The best movies 1926

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an...

Murnau’s epic adaptation of Goethe’s tragedy stands with Fritz Lang’s Metropolis among the supreme achievements of German silent...

An elderly man visits his mentally ill wife in a psychiatric hospital. Years earlier, she had tried to drown their child and then take her own life....

In the South Seas, Samoan village life is portrayed with a painterly eye. Blending ethnographic detail with a romanticized 'Gauguin idyll', the film...

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

A meek millionaire masquerades as a boxing star to win a girl's heart.

Purbasari and Purbararang are sisters and in competition. Purbararang, the elder sister, teases Purbasari about the latter's lover, a lutung named...

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...

Baldevins bryllup (English: Baldevin's wedding) is a 1926 Norwegian comedy film directed by George Schnéevoigt, starring Einar Sissener and...

In October 1925, due to a depression in the textile industry a 10 percent wage cut was imposed by mill owners. The strike that followed went for...

A young woman abandoned by her lover sells her body to his mentor, a renowned sculptor.

Cowboy Jack Carter, the proud owner of the Australian shepherd Bunk, accepts the challenge of corralling 10,000 wild horses within a 10-day period....

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

A salesman is helped out of a jam with an angry customer by a wealthy playboy. In return, he agrees to help the playboy get a divorce from his wife,...

10-episode American silent Western film serial chronicling the legendary exploits of frontier scout and showman William F. Cody. Episodes: 1....

Ahmed, son of Diana and Sheik Ahmed Ben Hassan, falls in love with Yasmin, a dancing girl who fronts her father's gang of mountebanks. She and Ahmed...

A German NotoFilm system song film with a full score at the bottom of the screen only visible to live performers and musical accompaniment, allowing...

Hugo Writley, the son of an American shipping magnate, travels to Holland accompanied by his steward, Longway. On the night of their arrival they go...

A poor man refrains from proposing to the woman he loves until he can secure the fortune left him by his uncle. Believing the treasure awaits in his...

Helen Salvia sets sail with her 4-year-old daughter for Panda, an isolated East African port, where she expects to join her Italian husband, Lorenzo,...

This is a screening of Solomon Lazurin’s novel of the same name. The engineer Georg Kurtniz invented a machine that replaces the work of many...

A young woman abandoned by her lover sells her body to his mentor, a renowned sculptor.

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José...

In the celebrations of the recruits, Don Esteban rejects José Luis, the boyfriend of his daughter Luz María, who promises to kidnap her.

A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

Made with Technicolor technique, this documentary presents to the world for the first time the terrible cycle of this endemic evil.

Two navy ensigns, Manuel d'Astures and the Viscount of Brazza, nicknamed Boy, return to Spain after a long mission at sea. The latter is surprised to...

All men who fall in love with Marichu die violently.

A priest hears in an act of confession protected by ecclesiastical secrecy the author of the crime of a powerful rancher that the townspeople...

Adolfo, a railroad engineer, is sent to a provincial station to investigate a series of thefts from trains. The investigation uncovers the existence...

A 1926 film.

A 1926 documentary short film.

Film based on the sonnet by the same name, written by Evaristo Carriego.

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

The film "El Patio de los Naranjos", restored by the Filmoteca de Andalucía, was shot in 1926 by Guillermo Hernández Mir. A fictional...

The love of a young woman, Dolorcitas (Ana Giner), descended from a less aristocratic family is disputed by her husband, an enterprising...