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Queen KellyQueen Kelly (1929) Recommended
Dir. Erich von Stroheim
Feat. Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron
Star/producer Gloria Swanson fired her director before this picture was even half completed, but this 'shortened' epic about a sex scandal in…
Docks of New York, TheDocks of New York, The (1928) Recommended
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. George Bancroft, Betty Compson
George Bancroft plays a roughneck stoker who gets into all sorts of trouble during a brief shore leave when he falls hard for a wise and weary…
L'ArgentL'Argent (Money) (1928) Recommended
Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Pierre Alcover, Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel
Classic of the late silent era from French filmmaker, writer and film theorist Marcel L'Herbier, based on the book of the same name by Émile…
Last Command, TheLast Command, The (1928) Aro Favourite
Dir. Josef von Sternberg
Feat. Emil Jannings
Emil Jannings won the first best actor Academy Award for his performance as a sympathetic tyrant: an exiled Russian general turned Hollywood extra…
Laugh, Clown, LaughLaugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) Recommended
Dir. Herbert Brenon
Feat. Lon Chaney, Loretta Young, Nils Asther
Profoundly moving melodrama with Lon Chaney playing a traveling circus clown who raises an abandoned child as his daughter, but falls into deep…
Man Who Laughs, TheMan Who Laughs, The (1928)
Dir. Paul Leni
Feat. Conrad Veidt, Mary Philbin, Olga Baclanova
One of the most spectacular (and sophisticated) of the silent epics adapts a historical story by Victor Hugo concerning the destiny of a disfigured…
Storm Over AsiaStorm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928) Recommended
Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
An epic of silent Russian cinema to rival Eisenstein, this is set around a young Mongol fur–trapper who is swindled by traders and develops a…
End of St. Petersburg, TheEnd of St. Petersburg, The (1927)
Dir. Vsevolod Pudovkin
Feat. Vera Baranovskaya, Aleksandr Chistyakov
The tensions that exploded with the 'October Revolution' in Russia, 1917 are schematised here using understated characterisations (of workers and…
SunriseSunrise (1927) Aro Favourite
Dir. F.W. Murnau
Feat. George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Bodil Rosing
The first American outing from the master of German Expressionism turned out to be perhaps his best film of all. He instils an electric charge on a…
Garbo Silents Collection, TheGarbo Silents Collection, The (Flesh and the Devil, The Temptress, The Mysterious Lady) (1926-1928)
Dir. Clarence Brown, Fred Niblo
Feat. Greta Garbo, John Gilbert
Three MGM classics that well represent the great Greta Garbo as the ultimate silent movie icon: Flesh and the Devil (1927, 112m.) A gorgeous high…

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