Best Early Sound Films by Title
2639
27
Jack Conway
William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Leila Hyams, Karl Dane, Tully Marshall
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2616
26
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
1270
4
Rouben Mamoulian
Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Drama / Musical
USA
English
2734
32
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sylvia Ashton
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2544
23
William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Charles Reisner
Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy, Charles K. Gerrard
Comedy / War / Drama / Spy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Warren Doane
Charley Chase, Nina Quartero, Gale Henry, Jay Eaton, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2734
32
William F. Haddock
Francis Ford, Edith Storey
Short / Drama
USA
English
2544
23
Dudley Murphy
Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington, Arthur Whetsol
Drama / Short / Music
USA
English
896
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
2639
27
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2656
28
Pál Fejös
Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Musical / Romance / Crime
USA
English
1785
9
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
2742
33
Raoul Walsh
Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Leila Karnelly, El Brendel
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2639
27
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2639
27
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2639
27
Anthony Asquith
Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Judd Green
Drama / Crime
Sweden / UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Murray Roth
Jack Born, Elmer Lawrence
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2734
32
Warren Doane
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Eddie Dunn, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2734
32
Hal Roach
Edgar Kennedy, Eddie Dunn, Irma Harrison, Ben Hall, May Milloy
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2672
29
William K.L. Dickson
William K.L. Dickson
Short / Music / Experimental
USA
English
1419
7
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
2639
27
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
Alan Crosland
John Barrymore, Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor, Montagu Love
Adventure / Romance / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
D.W. Griffith
Carol Dempster, Charles Emmett Mack, Ralph Graves, Edward Peil Sr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2767
35
Cecil B. DeMille
Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Conrad Nagel, Julia Faye
Drama
USA
English
2734
32
unknown
Val Stanton, Ernie Stanton
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2734
32
Roy Del Ruth
Russell Simpson, Frank Campeau, Gibson Gowland, Anders Randolf, William Demarest
Comedy / Drama / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2574
24
John Ford
Margaret Mann, James Hall, Charles Morton, Ralph Bushman, George Meeker
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2672
29
unknown
Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2734
32
Bryan Foy
Frank Whitman
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2639
27
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Cecil B. DeMille
Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Noah Beery, Eddie Quillan
Drama / Religion / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2452
19
Roy Del Ruth
Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2734
32
Murray Roth
The Gotham Rhythm Boys, Eddie Lewis, Tom Miller, Lou Monte
Short / Music
USA
English
1271
5
King Vidor
Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
2734
32
Murray Roth
Harry Fox
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2600
25
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2734
32
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Gladden James, Jed Prouty, Sidney Bracey
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2616
26
Charles Reisner
Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Marion Davies
Musical
USA
English
2734
32
Leo McCarey
Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Todd, Nellie V. Nichols, Oscar Apfel
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2088
15
Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh
Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, J. Farrell MacDonald
Western / Adventure
USA
English
2639
27
Richard Wallace
Maurice Chevalier, Sylvia Beecher, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett, John Miljan
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2734
32
S. Jay Kaufman
Fred Allen, Alonzo Price
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2639
27
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
796
2
Alan Crosland
Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Warner Oland, Eugenie Besserer, Otto Lederer
Drama / Music
USA
English
2734
32
Hobart Henley
Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles, Patricia Deering, Tom Brown
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2734
32
D.W. Griffith
Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti, George Fawcett, Henry Armetta
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2746
34
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
2734
32
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2656
28
Jean de Limur
Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2639
27
Bryan Foy
Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
1810
11
Pál Fejös
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1360
6
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2459
20
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix, Hedwiga Reicher
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2717
31
Lionel Barrymore
Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Eugenie Besserer
Drama
USA
English
1893
12
Paul Leni
Mary Philbin, Conrad Veidt, Julius Molnar Jr., Olga Baclanova
Drama / Romance / Period Film / Horror
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Victor Saville
Estelle Brody, Ray Bauduc, Vic Breidis, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland
Short / Music
UK
English
2734
32
Lewis R. Foster
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson, Anne Cornwall, Harry Bernard
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2672
29
Paul Fenton
Documentary / Animation / Short
USA
English (No Dialogue)
2734
32
George Fitzmaurice
Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Montagu Love, Natalie Kingston, John George
Action / Adventure / Romance / Drama
USA
English
2734
32
Murray Roth
Oklahoma Bob Albright, Genevieve Herbert, Bertha Muller
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2734
32
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Warner Oland, Charles Emmett Mack, Josef Swickard, Anders Randolf
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
Alan Crosland
Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2639
27
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page
Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
W.S. Van Dyke
Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2656
28
Edward H. Griffith
Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2395
17
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Kay Deslys, Isabelle Keith
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English
2049
14
E.A. Dupont
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Fred C. Newmeyer
Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy, Lloyd Ingraham
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2639
27
Leo McCarey
Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, Josephine Dunn, Anita Garvin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2734
32
Archie Mayo
Henry B. Walthall, Tom McGuire, Ed Cane
Short / Drama
USA
English
2449
18
Luther Reed
Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2459
20
Frank Borzage
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Alfred Sabato
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
A. Edward Sutherland
Clara Bow, Jean Arthur, James Hall, Edna May Oliver, Charles Sellon, Ethel Wales
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2734
32
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Albert Parker
Gloria Swanson, Joe King, Harvey Clark, Leone Carton, Lillian Langdon
Drama / Crime / Spy
USA
English
2734
32
Richard Wallace
Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Roscoe Karns, Emmett King
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
Lloyd Bacon
Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman, Reed Howes
Musical / Drama
USA
English
2734
32
Walt Disney
Walt Disney, Carl W. Stalling
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror / Musical
USA
English
2459
20
Robert F. McGowan
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Joe Cobb, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson
Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2672
29
Dudley Murphy
Bessie Smith, Hall Johnson Choir, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Alec Lovejoy
Drama / Musical / Short
USA
English
2497
22
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Walt Disney
Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
49
1
F.W. Murnau
George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, Margaret Livingston, Bodil Rosing
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn, Clyde Cook
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2639
27
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
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2672
29
Theodore Case
Gus Visser
Short / Experimental
USA
English
2734
32
Frank Borzage
Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill, Fifi D'Orsay
Comedy
USA
English
2734
32
Tod Browning
Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2684
30
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen
Pre-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Edmund Goulding
Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall, Wally Albright
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2734
32
Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2476
21
William K. Howard
Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, Henry Kolker
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2734
32
Charles Brabin
Milton Sills, Doris Kenyon, Arthur Stone, George Fawcett, Paul Hurst, Yola d'Avril
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2639
27
Victor Fleming
Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Helen Ware, Chester Conklin
Western
USA
English
2734
32
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Animation / Family / Comedy / Documentary / Serial
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
William Watson
Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Otto Fries, Natalie Joyce, Will King, Jean Harlow
Comedy / Short
USA
English
1797
10
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2005
13
Raoul Walsh
Edmund Lowe, Victor McLaglen, Dolores del Rio, William V. Mong, Phyllis Haver
Comedy / Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
1507
8
William A. Wellman
Clara Bow, Richard Arlen, Charles "Buddy" Rogers, Gary Cooper
Drama / Romance / War / Action / Adventure
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2734
32
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2639
27
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
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