Metropolis

Metropolis 1927

8.14

In a futuristic city sharply divided between the rich and the poor, the son of the city's mastermind meets a prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.

1927

Napoléon

Napoléon 1927

7.75

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 Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.

1927

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans 1927

7.86

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

1927

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City

Berlin: Symphony of a Great City 1927

7.68

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 had just recovered a little from the worst consequences of the First World War, the great economic crisis was still a few years away and Hitler was not yet an issue at the time.

1927

Wings

Wings 1927

7.22

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. Devoted best friends, their mutual love of the girl eventually threatens their bond. Meanwhile, a hometown girl who's the lovestruck lifelong next door neighbor of one of them pines away.

1927

The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary 1927

6.82

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 appointed day his expectant heirs arrive at his brooding mansion. The will is read and it turns out that Annabelle West, the only heir with his name left, inherits, if she is deemed sane. If she isn't, the money and some diamonds go to someone else, whose name is in a sealed envelope. Before he can reveal the identity of her successor to Annabelle, Mr. Crosby, the lawyer, disappears. The first in a series of mysterious events, some of which point to Annabelle in fact being unstable.

1927

The Kid Brother

The Kid Brother 1927

7.01

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 muscles to match up to them, so he has to use his wits to win the respect of his strong father and also the love of beautiful Mary.

1927

The Peasant Women of Ryazan

The Peasant Women of Ryazan 1927

6.40

The picture compares the fate of two heroines Anna and her lively and energetic sister-in-law Vasilisa, who openly defies the old way of life.

1927

Bed and Sofa

Bed and Sofa 1927

6.55

Life changes for a Moscow couple after they allow an old friend of the husband’s to move in.

1927

The Unknown

The Unknown 1927

7.50

A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.

1927

The King of Kings

The King of Kings 1927

6.50

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, DeMille spun the life and Passion of Christ into a silent-era blockbuster. Featuring text drawn directly from the Bible, a cast of thousands, and the great showman’s singular cinematic bag of tricks, The King of Kings is at once spectacular and deeply reverent—part Gospel, part Technicolor epic.

1927

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog

The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog 1927

7.14

London. A mysterious serial killer brutally murders young blond women by stalking them in the night fog. One foggy, sinister night, a young man who claims his name is Jonathan Drew arrives at the guest house run by the Bunting family and rents a room.

1927

The End of St. Petersburg

The End of St. Petersburg 1927

6.78

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

1927

The Love of Jeanne Ney

The Love of Jeanne Ney 1927

7.10

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 to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.

1927

The Girl with the Hat Box

The Girl with the Hat Box 1927

6.24

A Moscow hat shop girl chances upon a penniless young man who has arrived from the countryside for university and takes pity on him.

1927

7th Heaven

7th Heaven 1927

7.40

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.

1927

Downhill

Downhill 1927

5.79

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 his friends leave him alone. Through many life choices that don't work out in his favor, Roddy begins to find his life slowly spiraling out of his control.

1927

The Pleasure Garden

The Pleasure Garden 1927

5.30

Patsy Brand is a chorus girl at the Pleasure Garden music hall. She meets Jill Cheyne who is down on her luck and gets her a job as a dancer. Jill meets adventurer Hugh Fielding and they get engaged, but when Hugh travels out of the country, she begins to play around.

1927