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Classic Cinema

Animal Crackers (1930)

7.7/10
Director: Victor Heerman
Starring: The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont, Lillian Roth

The Marx Brothers' second film finds them still struggling to get a footing in their new medium. With blocking that exposes its stage origins, Animal... Read more

Un Chien Andalou / Land Without Bread ( Las Hurdes ) (1929)

Director: Luis Bunuel

Luis Bunuel's first film, the surrealistic masterpiece "Un Chien Andalou" ("An Andalusian Dog"), was based after an exchange of dreams with co-writer... Read more

The Cocoanuts (1929)

7.2/10
Director: Joseph Stanley, Robert Florey
Starring: Kay Francis, Margaret Dumont, Oscar Shaw, The Marx Brothers, Mary Eaton

In the Marx Brothers' first feature film, Groucho portrays a hotel owner who tries to fleece everyone, from innocent bellboys and bellgirls to wealthy... Read more

Laurel & Hardy Collection: Volume 2 (Special Edition) (1929)

Starring: Oliver Hardy, Stan Laurel

Stan and Ollie in a collection of their classic shorts spread over 4 discs. 'Double Whoopee' (1929); 'Liberty' (1929); 'Towed in a Hole' (1932); 'Ango... Read more

Frau Im Mond ( Woman in the Moon ) (1929)

7.4/10
Director: Fritz Lang

Director Fritz Lang's final silent epic. A rocket on its way to explore the moon is commandeered by a group of spies intent on plundering the moon's n... Read more

Asphalt (1929)

7.6/10
Director: Joe May
Starring: Betty Amann, Gustav Frohlich, Else Heller

One of the last great German Expressionist films of the silent era from acclaimed director Joe May. A by-the-book traffic cop (Gustav Frohlich) catche... Read more

Queen Kelly (1929)

7.8/10
Director: Erich Von Stroheim
Starring: Gloria Swanson, Seena Owen, Walter Byron

A convent girl is swept off her feet by a roguish prince and sent to live in East Africa where her aunt runs a brothel, in this fascinating extravagan... Read more

Blackmail (1929)

7/10
Director: Alfred Hitchcock
Starring: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, John Longden

Hitchcock's first sound picture, 'Blackmail' is the story of a young girl who stabs an artist to death in defense of her honour. Her boyfriend, a Scot... Read more

Pandora's Box (1929)

8/10
Director: G W Pabst
Starring: Franz Lederer, Fritz Kortner, Louise Brooks

A silent German masterpiece based on Wedekind's play, with an unforgettable Louise Brooks in her unforgettable haircut as Lulu, the innocent vamp whos... Read more

The Circus (Blu-ray) (1928)

8.2/10
Director: Charlie Chaplin
Starring: Charlie Chaplin, Merna Kennedy, Allan Garcia, Henry Bergman

When we first meet Chaplin's Tramp in this comic gem, he's in typical straits: broke, hungry, destined to fall in love and just as sure to lose the gi... Read more