Director: Hobart Henley
Stars: Marion Davies, Matt Moore, Harry Crocker
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Tillie the Toiler is a 1927 silent film comedy produced by Cosmopolitan Productions and released through Metro Goldwyn Mayer studios. It is based on Russ Westover’s popular comic strip Tillie the Toiler. The film was directed by Hobart Henley and stars Marion Davies.
Director: Boris Barnet
Stars: Anna Sten, Vladimir Mikhaylov, Vladimir Fogel
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Natasha and her grandfather live in a cottage near Moscow, making hats for Madame Irène. Madame and her husband have told the housing committee that Natasha rents a room from them; this fiddle gives Madame’s lazy husband a room for lounging. The local railroad clerk, Fogelev, loves Natasha but she takes a shine to Ilya, a clumsy student who sleeps in the train station. To help Ilya, Natasha marries him and takes him to Madame’s to live in the room the house committee thinks is hers. Meanwhile, Madame’s husband pays Natasha with a lottery ticket he thinks is a loser, and when it comes up big, just as Ilya and Natasha are falling in love, everything gets complicated.
Director: Jean Renoir
Stars: Catherine Hessling, Johnny Hudgins, Pierre Braunberger
Genre: Short, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Shot in three days, this surreal, erotic silent short shows a native white girl teaching a futuristic African airman the Charleston dance.
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Stars: William Haines, Joan Crawford, George K. Arthur
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
To impress a wealthy young woman, a clerk pretends he is a pro-golfer.
Director: Maurice Elvey
Stars: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
A celebration of working class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire, during “Wakes Week”, an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.
Director: Monta Bell
Stars: John Gilbert, Jeanne Eagels, Gladys Brockwell
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A young man takes a succession of odd jobs in order to save enough money to buy he and his mother a house. He lands a position in a newspaper office and falls in love with the beautiful society editor, who is secretly having an affair with the married managing editor. She returns the young man’s affections in order to make her lover jealous, but finds herself falling for him.
Director: Rowland V. Lee, Mauritz Stiller
Stars: Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Director: Man Ray
Stars: Kiki of Montparnasse, Jacques Rigaut
Genre: Short, Art Film, Experimental
Country: France
A long series of unrelated images, revolving, often distorted: lights, flowers, nails. A lightboard appears from time to time carrying the news of the day. Then, an eye. A woman in a car drives along country roads. Farm animals. She descends from the car, again and again. Images: dancing legs, seashore, swimming fish, geometric shapes, cut glass. A man removes his starched collar. It rotates. A girl has garishly painted eyes. No, she’s only fooling. Those were her eyelids.
Director: Sam Wood
Stars: Marion Davies, Johnny Mack Brown, Jane Winton
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Marion goes to college to pursue a handsome young man and discovers that he is coach of a women’s basketball team.
Director: Sidney Franklin
Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
Director: Jack Conway
Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Jerry always wins in his rivalry with Red over women, gunrunning, and diamond smuggling. While running booze into the U.S. during Prohibition, Jerry seizes Jane’s seaside home. When she tries to turn him in, he kidnaps her and her fiance John. Jane, now in love with Jerry, must watch as Jerry and Red shoot it out on board Jerry’s boat.
Director: Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle
Stars: Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A tavern worker and the daughter of a burgomaster enter into elaborate masquerades in order to win the hearts of the men they love.
Director: Jean Epstein
Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie). The intertwinement of several layers of time experience, recollection, telling and showing have been regarded as a source of inspiration of Alain Resnais and this film prefigures his “L’Année dernière à Mariënbad” to a certain extent.
Director: G.W. Pabst
Stars: Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas’s naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
Director: John S. Robertson
Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Director: Sam Taylor
Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Sunshine Hart
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A department store’s stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store’s manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.
Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Director: Albert Parker
Stars: Gloria Swanson, John Boles, Pauline Garon
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
A young woman at life’s crossroads is granted mystic visions of how her decisions will affect her future life.
Director: Paul Leni
Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Director: Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert
Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A married woman compromises her social standing and family life when she falls for a young officer.
Director: Abram Room
Stars: Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband’s arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Director: Frank Urson
Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl
Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this “Viennese fairy tale.”
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Ivor Novello, Ben Webster, Norman McKinnel
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Public schoolboy Roddy Berwick is expelled from school when he takes the blame for a friend’s charge and his life falls apart in a series of misadventures.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter
Genre: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Two boxers compete for the love of a woman.
Director: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd
Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
A sheriff’s milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
Director: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson
Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent
Genre: Crime, Drama, Film Noir
Country: USA
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed’s girlfriend.
Director: William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast
Stars: Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers, Richard Arlen
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Director: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg
Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
A salesgirl with plenty of “it” (sex appeal) pursues a handsome playboy.
Director: Alan Crosland
Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland
Genre: Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Country: USA
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Director: Tod Browning
Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall
Genre: Horror
Country: USA
he abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures – could they be vampires?
*Note: This is currently a “lost film.”
Director: Walter Ruttmann
Stars: Paul von Hindenburg
Genre: Documentary
Country: Germany
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei M. Eisenstein
Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Soviet Union
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Director: Abel Gance
Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: France
A film about the French general’s youth and early military career.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
A landlady suspects her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.