The Great Gabbo
For the ventriloquist Gabbo his wooden dummy Otto is the only means of expression. When he starts relying more and more on Otto, he starts going mad.
The Greene Murder Case
Philo Vance investigates when a murderer preys upon members of a wealthy family on New York’s Upper East Side.
Glorifying the American Girl
A young woman, who wants to be in the Follies, is making ends meet by working at a department store’s sheet music department, where she sings the latest hits. She…
The Flying Scotsman
The Flying Scotsman is a 1929 black and white film set on the Flying Scotsman train from London to Edinburgh. Engine driver Bob is due to retire from his job…
Woman in the Moon
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.
The Flying Fool
A man protective of his brother checks out the girl his brother is in love with, in order to see if she’s the real thing or just trying to take…
Drifters
A silent film by John Grierson. It tells the story of Britain’s North Sea herring fishery.
Figaro
A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.
The Divine Voyage
Devil-May-Care
A follower of Napoleon escapes the firing squad, flees to a woman’s bedroom and winds up butler.
Man with a Movie Camera
A cameraman wanders around with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling inventiveness.
The Cocoanuts
During the Florida land boom, the Marx Brothers run a hotel, auction off some land and thwart a jewel robbery.
The Canary Murder Case
A beautiful showgirl, name “the Canary” is a scheming nightclub singer. Blackmailing is her game and with that she ends up dead. But who killed “the Canary”. All the suspects…
Broadway
A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.
Black and Tan
Duke Ellington plays hot jazz in a fictional story that finds him down on his luck; he tries in vain to dissuade his friend, dancer Fredi Washington, from working with…
Berth Marks
Asphalt
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…
The Scar of Shame
An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather.