The best movies 1926

An unrealeased comedy made in 1926 about a Bowery bum.

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnnie Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard...

Ralph attempts to elope with Thelma against her parents' wishes. Ralph disguises as a teacher to take her off to a boarding school and there is a new...

A hard-working new employee at a trading company is promoted through the company president's business. However, he quarrels with his wife over...

10-episode American silent Western film serial chronicling the legendary exploits of frontier scout and showman William F. Cody. Episodes: 1....

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent...

Martin, the heroine's father is falsely believed to be in league with fur thieves, but the real villain, not content with robbing the old man of his...

Ralph Graves plays a cabaret singer who is mistaken for a duke while courting society girl Ruth Taylor.

A vamp is hired to destroy an impending wedding.

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life....

As a reporter, Dick Farrington is sent to cover an assignment that promises a big story. A lawyer has advertised for an ex-Marine who is a boxer. He...

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

A wife borrows a necklace for a party, and it is subsequently stolen. Her husband embezzles funds to pay for the loss, but he is discovered and...

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...

Heinrich Zentler is a successful man, both on football and in his legal career.

"Mismates" is the story of a wealthy youth who, against his mother's wishes, marries a poor girl and is disowned. At first determined to support...

In the mountains, Diotima meets Karl and fall in love and have an affair. Karl's friend Vigo mistakenly believes she's in love with him, causing...

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

If watching a fellow facing indifference/rejection in the slums of Berlin didn't convey enough pathos, Gerhard Lamprecht gathered much of the same...

In the South Seas, Samoan village life is portrayed with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized 'Gauguin idyll', the film...

Cowboy Jack Carter, the proud owner of the Australian shepherd Bunk, accepts the challenge of corralling 10,000 wild horses within a 10-day period....

"How to Stay Young and Beautiful - Marital Secrets" is a German silent film from 1926, directed by Wolfgang Neff. The film, starring Hanni Weisse,...

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José...

In the celebrations of the recruits, Don Esteban rejects José Luis, the boyfriend of his daughter Luz María, who promises to kidnap her.

Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to...

All men who fall in love with Marichu die violently.

A young woman abandoned by her lover sells her body to his mentor, a renowned sculptor.

A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

A priest hears in an act of confession protected by ecclesiastical secrecy the author of the crime of a powerful rancher that the townspeople...

Malvaloca is a rather foolish and beautiful girl living with her careless parents. After being abandoned by a man she has a daughter. Later she meets...

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

Two navy ensigns, Manuel d'Astures and the Viscount of Brazza, nicknamed Boy, return to Spain after a long mission at sea. The latter is surprised to...

Made with Technicolor technique, this documentary presents to the world for the first time the terrible cycle of this endemic evil.

A 1926 documentary short film.

Adolfo, a railroad engineer, is sent to a provincial station to investigate a series of thefts from trains. The investigation uncovers the existence...

Film based on the sonnet by the same name, written by Evaristo Carriego.

The children of a large landowner study in the city. The young girl travels on vacation to the countryside and there she falls in love with the...