Search results for "1927"
Way Down West

Way Down West

Way Down West
IMDb: 6.1
59

Based on the classic Chinese play Romance of the Western Chamber, Way Down West follows the love story between a poor scholar and wealthy woman. Unable to marry due to…

Genre: Drama, Romance
With Love and Hisses

With Love and Hisses

With Love and Hisses
IMDb: 6.2
21

Dimwitted Cuthbert Hope is enlisted in the army, and gets himself and his sergeant in constant trouble.

Genre: Comedy
Wings

Wings

Wings
IMDb: 7.5
144

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….

Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, War
Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors

Why Girls Love Sailors
IMDb: 6
20

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain’s wife catches him. Stan and his…

Genre: Comedy
White Gold

White Gold

White Gold
IMDb: 6.7
73

A sheep farmer brings his new wife to his father’s ranch and the old man takes an instant dislike to her.

Genre: Drama, Western
The Unknown

The Unknown

The Unknown
IMDb: 7.7
68

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…

Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance
Underworld

Underworld

Underworld
IMDb: 7.5
87

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

Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Uncle Tom’s Cabin
IMDb: 6.8
144

In 1856, slave Eliza plans to marry George with the consent of the Shelbys, her masters, but George’s owner prevents the wedding. A few years later, Eliza flees with her…

Genre: Drama
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
IMDb: 8.1
94

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

Genre: Drama, Romance
Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights

Two Arabian Knights
IMDb: 6.6
92

During World War I, two American soldiers fight to escape the Germans while squabbling over a beautiful harem girl. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with University of…

Sugar Daddies

Sugar Daddies

Sugar Daddies
IMDb: 6.2
16

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.

Genre: Comedy
The Show

The Show

The Show
IMDb: 6.9
76

Cock Robin is the swaggering ballyhoo man of a Hungarian sideshow known as the Palace of Illusions. The highlight of the show is a reenactment of Salome’s dance of the…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Should Men Walk Home?

Should Men Walk Home?

Should Men Walk Home?
IMDb: 6.7
27

Mabel plays an out-and-out crook, a “Girl Bandit,” no less. And she quickly hooks up with a male partner in crime, in this case a Gentleman Crook played by perpetually…

Genre: Comedy, Crime
The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor

The Shield of Honor
IMDb: 6.2
63

Can Jack MacDowell, the first flying policeman on the force, save his dad from stop-at-nothing jewel thieves?

Genre: Crime, Drama
7th Heaven

7th Heaven

7th Heaven
IMDb: 7.6
119

In 1910s Paris, a sewer worker disillusioned with Christianity feels his prayers have been answered when he chances upon a street waif and they fall in love.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Second Hundred Years

The Second Hundred Years

The Second Hundred Years
IMDb: 6.7
23

Laurel and Hardy are convicts making an escape from prison.

Genre: Comedy
Sailors, Beware!

Sailors, Beware!

Sailors, Beware!
IMDb: 6.7
20

A con artist and a midget dressed as her infant son, are unmasked aboard a ship by a steward.

Genre: Comedy
Running Wild

Running Wild

Running Wild
IMDb: 7
68

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so…

Genre: Comedy
The Ring

The Ring

The Ring
IMDb: 6.1
116

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.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Red Mill

The Red Mill

The Red Mill
IMDb: 6.8
74

A servant girl plays matchmaker for the local burgomaster’s daughter while setting her own sights on a visiting Irishman.

Genre: Comedy, Romance
Putting Pants on Philip

Putting Pants on Philip

Putting Pants on Philip
IMDb: 6.6
19

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.

Genre: Comedy
Napoleon

Napoleon

Napoleon
IMDb: 8.2
333

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…

Genre: Drama, History, War
Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu

Mr. Wu
IMDb: 6.3
91

When Mandarin Wu’s unmarried daughter becomes pregnant by a young Englishman, he seeks vengeance.

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney
IMDb: 7.2
113

In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren’t done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns…

Genre: Drama
The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg
IMDb: 7.3
74

Shortly before the outbreak of WWI, a peasant from rural Russia arrives in St. Petersburg to find work.

Genre: Drama
The King of Kings

The King of Kings

The King of Kings
IMDb: 7.4
155

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,…

Genre: Drama, History
The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother
IMDb: 7.6
82

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…

Genre: Comedy, Drama
The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer

The Jazz Singer
IMDb: 6.4
89

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…

Genre: Drama, Music
The Great Leap

The Great Leap

The Great Leap
IMDb: 6.1
112

A young Italian girl living in the Dolomites falls in love with a member of a tourist party skiing on the nearby mountains.

Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue

Easy Virtue
IMDb: 5.4
85

Larita Filton is named as correspondent in a scandalous divorce case. She escapes to France to rebuild her life where she meets John Whittaker. They are later married, but John’s…

Genre: Drama, Romance
Downhill

Downhill

Downhill
IMDb: 6
106

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…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
College

College

College
IMDb: 6.9
65

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Do Detectives Think?

Do Detectives Think?

Do Detectives Think?
IMDb: 6.8
19

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

Genre: Comedy
Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce

Children of Divorce
IMDb: 6.5
70

A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn’t marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents’….

Genre: Drama, Romance
The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary
IMDb: 7.1
87

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…

Chicago

Chicago

Chicago
IMDb: 7.3
103

Based on a true story, two-timing boozing wife Roxie Hart kills her lover in cold blood after he leaves her, and finagles her way out being indicted. The basis for…

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Loves of Casanova

Loves of Casanova

Loves of Casanova
IMDb: 7.1
128

Republic of Venice, 1760. Pursued by a vengeful husband, the intrepid womanizer Casanova, who symbolizes the decline of the city and its fall into debauchery, manages to escape and, by…

Genre: Adventure, Drama
Call of the Cuckoo

Call of the Cuckoo

Call of the Cuckoo
IMDb: 5.9
18

Mishaps befall a new home owner located next door to an insane asylum.

Genre: Comedy
The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century

The Battle of the Century
IMDb: 7.1
19

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.

Genre: Comedy
Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City
IMDb: 7.6
69

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…

Genre: Documentary