandora's BoxPandora's Box (1929) Recommended
Dir. G.W. Pabst
Feat. Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer
Louise Brooks become a star and influenced a million haircuts as the voluptuous call–girl, Lulu, whose misdeeds meet with an appropriate fate.
People on SundayPeople on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929) Recommended
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 KellyQueen Kelly (1929) Recommended
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 SymphoniesSilly Symphonies (1929-1939) Aro Favourite
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 MoonWoman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929) Recommended
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.
Circus, TheCircus, The (1928)
Dir. Charles Chaplin
Feat. Charles Chaplin
Chaplin's Little Tramp stumbles into a travelling circus where he falls in love and finds work as a circus clown and high–wire artist. Hasn't…
Docks of New York, TheDocks of New York, The (1928) Recommended
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Betty Compson
George Bancroft plays a roughneck stoker who gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for a wise and weary…
L'ArgentL'Argent (Money) (1928) Recommended
Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
Last Command, TheLast Command, The (1928) Aro Favourite
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra…

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