The Best Movies Of 1927

Alice, Julius and Pete compete in a golf tournament.

«Svejk v civilu» (also known as "Svejk as a Civilian", "Schweik in Civilian Life", "Schwejk in Zivil") is 1927 Comedy film directed by Gustav Machatý, and written by Jacques Bachrach, Eduard Simácek, ...

The second of Thomas Meighan's three 1927 vehicles, We're All Gamblers was also the first of two collaborations between Meighan and director James Cruze. Based on Lucky Sam McCarver, a play by Sidney ...

The most important family in the area is the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons. Harold, the timid youngest son, doesn't have the strength to match up to them, so he has to use his wi...

The short is about a little screw.

The erotic silent short was shot in three days and shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.

A wild stallion (Rex the Wonder Horse) becomes the protector of a prospector and his foster daughter as two thugs plot to steal their claim.

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She came up with a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.

Pa Potter invests four thousand dollars in worthless oil stock. Or is it worthless?

Adolphe Menjou stars in a Roaring Twenties comedy of remarriage.

The Queen of Spades or Pique Dame is a 1927 German silent drama film directed by Aleksandr Razumnyj and starring Jenny Jugo, Rudolf Forster and Henri De Vries. It is one of many film adaptations of th...

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and tries to take the daughter of the ringmaster.

André Sauvage's short documentary on Greece past and present, deftly depicting the archeological sites, the fishing villages, country roads and peasants.

During World War I, two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, were in France, and they were given information by a dusky, seductive Senegalese spy.

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it."

Before the October Revolution, in the city of Moscow, there was a fancy restaurant that served the appetites and egos of the rich. One such establishment employs a middle-aged waiter who is devoted to...

While plotting together to win back their lovers, the rich Madeleine and the penniless Pierre fall for each other.

Sabotage on the railroad with trains being derailed and looted. Good coverage of the Santa Fe La Grande Station that was demolished in 1939 due to earthquake damage.

Cineteca Italiana and EYE Film Institute Netherlands hold copies.

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Ch...

Rich girl Joan Whitney does her flirtatious best to break up the marriage of May and Ted Howard and almost succeeds, but not before May Howard has a light flirtation with a light-in-the-slippers speci...

The Loves of Carmen is a 1927 American silent romantic drama film directed by Raoul Walsh. The film, based on the novella Carmen by Prosper Mérimée, stars Dolores del Río in the title role, and Don Al...

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

Lache is unemployed. He falls asleep on the border of Lake Floreasca while peeping at a group of girls who are bathing in the lake. This image makes him dream about himself being inside a harem where ...

A young Parisian woman nicknamed La Glu settles in a Breton fishing village with the intention of seducing Marie-Pierre, the only boy of the 9 children of Marie des Agnes.

Carter DeHaven announces that he will perform a series of "impressions." For each we see him applying makeup and changing the combing of his hair or putting on a wig. When he tilts his head down durin...

Hero is center of plot by a gang of lawless whites to convince Indians he killed one of their number, but finally clears himself.

Topsy is the main character in this movie. When the black girl who "jes' growed" is auctioned as a slave but nobody will bid on her, Little Eva purchases Topsy for a nickel. That's the one part of thi...

El Puño de Hierro, a Mexican Silent Film Classic In 1927, a startling silent film about drug addiction and trafficking was exhibited in a city in Mexico.

Since a mysterious stranger and his servant settled in a manor near a Provençal village, a wave of crimes has beenfall the country and spread terror among the inhabitants. Young Jean Lormeau, refusing...

Joe Merrill, son of the millionaire owner of a chain of 5 and 10 cent stores, pretended to be Joe Grant to get a job in the stockroom of his father's store to prove that he can be a success without hi...

An eccentric millionaire brings together four men who, under different circumstances, wanted to commit suicide. The proposal made to them is the following: they will travel to an islet that, according...

Based on a true crime story, the movie is about a wild jazz-loving and boozing wife who kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her, and how she tries to get out of prison. The movie was mad...

Two clever pickpockets, Helen Wayne and Archie Crossley, robbed J. Hamilton Smith, a well-known metropolitan banker, and he is later recognized by one of their gang as a former prisonmate, and they de...

The Magic Flame (1927) is a feature film directed by Henry King, produced by Samuel Goldwyn, and based on the play Konig Harlekin by Rudolph Lothar. George Barnes was nominated at the 1st Academy Awar...

The story takes place in Milwaukee during the early 1900s with a bank clerk named August Schiller who is happy with both his job and his family. He is tasked with transporting $1,000 in securities to ...

Documentary almanac directed by the great cinematographer Mikhail Kaufman about the life of the Soviet capital.

Chased by Detective Murray and the posse, a wounded Jim Drake heads across the border into Mexico where he recuperates with the Wolfes. When Murray arrives again, Jim heads into the desert. But in the...

An ape is suspected of committing a series of murders.

The search for a lost gold mine hinges on a secret branded onto the neck of a great horse, White Fury.

Julius wins a bronc-riding contest at the rodeo. However, Pete steals his prize money, so Julius must go after him to get it back.

Oswald's country is at war, like many other volunters he joins the army and finds himself soon in the trenches. A short battle leaves him wounded, but at least in the field hospital where his girlfrie...

A southern girl tries her luck as a dancer in New York City.

Ray Sturgis, leader of the fashionable Long Island jazz set, is engaged to "Egypt" Hagen, an up-to-date girl in every respect. Egypt is arrested at a roadhouse raid, and at her mother's bidding, the R...