The Best Movies Of 1929

On shore leave, a young sailor meets and falls in love with a pretty young blonde. He goes home with her to meet her parents, but they don't approve of him at all. Their daughter takes offense at this...

There is a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War and the biblical story of Noah.

Original short that introduced Bosko, never released. Producer-directors Hugh Harman and Rudolf Ising showed it to various studio executives as a pilot for the Bosko character.

A gypsy is disrupting the lives of a conservative farm family.

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can be heard in a gaudy,...

The remaining fragments of an early Ozu film. It is the simple story of two friends who live together in a poor tenement and who share about everything in life (food, hopes, work...). Everything goes ...

A small sawmill owner competes against a large timber company in hopes of winning a railway tie contract.

Lila Beaumont is an understudy in a Broadway musical. Her boyfriend, George Shelby, arrives in New York hoping to take Lila back home with him to marry.

King Louis XIII of France is thrilled to have born to him a son - an heir to the throne. But when the queen delivers a twin, Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for revolution, and h...

While George Herriman is credited as Kat's creator here, Krazy in this short bears little resemblance to the original comic strip character. In fact, instead of pining for Ignaz Mouse, this Kat is hun...

Friz Freleng's second directorial effort -- under his legal name of 'Isadore' and credited as co-director with Rudolf Ising -- is a silent Oswald the Lucky Rabbit effort, made soon after Charles Mintz...

Haver, a newspaper reporter persuades a judge to release the suspected killer of a wealthy racetrack owner.

A 1929 British-Austrian romance film directed by Géza von Bolváry.

The Bachelor Girl

Stable hands Stan and Ollie are tending a thoroughbred named "Blue Boy." But when they overhear two men talking about a $5000 reward for the return of the stolen "Blue Boy," they miss the part about i...

A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.

While Tom Cat goes away hunting, Mickey, Minnie, and their mouse friends break into his house and perform music. They play various tunes on the piano while the other mice hit household objects in tune...

Henry, the pagan son of a white father and native mother, has inherited land and a store, but he prefers the simple life. When he falls in love with a native girl, her guardian, who is trying to bring...

Mickey is a railroad engineer with an anthropomorphic locomotive. He feeds the train (coal), then feeds his dog, then makes lunch for himself. Minnie drops by and plays a tune on her fiddle while Mick...

A man betrays his best friend, a member of a terrorist organisation, to the authorities and is pursued by the other members of the organisation.

A young woman is forced by her abusive father to marry an older man even though she is in love with a kindly young doctor.

Gertrude Lawrence plays a singer in Paris during World War I. After stealing from Tony (Walter Petrie), an American artist, the two fall in love.

Mickey Mouse is working as a hot dog vendor at a carnival when he meets and quickly falls for Minnie the "Shimmy Dancer". That night, Mickey and a pair of alley cats serenade her by performing the son...

London in 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than Alice White. Alice agreed to go out with an artist who invited her to visit his apartmen...

A barmaid, a Mexican officer and a terrible toreador form a love triangle, as they dance, skip, kiss, punch and slap to the tune of Bizet's "Carmen." Later, the barmaid cheers her lover, and the offic...

Lady Hamilton's love affair with Admiral Horatio Nelson rocks the British Empire.

The Return of Sherlock Holmes was the first sound film to feature Sherlock Holmes.

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 Indians led by the half-breed 'The Hawk' terrorizes p...

A train engineer and his fireman are best friends until the engineer breaks up a romance between his pal and a trampy girl he knows is no good for him, which also breaks up their friendship.

Schlock-movie producer J. Pierpont Ginsburg, after declaring, in a Yiddish accent, that "talking pictures are in their infantry," decides to put all of his savings into a big-budgeted musical, starrin...

Father Vojtech (Czech: Páter Vojtěch) is a 1929 silent Czech romance film directed by Martin Frič.

Directed by John Griffith Wray. With Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Carmel Myers, Holmes Herbert, Kenneth Thomson.

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

Joan Fry, a society woman, falls in love with Chuck Riley, the white-leader of a powerful gang in Chinatown, and he quickly drags her down into the depths with him. But seeing her so much in love with...

After being released from prison, prohibition mobster Chick Williams rejoins his mob. When a policeman is murdered in the line of duty, he falls under suspicion. The mobster took Joan, the policeman's...

Mickey Mouse is a singing lifeguard. Minnie Mouse is the damsel he must rescue before she is swept out to sea.

Jim Hutton and Mary Archer are two liberals who are content to remain faithful to each other in spirit only. They are married with all the ritual of a church wedding, the bride believing that each sho...

In her first Talkie, Joan Crawford plays Bingo, a jungle-raised oil heiress, who turns Manhattan upside down in her hunt for Andy McAllister, the man of her dreams. Unfortunately for Bingo, Andy is pe...

The wife and secretary of a mine operator attempt to conceal their romantic affair.

Stan and Ollie are door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with James Finlayson, with his home and car being destroyed in the melee.

While staying with her aunt at a fashionable spa, Else receives an unexpected telegram from her mother, begging her to save her father from debtor’s jail. The only way out, it seems, is to approach an...

The English adventurer Tom Lingard is involved with islanders on a South Seas island, as well as with Lady Edith and Mr. A sailing English couple. While Tom and Edith are having an affair, Lady Edith'...

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who se...

A young Chinese woman, working in the kitchen at a London dance club, is given the chance to become the club's main act.

On the islet Bannec, off the coast of Brittany, four fishermen have set up camp for three months to harvest seaweed. If processed correctly, the ash of the seaweed can be sold for high prices. It is t...