Subgenre Sampler
Classics > Drama: 991 Films to Buy & Rent
City Girl (1930)
- Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. Charles Farrell, David Torrence
- Murnau's lost pastoral beauty about a Minnesota boy who marries a tough city girl and brings her home at harvest time, where their love is…
Party Girl (Dangerous Business) (1930)
- Dir. Victor Halperin
Feat. Douglas Jr. Fairbanks
- Tarty pre–code expose of ‘party girl’ rackets – or prostitution rings – with Douglas Fairbanks as a college cad looking for love in all…
Prix de Beaute (1930)
- Dir. Augusto Genina
Feat. Louise Brooks, Georges Charlia, Augusto Bandini
- Louise Brooks is vivacious beyond compare in her first sound film, a jazz–age classic about a young office worker who enters a beauty…
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…