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Subgenre Sampler
People on Sunday (Menschen am Sonntag) (1929)
- Dir. Robert Siodmak, Edgar G. Ulmer
- Scripted by a young Billy Wilder, this pivotal silent film harnessed the nascent talents of many other German film–makers that would come to…
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929)- Dir. Fritz Lang
Feat. Willy Fritsch, Fritz Rasp, Gerda Maurus… - Silent–era sci–fi from director Fritz Lang. Based on the 1928 novel "The Rocket to the Moon" by his collaborator (and wife at the time)…
L'Argent (Money) (1928)- 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…
Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
- Dir. Carl Dreyer
Feat. Renee Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, Michel Simon… - An intense recreation of Joan of Arc’s trial and sentence that qualifies as one of cinema’s most transcendental achievements. Consisting…
Un Chien Andalou (1928)- Dir. Luis Bunuel
Feat. Salvador Dali - Bunuel and Salvador Dali collaborated for this sensational short film that blew the lid off convention in a way history could never repeat. A…
Chess Player, The (Le Joueur d'échecs) (1927)- Dir. Raymond Bernard
Feat. Pierre Blanchar, Charles Dullin - French silent film based on the novel by Henry Dupuy–Mazuel, set in the 18th century, during the Russian domination of Polish Lithuania. After…
End 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…
Gribiche (Mother of Mine) (1926)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
- A silent French film by Jacques Feyder. A 13–year–old working–class boy lives alone with his mother. While shopping in a Paris…
Battleship Potemkin (1925)- Dir. Sergei Eisenstein
Feat. Alexander Antonov, Vladimir Blasky, Grigori Alexandrov - This landmark Soviet propaganda film about the 1905 revolution is one of the greatest classics of all time. The smart use of visual metaphor and that…
Late Mathias Pascal, The (Feu Mathias Pascal) (1925)- Dir. Marcel L'Herbier
Feat. Ivan Mosjoukine, Michel Simon - A French silent film, based on the novel by Luigi Pirandello. Russian actor Ivan Mosjoukine stars as Mathias, an assistant librarian from a…
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