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1920s Comedy-drama Movies

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The Kid(1921)

53min | Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 876 votes)

A tramp cares for a boy after he's abandoned as a newborn by his mother. Later the mother has a change of heart and aches to be reunited with her son.

College(1927)

NR
| 1h 6min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 47 votes)

Brilliant in his studies and dismissive of athletics, Ronald finishes high school at the top of his class. But in college his uptight attitude doesn't win him any points with his sports-loving classmates, and pretty coed Mary ignores him in favor of brutish jock Jeff. Hoping to impress Mary, Ronald makes a buffoon of himself at every sport imaginable.

Tartuffe(1926)

1h 14min | Drama, Comedy
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's play "Tartuffe" in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets the young man's inheritance.

The Circle(1925)

1h 6min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

A comedic deja vu story of runaway young love.

The Parson's Widow(1920)

1h 11min | Comedy, Drama
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

A young man is elected by a small village to be its parson. As part of his duties, he is required to marry the widow of the parson before him. This poses two problems--first, the widow is old enough to be his grandmother, and second, he is already engaged to another woman.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Hildur Carlberg, Einar Rød, Greta Almroth

Are All Men Alike?(1920)

In this comedy-drama, May Allison plays Teddy Hayden, a very independent society miss. When her childhood sweetheart, Gerry West (Wallace MacDonald) takes her to a Greenwich Village cafe, she thinks she's found where she belongs. So she spends all her time there and gets herself in a load of trouble.

The Saphead(1920)

1h 17min | Drama, Comedy
3.1/5 (with 17 votes)

Nick Van Alstyne owns the Henrietta silver mine and is very rich. His son Bertie is naive and spoiled. His daughter Rose is married to shady investor Mark. Mark wrecks Bertie's wedding plans by making him take the blame for Mark's illegitimate daughter. Mark also nearly ruins the family business by selling off Henrietta stock at too low a price. Bertie, of all people, must come to the rescue on the trading floor.

Directed by Herbert Blaché - With Buster Keaton, Edward Connelly, Beulah Booker, Edward Alexander, Edward Jobson, Odette Tyler, ...

Pollyanna(1920)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

When Pollyanna is orphaned, she's sent to live with her crotchety Aunt Polly. Pollyanna discovers that many of the people in her aunt's New England hometown are as ill-tempered as her aunt. But Pollyanna's incurable optimism - exemplified by her "glad game", in which she looks for the bright side of every situation - brings a change to the staid old community.

Little Annie Rooney(1925)

NR
| 1h 35min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

A feisty little girl, the daughter of a beat cop, faces the challenges of growing up in a tough city neighborhood.

The Tomboy(1924)

NR
| 1h 23min | Drama, Comedy

Miss Devore plays Tommy, a young woman who runs a boarding house for her father, an inventor of eccentric devices, and the boarders are the usual collection of neurotics in such an effort.

Directed by David Kirkland

My Boy(1921)

55min | Comedy, Drama
3.0/5 (with 4 votes)

An orphan escapes immigration officials at Ellis Island and goes to live with an old ship's master who can't find work and can't pay the rent.

The Man Next Door(1923)

NR
| 1h 10min | Comedy

The story to this comedy-drama is based on the book by Emerson Hough, who was experiencing a surge of popularity because his book The Covered Wagon had recently been made into a hit film. Ranchman Colonel Wright sends his daughter Bonnie to an Eastern college to receive an education. She decides to stay in the city and sends for her father, who arrives with his foreman Curly. Even though they live in the midst of society, they are snubbed by the Easterners as uncouth.

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The Life of the Party(1920)

NR
| 50min | Drama, Comedy
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An attorney is thrust into wild adventures by an attractive young woman.

Souls for Sale(1923)

3.3/5 (with 6 votes)

A young woman hits Hollywood, determined to become a star.

Miss Lulu Bett(1921)

1h 11min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 6 votes)

Lois Wilson (as Lulu) is the spinsterish member of the Deacon family: "The family beast of burden, whose timid soul has failed to break the bonds of family servitude." Her brother-in-law is patriarchal Theodore Roberts (as Dwight Deacon); running the house with an iron fist, he is both a dentist and a Justice of the Peace. As the latter, he accidentally marries Ms. Wilson to his visiting brother Clarence Burton (as Ninian Deacon) while they are out for dinner. Schoolteacher Milton Sills (as Neil Cornish) is also interested in Wilson...

The Affairs of Anatol(1921)

NR
| 1h 57min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 5 votes)

Socialite Anatol Spencer, finding his relationship with his wife lackluster, goes in search of excitement. After bumping into old flame Emilie, he lets an apartment for her only to find that she cheats on him. He is subsequently robbed, conned, and booted from pillar to post. He decides to return to his wife and discovers her carousing with his best friend Max.

The Dictator(1922)

A silent romantic adventure melodrama (from the play and novel by Richard Harding) about a womanizer who follows a beautiful Hispanic woman to her home country and his adventures there. He ends up helping her father become dictator of the entire country, and is rewarded with marriage to her and he is named Minister of Finance!

Women They Talk About(1928)

Women They Talk About is a part-talkie Vitaphone film, with talking, music and sound effects sequences, starring Irene Rich, directed by Lloyd Bacon and produced and distributed by Warner Bros. It is considered to be a lost film.

The Auctioneer(1927)

Simon, a young Jewish man emigrating to the US, adopts the daughter of a dying woman on the ship. After he settles in the US, he eventually builds up a successful business as a pawnbroker and auctioneer. His adopted daughter Ruth falls in love with a young Wall Street broker, and her father invests his fortune in the young man's firm. However, a crooked broker at the firm causes Simon to lose all his money, and he must start all over again. He sets out to track down the crooked broker and get his money back.

Boarding House Groonen(1925)

1h 13min

A silent movie by Robert Wiene.

The Girl He Didn't Buy(1928)

Produced by small-scale firm Peerless, this silent melodrama told the ancient story of the girl whose refusal to "put out" loses her a chance for stage prominence.

The Chorus Kid(1928)

A Silent Comedy film directed by Howard Bretherton.

The Patsy(1928)

3.5/5 (with 8 votes)

Jealous that her older sister Grace has landed handsome and successful Tony Anderson, Patricia Harrington launches an elaborate charm offensive to win his heart. Patricia shrugs off her diffidence and, in the hope that Tony will be drawn to her new persona, tries to carry herself with the self-confidence of the era's silent film stars. When this doesn't have the desired effect, Patricia takes things a step further.

Ella Cinders(1926)

NR
| 1h 15min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.5/5 (with 7 votes)

Poor Ella Cinders is much abused by her evil step-mother and step-sisters. When she wins a local beauty contest she jumps at the chance to get out of her dead-end life and go to Hollywood, where she is promised a job in the movies. When she arrives in Hollywood, she discovers that the contest was a scam and the job non-existent. But through pluck, luck, and talent, she makes it in the movies anyway, and finds true love.

The Yankee Consul(1924)

1h | Comedy

A whale of a comedy thriller. It's a Niagra of roaring laughter Faster Than the Wind!

Directed by James W. Horne

Subway Sadie(1926)

A New York fur saleswoman falls for a man she meets on the subway and must decide if she wants to accept a much dreamed for work transfer to Paris, or stay and get married.

Directed by Alfred Santell - With Dorothy Mackaill

The Reckless Age(1924)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Lord Harrowby takes out an $100,000 insurance policy to be paid if his wedding to Cecilia Meyrick is cancelled. The insurance company sends Dick Minot to make sure the wedding takes place, but he falls in love with the bride.

Sally, Irene and Mary(1925)

NR
| 1h 16min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

The three are showgirls, each with a different approach to life and love.

The Matinee Idol(1928)

NR
| 1h 6min | Romance / Love, Comedy
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

The famous matinee idol and blackface comedian, Don Wilson, heads out of town to escape adulation. There, calling himself Harry Mann, he accidentally joins a traveling acting troupe, and falls in love with Ginger Bolivar, who runs the troupe and stars in their Civil War melodrama. Don's producer sees the play, and thinks it's a comic masterpiece, and just what Don's Broadway show needs. But when Ginger finds out she's been played for a fool, will she forgive Don?

An Arabian Knight(1920)

Japanese actor Sessue Hayakawa is cast as an ancient Egyptian donkey boy in An Arabian Knight. The humble Hayakawa rescues high-born Lillian Hall from lascivious pasha Fred Jones. All this brouhaha is actually a dream experienced by Hall.

Directed by Charles Swickard - With Harvey Clark, Jean Acker, Sessue Hayakawa, Yvonne Pavis, Tom Bates, Lillian Hall, ...
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