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Movies: Popular Movies of 1929

Movies in chronological context: 1929 (MCMXXIX) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar, the 1929th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 929th year of the 2nd millennium, the 29th year of the 20th century, and the 10th and last year of the 1920s decade. This year marked the end of a period known in American history as the Roaring Twenties after the Wall Street Crash of 1929 ushered in a worldwide Great Depression. In the Americas, an agreement was brokered to end the Cristero War, a Catholic counter-revolution in Mexico. The Judicial Committee of the Privy Council, a British high court, ruled that Canadian women are persons in the Edwards v. Canada (Attorney General) case. The 1st Academy Awards for film were held in Los Angeles, while the Museum of Modern Art opened in New York City. The Peruvian Air Force was created. In Asia, the Republic of China and the Soviet Union engaged in a minor conflict after the Chinese seized full control of the Manchurian Chinese Eastern Railway, which ended with a resumption of joint administration. In the Soviet Union, General Secretary Joseph Stalin expelled Leon Trotsky and adopted a policy of collectivization. The Grand Trunk Express began service in India. Rioting between Muslims and Jews in Jerusalem over access to th... ()

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Un Chien Andalou(1929)

21min | Fantasy
3.8/5 (with 549 votes)

Un Chien Andalou is an European avant-garde surrealist film, a collaboration between director Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali.

Directed by Luis Buñuel - With Pierre Batcheff, Simone Mareuil, Luis Buñuel, Salvador Dalí, Jaume Miravitlles

Man with a Movie Camera(1929)

NR
| 1h 8min | Documentary
3.9/5 (with 291 votes)

A cameraman wanders around Moscow, Kharkiv, Kyiv and Odesa with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.

Directed by Dziga Vertov

The Skeleton Dance(1929)

3.7/5 (with 119 votes)

The clock strikes midnight, the bats fly from the belfry, a dog howls at the full moon, and two black cats fight in the cemetery: a perfect time for four skeletons to come out and dance a bit.

Directed by Walt Disney

Pandora's Box(1929)

NR
| 2h 13min | Drama, Romance / Love, Crime
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.

Blackmail(1929)

1h 26min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 91 votes)

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

The Broadway Melody(1929)

NR
| 1h 40min | Drama, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 53 votes)

The vaudeville act of Harriet and Queenie Mahoney comes to Broadway, where their friend Eddie Kerns needs them for his number in one of Francis Zanfield's shows. When Eddie meets Queenie, he soon falls in love with her—but she is already being courted by Jock Warriner, a member of New York high society. Queenie eventually recognises that, to Jock, she is nothing more than a toy, and that Eddie is in love with her.

Directed by Harry Beaumont - With Anita Page, Charles King, Bessie Love, Edward Dillon, Carla Laemmle, Jed Prouty, ...

Plane Crazy(1929)

3.2/5 (with 48 votes)

Inspired by Lindbergh's flight from New York to Paris, Mickey builds a plane to take Minnie for a trip.

Directed by Walt Disney

The Cocoanuts(1929)

NR
| 1h 36min | Comedy, Music
3.3/5 (with 45 votes)

During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.

Diary of a Lost Girl(1929)

NR
| 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.

Woman in the Moon(1929)

3.7/5 (with 41 votes)

A scientist discovers that there's gold on the moon. He builds a rocket to fly there, but there's too much rivalry among the crew to have a successful expedition.

Big Business(1929)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 37 votes)

Stan and Ollie play door-to-door Christmas tree salesmen in California. They end up getting into an escalating feud with grumpy would-be customer James Finlayson, with his home and their car being destroyed in the melee.

The Haunted House(1929)

3.4/5 (with 34 votes)

Mickey seeks shelter from a storm in a house that turns out to be haunted. The skeletons command him to play the organ; they dance and play along.

Directed by Walt Disney
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Rain(1929)

12min | Documentary
3.7/5 (with 29 votes)

A lyrical portrait of Amsterdam and its changing appearance during a rain-shower.

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.

Perfect Day(1929)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.6/5 (with 27 votes)

Two families embark on a pleasant Sunday picnic but manage to run into a variety of issues with their temperamental automobile. Each incident requires repeated exits and reboardings by Laurel, Hardy, their wives and grouchy, gout-ridden Uncle Edgar.

Liberty(1929)

18min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

While changing clothes in a getaway car, escaped convicts Stan and Ollie mistakenly put on each other's pants. They spend the rest of the film trying to exchange pants in various unlikely settings.

The Hoose-Gow(1929)

NR
| 18min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 22 votes)

Stan and Ollie arrive as new inmates at a prison after apparently taking part in a hold-up raid, a raid they tell a prison officer they were only watching. The usual mayhem ensues.

Berth Marks(1929)

NR
| 19min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

The story involves Stan and Ollie as two musicians attempting to travel by train to Pottsville. It was only their second sound film, but a silent version was also made for cinemas at the time that were not equipped to show talkies.

They Go Boom!(1929)

NR
| 20min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 21 votes)

Stan and Ollie try to sleep in a room-for-rent. Ollie, suffering from a cold, coughs frequently, while Stan snores. Both of them have trouble falling asleep because of this. They try to solve their problems, but this results in total chaos.

Spite Marriage(1929)

1h 16min | Comedy
3.4/5 (with 21 votes)

An unimpressive but well-intentioned man is given the chance to marry a popular actress, of whom he has been a hopeless fan. But what he doesn't realize is that he is being used to make the actress' old flame jealous.

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.

The Karnival Kid(1929)

8min | Animation
2.8/5 (with 20 votes)

Mickey Mouse is working as a hot dog vendor at a carnival when he meets and quickly falls for Minnie the "Shimmy Dancer". That night, Mickey and a pair of alley cats serenade her by performing the song "Sweet Adeline", much to the dismay of Kat Nipp, who is trying to sleep. The short marks Mickey's first speaking appearance.

Directed by Walt Disney

Juno and the Paycock(1929)

1h 34min | Drama, Comedy
2.3/5 (with 19 votes)

During the Irish revolution, a family earns a big inheritance. They start leading a rich life, forgetting what the most important values of life really are. At the end, they discover they will not receive that inheritance; the family is destroyed and penniless. They must sell their home and start living like vagabonds.

Arsenal(1929)

1h 27min | Drama, War
3.5/5 (with 19 votes)

A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.

Unaccustomed as We Are(1929)

NR
| 18min | Comedy
3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Laurel and Hardy try to entertain a female neighbor, unbeknown to Hardy’s wife.

Lucky Star(1929)

NR
| 1h 39min | Romance / Love, Drama
3.8/5 (with 16 votes)

Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared. Tim enlists in the army and goes to the battlefields of Europe, where he is wounded and loses the use of his legs. Home again, Tim is visited by Mary, and they are powerfully attracted to each other; but his physical handicap prevents him from declaring his love for her. Deeper complications set in when Martin, Tim's former sergeant and a bully, takes a shine to Mary.

Autumn Mists(1929)

28min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 16 votes)

An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.

Directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff

Hell's Bells(1929)

NR
| 6min | Animation
3.1/5 (with 16 votes)

The demons of hell play music for Satan, whose delight turns to wrath when an insubordinate refuses to become food for Cerberus.

Directed by Ub Iwerks

H₂O(1929)

12min
3.3/5 (with 15 votes)

H₂O (1929) is a short silent film by photographer Ralph Steiner. It is a cinematic tone poem showing water in its many forms - concentrating on patterns of movement, shading and texture.

Directed by Ralph Steiner

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.

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