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Decade: 1920sAzzera i filtri
An empty film-set chair under a spotlight casts an imperial figure's shadow.
The Last Command
1928 · Josef von Sternberg88 min · Drama
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A former Russian general, now an impoverished Hollywood extra, is cast by a director who recognises him from the revolution that destroyed his old life.

CupoBelloMediamente impegnativo
A girl's hands protect a lit match whose warm glow opens into translucent fantasy shapes.
The Little Match Girl
1928 · Jean Renoir, Jean Tedesco32 min · Fantasy drama
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A poor girl selling matches on a winter street escapes hunger and cold through visions that grow increasingly elaborate.

CupoBelloMediamente impegnativo
A close-up drawing of a grinning man resting his cheek on his hand, with tents behind him.
The Man Who Laughs
1928 · Paul Leni110 min · Romance
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A performer whose face was surgically fixed into a grin is pulled between love, spectacle, and aristocratic power.

RomanticoCupoMediamente impegnativo
The Passion of Joan of Arc — A white flower and severe architectural shadows form a stark woodcut.
The Passion of Joan of Arc
1928 · Carl Theodor Dreyer81 min · Drama
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A face, a trial, and nowhere for the truth to hide.

CupoBelloRichiede pazienza
A bride's long pale train crosses rows of dark-clothed figures viewed from above.
The Wedding March
1928 · Erich von Stroheim113 min · Romantic drama
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An impoverished Viennese prince falls for a working-class woman while family debt and social expectation prepare marriages for both of them.

RomanticoCupoMediamente impegnativo
Original illustration for The Wind: A lonely timber house at lower right almost swallowed by long sweeping engraved arcs of sand and wind; one small amber-lit window.
The Wind
1928 · Victor Sjöström95 min · Romance
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A young woman arrives on an isolated Texas plain where relentless wind turns social danger into psychological siege.

TesoCupoMediamente impegnativo
The title Under the Tonto Rim follows a stepped contour above a muted turquoise terrain print.
Under the Tonto Rim
1928 · Herman C. RaymakerWestern
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A silent adaptation of Zane Grey’s novel directed by Herman C. Raymaker, listed as lost in the Library of Congress’s February 2021 inventory. Later versions appeared in 1933 and 1947.

TesoRomantico
A woman at a dressing-room mirror looks toward a distant stage curtain.
Applause
1929 · Rouben Mamoulian82 min · Musical drama
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An ageing burlesque performer tries to keep her convent-raised daughter away from the backstage life that has consumed her.

CupoBelloPoco impegnativo
Original illustration: Big Business lettering above a paper Christmas tree, a doorstep and a vintage car, with Momo holding an evergreen branch.
Big Business
1929 · James W. Horne, Leo McCarey19 min · Comedy
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Two Christmas-tree salesmen and one resistant customer escalate a failed doorstep sale into the systematic destruction of property.

DivertenteTesoPoco impegnativo
Original illustration: A cut-paper piano keyboard becomes a staircase beside a trumpet, dancing shoes and large Black and Tan lettering.
Black and Tan
1929 · Dudley Murphy19 min · Musical drama
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A struggling pianist and his dancer partner face poverty, illness, and the cost of accepting work that could separate them.

BelloCupoPoco impegnativo
Original illustration: Enormous black Blackmail lettering on cream paper above an easel and a long red shadow.
Blackmail
1929 · Alfred Hitchcock85 min · Crime
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After killing a man during an assault, a young woman finds guilt, police procedure, and blackmail closing around her.

TesoMisteriosoPoco impegnativo
Two eighteenth-century sleeves and hands pass a sealed note around lively Figaro lettering.
Figaro
1929 · Gaston RavelHistorical comedy
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Beaumarchais’s Figaro moves through a late-silent adaptation drawing on The Marriage of Figaro and material from the surrounding plays.

DivertenteRomanticoMediamente impegnativo
A man's profile is assembled from torn blue, rust-coloured and monochrome paper strips, with buildings below.
Fragment of an Empire
1929 · Fridrikh Ermler110 min · Political drama
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A soldier with amnesia gradually recovers memories and returns to a society transformed by revolution.

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Two pairs of hands hold wooden pieces together on a sunlit workbench.
Lucky Star
1929 · Frank Borzage85 min · Romantic drama
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A poor young woman forms a bond with a disabled war veteran whose isolated farm offers both refuge and a test of independence.

RomanticoDelicatoPoco impegnativo
Man with a Movie Camera — Momo operates a movie camera amid constructivist paper shapes, film strips and city trams.
Man with a Movie Camera
1929 · Dziga Vertov67 min · Documentary
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A city wakes, works, plays, and becomes cinema while the camera reveals its own tricks.

BelloDivertenteMediamente impegnativo
Pandora's Box — A glove and camellia rest beside an enigmatic dressing-room mirror.
Pandora's Box
1929 · G. W. Pabst132 min · Drama
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Lulu moves through desire, scandal, and social punishment with a presence the film cannot contain.

RomanticoCupoMediamente impegnativo
Momo leans against a large car wheel beneath cream title lettering on sky blue.
Perfect Day
1929 · James Parrott19 min · Slapstick comedy
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A family outing repeatedly fails to begin as a car, neighbours, weather, and irritation dismantle the promise of a perfect day.

DivertenteDelicatoPoco impegnativo
A working woman's bowed profile sits beneath an immense layered bundle of bureaucratic papers.
The Case of Lena Smith
1929 · Josef von SternbergDrama
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A Hungarian servant’s attempt to retain her child is crushed by class power, bureaucracy, and the authority of a wealthy family.

A heavy chain with an open link lies across rough stone and dark green velvet.
The Count of Monte Cristo
1929 · Henri Fescourt223 min · Adventure drama
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Edmond Dantès’s imprisonment, escape, reinvention, and revenge unfold across an unusually expansive silent adaptation of Dumas.

TesoRomanticoRichiede pazienza
Four white feathers lie on a pale envelope above a folded dark coat.
The Four Feathers
1929 · Merian C. Cooper, Lothar Mendes, Ernest B. Schoedsack80 min · Adventure drama
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A British officer who resigns before a military campaign receives four white feathers and travels to Sudan to prove his courage in disguise.

TesoBelloMediamente impegnativo
Dark purple title lettering fans out between white rays on a peach background.
The Hollywood Revue of 1929
1929 · Charles Reisner113 min · Musical revue
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MGM stars appear in a succession of songs, comedy sketches, dances, and novelty acts designed to display the studio’s arrival in sound.

DivertenteBelloMediamente impegnativo
Dark ink spreads across the creases and handwriting of a folded letter.
The Letter
1929 · Jean de Limur62 min · Drama
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A woman who killed her lover claims self-defence, until a letter threatens the account on which her marriage and trial depend.

TesoCupoPoco impegnativo
Three figures stand apart at a pale seawall, looking in different directions.
The Manxman
1929 · Alfred Hitchcock100 min · Romantic drama
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Two lifelong friends love the same woman on the Isle of Man, and a promise made before one man leaves creates a private tragedy on his return.

RomanticoCupoPoco impegnativo
Two hands wrap around a cold hand in a close view.
The River
1929 · Frank Borzage55 min · Romantic drama
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A young man tending an isolated river property meets a woman bound to an absent lover, and winter turns their encounter into dependence.

RomanticoCupoRichiede pazienza
Black silhouettes of a woman and a man stand with folded arms against coral pink.
The Taming of the Shrew
1929 · Sam Taylor, H. Bruce Humberstone63 min · Romantic comedy
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Petruchio courts Katherina through a contest of authority, performance, and humiliation in an early sound Shakespeare adaptation.

DivertenteTesoPoco impegnativo
Un Chien Andalou: Paper ants fall from a glove above a bicycle wheel, moon and surreal stairways.
Un Chien Andalou
1929 · Luis Buñuel16 min · Experimental
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Sixteen minutes of dream logic sever cause from effect and make familiar objects suddenly unsafe.

InsolitoCupoRichiede pazienza
Two cropped women's profiles face each other across a wide pale gap.
Woman to Woman
1929 · Victor Saville90 min · Drama
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An English soldier loses his memory of Lola, the dancer he loved in Paris. Their later reunion brings his wartime promise into conflict with his marriage.

RomanticoCupoMediamente impegnativo

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