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7th Heaven (1927 film)
7th Heaven (Seventh Heaven) is Frank Borzage's 1927 Fox silent romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell as Parisian lovers, adapted from Austin Strong's play and winner of three Oscars at the first Academy Awards.
A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語)
A Story of Floating Weeds (浮草物語, Ukigusa monogatari) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1934 Shochiku silent drama about troupe leader Kihachi, his former lover and secret son; remade by Ozu in color in 1959 as Floating Weeds.
A Woman of Affairs
A Woman of Affairs is a 1928 MGM silent drama directed by Clarence Brown, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert, loosely adapted from Michael Arlen's novel The Green Hat after Hays Office censorship forced renamed characters and a changed plot.
An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿)
An Inn in Tokyo (東京の宿, Tokyo no yado) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1935 silent drama, his final surviving silent and last Kihachi film, following an unemployed father and his two sons through Depression-era Tokyo, released by Shochiku on 21 November 1935.
Blancanieves
Blancanieves (Snow White) is Pablo Berger's 2012 Spanish-French silent black-and-white film, a Grimm fairy tale retelling set in 1920s Seville where Carmen joins bullfighting dwarfs; it won ten Goya Awards including Best Film.
Champagne (1928 film)
Champagne (1928) is a British silent comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock for British International Pictures, released 20 August 1928. A millionaire (Gordon Harker) feigns bankruptcy to teach his daughter (Betty Balfour) a lesson; restored by the BFI in 2012.
City Lights
City Lights is Charlie Chaplin's 1931 silent romantic comedy, released by United Artists, in which the Tramp loves a blind flower girl who mistakes him for a rich man; it has synchronized music and sound effects but no dialogue, earned $5 million profit, and ranks #1 on AFI's romantic comedies list.
Downhill (1927 film)
Downhill (1927) is a British silent drama directed by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello as schoolboy Roddy Berwick, adapted from the play Down Hill by Novello and Constance Collier, restored by the BFI as one of the Hitchcock 9.
Easy Virtue (1928 film)
Easy Virtue (1928, also dated 1927) is Alfred Hitchcock's fifth film, a silent Gainsborough Pictures drama adapted by Eliot Stannard from Noël Coward's play, starring Isabel Jeans as a divorced woman judged guilty by society; remade in sound in 2008.
I Was Born, But... (大人の見る繪本 生れてはみたけれど)
I Was Born, But... (大人の見る繪本 生れてはみたけれど) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1932 Shochiku silent comedy about two boys disillusioned by their salaried father's servility, first-place Kinema Junpo winner, remade as Good Morning (1959).
It (1927 film)
It (1927) is a silent Paramount romantic comedy directed by Clarence Badger, starring Clara Bow as shopgirl Betty Lou Spence pursuing boss Cyrus Waltham; it popularized the term It girl and entered the National Film Registry in 2001.
Laugh, Clown, Laugh
Laugh, Clown, Laugh is a 1928 MGM silent romantic drama directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Lon Chaney as clown Tito Beppi and 14-year-old Loretta Young, adapted from the Belasco-Cushing play based on Pagliacci; nominated for Best Title Writing.
Limite
Limite (1931) is the only completed film of Brazilian director Mário Peixoto, a 120-minute silent avant-garde feature about three people adrift at sea, shot by Edgar Brasil, never commercially released, and restored in 1977 and 2010.
Lucky Star (1929 film)
Lucky Star (1929) is Frank Borzage's Fox silent part-talkie romance starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, based on Tristram Tupper's short story; the American talkie version is lost, the silent version survives via a Dutch restoration.
Metropolis (1927 film)
Metropolis (1927) is Fritz Lang's German silent science-fiction film, premiered in Berlin, cut after release, and restored in 2010 from a Buenos Aires print; first film on UNESCO's Memory of the World Register.
Napoléon (1927 film)
Napoléon (1927), Abel Gance's French silent epic on Napoleon Bonaparte's rise, famed for its Polyvision three-screen triptych finale; released in multiple 1927 versions and reconstructed in 2024 as a 7-hour Grande Version by the Cinémathèque française.
Old San Francisco
Old San Francisco (1927) is a Warner Bros. silent melodrama directed by Alan Crosland, with a Vitaphone synchronized music-and-effects score, starring Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, and Anna May Wong, set around the 1906 earthquake.
Passing Fancy
Passing Fancy (Dekigokoro, 出来ごころ) is Yasujiro Ozu's 1933 Shochiku silent comedy-drama, his 29th film, first of the Kihachi series with Takeshi Sakamoto, and Kinema Junpo Best Film winner for 1933.
Sadie Thompson
Sadie Thompson, 1928 silent drama directed by Raoul Walsh, produced by and starring Gloria Swanson from Maugham's 'Miss Thompson' and the play Rain; hit remake source, censored, partially restored 1987.
Speedy (1928 film)
Speedy (1928) is Harold Lloyd's final silent feature, a Ted Wilde comedy in which the scatterbrained New Yorker Speedy Swift saves the city's last horse-drawn streetcar, with a Babe Ruth cameo and extensive New York location shooting.
Steamboat Bill, Jr.
Steamboat Bill, Jr. is Buster Keaton's 1928 silent comedy, his last independent film, about a collegian and his riverboat-captain father, famous for the cyclone sequence and falling house-facade stunt, released 12 May 1928 and in US public domain since 1956.
Street Angel (1928 film)
Street Angel (1928) is a Fox silent romantic drama directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, adapted from Monckton Hoffe's Cristilinda, with a Movietone music-and-effects track and Gaynor's first Best Actress Oscar.
Sunrise (1927 film)
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans is F.W. Murnau's 1927 Fox silent drama with George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor, released with a Movietone synchronized score, winner of Unique and Artistic Production at the first Oscars.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927) is F.W. Murnau's first American silent film for Fox, based on Sudermann's Die Reise nach Tilsit, released with a Movietone optical soundtrack, winner of three Oscars at the 1929 first Academy Awards, later ranked #11 in the BFI Sight and Sound poll.
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas
Tabu: A Story of the South Seas is F. W. Murnau's 1931 silent film, made with Robert Flaherty on Bora Bora and Tahiti, about the doomed love of Matahi and the consecrated virgin Reri; Floyd Crosby won an Oscar for its cinematography.
The Beloved Rogue
The Beloved Rogue is a 1927 United Artists silent adventure film directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore as poet-vagabond François Villon, with Conrad Veidt as Louis XI, Marceline Day, and sets by William Cameron Menzies.
The Cameraman
The Cameraman (1928) is Buster Keaton's first MGM silent comedy, directed by Edward Sedgwick, about a tintype photographer who buys a movie camera to woo newsreel secretary Sally (Marceline Day); it grossed $797,000 and is considered his last great silent feature.
The Circus
The Circus is Charlie Chaplin's 1928 silent comedy, also called Le cirque, in which the Tramp becomes a circus star. Released January 1928 by United Artists; won a Special Academy Award at the 1929 ceremony.
The Crowd (1928 film)
The Crowd (1928) is King Vidor's MGM silent drama about everyman clerk John Sims, starring James Murray and Eleanor Boardman, premiered 3 March 1928, delayed a year by MGM, later ranked among the greatest silent films.
The Docks of New York
The Docks of New York (1928) is a Josef von Sternberg silent drama for Paramount, written by Jules Furthman from John Monk Saunders's "The Dock Walloper", starring George Bancroft and Betty Compson; a stoker rescues a suicidal woman on shore leave. Overshadowed by talkies, later honored in the National Film Registry.