The Big Diamond Robbery

The Big Diamond Robbery 1929

6.00

A ranch foreman is assigned to escort his employer's daughter from the big city back to the ranch. The girl is carrying the valuable Regent diamond and the pair become the target of a gang of thieves.

1929

Perfect Day

Perfect Day 1929

6.97

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.

1929

Hot Stuff

Hot Stuff 1929

1

An uptight society aunt sends her too sexy niece to college so she can land a man.

1929

Skating Hounds

Skating Hounds 1929

3.00

A series of animated short subjects created by Paul Terry and actor-turned-writer Howard Estabrook.

1929

Shanghai Lady

Shanghai Lady 1929

1

Having spent several wasted months in a Shanghai opium dem, former prostitute Cassie Cook yearns to start her life afresh. Likewise, ex-convict Badlands McKinney also wants to clean up his act.

1929

Explodigger 1010

Explodigger 1010 1929

6.00

The engineer Karl Hartmann invents a new, gigantic brown coal excavator. He discovers that there are large deposits below his home country and decides to use the excavator there.

1929

Wedding Rings

Wedding Rings 1929

1

Two sisters battle for the love of a man.

1929

Evangeline

Evangeline 1929

6.10

A young Acadian woman spends years searching for her lost love after the two are separated and forcibly relocated by the British.

1929

Speedway

Speedway 1929

5.50

Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.

1929

Movie Night

Movie Night 1929

6.00

A family goes on its weekly outing to the movies. Complications ensue...

1929

Un Chien Andalou

Un Chien Andalou 1929

7.40

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

1929

Vendanges

Vendanges 1929

1

The first film made by French filmmaker Georges Rouquier. This silent, black-and-white documentary captures the grape harvest in southern France, showcasing the rhythms of rural life and agricultural tradition. Funded independently by Rouquier, the film reflects his early passion for authentic, observational storytelling. Though now considered a lost film, Vendanges marks the beginning of Rouquier’s celebrated career in documentary cinema.

1929

Kameradschaftsehe

Kameradschaftsehe 1929

1

The problem of companionship marriages , i.e. marriages determined by purely practical rather than emotional motives, is addressed with all its pros and cons using two relationships . The four protagonists are the student Erich Helmholz and his wife Elli, a seamstress, both a happily married but not in love couple, and the consultant's daughter Maria, who comes from the best "stable" and who, in her ignorance, first allows herself to be impregnated by any man (without really understanding how this could have happened) and then, under pressure from her horrified parents, enters into a companionship marriage with another man who has brilliant career prospects.

1929

Toot Sweet!

Toot Sweet! 1929

1

Ham is interested in a girl named Marie and wants to impress her. First he buys a car and then he takes her out to a swanky nightclub. During the course of this disastrous date Ham realizes that Marie isn't the nice girl he thought she was: she only went out with him to make her real boyfriend jealous. The boyfriend is a dancer at the club, and when she sees him kissing his dance partner she becomes enraged and smashes up the place, while poor Ham is stuck with the bill.

1929

Night Owls

Night Owls 1929

1

The story is about a rebellious rich daughter who, instead of buckling down in school, is man-crazy for Horace (Arthur Lake of the "Blondie and Dagwood" films).

1929

Blackmail

Blackmail 1929

6.50

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.

1929

Happy Days

Happy Days 1929

6.00

In Fox's contribution to the all-star revue cycle of early talkies, showboat singer Margie, hearing that the show is in arrears, goes to New York to gather all of the former stars to stage a minstrel show as a benefit.

1929

Every Day

Every Day 1929

6.80

Experimental documentary focusing on a day in the life of city workers, featuring montage sequences and repetition to emphasise the monotony of routine office work.

1929

The Pub

The Pub 1929

1

An educational film about alcoholism.

1929

Asphalt

Asphalt 1929

7.27

Starring Betty Amann in her most famous leading role, Joe May's Asphalt is a luxuriously produced German Expressionist classic where tragic liaisons and fatal encounters are shaped alongside the constant roar of Berlin traffic.

1929