The Best of 1927
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1. Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 153 min | Drama, Sci-Fi
In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city's mastermind falls in love with a working-class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Alfred Abel, Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Klein-Rogge
Votes: 185,486 | Gross: $1.24M
2. Sunrise (1927)
Passed | 94 min | Drama, Romance
A sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Votes: 53,838 | Gross: $0.54M
3. Napoleon (1927)
330 min | Biography, Drama, History
A film about the French general's youth and early military career.
Director: Abel Gance | Stars: Albert Dieudonné, Vladimir Roudenko, Edmond Van Daële, Alexandre Koubitzky
Votes: 8,794
4. October (Ten Days that Shook the World) (1927)
95 min | Drama, History
A large-scale view on the events of 1917 in Russia, when the monarchy was overthrown.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Boris Livanov, Nikolay Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko
Votes: 8,446
5. 7th Heaven (1927)
110 min | Drama, Romance
A street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Ben Bard, Albert Gran
Votes: 4,161 | Gross: $3.92M
6. The Unknown (1927)
Unrated | 68 min | Drama, Horror, Romance
A criminal on the run hides in a circus and seeks to possess the daughter of the ringmaster at any cost.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Norman Kerry, Joan Crawford, Nick De Ruiz
Votes: 9,153 | Gross: $0.41M
7. The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog (1927)
Not Rated | 92 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
A landlady suspects that her new lodger is the madman killing women in London.
Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: June Tripp, Ivor Novello, Marie Ault, Arthur Chesney
Votes: 13,384
8. The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927)
Passed | 106 min | Drama, Romance
A cloistered, overprotected Austrian prince falls in love with a down-to-earth barmaid in this "Viennese fairy tale."
Directors: Ernst Lubitsch, John M. Stahl | Stars: Ramon Novarro, Norma Shearer, Jean Hersholt, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 1,667
9. My Best Girl (1927)
Passed | 80 min | Comedy, Romance
A department store's stock girl falls in love with a co-worker, the son of the store's manager; the feeling is mutual though he is engaged to a debutante and focusing on becoming successful without the influence of his father.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Sunshine Hart, Lucien Littlefield
Votes: 946 | Gross: $2.24M
10. Konets Sankt-Peterburga (1927)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama
A peasant comes to St. Petersburg to find work. He unwittingly helps in the arrest of an old friend who is now a labor leader. The unemployed man is arrested and sent to fight in World War I. After three years, he returns to rebel.
Directors: Vsevolod Pudovkin, Mikhail Doller | Stars: Aleksandr Chistyakov, Vera Baranovskaya, Ivan Chuvelyov, Vladimir Obolensky
Votes: 1,858
11. The Love of Jeanne Ney (1927)
Not Rated | 86 min | Drama, Romance
In the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Édith Jéhanne, Uno Henning, Fritz Rasp, Brigitte Helm
Votes: 873
12. The Kid Brother (1927)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A sheriff's milquetoast son has a chance to prove himself when a medicine show run by con artists comes into town.
Directors: Ted Wilde, Harold Lloyd, Lewis Milestone, J.A. Howe | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Walter James, Leo Willis
Votes: 4,818 | Gross: $1.55M
13. College (1927)
Not Rated | 66 min | Comedy, Drama, Sport
Ronald's high-school valedictory address praises books and condemns sports. His girlfriend Mary condemns his attitude. Fearing to lose her to rival Jeff, he decides to go to college and pay more attentions to sports.
Directors: James W. Horne, Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Anne Cornwall, Flora Bramley, Harold Goodwin
Votes: 5,473
14. The King of Kings (1927)
Not Rated | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Family
Jesus Christ faces religious and political oppression during his ministry and in the days before his death and resurrection.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: H.B. Warner, Dorothy Cumming, Ernest Torrence, Joseph Schildkraut
Votes: 2,412 | Gross: $1.77M
15. Six et demi onze (1927)
84 min | Drama
A renowned doctor and his brother live and work together until the brother falls in love with Marie, a singer, and gives up medicine to be with her. After a time however, she misses her old... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Edmond Van Daële, Suzy Pierson, Nino Constantini, René Ferté
Votes: 140
16. Underworld (1927)
Not Rated | 80 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
Boisterous gangster kingpin Bull Weed rehabilitates his former lawyer from his alcoholic haze, but complications arise when he falls for Weed's girlfriend.
Directors: Josef von Sternberg, Arthur Rosson | Stars: George Bancroft, Clive Brook, Evelyn Brent, Fred Kohler
Votes: 3,477 | Gross: $1.64M
17. The Show (1927)
Passed | 76 min | Crime, Drama
Performers in a Budapest sideshow encounter love, greed, and murder.
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, Lionel Barrymore, Edward Connelly
Votes: 701 | Gross: $0.40M
18. La glace à trois faces (1927)
45 min | Drama, Romance
Psychological narrative avantgarde film about a wealthy young businessman who consecutively falls in love with a classy English woman (Pearl), a Russian sculptress (Athalia), and a naive ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Epstein | Stars: Jeanne Helbling, Suzy Pierson, Olga Day, Raymond Guérin-Catelain
Votes: 965
19. The Jazz Singer (1927)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Music, Musical
The son of a Jewish Cantor must defy the traditions of his religious father in order to pursue his dream of becoming a jazz singer.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 11,068 | Gross: $7.63M
20. It (1927)
Passed | 72 min | Comedy, Romance
A salesgirl pursues a handsome playboy.
Directors: Clarence G. Badger, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Antonio Moreno, William Austin, Priscilla Bonner
Votes: 3,570 | Gross: $0.41M
21. Berlin: Symphony of Metropolis (1927)
Not Rated | 65 min | Documentary
This movie shows us one day in Berlin, the rhythm of that time, starting at the earliest morning and ends in the deepest night.
Director: Walter Ruttmann | Star: Paul von Hindenburg
Votes: 4,793
22. The Gaucho (1927)
Approved | 115 min | Adventure, Romance
A girl is saved by a miracle after she falls from a cliff in the Argentine Andes, and is blessed with healing powers. A shrine is built on the site, and a whole city grows around it, rich ... See full summary »
Director: F. Richard Jones | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Lupe Velez, Joan Barclay, Eve Southern
Votes: 366
23. Chicago (1927)
Passed | 105 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
A wild jazz-loving and boozing wife Roxie Hart, kills her boyfriend in cold blood after he leaves her.
Director: Frank Urson | Stars: Phyllis Haver, Victor Varconi, Virginia Bradford, Robert Edeson
Votes: 545 | Gross: $1.05M
24. Upstream (1927)
60 min | Comedy, Drama
Among the residents of a theatrical boarding-house is the last member of a once-great acting family, down on his luck. When an offer to star in a London "Hamlet" comes, he takes lessons ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: Earle Foxe, Nancy Nash, Grant Withers, Lydia Yeamans Titus
Votes: 353
25. Bed and Sofa (1927)
86 min | Comedy, Drama
A married couple have a small apartment in Moscow. When an old friend of the husband's arrives in the city, he is unable to find lodgings. Kolia, the husband, invites his friend to move in with them.
Director: Abram Room | Stars: Vladimir Fogel, Nikolay Batalov, Lyudmila Semyonova, Leonid Yurenev
Votes: 1,334
26. Running Wild (I) (1927)
68 min | Comedy
Cowardly Elmer Finch is browbeaten by his wife, daughter, fat son and the family dog. After hypnosis he is domineering. He enters a contract with a fifteen-thousand dollar payoff, so his courage can last beyond the hypnosis.
Director: Gregory La Cava | Stars: W.C. Fields, Marie Shotwell, Mary Brian, Claude Buchanan
Votes: 259
27. Barbed Wire (1927)
Passed | 79 min | Drama, Romance, War
During WWI, a French farm girl and a German P.O.W. fall in love.
Directors: Rowland V. Lee, Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Pola Negri, Clive Brook, Claude Gillingwater, Einar Hanson
Votes: 242
28. Mockery (1927)
75 min | Drama, Romance
During the Russian Revolution, a mentally challenged peasant saves then obsesses over a beautiful countess.
Director: Benjamin Christensen | Stars: Lon Chaney, Ricardo Cortez, Barbara Bedford, Mack Swain
Votes: 541 | Gross: $0.45M
29. Casanova (1927)
132 min | Biography, Drama
A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo
Votes: 256
30. Two Arabian Knights (1927)
TV-G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Two American soldiers are captured by the Germans on the Western Front during World War One and escape a POW camp only to stumble into further life-threatening adventures when they come across an Arabian king's daughter while on the lam.
Director: Lewis Milestone | Stars: William Boyd, Mary Astor, Louis Wolheim, Ian Keith
Votes: 1,143 | Gross: $0.51M
31. The Red Mill (1927)
Passed | 74 min | Comedy, Romance
A tavern worker and the daughter of a burgomaster enter into elaborate masquerades in order to win the hearts of the men they love.
Director: Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle | Stars: Marion Davies, Owen Moore, Louise Fazenda, George Siegmann
Votes: 1,514
32. Wings (1927)
PG-13 | 144 min | Drama, Romance, War
Two young men, one rich, one middle class, who are in love with the same woman, become fighter pilots in World War I.
Directors: William A. Wellman, Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Richard Arlen, Jobyna Ralston
Votes: 14,532 | Gross: $6.59M
33. When a Man Loves (1927)
Passed | 111 min | History, Romance
A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Sam De Grasse
Votes: 416 | Gross: $0.89M
34. Love (1927)
Passed | 82 min | Drama, Romance
A married woman compromises her social standing and family life when she falls for a young officer.
Directors: Edmund Goulding, John Gilbert | Stars: John Gilbert, Greta Garbo, George Fawcett, Emily Fitzroy
Votes: 1,159 | Gross: $0.95M
35. The Enemy (1927)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance, War
Carl Behrend, son of a wealthy businessman, marries Pauli Arndt, daughter of a pacifist professor. When World War I breaks out, Carl is drafted. Pauli and her family and friends are left ... See full summary »
Director: Fred Niblo | Stars: Lillian Gish, Ralph Forbes, Ralph Emerson, Frank Currier
Votes: 129 | Gross: $0.47M
37. London After Midnight (1927)
Passed | 69 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller
The abandoned home of a wealthy man who supposedly committed suicide five years earlier is taken over by ghoulish figures - could they be vampires?
Director: Tod Browning | Stars: Lon Chaney, Marceline Day, Henry B. Walthall, Percy Williams
Votes: 1,464 | Gross: $0.52M
38. The Cat and the Canary (1927)
Passed | 108 min | Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Relatives of an eccentric millionaire gather in his spooky mansion on the 20th anniversary of his death for the reading of his will.
Director: Paul Leni | Stars: Laura La Plante, Creighton Hale, Forrest Stanley, Tully Marshall
Votes: 3,338 | Gross: $0.33M
39. The Beloved Rogue (1927)
Not Rated | 99 min | Adventure, Drama, History
François Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: John Barrymore, Conrad Veidt, Marceline Day, Lawson Butt
Votes: 901
40. Children of Divorce (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Drama, Romance
A young flapper tricks her childhood sweetheart into marrying her. He really loves another woman, but didn't marry her for fear the marriage would end in divorce, like his parents'. Complications ensue.
Directors: Frank Lloyd, Josef von Sternberg | Stars: Clara Bow, Esther Ralston, Gary Cooper, Einar Hanson
Votes: 407
41. Hula (1927)
64 min | Drama, Romance
The daughter of a pineapple plantation owner in Hawaii sets her sights on a married English engineer.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Clara Bow, Clive Brook, Arlette Marchal, Arnold Kent
Votes: 298 | Gross: $0.44M
42. Long Pants (1927)
60 min | Comedy
Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Harry Langdon, Gladys Brockwell, Alan Roscoe, Priscilla Bonner
Votes: 584
43. Captain Salvation (1927)
Passed | 87 min | Drama, Romance
A returning seminary student goes up against a small New England town when he comes to the aid of a prostitute who has been injured, despite the townspeople's calls for her to be run out of... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lars Hanson, Marceline Day, Pauline Starke, Ernest Torrence
Votes: 338
44. Dirnentragödie (1927)
85 min | Drama
An aging prostitute who falls in love with a young middle-class man and spends her life savings trying to gain a modicum of respectability before he is stolen away from her by a younger prostitute
Director: Bruno Rahn | Stars: Asta Nielsen, Hilde Jennings, Oscar Homolka, Werner Pittschau
Votes: 113
45. Character Studies (1927)
TV-G | 6 min | Short, Comedy
Stage star Carter DeHaven seemingly transforms himself into a series of silent-era screen stars including Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd, Roscoe Arbuckle, Rudolph Valentino, Douglas Fairbanks, and Jackie Coogan.
Stars: Carter DeHaven, Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle, Jackie Coogan, Douglas Fairbanks
Votes: 279
46. Orchids and Ermine (1927)
Passed | 70 min | Comedy, Romance
A telephone operator at an opulent hotel falls in love with a young man who turns out to be a rich oil millionaire.
Director: Alfred Santell | Stars: Colleen Moore, Jack Mulhall, Sam Hardy, Gwen Lee
Votes: 182
47. Dress Parade (1927)
72 min | Drama, Romance
An amateur boxing champion stops at West Point to see a dress parade and falls for the commandant's daughter. He wins an appointment to the Academy and begins a rivalry for her affection.
Director: Donald Crisp | Stars: William Boyd, Bessie Love, Hugh Allan, Walter Tennyson
Votes: 105
48. A Gentleman of Paris (1927)
65 min | Comedy
A young Parisian noble promises to marry. Visited by fiancée and parents, he bids farewell to mistresses. After marriage and gambling scandal engineered by vengeful valet, the valet confesses to save his master, reuniting the newlyweds.
Director: Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Shirley O'Hara, Arlette Marchal, Ivy Harris
Votes: 47
49. Should Men Walk Home? (1927)
20 min | Comedy, Short
Mabel Normand, in her starring role as an irresistible pickpocket, meets a jewel thief while hitchhiking who takes her on a new mission to a posh society.
Director: Leo McCarey | Stars: Mabel Normand, Oliver Hardy, Creighton Hale, Eugene Pallette
Votes: 164
50. The Night of Love (1927)
Passed | 80 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
A duke kidnaps the gypsy Montero's young bride, intending to exercise a nobleman's then-presumed right to make love to her. But she dies, and Montero vows revenge.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Natalie Kingston
Votes: 77 | Gross: $0.41M
51. White Gold (1927)
73 min | Western
A beautiful young Mexican girl marries an Arizona sheep rancher and returns with him to his ranch, where he lives with his elderly father. The father, not used to sharing his son's ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Jetta Goudal, Kenneth Thomson, George Bancroft, George Nichols
Votes: 102
52. The Last Outlaw (1927)
63 min | Western
The Last Outlaw is a 1927 silent American Western film, starring Gary Cooper and directed by Arthur Rosson.
Director: Arthur Rosson | Stars: Gary Cooper, Jack Luden, Betty Jewel, Herbert Prior
Votes: 70
53. Uncle Tom's Cabin (1927)
Passed | 144 min | Drama, History
Slavery tears apart a Black family in the South before the start of the Civil War.
Director: Harry A. Pollard | Stars: Margarita Fischer, James B. Lowe, Arthur Edmund Carewe, George Siegmann
Votes: 503
54. Quality Street (1927)
80 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A fresh young beauty becomes an old maid waiting for her suitor to return from the Napoleonic wars. When he returns, clearly disappointed, she disguises herself as her own niece in order to test his loyalty.
Director: Sidney Franklin | Stars: Marion Davies, Conrad Nagel, Helen Jerome Eddy, Flora Finch
Votes: 799
55. Getting Gertie's Garter (1927)
74 min | Comedy
Attorney Ken Walrick, not quite realizing the difference between a garter and a bracelet, gives Gertie Darling a bejewelled garter with his photograph in miniature attached. But then he ... See full summary »
Director: E. Mason Hopper | Stars: Marie Prevost, Charles Ray, Harry Myers, Sally Rand
Votes: 95
56. Prelude (1927)
7 min | Short, Horror
A man listening to Rachmoninoff's 'Prelude' dreams he is the victim of premature burial.
Director: Castleton Knight | Star: Castleton Knight
Votes: 103
57. Twenty-Four-Dollar Island (1927)
12 min | Documentary, Short
In 1626, Dutch traders bought Manhattan for $24 of beads and gift product. Within 30 years, there were 1,000 residents, and 300 years later, there were 8 million. This film celebrates the ... See full summary »
Director: Robert J. Flaherty
Votes: 238
58. A Wild Roomer (1927)
20 min | Short, Comedy
Charles Bowers is once again an eccentric inventor. This time, he has only a matter of hours to debut his extraordinary new invention in order to collect a huge bequest from his deceased ... See full summary »
Directors: Charles R. Bowers, Harold L. Muller | Star: Charles R. Bowers
Votes: 125
60. Seelische Konstruktionen (1927)
10 min | Animation, Short
Experience in animating a silhouette, with brief essays on three-dimensional dolls, charcoal drawings, cut paper. The main silhouette of the film explores the actions of two bellies in a tavern.
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 276
61. Spirals (1926)
6 min | Animation, Short
Experimental short film made in 35mm, which explores geometric abstraction based on black and white in conjunction with figures arranged in dynamic and hypnotizing spirals
Director: Oskar Fischinger
Votes: 199
62. Fluttering Hearts (1927)
Passed | 23 min | Short, Comedy, Romance
Ignoring her father's attempts to counsel her, a young woman races off to a sale at a store. Chased by a motorcycle policeman, she eventually wins him over with the help of a friendly ... See full summary »
Director: James Parrott | Stars: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Martha Sleeper, William Burress
Votes: 311
63. Annie Laurie (1927)
90 min | Drama, Romance
The story of the famous battle between the Scots clans of Macdonald and Campbell, and the young woman who comes between them, Annie Laurie.
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Lillian Gish, Norman Kerry, Creighton Hale, Joseph Striker
Votes: 500 | Gross: $0.43M
64. Die elf Teufel (1927)
98 min | Drama
A professional football players' club tries to get a goalscorer out of the small workers club. With the help of a large contract and a woman, he stays in the end with his club and beats the big club in the decisive game for the city cup.
Directors: Zoltan Korda, Carl Boese | Stars: Gustav Fröhlich, Evelyn Holt, Lissy Arna, Fritz Alberti
Votes: 92
65. Fanny Hawthorne (1927)
120 min | Drama, Romance
A celebration of working-class leisure activities at Hindle, Lancashire during "Wakes Week", an annual week still observed in parts of Lancashire and Yorkshire when all factories and schools take a holiday.
Director: Maurice Elvey | Stars: Estelle Brody, John Stuart, Norman McKinnel, Marie Ault
Votes: 294
66. Siren of the Tropics (1927)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Marquis Sévéro, a rich, lazy Parisian, wants to divorce his wife so that he can marry his own goddaughter Denise. But Denise herself loves André Berval, an engineer employed by the marquis.... See full summary »
Directors: Henri Étiévant, Mario Nalpas | Stars: Georges Melchior, Régina Dalthy, Pierre Batcheff, Queenie Thomas
Votes: 374
67. Get Your Man (1927)
63 min | Comedy, Romance
A young American girl in Paris falls in love with a handsome nobleman, but he is about to wed in an arranged marriage. She hatches a plan to overcome that obstacle and get her man.
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Charles 'Buddy' Rogers, Josef Swickard, Josephine Dunn
Votes: 268
68. L'invitation au voyage (1927)
40 min | Short, Drama
Tired of being ignored by her husband, a young woman heads off to a nautical-themed nightclub, frequented by rowdy sailors. Her attentions is caught by a handsome naval officer.
Director: Germaine Dulac | Stars: Raymond Dubreuil, Emma Gynt, Robert Mirfeuil, Paul Lorbert
Votes: 334
69. The Diplomatic Pouch (1927)
50 min | Thriller
The true murder of the Soviet diplomat Teodor Nette, which narrates the difficulties in returning the diplomatic bag of the murdered agent to Russia, by sea and before it is found by the British secret police.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Mattea Buyukli, A. Klymenko, Heorhii Zelondzhev-Shypov, Ida Penzo
Votes: 182
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