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Subgenre Sampler
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…
Last Command, The (1928)
- 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, Laugh (1928)- 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, 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 Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana) (1928)- 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…
Beloved Rogue, The (1927)- Dir. Alan Crosland
Feat. John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Henry Victor - John Barrymore stars in this silent–era biopic of the 15th Century poet, prankster, villain and French patriot François Villon.
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…
Sunrise (1927)- 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, 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…
Gribiche (Mother of Mine) (1926)- Dir. Jacques Feyder
- Silent French film by Jacques Feyder, about a 13–year–old working–class boy lives alone with his mother. While shopping in a Paris…
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