1929 - Top of the Pops
by dziwnytenswiat | created - 27 Nov 2019 | updated - 20 Sep 2022 | PublicAll movies from 1930 I have seen. The Top of the Pops Rules for the Ranking: my personal rating + the imdb rating x votes.
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1. Man with a Movie Camera (1929)
Not Rated | 68 min | Documentary
A man travels around a city with a camera slung over his shoulder, documenting urban life with dazzling invention.
Director: Dziga Vertov | Stars: Mikhail Kaufman, Elizaveta Svilova
Votes: 27,972
314 points
2. Pandora's Box (1929)
Not Rated | 109 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
The rise and inevitable fall of an amoral but naive young woman whose insouciant eroticism inspires lust and violence in those around her.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz
Votes: 11,852 | Gross: $0.01M
136 points
3. Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
Not Rated | 79 min | Drama
After falling pregnant by a pharmacist and refusing to marry, a young woman is ejected from her home and sent to a strict girls' reform school.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Louise Brooks, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp, Edith Meinhard
Votes: 4,820
60 points
4. Woman in the Moon (1929)
Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
A tenacious scientist blasts off for the moon in hopes of riches that may be found there.
Director: Fritz Lang | Stars: Willy Fritsch, Gerda Maurus, Klaus Pohl, Fritz Rasp
Votes: 3,857
39 points
5. Arsenal (1929)
Not Rated | 70 min | Drama, War
A soldier returns to Kyiv after surviving a train crash and encounters clashes between nationalists and collectivists.
Director: Aleksandr Dovzhenko | Stars: Semyon Svashenko, Georgi Khorkov, Amvrosi Buchma, Dmitri Erdman
Votes: 2,335
27 points
6. The Love Parade (1929)
Passed | 107 min | Comedy, Musical, Romance
The queen of mythical Sylvania marries a courtier, who finds his new life unsatisfying.
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald, Lupino Lane, Lillian Roth
Votes: 2,618
27 points
7. Hallelujah (1929)
Passed | 109 min | Drama, Musical
A sharecropper decides to become a preacher after falling for a vamp from the city.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine, Harry Gray
Votes: 2,000
23 points
8. Asphalt (1929)
Not Rated | 94 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Joe May's sensual drama of life in the Berlin underworld is in many ways the perfect summation of German filmmaking in the silent era: a dazzling visual style, a psychological approach to ... See full summary »
Director: Joe May | Stars: Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Votes: 1,687
21 points
9. Piccadilly (1929)
Passed | 92 min | Crime, Drama
A young Chinese woman working in the kitchen at a London dance club is given the chance to become the club's main act, which leads to a plot of betrayal, forbidden love, and murder.
Director: Ewald André Dupont | Stars: Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas, Charles Laughton
Votes: 1,839
20 points
10. Old and New (1929)
Not Rated | 121 min | Drama
100.000.000 peasants - illiterate, poor, hungry. There comes a day when one woman decides that she can live old life no longer. Using ways of new Soviet state and industrial progress she changes life and labor of her village.
Directors: Grigoriy Aleksandrov, Sergei Eisenstein | Stars: Marfa Lapkina, M. Ivanin, Konstantin Vasilyev, Vasili Buzenkov
Votes: 1,724
19 points
11. Lucky Star (1929)
100 min | Drama, Romance
Mary, a poor farm girl, meets Tim just as word comes that war has been declared.
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix
Votes: 1,519
17 points
12. Applause (1929)
Passed | 80 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
A burlesque star seeks to keep her convent-raised daughter away from her low-down life and abusive lover/stage manager.
Director: Rouben Mamoulian | Stars: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Votes: 1,503
17 points
13. Marianne (I) (1929)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, Musical, Romance
During World War I, a young French woman struggles to choose between two suitors: a blind soldier to whom she is engaged and an American serviceman.
Director: Robert Z. Leonard | Stars: Marion Davies, George Baxter, Lawrence Gray, Cliff Edwards
Votes: 1,276
16 points
14. The Iron Mask (1929)
Passed | 95 min | Adventure, Drama, History
King Louis XIII of France is thrilled when his son is born--an heir to the throne. But his Queen has actually delivered twin boys. Cardinal Richelieu sees the second son as a potential for ... See full summary »
Director: Allan Dwan | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Belle Bennett, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Votes: 1,398 | Gross: $3.27M
15 points
15. Escape from Dartmoor (1930)
88 min | Crime, Drama
A former barber escapes from a high security prison. Flashback story of an escape from the lonely, high-security Dartmoor Prison.
Director: Anthony Asquith | Stars: Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Uno Henning, Norah Baring, Anthony Asquith
Votes: 1,235
14 points
16. The Kiss (1929)
Passed | 62 min | Romance, Drama
An unhappily married woman is caught up in scandal and murder when her affection toward a young man is misinterpreted.
Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Greta Garbo, Conrad Nagel, Anders Randolf, Holmes Herbert
Votes: 1,207 | Gross: $0.52M
13 points
17. The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
75 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
A man climbs a 12,000-foot mountain to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Gustav Diessl, Leni Riefenstahl, Ernst Petersen, Ernst Udet
Votes: 1,110
11 points
18. The New Babylon (1929)
120 min | Drama, History
In the beginning of the industrial revolution, the Paris Commune was established in 1871 against the rich and the powerful, and violently repressed by the army that remained faithful to a ... See full summary »
Directors: Grigoriy Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg | Stars: David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofiya Magarill
Votes: 933
9 points
19. The Virginian (1929)
Passed | 91 min | Romance, Western
A good-natured cowboy who is romancing the new schoolmarm has a crisis of conscience when he discovers that his best friend is engaged in cattle rustling.
Director: Victor Fleming | Stars: Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen
Votes: 862
8 points
20. Rio Rita (1929)
Passed | 140 min | Comedy, Musical, Western
Capt. James Stewart pursues the bandit "The Kinkajou" over the Mexican border and falls in love with Rita. He suspects, that her brother is the bandit.
Director: Luther Reed | Stars: Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey
Votes: 764
8 points
21. Thunderbolt (1929)
Passed | 85 min | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir
A criminal known as Thunderbolt is imprisoned and facing execution. Into the next cell is placed Bob Moran, an innocent man who has been framed and who is in love with Thunderbolt's girl. ... See full summary »
Director: Josef von Sternberg | Stars: George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen, Eugenie Besserer
Votes: 881
7 points
22. Hell's Heroes (1929)
Passed | 68 min | Western
Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.
Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway
Votes: 966
7 points
23. The Letter (1929)
Passed | 65 min | Drama
Jeanne Eagels plays the bored and restless Leslie Crosbie who turns to another man, Geoffrey Hammond (Herbert Marshall) for attention when neglected by her husband Robert (Reginald Owen). ... See full summary »
Director: Jean de Limur | Stars: Jeanne Eagels, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall, Irene Browne
Votes: 877
7 points
24. Speedway (1929)
Passed | 76 min | Drama, Romance, Sport
Bill Whipple is Jim MacDonald's happy-go-lucky mechanic, who thinks that he is the world's greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the ... See full summary »
Director: Harry Beaumont | Stars: William Haines, Anita Page, Ernest Torrence, Karl Dane
Votes: 703
7 points
25. The Single Standard (1929)
Passed | 73 min | Drama, Romance
Wealthy Arden Stuart is bored in a party. After refusing Tommy Hewlett's marriage proposal, she has her driver drive her to a lonely place, where they make love and return to the party, ... See full summary »
Director: John S. Robertson | Stars: Greta Garbo, Nils Asther, Johnny Mack Brown, Dorothy Sebastian
Votes: 708 | Gross: $0.66M
6 points
26. Erotikon (1929)
85 min | Drama, Romance
A young woman is seduced and abandoned by a man who was invited to stay at his home by her father in a stormy night. Noticing that she is pregnant, the girl decides to leave home and start a new life.
Director: Gustav Machatý | Stars: Karel Schleichert, Ita Rina, Olaf Fjord, Theodor Pistek
Votes: 643
6 points
27. The Taming of the Shrew (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Comedy, Romance
In sixteenth century Padua, Hortensio loves Bianca, the youngest daughter of Baptista. But Baptista will not allow the two to get married until his eldest daughter, the extremely headstrong... See full summary »
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn
Votes: 646 | Gross: $2.40M
6 points
28. Sunny Side Up (1929)
Passed | 121 min | Comedy, Musical
Molly and Bee, sweet young 'working girls,' live in a cheap room over a New York grocery store. Molly's idol, wealthy Jack Cromwell, lives in a Long Island mansion but is markedly less ... See full summary »
Director: David Butler | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Marjorie White, El Brendel
Votes: 457
4 points
29. The Wild Party (1929)
Passed | 77 min | Drama, Romance
Wild girls at a college pay more attention to parties than their classes. But when one party girl, Stella Ames, goes too far at a local bar and lands in trouble, her professor must rescue ... See full summary »
Director: Dorothy Arzner | Stars: Clara Bow, Fredric March, Marceline Day, Shirley O'Hara
Votes: 553
4 points
30. Three Loves (1929)
76 min | Drama
On his honeymoon with a bride he has wed for business reasons, a man falls for a woman who is in the clutches of a sinister character.After this woman begs him to help her escape, he plots to do so using the opportunity of a masked ball.
Director: Curtis Bernhardt | Stars: Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima
Votes: 298
3 points
31. The Valiant (1929)
66 min | Drama
After killing an unknown man for an unknown reason, a mysterious drifter turns himself to the law under a false name, intending to protect his own family's honor. But when the news of his ... See full summary »
Director: William K. Howard | Stars: Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, Johnny Mack Brown, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 535
3 points
32. High Voltage (1929)
Passed | 63 min | Drama
A busload of passengers gets stranded in a snowstorm and take refuge in an abandoned church, where they run into a mysterious man who may be on the run from the law.
Director: Howard Higgin | Stars: William Boyd, Carole Lombard, Owen Moore, Phillips Smalley
Votes: 431
2 points
33. Brüder (1929)
78 min | Drama
A dockworker joins a strike, and comes into conflict with his police officer brother.
Director: Werner Hochbaum | Stars: Gyula Balogh, Erna Schumacher, Ilse Berger
Votes: 94
1 point
34. I Kiss Your Hand Madame (1929)
66 min | Drama
Laurence Gerard has just divorced. While leading fat lover Talandier by the nose, She meets the count Lerski, who now works as waiter but do not tell her. When she hears from her husband he... See full summary »
Director: Robert Land | Stars: Harry Liedtke, Marlene Dietrich, Pierre de Guingand, Károly Huszár
Votes: 185
1 point
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