Subgenre Sampler
Classics: 3631 Films to Buy & Rent
La Boheme (1926)
- Dir. King Vidor
Feat. Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renee Adoree…
- Silent film adaptation of the 1896 opera by Giacomo Puccini, with Lillian Gish starring alongside John Gilbert as doomed lovers Mimi and Rodolphe, a…
Lodger, The (1926)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
Feat. Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney…
- The first notable Hitchcock, this silent variant of the 'Jack the Ripper' features a memorable turn from Ivor Novello and some spine–tingling…
Metropolis (1926)
- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Alfred Abel, Gustav Frohlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge…
- Fritz Lang's masterpiece is a magnificent marriage of pure cinema innovation and startlingly ambitious set design.
Set around the year 2000, a…
Mother (1926)
- Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov
- In one of the masterpieces of early Russian cinema, a fable of pre–revolutionary worker–resistance and Tsarist oppression is heightened…
Son of the Sheik (1926)
- Dir. George Fitzmaurice
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
- Rudolf Valentino's most famous and best outing is a high camp romp in the desert in which he plays the dual role of father and son, no doubt to…
Tartuffe (Herr Tartuff) (1926)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha
- This neglected Murnau masterpiece innovatively precedes FAUST by presenting its adaptation of a Molière’s satire as a…
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
- Dir. Harry Edwards
Feat. Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford
- An overlooked silent oddity from Harry Langdon, whose boyish innocence contrasted sharply against the likes of contemporaries Chaplin and Keaton.…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)
- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov
- This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Carl Theodor Dreyer: Master Filmmaker (Master of the House, Day of Wrath, Ordet, Gerturd, My Metier.) (1925-1995)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
- Fetching boxset featuring four films – MASTER OF THE HOUSE, DAY OF WRATH, ORDET, GERTRUD – by admired but often underrated Danish film…
Eagle, The (1925)
- Dir. Clarence Brown
Feat. Rudolph Valentino
- Rudolph Valentino's penultimate picture – and one of his most popular – in which he plays a Russian lieutenant who becomes a masked…