Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 978 Films to Buy & Rent
- Asphalt (1929)
- Dir. Joe May
Feat. Gustav Frohlich, Betty Amann
- Bravura melodrama from the German Expressionist era wrangles with the divided loyalites of a love–struck police officer who falls for a sultry…
- 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…
- 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…
- Docks of New York, The (1928)
- 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'Argent (Money) (1928)
- 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, The (1928)
- 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…
- Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928)
- Dir. Herbert Brenon
Feat. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther…
- Profoundly moving melodrama with Lon Chaney playing a traveling circus clown who raises an abandoned child as his daughter, but falls into deep…
- Man Who Laughs, The (1928)
- Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova
- One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
- Pandora's Box (1928)
- 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.