Category:1929, Top Films

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Notable 1929 Films (My Ranking)

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-- #2. Man with a Movie Camera -- #4. The Skeleton Dance -- #7. Blackmail -- #11. The Love Parade -- #15. Woman in the Moon -- #23. Halleluja -- #28. Applause

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-- #1. Un Chien andalou (100% Rotten Tomatoes) -- #3. Pandora's Box (1929) <YouTube> -- #5. Rain -- #6. Diary of a Lost Girl (DEU 1929) <YouTube> -- #8. Queen Kelly

-- #20. Big Business -- #21. Piccadilly

Asphalt (DEU 1929 May) <YouTube> -- Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era.

#24. The River

#28. Applause

#41. Spite Marriage

45. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna

46. The Kiss -

-- #50+. Disraeli -- #50+. Broadway Melody (Beaumont) [Best Picture]

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High Treason (GBR 1929 Elvey) <YouTube> -- Women unite to prevent financiers from engineering a second world war.

[The] Iron Mask (1929) <YouTube> -- King Louis XIII of France is thrilled when his son is born--an heir to the throne. But his Queen has actually delivered twin boys. Many years later, the new king is kidnapped, replaced with his twin, and put in an iron mask so as not to be recognized.

Lady of the Pavements (USA 1929 Griffith) <YouTube> -- Karl, a German diplomat in Paris, discovers that his fiancee Diane has been cheating on him. He tells her that he would rather marry a "girl of the streets" than her.

[The] Last Performance (USA 1929 Fejos) <YouTube> -- A middle-aged magician is in love with his beautiful young assistant, who is in love with his young protege', who turns out to be a bum and a thief.

Lucky Star (USA 1929 Borzage) <YouTube> -- Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.

Redskin (USA 1929 Schertzinger) <YouTube> -- Wing Foot (Richard Dix), a Navajo, is educated in an otherwise all-white school. In the course of the story, he experiences prejudice from both the whites because of his race and the Navajos, who disown him because of his upbringing.

[The] Scar of Shame (USA 1929 Peregini) <YouTube> -- An educated, upscale young black musician marries a woman from a lower socioeconomic class to get her out of the clutches of her stepfather, who beats and abuses her.

[The] Shakedown (USA 1929 Wyler) <YouTube> -- Dave Roberts is a professional boxer better at losing in fixed matches than in knocking out his opponents. He turns up in towns and is part of a group who sets up corrupt boxing matches.

Why Be Good? (USA 1929 Seiter) <YouTube> -- A flapper with a dubious reputation enjoys a vivacious night of dancing and finds herself romantically linked to her boss.

Critical Reception

MUBI, Best Films (1929)

50 Top Films of 1929

-- #1. Un Chien andalou -- #2. The Man with a Movie Camera -- #3. Pandora's Box -- #4. The Skeleton Dance -- #5. Rain -- #6. Diary of a Lost Girl -- #7. Blackmail -- #8. Queen Kelly -- #9. Autumn Mists -- #10. The Pearl

-- #11. The Love Parade -- #12. Lucky Star -- #13. The Cocoanuts -- #14. Finis terrae -- #15. Woman in the Moon -- #16. The Mysteries of the Chateau of Dice -- #17. Old and New -- #18. H20 -- #19. A Cottage on Dartmoor -- #20. Big Business -- #21. Piccadilly -- #22. Asphalt -- #23. Halleluja -- #24. The River -- #25. The New Babylon -- #26. Tusalava -- #27. Black and Tan -- #28. Applause -- #29. Laila -- #30. The Haunted House

-- #30. Pecker Island -- #31. Montparnasse -- #32. Seduction -- #34. Everything Turns, Everything Revolves -- #35. Skyscraper Symphony -- #36. White Hell of Pitz Palu -- #37. The Manxman -- #38. Scenes of Ostend -- #39. I Graduated, But... -- #40. Hyas and Stenorhynchus -- #41. Spite Marriage -- #42. The Lighthouse Keepers -- #43. For Your Beutiful Eyes -- #44. Perfect Day -- #45. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna -- #46. The Kiss -- #47. My Grandmother -- #48. Thunderbolt -- #49. Everyday -- #50. Arabesque

-- #50+. Broadway Melody -- Bulldog Drummond -- The Cock-Eyed World -- Disraeli -- Gold Diggers of Broadway -- In Old Arizona -- The Last of Mrs. Cheyney -- The Letter -- Madame X -- Paris Bound -- Rio Rita -- Sunny Side Up -- The Valiant

The Film Daily, Best Films (1929)

-- #1. Disraeli -- #2. The Broadway Melody -- #3. Madame X -- #4. Rio Rita -- #5. Gold Diggers of Broadway -- #6. Bulldog Drummond -- #7. In Old Arizona -- #8. The Cock-Eyed World -- #9. The Last of Mrs. Cheyney -- #10. Hallelujah

-- #11. The Lady Lies -- #12. The Letter (1929) -- #13. The Virginian -- #14. They Had to See Paris -- #15. Gentlemen of the Press -- #16. The Cocoanuts -- #17. The Trial of Mary Dugan -- #18. Wings -- #19. Show Boat (1929) -- #20. Taming of the Shrew -- #21. Alibi -- #22. Welcome Danger -- #23. Desert Song -- #24. The Valiant -- #25. Dance of Life -- #26. Coquette -- #27. Sunny Side Up -- #28. Doctor's Secret -- #29. General Crack -- #30. Drag

-- #31. The Bridge of San Luis Rey -- #32. Thunderbolt -- #33. Flight -- #34. On With the Show -- #35. The Four Feathers -- #36. Paris Bound -- #37. Great Gabbo -- #38. Weary River -- #39. Sonny Boy -- #40. Condemned -- #41. The Iron Mask -- #42. Fox Movietone Follies of 1929 -- #43. Hearts in Dixie -- #44. Innocents of Paris -- #45. Young Nowheres -- #46. Charming Sinners -- #47. Wolf of Wall St. -- #48. Marianne -- #49. The Show of Shows -- #50. Three Live Ghosts

Silent Era, Best Films

-- #11. Pandora’s Box -- #30. Man With the Movie Camera -- #35. The Diary of a Lost Girl -- #94. Big Business -- #95. The Iron Mask

-- #116. Spite Marriage -- #125. Piccadilly -- #116. Liberty -- #116. Arsenal -- #116. Our Daily Bread -- #116. Asphalt -- #207. Rain -- #213. Seven Footprints to Satan -- #224. The River -- #248. The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna -- #249. The Kiss -- #264. Eternal Love -- #293. Wild Orchids -- #296. Erotikon

Paste Magazine, Top Films

-- #3. Un chien andalou (Bunuel) -- #19. H2O (Steiner) -- #22. Die wunderbare Lüge der Nina Petrowna (The Wonderful Lies of Nina Petrovna) (Schwartz) -- #26. The Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) -- #34. Rotaie (Rails) (Camerini) -- #37. Finis terrae (Epstein) -- #39. Big Business (Horne) -- #45. Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst) -- #58. Die Büchse der Pandora (Pandora’s Box) (Pabst) -- #61. Blackmail (Hitchcock) -- #77. A Cottage on Dartmoor (Asquith) -- #80. Jenseits der Straße (Harbor Drift a.k.a. Beyond the Streets) (Mittler) -- #83. Dans La Nuit (In the Night) (Vanel)

Silent Films Ranked, Best Films

-- #6. Man with a Movie Camera (Vertov) -- #24. Un Chien Andalou (Bunuel) -- #35. Diary of a Lost Girl (Pabst) -- #80. Finis terrae (Epstein) -- #85. Queen Kelly (Stroheim)