Best Movies of 1929 by Rank
81
1
Dziga Vertov
Documentary / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
222
2
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, Fritz Kortner, Francis Lederer, Carl Goetz, Krafft-Raschig
Drama / Cult
Germany
German (Silent)
820
3
Alfred Hitchcock
Anny Ondra, John Longden, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
Thriller / Drama
UK
English
1241
4
King Vidor
Daniel L. Haynes, Nina Mae McKinney, William Fountaine
Musical / Drama / Religion
USA
English
1264
5
Rouben Mamoulian
Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron
Drama / Musical
USA
English
1377
6
Ernst Lubitsch
Maurice Chevalier, Jeanette MacDonald
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
1502
7
Alfred E. Green
George Arliss, Doris Lloyd, David Torrence
Drama / Biography
USA
English
1622
8
Erich von Stroheim, Richard Boleslawski, Edmund Goulding, Irving Thalberg, Sam Wood
Gloria Swanson, Walter Byron, Seena Owen, Sidney Bracey
Drama
USA
English (Silent)
1799
9
James W. Horne, Leo McCarey
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson
Short / Comedy / Family
USA
English (Silent)
1804
10
F. Richard Jones, Sidney Howard
Ronald Colman, Claud Allister, Lawrence Grant, Montagu Love
Mystery / Thriller / Adventure / Action / Detective
USA
English
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2026
11
Buster Keaton, Edward Sedgwick
Buster Keaton, Dorothy Sebastian, Edward Earle, Leila Hyams
Comedy / Romance / Gangster / Family
USA
English (Silent)
2033
12
E.A. Dupont
Gilda Gray, Anna May Wong, Jameson Thomas
Drama / Crime
UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2142
13
Georg Wilhelm Pabst
Louise Brooks, André Roanne, Josef Rovenský, Fritz Rasp
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2152
14
Irving Cummings, Raoul Walsh
Warner Baxter, Edmund Lowe, Dorothy Burgess, J. Farrell MacDonald
Western / Adventure
USA
English
2180
15
Sergei M. Eisenstein, Grigori Aleksandrov
Marfa Lapkina, Vasili Buzenkov, M. Ivanin, Chukamaryev
Drama / Experimental
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2496
17
Luther Reed
Bebe Daniels, John Boles, Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Dorothy Lee, Don Alvarado
Musical / Romance / Comedy / Western
USA
English
2502
18
Roy Del Ruth
Nancy Welford, Conway Tearle, Winnie Lightner, Ann Pennington, Lilyan Tashman
Comedy / Musical / Romance
USA
English
2511
19
Joe May
Albert Steinrück, Else Heller, Gustav Fröhlich, Betty Amann
Drama / Comedy / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2511
19
Frank Borzage
Janet Gaynor, Charles Farrell, Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams, Paul Fix, Hedwiga Reicher
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2511
19
Frank Borzage
Charles Farrell, Mary Duncan, Ivan Linow, Margaret Mann, Alfred Sabato
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2511
19
Robert F. McGowan
Bobby 'Wheezer' Hutchins, Joe Cobb, Allen 'Farina' Hoskins, Mary Ann Jackson
Comedy / Family / Short
USA
English
2511
19
Carl Junghans
Vera Baranovskaya, Theodor Pistek, Mána Zenísková
Drama
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
2578
20
Josef von Sternberg
Esther Ralston, James Hall, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Emily Fitzroy
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Silent)
2578
20
William K. Howard
Paul Muni, Marguerite Churchill, DeWitt Jennings, Henry Kolker
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2582
21
Dudley Murphy
Duke Ellington, Fredi Washington, Arthur Whetsol
Drama / Short / Music
USA
English
2605
23
William Wyler
Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway, Joe De La Cruz
Drama / Western
USA
English
2689
24
Charles Brabin
Lili Damita, Ernest Torrence, Raquel Torres, Don Alvarado, Duncan Renaldo
Drama / History / Religion
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
24
Robert Florey, Joseph Santley
Groucho Marx, Harpo Marx, Chico Marx, Zeppo Marx, Oscar Shaw, Mary Eaton
Comedy / Musical / Family
USA
English
2689
24
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Johnny Mack Brown, Matt Moore, John St. Polis, William Janney
Drama / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2689
24
Anthony Asquith
Norah Baring, Uno Henning, Hans Adalbert Schlettow, Judd Green
Drama / Crime
Sweden / UK
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
24
Aziza Amir, Ahmed Galal
Ahmed Allam, Aziza Amir, Abbas Fares
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Egypt
Arabic (Silent)
2689
24
Frank Lloyd
Corinne Griffith, Victor Varconi, H.B. Warner, Ian Keith, Marie Dressler
Drama / History / Biography / Romance / Epic
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
24
Richard Wallace
Maurice Chevalier, Sylvia Beecher, Russell Simpson, George Fawcett, John Miljan
Musical / Romance
USA
English
2689
24
Allan Dwan
Belle Bennett, Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Dorothy Revier
Adventure / Drama / History / Romance / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
24
Jacques Feyder
Gaby Morlay, Albert Préjean, Henry Roussel, Léon Arvel
Comedy / Romance
France
French (Silent)
2689
24
Alan Crosland
Arthur Lake, Betty Compson, Joe E. Brown, Sally O'Neil, William Bakewell
Musical / Comedy
USA
English
2689
24
Martin Fric
Karel Hasler, Oscar Marion, Suzanne Marwille, Ladislav H. Struna, Otto Zahradka
Drama / Romance
Czechoslovakia
Czech (Silent)
2689
24
W.S. Van Dyke
Ramon Novarro, Renée Adorée, Donald Crisp, Dorothy Janis
Drama / Romance / Musical
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2689
24
Leo McCarey
Alan Hale, Kathryn Crawford, Walter O'Keefe, Josephine Dunn, Anita Garvin
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2689
24
Sam Taylor
Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell, Joseph Cawthorn, Clyde Cook
Comedy / Romance
USA
English
2689
24
Kenji Mizoguchi
Reiji Ichiki, Takako Irie, Takaya Ito, Gunnosuke Kanahira, Shunji Kanda
Drama
Japan
Japanese (Silent)
2689
24
Victor Fleming
Gary Cooper, Walter Huston, Richard Arlen, Mary Brian, Helen Ware, Chester Conklin
Western
USA
English
2709
25
Roland West
Chester Morris, Harry Stubbs, Mae Busch, Eleanore Griffith
Crime / Thriller / Detective / Gangster
USA
English
2709
25
Charles Reisner
Conrad Nagel, Jack Benny, John Gilbert, Marion Davies
Musical
USA
English
2740
26
Pál Fejös
Glenn Tryon, Evelyn Brent, Merna Kennedy, Thomas E. Jackson
Musical / Romance / Crime
USA
English
2740
26
Johannes Meyer
Gustav Fröhlich, Rudolf Biebrach, Ossip Darmatow
Drama
Germany
German (Silent)
2740
26
Jean de Limur
Jeanne Eagels, O.P. Heggie, Reginald Owen, Herbert Marshall
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2740
26
Edward H. Griffith
Ann Harding, Fredric March, Carmelita Geraghty, Leslie Fenton
Romance / Drama
USA
English
2746
27
Josef von Sternberg
George Bancroft, Fay Wray, Richard Arlen
Pre-Noir / Drama / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2756
28
Dudley Murphy
Bessie Smith, Hall Johnson Choir, James P. Johnson, Jimmy Johnson, Alec Lovejoy
Drama / Musical / Short
USA
English
2756
28
Aloha Wanderwell
Aloha Wanderwell, Walter Wanderwell
Documentary
USA
English (Silent)
2779
29
Grigori Kozintsev, Leonid Trauberg
David Gutman, Yelena Kuzmina, Andrei Kostrichkin, Sofya Magarill
Drama / Period Film
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2792
30
Cecil B. DeMille
Kay Johnson, Charles Bickford, Conrad Nagel, Julia Faye
Drama
USA
English
2793
31
Lionel Barrymore
Lewis Stone, Ruth Chatterton, Raymond Hackett, Holmes Herbert, Eugenie Besserer
Drama
USA
English
2803
32
Hanns Schwarz
Brigitte Helm, Francis Lederer, Warwick Ward, Lya Jan, Harry Hardt
Drama / Romance
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
33
Warren Doane
Charley Chase, Nina Quartero, Gale Henry, Jay Eaton, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Richard Eichberg
Anna May Wong, Alexander Granach, Nien Soen Ling, Elwood Fleet Bostwick
Drama / Romance
Germany / UK
German (Silent)
2807
33
Warren Doane
Charley Chase, Thelma Todd, Eddie Dunn, Edgar Kennedy
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Hal Roach
Edgar Kennedy, Eddie Dunn, Irma Harrison, Ben Hall, May Milloy
Short / Comedy
USA
English
2807
33
Amo Bek-Nazaryan
Hrachia Nersisyan, Tigran Ayvazyan, Tatyana Makhmuryan, V. Manukhina
Drama
Soviet Union
Russian (Silent)
2807
33
Bryan Foy
Frank Whitman
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2807
33
Cecil B. DeMille
Lina Basquette, Marie Prevost, Tom Keene, Noah Beery, Eddie Quillan
Drama / Religion / Crime
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
33
Murray Roth
The Gotham Rhythm Boys, Eddie Lewis, Tom Miller, Lou Monte
Short / Music
USA
English
2807
33
Murray Roth
Harry Fox
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2807
33
George Fitzmaurice
Milton Sills, Dorothy Mackaill, Gladden James, Jed Prouty, Sidney Bracey
Drama / Crime
USA
English
2807
33
Leo McCarey
Max Davidson, Edgar Kennedy, Thelma Todd, Nellie V. Nichols, Oscar Apfel
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Eugen Schüfftan
Carl Balhaus, Alice Iversen, Theo Lingen, Aribert Mog, Hélène Robert
Short
Germany
German (Silent)
2807
33
Hobart Henley
Walter Huston, Claudette Colbert, Charles Ruggles, Patricia Deering, Tom Brown
Drama / Comedy
USA
English
2807
33
D.W. Griffith
Lupe Velez, William Boyd, Jetta Goudal, Albert Conti, George Fawcett, Henry Armetta
Drama / Romance
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
33
Alfred Hitchcock
Carl Brisson, Malcolm Keen, Anny Ondra, Randle Ayrton, Clare Greet
Drama / Romance
UK
English (Silent)
2807
33
Marco de Gastyne
Simone Genevois, Fernand Mailly, Georges Paulais, Jean Debucourt
Drama / History
France / Germany
German (Silent)
2807
33
Harry Edwards
Johnny Burke, Sally Eilers, Daphne Pollard, Matty Kemp, Carole Lombard
Comedy / Short
USA
English (Silent)
2807
33
Victor Saville
Estelle Brody, Ray Bauduc, Vic Breidis, Benny Goodman, Jimmy McPartland
Short / Music
UK
English
2807
33
Murray Roth
Oklahoma Bob Albright, Genevieve Herbert, Bertha Muller
Short / Comedy / Music
USA
English
2807
33
Hal Yates
Edgar Kennedy, Stuart Erwin, Anita Garvin, Marion Byron, Spec O'Donnell
Short / Comedy
USA
English (Silent)
2807
33
Mario Camerini
Käthe von Nagy, Maurizio D'Ancora, Daniele Crespi, Giacomo Moschini
Drama
Italy
Italian (Silent)
2807
33
Fred C. Newmeyer
Eddie Dowling, Marian Nixon, Frankie Darro, Sam Hardy, Lloyd Ingraham
Comedy / Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
33
Victor Schertzinger
Richard Dix, Julie Carter, Jane Novak, Larry Steers, Tully Marshall, Bernard Siegel
Western / Adventure / Drama
USA
English (Silent)
2807
33
William Wyler
James Murray, Barbara Kent, George Kotsonaros, Wheeler Oakman, Jack Hanlon
Drama / Sports / Crime / Comedy / Action
USA
English (Semi-Silent)
2807
33
Walt Disney
Walt Disney, Carl W. Stalling
Animation / Short / Comedy / Family / Fantasy / Horror / Musical
USA
English
2807
33
Frank Borzage
Will Rogers, Irene Rich, Owen Davis Jr., Marguerite Churchill, Fifi D'Orsay
Comedy
USA
English
2807
33
Tod Browning
Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Bela Lugosi, Margaret Wycherly, Helene Millard
Drama / Mystery
USA
English
2807
33
Edmund Goulding
Gloria Swanson, Robert Ames, Purnell Pratt, Henry B. Walthall, Wally Albright
Drama / Romance
USA
English
2807
33
Lewis R. Foster, Hal Roach
Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Edgar Kennedy, Mae Busch, Thelma Todd
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
William Watson
Billy Bevan, Dot Farley, Otto Fries, Natalie Joyce, Will King, Jean Harlow
Comedy / Short
USA
English
2807
33
Curtis Bernhardt
Marlene Dietrich, Fritz Kortner, Frida Richard, Oskar Sima, Uno Henning
Drama / Romance / Thriller
Germany
German (Silent)
2813
34
Raoul Walsh
Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Lili Damita, Leila Karnelly, El Brendel
Comedy / Musical
USA
English
2817
35
Sidney Franklin
Norma Shearer, Basil Rathbone, George Barraud, Herbert Bunston, Hedda Hopper
Comedy / Drama
USA
English
