Search results for "1927"
The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary
IMDb: 7.1
80

Rich old Cyrus West’s relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the…

The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands

The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands

The Battles of the Coronel and Falkland Islands
IMDb: 7.2
106

The film focuses on the naval warfare around the Battle of Coronel and Battle of the Falkland Islands during the First World War. It was the last in a successful…

Romance of the Western Chamber

Romance of the Western Chamber

Romance of the Western Chamber
IMDb: 6.1
49

A love story between a poor scholar and wealthy woman.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Wings

Wings

Wings
IMDb: 7.5
144

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I….

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Underworld

Underworld

Underworld
IMDb: 7.5
87

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
The Unknown

The Unknown

The Unknown
IMDb: 7.7
68

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

Genre: Drama, Horror
White Gold

White Gold

White Gold
IMDb: 6.5
73

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father’s ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Genre: Drama, Western
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
IMDb: 6.8
144

In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George’s owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her…

Genre: Drama
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights
IMDb: 6.7
92

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl.

The Show

The Show

The Show
IMDb: 6.9
76

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome’s dance of the…

Genre: Crime, Drama
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
IMDb: 8.1
94

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Should Men Walk Home?

Should Men Walk Home?

Should Men Walk Home?
IMDb: 6.6
27

Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a “Girl Bandit,” no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor
IMDb: 6.1
63

Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Genre: Crime, Drama
7th Heaven

7th Heaven

7th Heaven
IMDb: 7.6
110

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Ring

The Ring

The Ring
IMDb: 6.1
116

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.

Genre: Drama, Romance
Running Wild

Running Wild

Running Wild
IMDb: 7
68

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so…

Genre: Comedy
October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)

October (Ten Days that Shook the World)
IMDb: 7.4
115

Sergei M. Eisenstein’s docu-drama about the 1917 October Revolution in Russia. Made ten years after the events and edited in Eisenstein’s ‘Soviet Montage’ style, it re-enacts in celebratory terms several…

Genre: Drama
The Red Mill

The Red Mill

The Red Mill
IMDb: 6.8
74

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster’s daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Napoléon

Napoléon

Napoléon
IMDb: 8.2
333

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican’s career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
IMDb: 6.4
91

When Mandarin Wu’s unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg
IMDb: 7.3
80

A peasant in rural Russia comes to St. Petersburg to escape absolute poverty and find work at the outbreak of the First World War. He comes to stay with his…

Genre: Drama
The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney
IMDb: 7.2
113

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns…

Genre: Drama
The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
IMDb: 6.4
89

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother
IMDb: 7.6
82

The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn’t have the…

The Great Leap

The Great Leap

The Great Leap
IMDb: 6.1
112

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

Downhill

Downhill

Downhill
IMDb: 6
106

Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim’s charge. His family sends him away and all of…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue
IMDb: 5.5
85

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John’s…

Genre: Drama, Romance
College

College

College
IMDb: 6.9
65

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce
IMDb: 6.5
70

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents’….

Genre: Drama, Romance
Chicago

Chicago

Chicago
IMDb: 7.3
103

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
IMDb: 7.6
69

A train speeds through the country on its way to Berlin, then gradually slows down as it pulls into the station. It is very early in the morning, about 5:00…

Genre: Documentary
Loves of Casanova

Loves of Casanova

Loves of Casanova
IMDb: 7.1
128

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century
IMDb: 7.1
19

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Genre: Comedy
Metropolis

Metropolis

Metropolis
IMDb: 8.3
149

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city’s mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate…

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog
IMDb: 7.3
91

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan…