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Movies: Popular Movies of 1927

Movies in chronological context: 1927 (MCMXXVII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1927th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 927th year of the 2nd millennium, the 27th year of the 20th century, and the 8th year of the 1920s decade. ()

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Metropolis(1927)

NR
| 2h 29min | Drama, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 1,145 votes)

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

Directed by Fritz Lang - With Alfred Abel, Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gustav Fröhlich, Brigitte Helm, Fritz Rasp, Theodor Loos, ...
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans(1927)

NR
| 1h 34min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 336 votes)

A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

Directed by F. W. Murnau - With Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, George O'Brien, Jane Winton, Arthur Housman, J. Farrell MacDonald, ...
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The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog(1927)

NR
| 1h 31min | Crime, Thriller, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 151 votes)

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock, Alma Reville - With Marie Ault, June Tripp, Malcolm Keen, Ivor Novello, Reginald Gardiner, Alfred Hitchcock, ...
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Wings(1927)

PG-13
| 2h 21min | Drama, Action, War, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 108 votes)

Two young men, one rich, one middle class, both in love with the same woman, become US Air Corps fighter pilots and, eventually, heroic flying aces during World War I. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them, pines away.

Directed by William A. Wellman, Harry d’Abbadie d’Arrast - With Gary Cooper, Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles Rogers, Richard Tucker, Henry B. Walthall, ...
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The Unknown(1927)

NR
| 50min | Drama, Romance / Love, Horror
3.8/5 (with 94 votes)

On the lam, criminal Alonzo hides in the circus as The Armless Wonder – a performer who uses his feet to hurl knives. Alonzo keeps the arms he really has concealed to hide his identity. Meanwhile, ringmaster's daughter Nanon has a phobia of being touched by men, but is romantically pursued by not only Alonzo but the strongman Malabar. Alonzo's desperation to remain with Nanon will only end in tragedy.

Directed by Tod Browning - With Lon Chaney, Joan Crawford, Norman Kerry, Frank Lanning, John George

Napoleon(1927)

5h 33min | Drama, History, War
4.0/5 (with 91 votes)

A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

Directed by Abel Gance - With Albert Dieudonné, Gina Manès, Antonin Artaud, Edmond Van Daële, Abel Gance, Suzanne Bianchetti, ...

The Jazz Singer(1927)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Music
3.2/5 (with 81 votes)

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Directed by Alan Crosland - With Warner Oland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Richard Tucker, Yossele Rosenblatt, Richard Tucker, ...
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Berlin: Symphony of a Great City(1927)

1h 9min | Documentary
3.8/5 (with 60 votes)

A day in the city of Berlin, which experienced an industrial boom in the 1920s, and still provides an insight into the living and working conditions at that time. Germany had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

Directed by Walter Ruttmann

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.

Directed by James W. Horne, Buster Keaton - With Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Harold Goodwin, Snitz Edwards, Sam Crawford, Carl Harbaugh, ...
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7th Heaven(1927)

NR
| 1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 39 votes)

A dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, George E. Stone, David Butler, Marie Mosquini, ...

The Ring(1927)

1h 56min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.0/5 (with 39 votes)

Both Jack Sander and Bob Corby are boxers in love with Mabel. Jack and Mabel wed, but their marriage is flat. The young wife looks to Bob for comfort.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Carl Brisson, Lillian Hall-Davis, Ian Hunter, Forrester Harvey, Gordon Harker, Tom Helmore, ...
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The Kid Brother(1927)

NR
| 1h 22min | Comedy, Western, Action
3.5/5 (with 38 votes)

The most important family in Hickoryville is (not surprisingly) the Hickorys, with sheriff Jim and his tough manly sons Leo and Olin. The timid youngest son, Harold, doesn't have the muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.

Directed by Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone, Ted Wilde - With Jobyna Ralston, Harold Lloyd, Leo Willis, Eddie Boland, Frank Lanning, Constantine Romanoff, ...
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Downhill(1927)

NR
| 1h 50min | Drama, Adventure
2.9/5 (with 32 votes)

Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Ivor Novello, Robin Irvine, Isabel Jeans, Ian Hunter, Violet Farebrother, Lilian Braithwaite, ...
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Underworld(1927)

NR
| 1h 27min | Drama, Crime, Romance / Love
3.6/5 (with 30 votes)

Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.

Directed by Josef von Sternberg - With George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Larry Semon, Fred Kohler, Helen Lynch, ...

The Cat and the Canary(1927)

NR
| 1h 48min | Horror, Comedy, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 27 votes)

Rich old Cyrus West's relatives are waiting for him to die so they can inherit. But he stipulates that his will be read 20 years after his death. On the appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

Directed by Paul Leni - With Laura La Plante, Forrest Stanley, Creighton Hale, Flora Finch, Gertrude Astor, Arthur Edmund Carewe, ...
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The Pleasure Garden(1927)

NR
| 1h 15min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.8/5 (with 26 votes)

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.

Directed by Alfred Hitchcock - With Virginia Valli, Carmelita Geraghty, Miles Mander, John Stuart, Georg H. Schnell, Ferdinand Martini, ...

It(1927)

NR
| 1h 12min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

A flapper shopgirl woos her rich boss with animal magnetism, otherwise known as "it.".

Directed by Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg - With Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Jacqueline Gadsden, Julia Swayne Gordon, Elinor Glyn, ...

The King of Kings(1927)

NR
| 2h 35min | Drama, History
3.2/5 (with 19 votes)

The King of Kings is the Greatest Story Ever Told as only Cecil B. DeMille could tell it. In 1927, working with one of the biggest budgets in Hollywood history, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

Directed by Cecil B. DeMille, Arthur Rosson, Frank Urson - With H. B. Warner, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut, Jacqueline Logan, Rudolph Schildkraut, Victor Varconi, ...

The Battle of the Century(1927)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 19 votes)

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Eugene Pallette, Charlie Hall, Sam Lufkin, Dorothy Coburn, ...

The Scarlet Letter(1927)

1h 55min | Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 14 votes)

In Puritan Boston, seamstress Hester Prynne and kindly Reverend Arthur Dimmesdale fall in love. After Dimmesdale must go away for a time to England, he returns to discover that Hester has given birth to their child and is the focus of local censure.

Directed by Victor Sjöström - With Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Chief Yowlachie, James A. Marcus, Karl Dane, ...

Bed and Sofa(1927)

1h 14min | Comedy, Drama
3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

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.

Directed by Abram Room - With Nikolai Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Vladimir Fogel

The Three-Sided Mirror(1927)

45min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 13 votes)

A wealthy young businessman consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive working-class girl (Lucie).

Directed by Jean Epstein - With René Ferté

The Second Hundred Years(1927)

NR
| 20min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

Directed by Fred Guiol - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Jimmy Finlayson, Frank Brownlee, Eugene Pallette, ...

Putting Pants on Philip(1927)

19min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

Directed by Clyde Bruckman - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Dorothy Coburn, Sam Lufkin, Jack Hill, Harvey Clark, ...

Trolley Troubles(1927)

6min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Oswald the Lucky Rabbit runs a trolley but finds the job is more trouble than its worth in his debut short.

Directed by Walt Disney

The End of St. Petersburg(1927)

1h 20min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 12 votes)

A peasant in rural Russia comes to St. Petersburg to escape absolute poverty and find work at the outbreak of the First World War. He comes to stay with his friend, a Bolshevik worker who has organized a strike at his factory. The peasant betrays his friend to the factory's greedy management, leading to the arrest of the striker. Feeling remorseful at his actions, the peasant attempts to plead for his friend’s freedom, but the situation escalates and he is imprisoned without trial and sent to fight in the war. After returning from the front, the peasant joins the revolutionary fight along with the Bolshevik worker.

Directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller - With Vera Baranovskaya, Vladimir Fogel, Sergei Komarov, Vsevolod Pudovkin, Ivan Chuvelev

Duck Soup(1927)

NR
| 17min | Comedy
3.2/5 (with 12 votes)

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

Directed by Fred Guiol - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Stuart Holmes, Madeline Hurlock, Bob Kortman, James A. Marcus, ...

Do Detectives Think?(1927)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

An escaped convict is out to kill the judge who sentenced him. Two inept detectives are hired to guard the judge.

Directed by Fred Guiol - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Finlayson, Noah Young, Frank Brownlee

The Girl with the Hat Box(1927)

1h 8min | Comedy, Drama, Romance / Love
3.4/5 (with 11 votes)

Young and beautiful girl, lives near Moscow, earning a making hats for the fashion store in Moscow. Due to the requirements of the Soviet government on standards of living space, the store owner has to prescribe it fictitiously in his apartment. But on the train she meets a young boy, and the housing problem changes their lives.

Directed by Boris Barnet - With Anna Sten, Serafima Birman, Vladimir Fogel, Ivan Koval-Samborskij, Pavel Pol

Sugar Daddies(1927)

NR
| 16min | Comedy
3.0/5 (with 11 votes)

After a night of carousing, a rich oil tycoon awakes to find that he was married the night before. He calls in his lawyer to straighten things out.

Directed by Fred Guiol, Leo McCarey - With Jimmy Finlayson, Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Eugene Pallette, Jack Hill, Charlie Hall, ...
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