1926

Film Decades: 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929

Each review will be linked to the title below.

(*seen originally in theaters)

(**seen rereleased in theaters)

  • 3 Bad Men – directed by John Ford
  • The Adventures of Prince Achmed, directed by Lotte Reiniger – (Germany)
  • Aloma of the South Seas, directed by Maurice Tourneur, starring Gilda Gray & William Powell
  • Bardelys the Magnificent – directed by King Vidor, starring John Gilbert and Eleanor Boardman
  • The Bat, directed by Roland West
  • Battling Butler, directed by and starring Buster Keaton
  • Be Your Age – directed by Leo McCarey (uncredited), starring Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy – short
  • Beau Geste, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Ronald Colman and Alice Joyce
  • The Bells, directed by James Young, starring Lionel Barrymore and Boris Karloff
  • Beverly of Graustark, directed by Sidney Franklin, starring Marion Davies and Antonio Moreno
  • The Black Pirate, directed by Albert Parker, starring Douglas Fairbanks and Billie Dove
  • La Bohème – directed by King Vidor, starring Lillian Gish, John Gilbert and Renée Adorée
  • Bromo and Juliet – directed by Leo McCarey, starring Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy – short
  • Brown of Harvard directed by Jack Conway, starring William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian
  • Brudeferden i Hardanger (The bridal procession in Hardanger) – (Norway)
  • Cab No. 13, (Einspanner Nr 13) – directed by Michael Curtiz – (Germany)
  • Cruise of the Jasper B, starring Rod La Rocque, Mildred Harris and Snitz Edwards
  • Dangerous Traffic, directed by Bennett Cohen, starring Ralph Bushman, Mildred Harris and Jack Perrin
  • The Devil’s Circus, starring Norma Shearer
  • The Devil’s Wheel, (Chyortovo koleso) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Don Juan, directed by Alan Crosland, starring John Barrymore
  • Falešná kočička aneb Když si žena umíní (Fake Woman or When He is a She) – (Czechoslovakia)
  • Faust – directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Gösta Ekman and Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Flesh and the Devil, directed by Clarence Brown, starring John Gilbert and Greta Garbo
  • Fool’s Luck, directed by Fatty Arbukle, starring Lupino Lane and George Davis
  • For Heaven’s Sake, directed by Sam Taylor, starring Harold Lloyd and Jobyna Ralston
  • The General, starring Buster Keaton
  • The Golden Butterfly (Der goldene Schmetterling) – directed by Michael Curtiz, starring Lili Damita and Nils Asther – (Germany)
  • The Great Gatsby, directed by Herbert Brenon, starring Warner Baxter and Lois Wilson
  • The Great K & A Train Robbery, starring Tom Mix
  • Hands Up!
  • The Holy Mountain (Der heilige Berg), starring Leni Riefenstahl – (Germany)
  • In the Way of Zorro
  • Irene, starring Colleen Moore. In color sequence by Technicolor.
  • It Must Be Love, starring Colleen Moore.
  • The Johnstown Flood, starring George O’Brien and Janet Gaynor
  • Kid Boots, starring Eddie Cantor and Clara Bow
  • The Last Days of Pompeii (Gli ultimi giorni di Pompei) – (Italy)
  • Loetoeng Kasaroeng, directed by L. Heuveldorp, starring Martoana – (Dutch East Indies)
  • Love’s Berries (Yagodka lyubvi) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Madame Mystery, directed by Richard Wallace and Stan Laurel, starring Theda Bara
  • The Magician, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Alice Terry
  • Manon Lescaut, UFA production; directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti – (Germany)
  • Mare Nostrum, directed by Rex Ingram, starring Antonio Moreno and Alice Terry
  • Ménilmontant, directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff, starring Nadia Sibirskaïa – (France)
  • Michel Strogoff, directed by Viktor Tourjansky, starring Ivan Mozzhukhin and Nathalie Kovanko – (France)
  • Miss Mend, directed by Fyodor Otsep, starring Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Mother, directed by Vsevolod Pudovkin – (U.S.S.R.)
  • My Stars, directed by Fatty Arbuckle
  • Nana directed by Jean Renoir – (France)
  • Nell Gwyn, directed by Herbert Wilcox; starring Dorothy Gish, Randle Ayrton – (GB)
  • Nelson, starring Cedric Hardwicke – (GB)
  • The Non-Stop Flight, directed by Emory Johnson, starring Knute Erickson
  • Old Ironsides, directed by James Cruze; starring Esther Ralston
  • The Overcoat (Shinel) – (U.S.S.R.)
  • A Page of Madness (Kurutta Ippēji) – (Japan)
  • Rien que les heures (Nothing but Time), directed by Alberto Cavalcanti – (France)
  • The Scarlet Letter, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
  • The Sea Beast, starring John Barrymore, Dolores Costello and George O’Hara
  • Secrets of a Soul, directed by G. W. Pabst – (Germany)
  • The Show-Off, directed by Mal St. Clair; starring Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson and Louise Brooks
  • The Son of the Sheik, starring Rudolph Valentino and Vilma Bánky
  • So’s Your Old Man, starring W. C. Fields
  • The Sorrows of Satan, starring Adolphe Menjou
  • Sparrows, directed by William Beaudine, starring Mary Pickford
  • The Strong Man, starring Harry Langdon
  • The Student of Prague, starring Conrad Veidt, Werner Krauss, Agnes Esterhazy and Fritz Alberti – (Germany)
  • Tartuffe – directed by F. W. Murnau, starring Emil Jannings – (Germany)
  • Tell It to the Marines (film), directed by George W. Hill, starring William Haines and Lon Chaney
  • The Temptress, starring Greta Garbo and Antonio Moreno
  • The Three Million Trial – (U.S.S.R.)
  • Torrent, starring Ricardo Cortez and Greta Garbo
  • Tramp, Tramp, Tramp, starring Harry Langdon and Joan Crawford
  • A Trip to Chinatown, starring Margaret Livingston and Earle Foxe
  • The Triumph of the Rat, directed by Graham Cutts, starring Ivor Novello and Isabel Jeans – (GB)
  • The Volga Boatman – directed by Cecil B. DeMille; starring William Boyd
  • What Price Glory? – starring Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen and Dolores del Río
  • The Winning of Barbara Worth – starring Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky and Gary Cooper
  • A Woman of the Sea, directed by Josef von Sternberg; starring Edna Purviance (unreleased)