Best Movies of 1928 by Director
2692
29
Anthony Asquith
Brian Aherne, Elissa Landi, Cyril McLaglen, Norah Baring
Drama / Crime / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2692
29
Lloyd Bacon
Al Jolson, Betty Bronson, Josephine Dunn, Arthur Housman, Reed Howes
Musical / Drama
USA
English
2809
35
William Beaudine
Mary Astor, Lloyd Hughes, Louise Fazenda, Lucien Littlefield, Thelma Todd
Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2692
29
Harry Beaumont
Joan Crawford, Johnny Mack Brown, Nils Asther, Dorothy Sebastian, Anita Page
Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2279
22
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Alberto Rabagliati, Cino Conti, Guido Trento
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2692
29
Clarence Brown
Greta Garbo, John Gilbert, Lewis Stone, Johnny Mack Brown, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Tod Browning
Matthew Betz, Lon Chaney, Betty Compson, Marceline Day, John George, James Murray
Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2794
34
Clyde Bruckman
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Charlie Hall, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
154
2
Luis Buñuel
Simone Mareuil, Pierre Batcheff
Short / Fantasy / Experimental / Cult
France
French (Silent)
2758
32
Frank Capra
Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Jobyna Ralston, Mildred Harris, Philo McCullough
Drama / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
2809
35
Frank Capra
Mitchell Lewis, Alice Day, Margaret Livingston, Theodore von Eltz, William Bailey
Drama / Crime / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
1673
14
Charles Chaplin
Charles Chaplin, Al Ernest Garcia, Merna Kennedy, Harry Crocker
Comedy / Family / Drama / Romance / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
1295
8
René Clair
Marise Maia, Olga Tschechowa, Albert Prejean, Paul Olivier
Comedy / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2692
29
René Clair
Pierre Batcheff, Jim Gérald, Véra Flory, Maurice de Féraudy
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2692
29
Jack Conway
William Haines, Lionel Barrymore, Leila Hyams, Karl Dane, Tully Marshall
Crime / Drama / Mystery / Detective
USA
English
2692
29
Alan Crosland
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, John Miljan, Marc McDermott, Pasquale Amato
Drama / History / Biography
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Michael Curtiz
Dolores Costello, Conrad Nagel, George E. Stone, Mitchell Lewis, Dan Wolheim
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2604
26
Walt Disney, Ub Iwerks
Walt Disney
Animation / Family / Comedy / Musical / Short
USA
English
2106
20
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Semyon Svashenko, Amvrosi Buchma, Georgi Khorkov, Dmitri Erdman
Drama / War
Soviet Union / Ukraine
Russian (Silent)
2685
28
Aleksandr Dovzhenko
Mikola Nademsky, Semen Svashenko, Alexander Podorozhny
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
69
1
Carl Theodor Dreyer
Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Drama / History / Biography / Religion
France
French (Silent)
1018
7
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Vladimir Popov, Vasili Nikandrov, Layaschenko, Chibisov, Boris Livanov
Drama / History / Epic
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
1566
12
Jean Epstein
Jean Debucourt, Marguerite Gance, Charles Lamy, Fournez-Goffard
Drama / Horror
France / USA
French (Silent)
1845
16
Pál Fejös
Barbara Kent, Glenn Tryon, Fay Holderness
Drama / Romance / Comedy
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Jacques Feyder
Gina Manès, Wolfgang Zilzer, Jeanne Marie-Laurent, Hans Adalbert Schlettow
Drama / Crime
France / Germany
French (Silent)
2809
35
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Betty Compson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Sylvia Ashton
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2604
26
Robert Florey, Slavko Vorkapich
Voya George, Adriane Marsh, Jules Raucourt
Short / Drama / Experimental / Fantasy
USA
English (Silent)
2675
27
John Ford
Margaret Mann, James Hall, Charles Morton, Ralph Bushman, George Meeker
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Bryan Foy
Helene Costello, Cullen Landis, Mary Carr, Wheeler Oakman, Gladys Brockwell
Crime / Drama / Gangster
USA
English
2809
35
Fred Guiol
Charley Chase, Edna Marion, Viola Richard, Edgar Kennedy, Bull Montana
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2809
35
Alfred Hitchcock
Betty Balfour, Jean Bradin, Ferdinand von Alten, Gordon Harker
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2809
35
Alfred Hitchcock
Jameson Thomas, Lillian Hall-Davis, Gordon Harker, Gibb McLaughlin, Maud Gill
Comedy / Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2692
29
Lloyd Ingraham, Alfred L. Werker
Fred Thomson, Nora Lane, Dorothy Janis, Raoul Paoli, William Courtright
Western / Action
USA
English (Silent)
2758
32
Solomon Sir Jones
Documentary / Short
USA
English (Silent)
837
5
Buster Keaton, Charles Reisner
Buster Keaton, Tom McGuire, Ernest Torrence, Tom Lewis, Marion Byron
Comedy / Romance / Family / Adventure
USA
English (Silent)
958
6
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Marceline Day, Harold Goodwin, Sidney Bracey
Comedy / Romance / Family / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2195
21
Edgar Kennedy
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilson Benge, Chet Brandenburg, Christian J. Frank
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2809
35
Henry King, Sam Taylor
Norma Talmadge, Gilbert Roland, Arnold Kent, Boris de Fast, Michael Vavitch
Drama / War
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Teinosuke Kinugasa
Akiko Chihaya, Junosuke Bando, Yukiko Ogawa, Ippei Sohma, Misao Seki
Drama / Crime
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2009
18
Fritz Lang
Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Gerda Maurus, Lien Deyers, Louis Ralph
Thriller / Spy
Germany
English (Silent)
2809
35
Paul Leni
Laura La Plante, Montagu Love, Roy D'Arcy, Margaret Livingston, John Boles
Horror / Mystery / Thriller / Crime
USA
English
2791
33
Marcel L'Herbier
Brigitte Helm, Henry Victor, Alfred Abel, Antonin Artaud
Drama
France
French (Silent)
2510
23
Ernst Lubitsch
Emil Jannings, Florence Vidor, Lewis Stone, Vera Veronina
Drama / History / Period Film
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2742
31
Joe May
Lars Hanson, Gustav Fröhlich, Dita Parlo, Theodor Loos
Drama / War
Germany
German (Silent)
2604
26
Leo McCarey, Fred Guiol
Max Davidson, Martha Sleeper, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2712
30
Lewis Milestone
Thomas Meighan, Marie Prevost, Louis Wolheim
Crime / Pre-Noir / Drama / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
2758
32
Harold Muller, Charles R. Bowers
Charles R. Bowers, Buster Brodie, Kathryn McGuire, Blue Washington
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2692
29
Yasujiro Ozu
Junko Matsui, Kenji Oyama, Chishu Ryu, Tatsuo Saito, Takeshi Sakamoto
Comedy
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2008
17
James Parrott
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Hill
Comedy / Short / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1382
10
Vsevolod Pudovkin
I. Dedintsev, Valéry Inkijinoff, Aleksandr Chistyakov
Action / Drama / War
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2692
29
Man Ray
Kiki of Montparnasse, André de la Rivière, Robert Desnos
Short / Experimental
France
French (Silent)
2692
29
Jean Renoir
Georges Pomiès, Michel Simon, Fridette Fatton, Félix Oudart
Comedy
France
French (Silent)
2794
34
Jean Renoir, Jean Tédesco
Catherine Hessling, Amy Wells, Jean Storm, Manuel Raaby
Short / Drama
France
French (Silent)
2809
35
Murray Roth
Jack Born, Elmer Lawrence
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2758
32
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Daniel Joseph Jenkins
Documentary / Short / Music
USA
English
2514
24
King Vidor
Marion Davies, Orville Caldwell, Marie Dressler, Lawrence Gray, Dell Henderson
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
1299
9
Josef von Sternberg
Emil Jannings, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Jack Raymond
Adventure / Drama / Period Film
USA
English (Silent)
1428
11
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Betty Compson
Drama / Crime / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2809
35
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Evelyn Brent, William Powell, Fred Kohler, Francis McDonald
Crime / Drama / Detective / Gangster
USA
English (Silent)
1808
15
Erich von Stroheim
Erich von Stroheim, Fay Wray
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2809
35
Richard Wallace
Nancy Carroll, Gary Cooper, Paul Lukas, Roscoe Karns, Emmett King
Romance / War / Drama
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2019
19
Raoul Walsh, William Cameron Menzies
Lionel Barrymore, Gloria Swanson, Blanche Friderici, Charles Lane, Florence Midgley
Drama / Romance / Religion
USA
English (Silent)
2604
26
James Sibley Watson, Melville Webber
Herbert Stern, Hildegarde Watson, Melville Webber, Friedrich Haak, Dorthea House
Short / Horror / Experimental
USA
English (Silent)
2549
25
William A. Wellman
Wallace Beery, Louise Brooks, Richard Arlen, Bob Perry, Blue Washington
Adventure / Drama / Crime / Detective
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2692
29
Herbert Wilcox
Sybil Thorndike, Marie Ault, Mary Brough, Ada Bodart, Dacia Deane, Haddon Mason
Drama / War
UK
English (Silent)
2514
24
Ted Wilde
Harold Lloyd, Ann Christy, Bert Woodruff, Babe Ruth, Bryon Douglas, Brooks Benedict
Action / Comedy / Family / Adventure / Crime
USA
English (Silent)
