The best movies 1929

Hawk of the Hills (1927), a ten episode serial, re-edited into a five-reel feature length version released in 1929. Newhall, California. A band of...

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

The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.

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

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

Rex the wonder horse's owner is murdered by Joe Regan, the leader of a band of smugglers. RCMP Sgt. Jack Gordon has been sent to capture the villain....

Three friends meet a woman on their holiday from city life. Things turn ugly pretty fast.

Tom and Anna Gibson, along with their little boy, Buddy, form a successful vaudeville song-and-dance act and a happy family. Anna, however, is...

Sole is the first film by the great Alessandro Blasetti and bears a complex relationship to the reclamation of the Pontine Marshes, a seminal event...

10-chapter serial tells the tale of Gladys Samuels, working as a bold reporter who is determined to untangle a complex web of crime to save her...

Louise Hill has the combination to the safe and is the bookkeeper for George Morrow at his investment firm. She goes to lunch, is hit upon by Herbert...

After a young gambler forges his judge father's signature to cover a debt, a blackmailer threatens his family, and a killing throws suspicion on the...

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling...

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

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for...

A young couple marries in secret. Judy's afraid her parents won't approve of Dick and she'll lose her generous allowance. Her parents bring her home...

A black laborer turns preacher after accidentally killing a man.

She sought to conquer...but found Cupid her master! This is one of many lost films of the 1920s, no prints or Vitaphone discs survive, but the song...

A pretty young cashier at a movie theater has a few problems--a local thug is interested in her and won't leave her alone, and she discovers that her...

Young sailor Edmond Dantès is wrongfully imprisoned, escapes, finds treasure, and reinvents himself as the wealthy Count of Monte Cristo to...

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

Two debt collectors try to repossess a console radio.

After a young gambler forges his judge father's signature to cover a debt, a blackmailer threatens his family, and a killing throws suspicion on the...

“Mosaico criollo” is not exactly a spoken film: it is a series of filmed musical sketches of several popular genres in four scenes, each...

First spoken short film of Argentine cinema.

Carlos and his girlfriend Carmen are a happy and fun couple; however, his friend León and his girlfriend Luisa are quite the opposite; so...

Film is based on the cartoon character Don Pancho Talero and his family.

Two rival gangs of bandits in the Andalucian outback: one gang distributes their stolen money among the poor and respects women, and the other gang...

Venezuelan comedy by Max Serrano.

A woman and his lover spend a season at the mountains, in order to recover from the excesses of life in the city. But peace doesn’t last long:...

First public exhibition: October 27, 1929 at the Municipal Theater of Lima.