Movies released in 1929

The Single Standard

69/100

The wealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party; after refusing the wedding proposal of Tommy Hewlett, she drives her car with her driver to a lonely place. She has one night stand with him ... See full summary »

Their Own Desire

60/100

Lally is a rich girl whose father writes books and plays Polo. After 23 years of marriage, he decides to divorce his wife, and marry Mrs. Chevers. This sours Lally on all men, while on ... See full summary »

The Locked Door

61/100

On her first anniversary Ann Reagan finds that her sister-in-law is involved with a shady character from her own past, and determines to intervene.

Eternal Love

71/100

In the Swiss Alps of the early 19th century, a couple forced into loveless marriages struggle to find happiness with one another.

The Thirteenth Chair

58/100

Although his murdered friend was by all accounts a scoundrel a true "bounder" Edward Wales is determined to trap his killer by staging a seance using a famous medium. Many of the 13 seance ... See full summary »

The Wild Party

64/100

Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and gets in trouble, her professor has to rescue ... See full summary »

The Last Warning

74/100

A producer decides to reopen a theater, that had been closed five years previously when one of the actors was murdered during a performance, by staging a production of the same play with ... See full summary »

Behind That Curtain

49/100

Eve Mannering realizes too late that her abusive husband is a philanderer and murderer and seeks protection with her true love, explorer John Beetham.

Untamed

46/100

When her rich oilman father is killed, Bingo, raised in the wilds of South America, inherits the company...

Sunnyside Up

67/100

Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less ... See full summary »

The Racketeer

56/100

A dapper gangster sponsors an alcoholic violinist in order to win the love of a glamorous divorced socialite.

Show of Shows

62/100

It's 1929. The studio gave the cinema its voice gave offered the audiences a chance to see their favorite actors and actresses from the silent screen era to see and for the first time can ... See full summary »

Dynamite

72/100

Wealthy Cynthia is in love with not-so-wealthy Roger, who is married to Marcia. The threesome is terribly modern about the situation, and Marcia will gladly divorce Roger if Cynthia agrees ... See full summary »

Broadway

70/100

A naive young dancer in a Broadway show innocently gets involved in backstage bootlegging and murder.

Weary River

67/100

A gangster is put in prison, but finds salvation through music while serving his time. Again on the outside, he finds success elusive and temptations abound.

Street Girl

72/100

A homeless and destitute violinist joins a combo to bring it success, but has problems with her love life.

Madame X

58/100

A young lawyer unknowingly defends his mother who abandoned him when he was three.

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

60/100

There is a big charity function at the house of Mrs. Cheyney and a lot of society is present. With her rich husband, deceased, rich old Lord Elton and playboy Lord Arthur Dilling are both ... See full summary »

Finis terrae

72/100

Why Be Good?

74/100

A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.

The Squall

47/100

In Hungary, a prosperous and happy family of farmers take in a Gypsy girl, Nubi, when she runs away from her "cruel" master. Her fickle and seductive nature soon causes discord among the ... See full summary »

The Last Performance

68/100

A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant. She, on the other hand, is in love with the magician's young protege, who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

The Pagan

70/100

A carefree South Seas native falls for the half-caste ward of a religious white man who desires her for himself.

Sally

63/100

Sally was an orphan who got her name from the telephone exchange where she was abandoned as a baby. In the orphanage, she discovered the joy of dancing and has been practicing since. ... See full summary »

High Voltage

53/100

A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.