1929 Movies
Browse 589 titles in our 1929 Movies Database
- Un Chien Andalou
- Man with a Movie Camera
- Blackmail
- Steamboat Willie
- The Cocoanuts
- The Skeleton Dance
- Diary of a Lost Girl
- Woman in the Moon
- City Girl
- Big Business
- The Manxman
- The Love Parade
- Spite Marriage
- Arsenal
- Coquette
- Plane Crazy
- The Hollywood Revue of 1929
- Hallelujah
- Rain
- Piccadilly
- Old and New
- Asphalt
- Berth Marks
- Lucky Star
- The Haunted House
- The Trespasser
- Emak-Bakia
- The Iron Mask
- Disraeli
- Men O'War
- The Hoose-Gow
- Bulldog Drummond
- Double Whoopee
- In Old Arizona
- Marianne
- Desert Nights
- They Go Boom!
- The Kiss
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu
- The Great Gabbo
- A Throw of Dice
- Wrong Again
- Angora Love
- The Karnival Kid
- Noah's Ark
- Our Modern Maidens
- The Barn Dance
- Thunderbolt
- The Letter
- The Virginian
- The Mysterious Island
- Hell's Bells
- Welcome Danger
- The Godless Girl
- That's My Wife
- Glorifying the American Girl
- Their Own Desire
- H2O
- Rio Rita
- Wild Orchids
- Bacon Grabbers
- The Thirteenth Chair
- Where East Is East
- The Mysteries of the Chateau de De
- Untamed
- The Single Standard
- Speedway
- Brumes d'automne
- Sound Test for Blackmail
- The River
- Finis terrae
- The Taming of the Shrew
- A Straightforward Boy
- When the Cat's Away
- Bosko the Talk-Ink Kid
- Days of Youth
- Black and Tan
- The Locked Door
- Mickey's Choo-Choo
- Condemned!
- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
- Eternal Love
- Navy Blues
- Weary River
- Mickey's Follies
- Madame X
- I Graduated, But...
- Redemption
- Why Be Good?
- The Wild Party
- Elstree Calling
- Behind That Curtain
- The Opry House
- Springtime
- The Valiant
- Lambchops
- Fragment of an Empire
- The Barnyard Battle
- Wild Waves
- Dynamite
- Seven Footprints to Satan
- The Black Watch
- The Last Performance
- Street Girl
- St. Louis Blues
- Show of Shows
- The Greene Murder Case
- The Racketeer
- Turksib
- The Scar of Shame
- Seven Keys to Baldpate
- The Squall
- The Devious Path
- High Voltage
- The Pagan
- Sally
- The Unholy Night
- My Grandmother
- With Byrd at the South Pole
- The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
- Sea Urchins
- On with the Show!
- Flight
- The Dance of Life
- The Four Feathers
- The Younger Generation
- Tôkyô kôshinkyoku
- The Flying Fleet
- Fighting Friends
- Mother Krause's Journey to Happiness
- Big News
- It's a Great Life
- The Shakedown
- Show Boat
- Three Loves
- The Saturday Night Kid
- The Hound of the Baskervilles
- Hellbound Train
- The Vagabond Lover
- So This Is College
- The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna
- Atlantic
- The Singing Fool
- Laila
- It's a Bird
- Mocny czlowiek
- Salute
- Minnie's Yoo Hoo
- The Love Trap
- Mexicali Rose
- Tide of Empire
- The Hole in the Wall
- The Duke Steps Out
- Bouncing Babies
- The White Stadium
- Le capitaine Fracasse
- Gold Diggers of Broadway
- In Spring
- The Lighthouse Keepers
- Boxing Gloves
- High Treason
- The Studio Murder Mystery
- They Had to See Paris
- Finding His Voice
- The New Gentlemen
- So Long Letty
- Der Sonderling
- I Kiss Your Hand Madame
- Tanned Legs
- Great Day
- Caucasian Love
- Jazz Heaven
- Miss Else
- Small Talk
- Half Marriage
- Evangeline
- Devil-May-Care
- Dangerous Curves
- Lazy Days
- Let's Go Native
- Her Private Affair
- The Trial of Mary Dugan
- The Living Corpse
- The Leatherneck
- The Lost Zeppelin
- Paris Bound
- Pointed Heels
- The Phantom in the House
- The Idle Rich
- Railroadin'
- Wolf Song
- Tarzan the Tiger
- Chinatown Nights
- Moan & Groan, Inc.
- China Express
- Cagliostro - Liebe und Leben eines großen Abenteurers
- Linda
- The Girl in the Show
- College Hounds
- The Ship of Lost Men
- Wise Girls
- A dança dos paroxismos
- Le bled
- Night Parade
- Woman to Woman
- The Desert Song
- The Talk of Hollywood
- The Lady Lies
- And Quiet Flows the Don
- The Donovan Affair
- The Woman and the Puppet
- Alraune
- The Marriage Playground
- Trixie Friganza in My Bag o' Trix
- Dance Hall
- Lucky Boy
- The Sixth Sense
- Gentlemen of the Press
- Side Street
- The Tournament
- Charming Sinners
- The Cock-Eyed World
- Nothing But the Truth
- The Flying Fool
- Saint Joan the Maid
- The Bridge of San Luis Rey
- She Goes to War
- Sweetie
- Apaches of Athens
- Fue no shiratama
- Histoire de détective
- Brothers
- Syncopation
- Maman Colibri
- The Voice of the City
- Words and Music
- Den starkaste
- Wonder of Women
- Astero
- Woman Trap
- Painted Faces
- The Man I Love
- Hongxia
- São Paulo, a Metropolitan Symphony
- Speakeasy
- The Divine Voyage
- Big Time
- Korkein voitto
- The First Born
- Mustalaishurmaaja
- Half Way to Heaven
- The Mighty
- Seven Faces
- Thru Different Eyes
- Trent's Last Case
- Wages of Sin
- The Big Diamond Robbery
- City Butterfly
- The Night Coachman
- The Laughing Lady
- Peach Skin
- Oh, Yeah?
- His Glorious Night
- An Hour with Chekhov
- Glad Rag Doll
- Madonna of Avenue A
- The Lone Star Ranger
- The Delightful Rogue
- The Gamblers
- Manolescu - Der König der Hochstapler
- West Virginia, the State Beautiful
- Girls Gone Wild
- The Organist at St. Vitus' Cathedral
- Komunaris chibukhi
- The Three Passions
- A Man's Man
- The Storming of La Sarraz
- The Return of Sherlock Holmes
- A Dangerous Woman
- La virgen de la Caridad
- Strong Boy
- Sal of Singapore
- The Romance of Seville
- The Wolf of Wall Street
- The Self-Seeker
- Alpine Antics
- Zwei Herzen im Dreiviertel-Takt
- Close Harmony
- The Very Idea
- Sailor's Holiday
- Sprengbagger 1010
- Smiling Irish Eyes
- The Careless Age
- Battle of Paris
- The Kibitzer
- His First Command
- Border Romance
- The Sophomore
- Thundering Thompson
- Rabmadár
- Darkened Rooms
- The Girl in the Glass Cage
- Atlantik
- Konstgjorda Svensson
- Fashion News
- Saba
- Meidän poikamme
- Hurricane
- Hawk of the Hills
- The Triumph of the Heart
- After the Ball
- The Lady from the Sea
- Die letzte Droschke von Berlin
- Port Whines
- Højt paa en kvist
- L'arpète
- Gesetze der Liebe
- Figaro
- Dom na vulkane
- Der Adjutant des Zaren
- Sole!
- The Runaway Princess
- The Drifter
- Sevil
- The Vagabond Queen
- Footlights and Fools
- An Ideal Woman
- Campus Knights
- Sonny Boy
- Amature Nite
- Adam's Eve
- Clunked on the Corner
- Kys, klap og kommers
- The Kingdom of Twilight
- The Greenwood Tree
- The Rocket Bus
- Kitty
- Mr. Smith Wakes Up
- When Knights Were Bold
- Rågens rike
- Al Lyons and His Four Horsemen
- Beaver Family
- El héroe de Cascorro
- Bad Men's Money
- Frozen Fate
- Her Skeleton in the Closet
- The American Prisoner
- Would You Believe It!
- Plants of the Underworld
- Der gefesselte Polo
- The Betrayal
- Ein Mädel und drei Clowns
- Säg det i toner
- V gorod vkhodit' nelzya
- The Luck of the Navy
- Me and the Boys
- Up the Poll
- Phantome des Glücks
- Hochverrat
- Three Men in a Cart
- Ringing the Changes
- Master and Man
- Das Schweigen im Walde
- Nick's Knickers
- The Celestial City
- Anarkali
- The Thoroughbred
- Cupid in Clover
- Little Miss London
- El león de Sierra Morena
- Anne Against the World
- Auld Lang Syne
- The Harvest of Hate
- Widecombe Fair
- The Ringer
- Erpresser
- Cycling the Channel
- Woman Wheelers
- Die Nacht des Schreckens
- A Day in Liverpool
- Ville Andesons äventyr
- Marriage
- Mustat silmät
- Midstream
- The Border Wildcat
- All Steamed Up
- The Air Derby
- The Body Punch
- Back from Shanghai
- Auntie's Antics
- The Amazing Vagabond
- Ain't It the Truth
- West of the Rockies
- The Ridin' Demon
- Janssons frestelse
- Työn sankarilaulu
- Sole Mates
- Das Herz des Menschen
- Aus dem Tagebuch eines Junggesellen
- Juhla meren rannalla
- Ena Reiss
- Billie Barnes
- The Blue Boys No. 1
- The Volga Singers
- Martini and His Band No. 2
- Pete Mandell and His Rhythm Masters No. 2
- The Blue Boys No. 2
- Lewis Hardcastle's Dusky Syncopaters
- Dick Henderson
- Hal Swain and His Sax-O-Five
- Over the Sticks
- Martini and His Band No. 1
- The Walsh Brothers
- George Mozart in Domestic Troubles
- Pete Mandell and His Rhythm Masters No. 1
- Elsie Percival and Ray Raymond
- The Actor
- Jackie's Nightmare
- A Runaway Holiday
- The Percival Mackey Trio
- After the Show
- The Big Show
- Star Impersonations
- Doing His Duty
- Treppenwitze von Wilhelm Bendow und Paul Morgan
- Clapham and Dwyer No. 1
- Joe Theiss Saxotette
- 2. Ungarische Rhapsodie
- Kollege Kapers
- House Warmers
- Clapham and Dwyer No. 2
- Jackie and the Beanstalk
- Geo. Dewey Washington
- Across the Sea
- Dada Dada
- The Dancing Lesson
- A Curtain Lecture
- Cohen on the Telephone
- In the Wood Shed She Said She Would
- In That Village Down That Valley Up the Hill
- Me and the Man in the Moon
- Why Does the Hyena Laugh?
- Mary's Mammy
- Mighty Lak' a Rose
- We're Living at the Cloisters
- When the Light Shines Brightly in the Lighthouse
- Was It a Dream?
- Under the Bazumka Tree
- Maisie Lou
- The Little White House
- You Went Away Too Far
- Yule
- Two Black Crows
- You Along O'Me
- Would a Manx Cat Wag Its Tail if it Had One?
- Kate in the Call Box
- Joe Murgatroyd Says
- I've Always Wanted to Call You My Sweetheart
- Tamiami Trail
- That's My Weakness Now
- That's What Put the Sweet in Home Sweet Home
- Like the Big Pots Do
- Tosti's Goodbye
- Toy Town Artillery
- Take a Look at Me
- Toreador
- It All Depends on You
- It Takes a Good Man to Do That
- Sweethearts on Parade
- Is There Anything Wrong in That?
- Sonny Boy
- I Lift Up My Finger and I Say Tweet Tweet
- If I Didn't Miss You
- In Cellar Cool
- I'm Eighty in the Morning
- Stay Out of the South
- I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen
- Lach-Terzett
- The Three Kukirolers
- I Can't Give You Anything But Love
- Humoresque
- So Tired
- He Loves and She Loves
- Hotpot
- Happy Days and Lonely Nights
- Hinton, Dinton and Mere
- So This Is Spring
- Somewhere a Voice Is Calling
- Good Little Boy and the Bad Little Boy
- Get Out and Get Under the Moon
- Getting a Motor
- She's a Great Great Girl
- Green Tie on the Little Yellow Dog
- Pagliacci
- The Egg Song
- Rolling Along Having My Ups and Downs
- Rainbow Round My Shoulder
- Geranium
- Popular Pieces
- Ee by Gum
- Ever Bravest Heart
- The Gay Caballero
- Popular Jocular Dr. Brown
- Scented Soap
- Oh What a Happy Land
- One Kiss
- The Admiral's Yarn
- One Fine Day
- Don't Have Any More, Mrs. Moore
- One Hundred Years from Now
- An Old Time Music Hall
- Does She Do-Do-Do
- One Alone
- Ole Man River
- At Santa Barbara
- Bananas Are Coming Back Again
- All by Yourself in the Moonlight
- Off to Philadelphia
- Oh You Have No Idea
- O sole mio
- Nell
- Nirvana
- Beloved
- Because
- Cohen Forms a New Company
- Carmena
- Mine All Mine
- More Please
- Chloe
- Can't Help Loving Dat Man
- Misery Farm
- My Blue Heaven
- My Bonnie Hieland Maggie
- My One and Only
- My Ohio Home
- My Austin Seven
- Al Abbott in 'Small Town Rambles'
- Favourite Airs
- Gordon Freeman, Novelty Entertainer
- Norah Blaney No. 2
- Emile Grimshaw Banjo Quartette
- The Fighting Fool
- Norah Blaney No. 1
- Gentlemen the Chorus No. 2
- Pepper
- Gentlemen the Chorus No. 1
- Riverside Melodies
- Express Love
- Memories
- Alpine Melodies
- Armistice
- Chris's Mrs.
- Nasanu naka
- The Glittering Sword
- St. George and the Dragon
- The Lone Scout
- Black and White
- A Song or Two
- Pot-Pourri
- Dimples and Tears
- An Old World Garden
- Musical Moments
- Chelsea Nights
- Flora Le Breton
- Odd Numbers
- Jazztime
- Notes and Notions
- Song-copation
- Aunt Matilda's Nephew
- Musical Medley
- An Arabian Knight
- Paul Graetz als Berliner Zeitungsjunge
- Einmal um Mitternacht
- Der Maharadschah von Mysore hat Geburtstag
- Ken
- Glimpses of the Culion Leper Colony and of Culion Life
- Dr Turner's Mental Home
- А почему так?
- Glimpses of India
- Motorists Make Merry
- Visit to a Tribe
- Sovetskiy Tadzhikistan: Mezhdunarodnyy den molodyozhi
- Sovetskiy Tadzhikistan: Pribytie pervogo poezda v Dushanbe
- The Phantom of the Opera
- The Irresponsibles
- Where Alfred Built
- Arctic London
- Parisian Pedallers
- Irish Cup Semi- Final Coleraine V Ballymena
The Best Movies in 1929
Man with a Movie Camera
"Man with a Movie Camera," directed by Dziga Vertov, distinguishes itself through its innovative approach to visual storytelling. Capturing urban life in Soviet cities such as Kyiv, Kharkov, Moscow, and Odessa, Vertov employs an array of filming techniques. Double exposure, fast motion, and freeze frames are just the tip of the iceberg. These methods not only showcased a day in the life of Soviet citizens but also pushed the boundaries of what could be achieved through documentary filmmaking.
Pandora's Box
Louise Brooks's portrayal of Lulu in G.W. Pabst's "Pandora's Box" captures the essence of a woman whose life unfolds in unexpected, often tragic ways. Released in 1929, the film is a compelling study of sexuality and societal expectations. Brooks's performance is timeless, making "Pandora's Box" a pivotal representation of female characters in early cinema.
The Cocoanuts
The Marx Brothers are synonymous with early American comedy, and "The Cocoanuts" is no exception. Directed by Robert Florey and Joseph Santley, the film sets the comedic ensemble in a Florida hotel amid a chaotic land auction. Their signature wit, slapstick humor, and musical interludes make "The Cocoanuts" a cornerstone in the comedy genre of its time.
Diary of a Lost Girl
G.W. Pabst and Louise Brooks team up once more in "Diary of a Lost Girl," illustrating the journey of a young woman's societal downfall and her fight for redemption. The film navigates the rocky terrain of early 20th-century social attitudes toward women, echoing the complexities and challenges of the era. Brooks delivers another captivating performance, solidifying her status as an icon of silent film.
Un Chien Andalou
"Un Chien Andalou," a collaborative effort between Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, is a hallmark of surrealist cinema. Known for its dreamlike sequences and startling images, such as the notorious eye-slicing scene, this film defies conventional narrative structure. Its impact on avant-garde filmmaking and art is memorable, marking it as a revolutionary piece in film history.
Film & Industry Highlights of 1929
The Transition to Sound in Cinema
1929 marks the end of the silent film era and embraces a new standard of cinema through the successful integration of synchronized sound, or "talkies." The Jazz Singer, released in 1927, played a critical role in demonstrating the commercial viability and audience appeal of sound films. As a result, the film industry saw an exponential increase in movie attendance, climbing from an average of 50 million weekly attendees in the mid-1920s to an impressive 110 million by the end of the decade. This shift not only reshaped audience expectations but also presented filmmakers with both new technical challenges and storytelling opportunities.
Technological Advances and Industry Growth
The introduction of 16mm film by the Eastman Kodak Company, specifically designed for sound motion pictures, facilitated this transition. This technological innovation supported the growing demand for talkies and allowed for more widespread production. Hollywood, with its year-round filming capabilities and varied scenery, emerged as the epicenter of film production. By the decade's conclusion, it was recognized as the nation's fifth-largest industry, attracting substantial investment and talent, further fueling the industry's growth.
The First Academy Awards
In recognition of the artistic and technical advancements made within the industry, the first Academy Awards ceremony took place on May 16, 1929. The event symbolized the industry's commitment to celebrating excellence in filmmaking. "Wings," a film notable for its technical prowess, garnered the award for Best Picture, highlighting the prestigious recognition of filmmaking achievements at the time.
Sound Cinema's Artistic Exploration
The embrace of sound cinema opened doors to new narrative possibilities and genres. Alfred Hitchcock's "Blackmail," released in the same year, became the UK's first full-length sound film. It demonstrated how sound could amplify narrative depth and suspense, setting a precedent for future filmmakers. Additionally, "The Broadway Melody" won the Academy Award for Outstanding Picture at the 2nd Academy Awards, illustrating the musical genre's newfound appeal in the era of sound cinema. These films showcased the various capabilities of sound and its potential to enhance cinematic storytelling.
Economic Context and Resilience
Despite the sweeping success of sound films and the boom of the film industry, 1929 also bore witness to economic challenges. The stock market crash in October 1929 marked the beginning of the Great Depression. Nevertheless, the film industry demonstrated remarkable resilience. Sound films, in particular, offered an escape for many Americans, providing a source of hope and entertainment during difficult times. This resilience underscored the role of cinema as a vital cultural and emotional outlet for the public.