1928

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)

• Accident (Polizeibericht Überfall) – (Germany)
• Across to Singapore, starring Ramón Novarro and Joan Crawford
• The Actress directed by Sidney Franklin; starring Norma Shearer
• Adam’s Apple, starring Monty Banks – (GB)
• Alraune, starring Brigitte Helm and Paul Wegener – (Germany)
• L’Argent (Money), starring Pierre Alcover and Brigitte Helm – (France)
• The Awakening – directed by Victor Fleming, starring Vilma Bánky and Louis Wolheim
• Balaclava, starring Cyril McLaglen, Benita Hume – (GB)
• Beau Sabreur -,directed by John Waters, starring Gary Cooper and Evelyn Brent
• Beggars of Life, directed by William Wellman, starring Wallace Beery and Louise Brooks
• The Big City, starring Lon Chaney, Sr.
• The Burning of the Red Lotus Temple (Huo shao hong lian si) – (China) – Released in 18 parts as the film runs for a total of 27 hours
• The Cameraman, a Buster Keaton film
• The Cardboard Lover, directed by Robert Z. Leonard; starring Marion Davies, Nils Asther, and Jetta Goudal
• Champagne – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• The Circus – starring, directed and written by Charlie Chaplin
• The Constant Nymph, starring Ivor Novello – (GB)
• The Cossacks starring John Gilbert, Renée Adorée and Ernest Torrence
• The Crowd – directed by King Vidor
• Dawn, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Sybil Thorndike – (Britain)
• The Devious Path (Abwege), directed by G.W. Pabst – (Germany)
• The Divine Woman, starring Greta Garbo
• The Docks of New York, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft, Betty Compson and Olga Baclanova
• Easy Virtue – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• The Fall of the House of Usher, directed by James Sibley Watson
• The Fall of the House of Usher (La Chute de la maison Usher) – (France)
• The Farmer’s Wife – directed by Alfred Hitchcock – (GB)
• Feel My Pulse, starring Bebe Daniels, Richard Arlen and William Powell
• The Finishing Touch – directed by Clyde Bruckman & Leo McCarey, starring Laurel & Hardy – short
• The First Born, starring Miles Mander, Madeleine Carroll – (GB)
• Four Sons – directed by John Ford
• From Soup to Nuts – directed by Edgar Kennedy & Leo McCarey (supervising) – starring Laurel & Hardy – short
• The Gallant Hussar, directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Ivor Novello, Evelyn Holt (Britain/Germany)
• Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, starring Ruth Taylor and Alice White, subtitles written by Anita Loos
• A Girl in Every Port – directed by Howard Hawks, starring Victor McLaglen, Robert Armstrong, Louise Brooks
• The Godless Girl – directed by Cecil B. DeMille
• The Guns of Loos, directed by Sinclair Hill, starring Madeleine Carroll (Britain)
• Hangman’s House – directed by John Ford, starring Victor McLaglen and June Collyer
• His House in Order, starring Tallulah Bankhead (Britain)
• Homecoming (Heimkehr) – (Germany)
• The House on Trubnaya (Дом на Трубной), directed by Boris Barnet – (U.S.S.R.)
• Hungarian Rhapsody, directed by Hanns Schwarz, starring Lil Dagover, Willy Fritsch, Dita Parlo (Germany)
• Interference, Paramount’s first ever all talking movie
• The Italian Straw Hat (Un chapeau de paille d’Italie), directed by René Clair – (France)
• Jujiro – (Japan)
• Kurama Tengu – (Japan)
• Ladies of the Mob, starring Clara Bow, Richard Arlen and Helen Lynch
• The Last Command, directed by Joseph von Sternberg, starring Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent and William Powell
• Laugh, Clown, Laugh, starring Lon Chaney and Loretta Young
• Lights of New York
• A Little Bit of Fluff, starring Sydney Chaplin and Betty Balfour – (GB)
• Lonesome, directed by Paul Fejos – (a silent and a sound version)
• The Man Who Laughs, directed by Paul Leni, starring Conrad Veidt and Mary Philbin
• Maria Marten, starring Trilby Clark and Warwick Ward (Britain)
• The Matinee Idol – directed by Frank Capra, starring Bessie Love and Johnnie Walker.
• The Midnight Taxi
• Mother Machree – directed by John Ford
• Moulin Rouge directed by Ewald André Dupont – (GB)
• The Mysterious Lady, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel
• Noah’s Ark, starring George O’Brien
• The Noose, starring Richard Barthelmess
• Number 17, directed by Géza von Bolváry, starring Guy Newall and Lien Deyers – (GB/Germany)
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World (Oktyabr’: Desyat’ dney kotorye potryasli mir) – directed by Sergei Eisenstein – (U.S.S.R.)
• On Trial, sound film, starring Pauline Frederick and Bert Lytell
• Our Dancing Daughters, starring Joan Crawford and Johnny Mack Brown
• The Passion of Joan of Arc (La Passion de Jeanne d’Arc), directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, starring Maria Falconetti – (France)
• The Patsy – directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies and Marie Dressler
• Piccadilly, starring Anna May Wong, Gilda Gray and Cyril Ritchard (Britain)
• The Power of the Press – directed by Frank Capra, starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
• The Racket, directed by Lewis Milestone, starring Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, and Louis Wolheim.
• Ramona, starring Dolores del Río and Warner Baxter
• The Red Dance, directed by Raoul Walsh, starring Dolores del Río and Charles Farrell
• Red Hair, starring Clara Bow
• The Ringer directed by Arthur Maude – (Britain)
• The Road to Ruin
• Rose-Marie, starring James Murray and Joan Crawford
• Sadie Thompson, starring Gloria Swanson and Lionel Barrymore
• The Seashell and the Clergyman (La Coquille et le clergyman) – (France)
• Sex in Chains (Geschlecht in Fesseln), starring and directed by William Dieterle – (Germany)
• Show People – directed by King Vidor, starring Marion Davies and William Haines
• The Singing Fool, starring Al Jolson and Betty Bronson
• Sins of the Fathers starring Emil Jannings and Ruth Chatterton
• Skyscraper – directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring William Boyd, Alan Hale, Sue Carol and Alberta Vaughn
• The Smart Set, starring William Haines, Jack Holt, and Alice Day
• A South Sea Bubble, starring Ivor Novello, Benita Hume (Britain)
• Speedy, starring Harold Lloyd
• Spione (Spies), directed by Fritz Lang – (Germany)
• Steamboat Bill, Jr., a Buster Keaton film
• Steamboat Willie, a Walt Disney Mickey Mouse short
• Storm Over Asia (Potomok Chingis-Khana), starring Valéry Inkijinoff – (U.S.S.R.)
• Street Angel, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Sweeney Todd, starring Moore Marriott – (GB)
• Take Me Home, a lost film directed by Marshall Neilan, starring Bebe Daniels
• Tempest, starring John Barrymore, Camilla Horn and George Fawcett
• The Terror, starring May McAvoy, Edward Everett Horton, and Louise Fazenda
• Tesha, directed by Victor Saville, starring María Corda, Jameson Thomas – (GB)
• Thérèse Raquin, directed by Jacques Feyder – (France)
• Three Sinners starring Pola Negri, Warner Baxter and Olga Baclanova
• Tillie’s Punctured Romance, starring W. C. Fields, Louise Fazenda and Chester Conklin
• Tommy Atkins, starring Lillian Hall-Davis (Britain)
• Toni starring Jack Buchanan – (GB)
• The Trail of ’98, starring Dolores del Río
• The Triumph of the Scarlet Pimpernel, starring Matheson Lang (Britain)
• Two Tars, starring Laurel and Hardy
• Underground, directed by Anthony Asquith – (GB)
• The Viking – the first feature-length Technicolor film
• Vormittagsspuk (Ghosts Before Breakfast), a dadaist animated short – (Germany)
• The Vortex, starring Ivor Novello – (GB)
• We Faw Down, starring Laurel and Hardy
• The Wedding March, directed by and starring Erich von Stroheim with Fay Wray and ZaSu Pitts
• West of Zanzibar, starring Lon Chaney and Lionel Barrymore
• West Point, starring William Haines and Joan Crawford
• What a Night!, directed by A. Edward Sutherland; starring Bebe Daniels
• While the City Sleeps, directed by Jack Conway; starring Lon Chaney
• White Shadows in the South Seas, starring Monte Blue and Raquel Torres
• The Wind, directed by Victor Sjostrom, starring Lillian Gish and Lars Hanson
• A Woman of Affairs, starring Greta Garbo and John Gilbert
• Zvenigora, directed by Alexander Dovzhenko – (U.S.S.R.)