1929 in Film - Notable Films Released in 1929

Notable Films Released in 1929

American films unless stated otherwise.

• Alibi, starring Chester Morris and Mae Busch
• An Andalusian Dog (Un chien andalou), a short film by Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí - (France)
• The American Prisoner, directed by Thomas Bentley, starring Carl Brisson, Madeleine Carroll (Britain)
• Applause, directed by Rouben Mamoulian, starring Helen Morgan
• Arsenal (aka January Uprising in Kiev in 1918) - (U.S.S.R.) - International release
• Asphalt, starring Gustav Frohlich - (Germany)
• Atlantic, starring Madeleine Carroll, the first sound on film made in Germany and the first sound Titanic movie
• The Awful Truth
• Berth Marks, a Laurel and Hardy short produced by Hal Roach
• Big Business, a Laurel and Hardy short
• Big Time, starring Lee Tracy and Mae Clarke
• Blackmail, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• The Bridge of San Luis Rey, starring Lily Damita
• Broadway, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The Broadway Melody, musical comedy starring Charles King, Anita Page and Bessie Love
• Bulldog Drummond, starring Ronald Colman
• The Canary Murder Case, starring William Powell, Louise Brooks, Jean Arthur
• Children of the Ritz
• The Clue of the New Pin - (Britain)
• The Cocoanuts, starring the Marx Brothers
• A Cottage on Dartmoor, directed by Anthony Asquith - (Britain)
• Coquette, Directed by Sam Taylor, starring Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore
• Dangerous Curves, starring Clara Bow and Richard Arlen
• Desert Nights, a silent film starring John Gilbert
• The Desert Song, a musical operetta with Technicolor sequences
• Devil-May-Care, starring Ramón Novarro - a musical romance with Technicolor sequences
• Diary of a Lost Girl (Tagebuch einer Verlorenen), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks - (Germany)
• Disraeli, starring George Arliss and Joan Bennett
• Drifters, documentary by John Grierson - (Britain)
• Dynamite, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Conrad Nagel and Kay Johnson
• Escape from Dartmoor, directed by Anthony Asquith - (Britain)
• Eternal Love, directed by Ernst Lubitsch starring John Barrymore
• Fancy Baggage, a part-talkie from Warner Brothers Pictures starring Audrey Ferris and Myrna Loy
• Finis Terræ, directed by Jean Epstein (France)
• The Flying Fleet, starring Ramón Novarro, Ralph Graves, Anita Page, and Edward Nugent
• Footlights and Fools, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Four Feathers, starring Richard Arlen and Fay Wray
• Fox Movietone Follies, a musical revue with Multicolor sequences
• The General Line (Старое), directed by Sergei Eisenstein - (U.S.S.R.)
• Glorifying the American Girl, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Gold Diggers of Broadway, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Great Gabbo, a musical comedy with Multicolor sequences
• Hallelujah!, directed by King Vidor
• Hardboiled Rose, a part-talkie starring Myrna Loy
• Hearts in Dixie, starring Clarence Muse, drama/musical
• High Treason directed by Maurice Elvey and starring Jameson Thomas and Benita Hume - (Britain)
• His Glorious Night, directed by Lionel Barrymore, starring John Gilbert - Gilbert's first talkie, known as the film that destroyed his career
• The Hole in the Wall
• The Hollywood Revue of 1929, a showcase of talent under contract to MGM
• Hot for Paris, from Fox Film Corporation
• The Informer, directed by Arthur Robison, starring Lya De Putti, Lars Hanson (Britain)
• In Old Arizona, starring Warner Baxter
• The Iron Mask, starring Douglas Fairbanks
• The Kiss, starring Greta Garbo and Conrad Nagel
• The Lady Lies, starring Walter Huston and Claudette Colbert
• The Letter
• The Locked Door, starring Rod LaRocque and Barbara Stanwyck
• The Love Parade, starring Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald
• Lucky Star, directed by Frank Borzage, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell
• Madame X, directed by Lionel Barrymore
• Man with a Movie Camera (Chelovek s kinoapparatom), a documentary - (U.S.S.R.)
• The Manxman, directed by Alfred Hitchcock - (Britain)
• Married In Hollywood, a musical romance with Multicolor sequences
• The Miraculous Life of Thérèse Martin (La Vie miraculeuse de Thérèse Martin), directed by Julien Duvivier - (France)
• The Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu
• The Mysterious Island, starring Lionel Barrymore
• Navy Blues, directed by Clarence Brown
• The New Babylon (Novyy Vavilon) - (U.S.S.R.)
• New York Nights, starring Norma Talmadge and Gilbert Roland
• On With the Show, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• Pandora's Box (Die Büchse der Pandora), directed by G.W. Pabst, starring Louise Brooks - (Germany)
• Paris, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Piccadilly, a melodrama starring Anna May Wong and Gilda Gray - (Britain)
• Pointed Heels, starring William Powell, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• Queen Kelly, starring Gloria Swanson (this film was never finished because producers balked at releasing a silent film in what was quickly becoming a sound film market)
• Redskin, starring Richard Dix, a drama with Technicolor sequences
• The Rescue, starring Ronald Colman and Lili Damita
• Resia Boroboedoer, only film of the Nancing Film Corp. (Dutch East Indies)
• The Return of the Rat, directed by Graham Cutts and starring Ivor Novello - (Britain)
• Rio Rita, starring Bebe Daniels - a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The River, directed by Frank Borzage
• The Runaway Princess directed by Anthony Asquith and Fritz Wendhausen and starring Mady Christians and Fred Rains (Britain/Germany)
• Sally, a musical comedy entirely in Technicolor
• The Saturday Night Kid, with Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, and a small early role for Jean Harlow (Uncredited)
• Show Boat, a part-talkie based not on the famous musical, but on the Edna Ferber novel that inspired it
• The Show of Shows, a musical revue with Technicolor sequences
• Side Street, starring the Moore Brothers
• The Single Standard, directed by John S. Robertson, starring Greta Garbo & Nils Asther
• The Skeleton Dance, a Walt Disney animated short
• Smilin' Guns, a Hoot Gibson Western-comedy
• Spite Marriage, a Buster Keaton film
• St. Louis Blues, starring Bessie Smith
• Street Girl, directed by Wesley Ruggles, RKO's first "official" film
• Sunny Side Up, starring Janet Gaynor and Charles Farrell, a musical comedy with Technicolor sequences
• The Taming of the Shrew, starring Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks
• This Thing Called Love, starring Edmund Lowe and Constance Bennett, a musical romance with Technicolor sequences; considered lost
• Thunder, directed by William Nigh, starring Lon Chaney, Sr. and Phyllis Haver
• Thunderbolt, directed by Josef von Sternberg, starring George Bancroft and Fay Wray
• A Throw of Dice - (Germany/Britain/India)
• The Trespasser, directed by Edmund Goulding, starring Gloria Swanson and Robert Ames
• The Vagabond Lover, starring Rudy Vallée
• The Virginian, starring Gary Cooper and Walter Huston
• Wait and See, directed by Walter Forde - (Britain)
• Wall Street, starring Ralph Ince
• Welcome Danger, starring Harold Lloyd
• Where East is East, directed by Tod Browning; starring Lon Chaney, Lupe Vélez and Estelle Taylor
• White Hell of Pitz Palu (Die weiße Hölle vom Piz Palü), starring Leni Riefenstahl - (Germany)
• Why Be Good?
• Wild Orchids, starring Greta Garbo, Lewis Stone and Nils Asther
• The Wolf Song, starring Gary Cooper and Lupe Vélez
• Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond), directed by Fritz Lang - (Germany)
• Words and Music, first movie in which John Wayne is credited as Duke Morrison