Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Silent Cinema: 133 Films to Buy & Rent
Cat and the Canary, The (1927)
- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Laura La Plante, Tully Marshall
- Seminal haunted house flick centres around the gathering of greedy contestants to the will of a rich relative. Imaginative thrills are executed with…
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.
It (1927)
- Dir. Clarence Badger
Feat. Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, Gary Cooper
- Clara Bow sprang to stardom in this silent comedy, using ‘it’ to gold–dig department–store boss Antonio Moreno. Memorable for its…
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…
Silent Films Of Alfred Hitchcock, The (1927-1929)
- Dir. Alfred Hitchcock
- Two of Hitchcock's early films showcasing the best from the Master Of Suspense during his silent era.
THE RING: A boxer must compete with a rival…
Sunrise (1927)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing
- The first American outing from the master of German Expressionism turned out to be perhaps his best film of all. He instils an electric charge on a…
Underworld (1927)
- Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, Clive Brook
- Josef von Sternberg’s breakthrough silent film arguably pioneered the American gangster genre, with George Bancroft cast as a criminal kingpin…
Unknown, The (1927)
- Dir. Tod Browning
Feat. Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz…
- Lon Chaney is fantastically expressive in this Grand Guignol inspired silent horror, from frequent collaborators Chaney and director Tod Browning, in…