The best movies 1929

Jack Cooper has a taxi inspector on his heels, and later confuses the inspector's wife for a theater automaton. Each section is highlighted by a...

A neglected Baroness falls in love with her oldest son's military officer friend, their adulterous romance leading the two to flee to Algeria.

A film based on the story of the Tyrolean innkeeper and patriot Andreas Hofer who led an Austrian uprising against Bavarian and French troops during...

Cole Lawson Jr. goes undercover as a bandit to infiltrate the gang responsible for his father's death.

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons...

Early MGM talkie about a retired businessman, his headstrong daughter, and the comical complications that result when she marries in haste.

Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies....

Charming Sinners was a stilted adaptation of Somerset Maugham's play The Constant Wife. Robert Miles (Clive Brook) starts the ball rolling when he...

A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.

On the day of her wedding to Paul, Mary Wheeler is given the deed to a mysterious old house that is occupied by a strange housekeeper named Nancy...

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Marie, adopted as a baby by Warrant Officer Guippo, helps a smuggler escape because he saved his life previously. She finds him again in Paris while...

This light-hearted comedy takes place at and around a Parisien haute-couture fashion house and tells a love triangle story.

A sacked workman rescues an owner's amnesiac son from a factory fire and reports him dead.

Idaho Red is a 1929 American silent Western film directed by Robert De Lacey.

Jenny, a cheerful kitchen maid at the Paris-style Palais de Luxe, is hopelessly in love with charming head waiter Jean—only to be stood up when...

A U.S. soldier goes after bandits in California, although it is still owned by Mexico.

Prime Minister of Great Britain Benjamin Disraeli outwits the subterfuge of the Russians and chicanery at home in order to secure the purchase of the...

A nightclub owner's wife, jealous of his attentions to his star singer, schemes to get her fired.

A German mechanic considers emigrating to the United States, but changes his mind when he falls in love with a local woman.