1929 Drama Movies

236 movies found (page 1/8):

Pandora's Box(1929)

3.8/5 (with 92 votes)

Lulu is a young woman so beautiful and alluring that few can resist her siren charms. The men drawn into her web include respectable newspaper publisher Dr. Ludwig Schön, his musical producer son Alwa, circus performer Rodrigo Quast, and seedy old Schigolch. When Lulu's charms inevitably lead to tragedy, the downward spiral encompasses them all.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Louise Brooks, Francis Lederer, Alice Roberts, Fritz Kortner, Carl Goetz, Michael von Newlinsky, ...

Diary of a Lost Girl(1929)

1h 53min | Drama

3.8/5 (with 44 votes)

Thymian Henning, an innocent young girl, is raped by the clerk of her father's pharmacy. She becomes pregnant, is rejected by her family, and must fend for herself in a harsh, cruel world.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Louise Brooks, Fritz Rasp, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Franziska Kinz, Arnold Korff, ...

The Manxman(1929)

1h 23min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.0/5 (with 28 votes)

A fisherman and a rising lawyer who grew up together as brothers fall in love with the same woman.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra

The General Line(1929)

2h 1min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 15 votes)

Also known as The Old and the New (Staroye i Novoye), The General Line illustrates Lenin’s stated imperative that the nation move from agrarian to industrial culture in an epic ode to farm-collectivization progress.

Directed by Sergei Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov - With Marfa Lapkina, Maxim Strauch

Noah's Ark(1928)

2h 15min | Drama, War

3.0/5 (with 7 votes)

The Biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood, with a parallel story of soldiers in the First World War.

Directed by Michael Curtiz, Darryl F. Zanuck, Anthony Coldeway - With Dolores Costello, George O'Brien, Louise Fazenda, Paul McAllister, Myrna Loy, William V. Mong, ...

White Hell of Pitz Palu(1929)

2h 30min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Directed by Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Udet, Ernst Petersen, Kurt Gerron

Napoleon at St. Helena(1929)

1h 15min

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Napoleon at Saint Helena (German: Napoleon auf Sankt Helena) is a 1929 German silent historical film directed by Lupu Pick and starring Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph and Albert Bassermann. The film depicts the final years of Napoleon between 1815 and 1821 during his period of exile on the British Atlantic island of Saint Helena following his defeat at Waterloo.

Directed by Lupu Pick - With Werner Krauss, Hanna Ralph, Albert Bassermann, Paul Henckels, Erwin Kalser, Hermann Thimig, ...

The Iron Mask(1929)

1h 43min | Action, Drama, History, Adventure

3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

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 has him sent off to Spain to be raised in secret to ensure a peaceful future for France. Alas, keeping the secret means sending Constance, lover of D'Artagnan, off to a convent. D'Artagnan hears of this and rallies the Musketeers in a bid to rescue her. Unfortunately, Richelieu out-smarts the Musketeers and banishes them forever.

Directed by Allan Dwan - With Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier, Vera Lewis, Rolfe Sedan, ...

The Informer(1929)

1h 23min | Drama

3.2/5 (with 6 votes)

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

Directed by Arthur Robison - With Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson, Warwick Ward, Carl Harbord

Asphalt(1929)

1h 33min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 20 votes)

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era, Joe May’s Asphalt is a love story set in the traffic-strewn Berlin of the late 1920s. Starring the delectable Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Asphalt is a luxuriously produced UFA classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of traffic.

Directed by Joe May - With Gustav Fröhlich, Albert Steinrück, Betty Amann, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Hans Albers, Paul Hörbiger, ...

Wild Orchids(1929)

1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A prince in Java tries to seduce his visitor's wife, but he's discovered.

Directed by Sidney Franklin - With Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone, Nils Asther

The Wolf of Wall Street(1929)

1h 30min | Drama

4.8/5 (with 1 vote)

A ruthless stockbroker sells short in the copper business and ruins the life of his friends by ruining their finances.

Directed by Rowland V. Lee - With George Bancroft, Olga Baclanova, Nancy Carroll, Paul Lukas, Brandon Hurst, George Bancroft, ...

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L'Argent(1928)

2h 45min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 14 votes)

Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Directed by Marcel L'Herbier - With Pierre Alcover, Marie Glory, Brigitte Helm, Yvette Guilbert, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, ...

Queen Kelly(1932)

1h 41min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

A prince betrothed to a mad queen falls in love with an orphan girl from a convent.

Directed by Erich von Stroheim, Edmund Goulding, Ryszard Bolesławski, Sam Wood, Gloria Swanson, Irving Thalberg, ... - With Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Tully Marshall, Sylvia Ashton, Sidney Bracey, Walter Byron, ...

The New Babylon(1929)

2h | Drama, History, War

3.2/5 (with 7 votes)

In the short-lived Commune of Paris, a conscripted soldier falls in love with a Communard saleswoman. As the army cracks down on the revolutionaries, the soldier is forced to fight against the Commune, and the pair's love is put to the test.

Directed by Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg - With Yelena Alexandrovna Kuzmina, Pyotr Sobolevsky, Sergei Gerasimov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Sofia Magarill, Andrei Kostrichkin, ...

Blue Skies(1929)

1h | Drama, Romance / Love

Better known for her work in talkie "weepers," Helen Twelvetrees made a few preliminary appearances in such late silent films as Fox's Blue Skies. The audience was expected to believe that the twentysomething Twelvetrees and Frank Albertson are teenagers living together platonically in an orphan asylum. A wealthy old man comes calling to adopt Albertson -- who, feeling sorry for Twelvetrees, trades places with the girl. Thus it is that the heroine is carted off to a luxurious mansion, while Albertson remains behind. One year later, the old man discovers Albertson's deception, whereupon he invites the boy to live with him as well. By this time, Twelvetrees and Albertson are of marriageable age, thus the film ends with a wedding in the offing.

Directed by Alfred L. Werker - With Claude King, E. H. Calvert, Ethel Wales, Frank Albertson, Helen Twelvetrees, William Orlamond, ...

Harbour Drift(1929)

54min | Drama

3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

A pre-Depression slice of proletarian life from Weimar Germany, Harbour Drift is unusually interesting for its indifferent pessimism, rejecting even the minor rays of hope which permeate the other low-life ‘street films’ of the period. A sordid tale of poverty and greed set within a quayside milieu of crime and prostitution, the narrative centres on the quest for a sparkling pearl necklace stolen by a beggar under the gaze of a prostitute, who persuades her unemployed friend to steal it back, with tragic consequences. The story unfolds in flashback, without irony or a hint of redemption: life simply goes on. The film is remarkable for the innovative camerawork of Friedl Behn-Grund, which manipulates light and shadow to create a nightmarish atmosphere of fear and premonition.

Directed by Leo Mittler - With Lissy Arna, Paul Rehkopf, Fritz Genschow, Sig Arno, Friedrich Gnaß, Margarete Kupfer, ...

Untamed(1929)

1h 26min | Drama

2.6/5 (with 2 votes)

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 penniless and refuses to agree to the match until he can provide for the wild, rich girl. Andy's prideful position is more than encouraged by Bingo's Uncle Ben, who seeks to scuttle their love match.

Directed by Jack Conway - With Joan Crawford, Robert Montgomery, Ernest Torrence, Holmes Herbert, Gertrude Astor, Milton J. Fahrney, ...

Atlantic(1929)

1h 30min | Drama

2.4/5 (with 3 votes)

A heavily fictionalized version of the RMS Titanic story.

Directed by Ewald André Dupont - With Franklin Dyall, Madeleine Carroll, Ellaline Terriss, Monty Banks, Donald Calthrop, Helen Haye, ...

The Black Watch(1929)

1h 33min | Adventure, Drama, War

3.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Captain Donald King of the British Army goes to India just as World War I breaks out, convincing his comrades that he is a coward. In reality, he is on a secret mission to rescue British soldiers held prisoner there.

Directed by John Ford - With Victor McLaglen, Myrna Loy, David Torrence, Lumsden Hare, Roy D'Arcy, Walter Long, ...

Madonna of Avenue A(1929)

1h 11min | Drama

A young woman is shocked to discover that her mother, who she always believed was a stylish and successful member of upper-crust society, is actually a dance-hall "hostess" at a low-class nightclub. Wanting revenge on her mother, she marries a brutal bootlegger, which causes her mother to do something that turns out to have dire consequences for everybody. This is reportedly a lost film.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With Dolores Costello, Grant Withers

The Great Gabbo(1929)

1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.

Directed by James Cruze, Erich von Stroheim - With Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Don Douglas, Marjorie Kane

A Cottage on Dartmoor(1929)

1h 28min | Drama, Crime

3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

A jealous barber's assistant becomes enraged by the attentions the manicurist he's obsessed with and a repeat customer pay to one another.

Directed by Anthony Asquith - With Norah Baring

The Squall(1929)

1h 42min | Drama

1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A fiesty, sexy and manipulative gypsy disrupts the lives of a conservative farm family.

Directed by Alexander Korda - With Alice Joyce, Loretta Young, Richard Tucker, ZaSu Pitts, Harry Cording, Myrna Loy, ...

Salute(1929)

1h 24min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A comedy-romance about rival brothers attending a military academy.

Directed by John Ford, David Butler - With George O'Brien, Helen Chandler, Stepin Fetchit, Frank Albertson, David Butler, Ward Bond, ...

Finis Terrae(1929)

1h 20min | Drama

3.6/5 (with 13 votes)

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 therefore burnt in several large piles on the island.

Directed by Jean Epstein

The Office Scandal(1929)

1h 9min | Drama

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

Directed by Paul L. Stein - With Phyllis Haver

The Marriage Playground(1929)

1h 10min | Comedy, Romance / Love, Drama

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A delightful pre-code cocktail recipe. Take three couples (add gin and tonic), their several divorces and the seven children/stepchildren of their intermarriages and blend thoroughly, and you have a mixture a too-young-to-believe Frederic March will try to straighten out.

Directed by Lothar Mendes - With Mary Brian

The Leatherneck(1929)

1h 5min | War, Drama

2.8/5 (with 3 votes)

A film about male bonding. At the end of WW I, two Americans befriend a simple minded German and win him over into becoming an American. All three are still peacetime officers in the US Marines when an unscrupulous character steals Boyd's girl and his two buddies go off to rescue her. When they don't come back, Boyd goes after them to rescue all. This is all done in flashback from a court martial trial for desertion.

Directed by Howard Higgin - With William Boyd, Robert Armstrong, Alan Hale, Fred Kohler, Jack Richardson, Joseph W. Girard, ...

The Shakedown(1929)

1h 10min | Comedy

2.7/5 (with 4 votes)

The life of a less-than successful professional boxer changes when he takes in an orphan.

Directed by William Wyler - With James Murray, Barbara Kent, Wheeler Vivian Oakman, Harry Gribbon