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Movies: Popular Movies of 1926

Movies in chronological context: 1926 (MCMXXVI) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1926th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 926th year of the 2nd millennium, the 26th year of the 20th century, and the 7th year of the 1920s decade. This year runs only with 352 days in Turkey. As Friday, December 18, 1926 (Julian Calendar) was followed by Saturday, January 1, 1927 (Gregorian Calendar). 13 days were dropped to make the switch. And technically, Turkey became the very last country on Earth officially adopted the Gregorian Calendar, which ended the 344-year calendrical switch around the world that took place since October 1582 by virtue of the Papal Bull made by Pope Gregory XIII. ()

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The General(1926)

NR
| 1h 19min | Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, War
4.0/5 (with 507 votes)

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

Directed by Buster Keaton, Clyde Bruckman - With Buster Keaton, Marion Mack, Charles Henry Smith, Joe Keaton, Glen Cavender, Frederick Vroom, ...
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Faust(1926)

NR
| 1h 56min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
4.0/5 (with 140 votes)

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, William Dieterle, Yvette Guilbert, Frida Richard, ...
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The Adventures of Prince Achmed(1926)

NR
| 1h 5min | Animation, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love
3.8/5 (with 81 votes)

Based on stories from "The Arabian Nights". A wicked sorcerer tricks Prince Achmed into riding a magical flying horse. The heroic prince is able to subdue the magical horse, which he uses to fly off to many adventures. While travelling, he falls in love with the beautiful Princess Peri Banu, and must defeat an army of demons to win her heart. The film is animated using the silhouette technique.

Directed by Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch

A Page of Madness(1926)

1h 19min | Horror, Drama
3.8/5 (with 53 votes)

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

Directed by Teinosuke Kinugasa - With Masao Inoue

Anemic Cinema(1926)

7min
3.1/5 (with 36 votes)

A spiral design spins. It's replaced by a spinning disk. These two continue in perfect alternation until the end: a spiral design, a disk. Each disk is labelled and can be read as it rotates. The messages, in French, feature puns and whimsical rhymes and alliteration. The final message comments on the spiral motif itself.

Directed by Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray

Ménilmontant(1926)

38min | Mystery, Drama
3.7/5 (with 35 votes)

A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.

Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff - With Nadia Sibirskaïa

Battling Butler(1926)

1h 17min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 33 votes)

Meek millionaire Alfred Butler goes on a camping excursion with his faithful servant. Once in the wilderness, Alfred ignores outdoor activities in favor of trying to woo a charming mountain girl, who wants nothing to do with her spoiled suitor. Trying to impress the girl, Alfred masquerades as boxing star "Battling" Butler.

Directed by Buster Keaton - With Sally O'Neil, Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Francis McDonald, Tom Wilson

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.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Rosa Valetti, Werner Krauss, Lil Dagover, Lucie Höflich, Emil Jannings, Hermann Picha, ...

Mother(1926)

1h 29min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A story about a Russian family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin - With Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolai Batalov, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, Vsevolod Pudovkin
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Emak-Bakia(1926)

18min | Documentary
3.5/5 (with 25 votes)

Emak-Bakia (Basque for Leave me alone) is a 1926 film directed by Man Ray. Subtitled as a cinépoéme, it features many techniques Man Ray used in his still photography (for which he is better known), including Rayographs, double exposure, soft focus and ambiguous features. The film features sculptures by Pablo Picasso, and some of Man Ray's mathematical objects both still and animated using a stop motion technique.

Directed by Man Ray - With Alice Prin, Jacques Rigaut, Man Ray

Flesh and the Devil(1926)

NR
| 1h 52min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 24 votes)

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

Directed by Clarence Brown - With Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lars Hanson, Barbara Kent, Eugenie Besserer, George Fawcett, ...
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The Black Pirate(1926)

NR
| 1h 34min | Adventure, Drama, Action
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he single-handedly captures a merchant vessel, but things are complicated when he finds that there is a beautiful young woman of royal blood aboard.

Directed by Albert Parker - With Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp, Mary Pickford, Anders Randolf, ...
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3 Bad Men(1926)

NR
| 1h 32min | Romance / Love, Western
3.5/5 (with 16 votes)

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

Directed by John Ford - With George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, J. Farrell MacDonald, Vester Pegg, Alec B. Francis, ...
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Moana(1926)

NR
| 1h 17min | Documentary
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength.".

Directed by Robert J. Flaherty

For Heaven's Sake(1926)

NR
| 58min | Romance / Love, Comedy, Action
3.6/5 (with 16 votes)

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

Directed by Sam Taylor - With Harold Lloyd, James Mason, Blanche Payson, Earl Mohan, Jobyna Ralston, Leo Willis, ...
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By the Law(1926)

1h 20min | Western, Drama, Action, Adventure
3.6/5 (with 14 votes)

A five-person team of gold prospectors in the Yukon has just begun to enjoy great success when one of the members snaps, and suddenly kills two of the others. The two survivors, a husband and wife, subdue the killer but are then faced with an agonizing dilemma. With no chance of turning him over to the authorities for many weeks, they must decide whether to exact justice themselves or to risk trying to keep him restrained until they can return to civilization.

Directed by Lev Kuleshov - With Vladimir Fogel, Aleksandra Khokhlova, Sergei Komarov

Film Study(1926)

5min
2.8/5 (with 14 votes)

Entertaining Dadaist experimental short, similar to Man Ray's work, full of shifting geometric shapes, stock footage of seagulls, flying eyeballs, and glaring floating heads.

Directed by Hans Richter

Sparrows(1926)

NR
| 1h 24min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

Molly, the eldest child of a group of orphans being used as slaves on a farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.

Directed by William Beaudine, Carl Harbaugh, Earle Brown, Tom McNamara - With Mary Pickford, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Charlotte Mineau, Spec O'Donnell, Roy Stewart, Lloyd Whitlock, ...

The Merry Widow(1926)

2h 17min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 13 votes)

When Prince Danilo falls in love with American dancer Sally O'Hara, his uncle, King Nikita I of Monteblanco, forbids him to marry her because Sally is a commoner. Thinking she has been jilted by her prince, Sally marries wealthy Baron Sadoja. When the elderly man dies suddenly, Sally must be wooed all over again by Danilo.

Directed by Erich von Stroheim - With Mae Murray, John Gilbert, Roy D'Arcy, George Fawcett, Tully Marshall, Clark Gable, ...

Secrets of a Soul(1926)

1h 15min | Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

Werner Krauss, who had played the deranged Dr. Caligari six years earlier, stars as a scientist who is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife. Driven to the brink of madness by fantastic nightmares (designed by Ernö Metzner and photographed by Guido Seeber in a brilliant mix of expressionism and surrealism), he encounters a psychoanalyst who offers to treat the perplexing malady.

Directed by Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Jack Trevor, Hertha von Walther, Ilka Grüning, Renate Brausewetter, ...

The Holy Mountain(1926)

1h 40min | Adventure, Drama
3.4/5 (with 12 votes)

Professional dancer Diotima finds herself the apex of a love triangle when she is pursued by two mountain climbers, Vigo and his unnamed older friend.

Directed by Arnold Fanck - With Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen, Friedrich Schneider, Hannes Schneider, Frida Richard, ...

Nana(1926)

2h 30min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

A government official, Count Muffat, falls under the spell of Nana, a young actress. She becomes his mistress, living in the sumptuous apartment which he provides for her. Instead of elevating herself to Muffat's level, however, Nana drags the poor man down to hers - in the end, both lives have been utterly destroyed.

Directed by Jean Renoir - With Catherine Hessling, Werner Krauss, André Cerf, Claude Autant-Lara, Jacqueline Ford, Jean Angelo, ...

45 Minutes from Hollywood(1926)

G
| 18min | Comedy
2.5/5 (with 11 votes)

A young man visiting Hollywood on family business gets into trouble when he sees a bank robbery in progress, and thinks it is a movie scene.

Directed by Fred Guiol - With Glenn Tryon, Charlotte Mineau, Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel, Theda Bara, Our Gang, ...

The Magician(1926)

1h 23min | Drama, Horror
3.3/5 (with 11 votes)

A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.

Directed by Rex Ingram - With Paul Wegener, Alice Terry, Iván Petrovich, Michael Powell, Firmin Gémier

Fig Leaves(1926)

1h 10min | Comedy
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.

Directed by Howard Hawks - With George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Phyllis Haver, George Beranger, William Austin, Heinie Conklin, ...

Five Minutes of Pure Cinema(1926)

5min
3.0/5 (with 10 votes)

Avant-garde short focused on the pure elements of film like form, visual composition, and rhythm.

Directed by Henri Chomette

The Son of the Sheik(1926)

1h 8min | Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.

Directed by George Fitzmaurice - With Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Karl Dane, George Fawcett, Agnes Ayres, ...

The Bat(1926)

NR
| 1h 26min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

A masked criminal who dresses like a giant bat terrorizes the guests at an old house rented by a mystery writer.

Directed by Roland West - With Tullio Carminati, Jewel Carmen, Louise Fazenda, Emily Fitzroy, George Beranger, Arthur Housman, ...

Egged On(1926)

24min | Fantasy, Comedy, Science Fiction, Animation
3.1/5 (with 10 votes)

Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabotage to get it.

Directed by Charles Bowers

A Sixth Part of the World(1926)

1h 5min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

Through the travelogue format, it depicts the multitude of Soviet peoples in remote areas of USSR and details the entirety of the wealth of the Soviet land. Focusing on cultural and economic diversity, the film is in fact a call for unification in order to build a "complete socialist society".

Directed by Dziga Vertov
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