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.

Putting Pants on Philip

1927

English

6.5

♡ 5

31%

Clyde Bruckman Director

Jack Hill as Extra

Bob O'Connor as Extra

Oliver Hardy as J. Piedmont Mumblethunder

Stan Laurel as Philip

Pompous J. Piedmont Mumblethunder greets his nephew from Scotland who arrives in kilts. He is immediately taken to a tailor for a pair of proper pants.

Why Girls Love Sailors

1927

English

6.0

♡ 4

50%

Fred Guiol Director

Edgar Dearing as Amorous Sailor

Anita Garvin as Captain's Wife

Anna May Wong as Delamar

Malcolm Waite as Sea Captain

Stan is a sailor whose girl gets kidnapped by a rough sea captain. Stan dresses in drag and seduces the captain but the captain's wife catches him. Stan and his girl beat a hasty retreat as the captain's wife fires off a parting shot.

Duck Soup

1927

English

6.5

♡ 5

50%

Fred Guiol Director

Stuart Holmes as

Charlie Hall as Moving man

Oliver Hardy as Oliver Hardy aka Colonel Buckshot

Stan Laurel as Stan Laurel aka Agnes

Fleeing a group of forest rangers, who are rounding up tramps to serve as firefighters, they take refuge in a mansion. The owner has gone on vacation and the servants are away, so Hardy pretends to be the owner and offers to rent the house to an English couple. Hardy gets Laurel to pose as the maid. Unfortunately, the owner returns and tells the would-be renters that he owns the house; Laurel and Hardy then flee again and are caught by the rangers and forced to fight wildfires.

Annie Laurie

1927

English

6.7

♡ 5

Drama

Romance

John S. Robertson Director

Joseph Striker as Alastair

Lillian Gish as Annie Laurie

John Wayne as Extra

Norman Kerry as Ian MacDonald

The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.

Women of Ryazan

1927

Russian

7.1

♡ 3

Drama

woman director

Ivan Pravov Director

Inna Fyodorova as

Gulya Korolyova as

Raisa Puzhnaya as Anna

Ivan Savelyev as Nicolai, the blacksmith

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.

The Battle of the Century

1927

English

7.1

♡ 7

67%

Leo McCarey Director

Edgar Dearing as Man who says 'Gimme a pie'

Charlie Hall as Pie Deliveryman

Jack Hill as Ringside Spectator

Anita Garvin as Woman Who Slips on Pie

Fight manager takes out an insurance policy on his puny pugilist and then proceeds to try to arrange for an accident so that he can collect.

The Blood Ship

1927

English

6.6

♡ 3

Drama

mutiny

ship

George B. Seitz Director

Dave Wengren as

Fred Kohler as First Mate Fitz

Richard Arlen as John Shreve

Chappell Dossett as Rev. Richard Deaken

A disgraced sea captain signs on as a crewman on a cargo ship. He discovers that the vessel is captained by the very man who stole his ship, a sadistic brute who also took the former captain's wife and daughter. The ship's crew is composed mostly of sailors who were shanghai'ed aboard and are kept in line by the brutal captain and his even more fearsome first mate. The captain and one of his fellow crewmen--who has fallen in love with the man's daughter, who now belongs to the brutal captain--try to unite the crew to end the brutal reign of the captain and his henchman. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Sony Pictures Entertainment in 2007.

Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis

1927

German

7.6

♡ 6

86%

Walter Ruttmann Director

Paul von Hindenburg as Himself

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.

Napoleon

1927

French

8.2

♡ 39

87%

Abel Gance Director

Daniel Mendaille as Fréron Lomon

Lomon as Marie Jean Hérault de Séchelles

Nicolas Koline as Tristan Fleuri

Annabella as Violine Fleuri et Désirée Clary

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.

Get Your Man

1927

English

6.3

♡ 1

Dorothy Arzner Director

Frances Raymond as Mrs. Worthington

Clara Bow as Nancy Worthington

David Durand as Robert

Charles 'Buddy' Rogers as Robert Albin

A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.

Running Wild

1927

English

6.9

♡ 2

40%

Comedy

Gregory La Cava Director

Frank Evans as Amos Barker

Mary Brian as Elizabeth Finch

W.C. Fields as Elmer Finch

Barnett Raskin as Junior

Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.

The Beloved Rogue

1927

English

7.0

♡ 2

68%

Alan Crosland Director

Angelo Rossitto as Beppo, the Dwarf

Marceline Day as Charlotte de Vauxcelles

Conrad Veidt as Louis XI

Jack Kenny as Minor Role

François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.

The Jazz Singer

1927

English

6.4

♡ 19

77%

parent child relationship

Romance

san francisco, california

Alan Crosland Director

William Demarest as Buster Billings

Myrna Loy as Chorus Girl

Otto Lederer as Moisha Yudelson

Ena Gregory as Small Part

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Downhill

1927

English

6.0

♡ 12

83%

Alfred Hitchcock Director

Constance Collier as Dance Hall Lady with Purse

Ben Webster as Dr. Dawson

Annette Benson as Mabel

Ivor Novello as Roddy Berwick

When school captain Roddy Berwick takes the blame for his friend’s scandal, he is expelled and disowned by his family. Cast out of his privileged world, Roddy drifts through a series of humiliations—from waiter to penniless actor to gigolo—descending ever further into ruin and self-disgust.

College

1927

English

6.9

♡ 2

92%

Buster Keaton Director

Harold Goodwin as A Rival

Charlie Hall as Coxswain

James T. Mack as High School Principal

Anne Cornwall as The Girl

A bookish college student dismissive of athletics is compelled to try out sports to win the affection of the girl he loves.

Metropolis

1927

German

♡ 82

97%

Fritz Lang Director

Gustav Fröhlich as Freder - Joh Fredersen's Son

Rolf von Goth as Son in Eternal Gardens

Brigitte Helm as The Machine Man / Maria

Grete Berger as Working Woman

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.

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Get Your Man

Running Wild

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