Battling Butler

Battling Butler 1926

6.80

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

1926

The General

The General 1926

7.96

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an attached boxcar—and he single-handedly must do all in his power to both get The General back and to rescue Annabelle.

1926

Faust

Faust 1926

7.88

God and Satan war over earth; to settle things, they wager on the soul of Faust, a learned and prayerful alchemist.

1926

For Heaven's Sake

For Heaven's Sake 1926

6.90

An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.

1926

The Adventures of Prince Achmed

The Adventures of Prince Achmed 1926

7.52

Taken from The Arabian Nights, the film tells the story of a wicked sorcerer who tricks Prince Achmed into mounting a magical flying horse and sends the rider off on a flight to his death. But the prince foils the magician’s plan, and soars headlong into a series of wondrous adventures.

1926

3 Bad Men

3 Bad Men 1926

6.80

Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.

1926

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp

Tramp, Tramp, Tramp 1926

5.80

A poor cobbler's son enters a $25,000 cross-country hiking contest sponsored by the footwear company that has nearly bankrupted his father. He also has fallen in love with the girl on the company's billboards, the competition's daughter, and her sweet inspiration keeps him tramping along.

1926

The Son of the Sheik

The Son of the Sheik 1926

6.30

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 meet secretly until one night when her father and the gang capture the son of the sheik, torture him, and hold him for ransom.

1926

Torrent

Torrent 1926

6.90

A young girl and her father are kicked out of their house by a cruel noblewoman, and the girl's heart is broken when her sweetheart, the noblewoman's son, won't go to Paris with them. After becoming an opera star in Paris, the girl returns to her homeland and finds her romance with the nobleman rekindled.

1926

Moana

Moana 1926

6.60

Robert J. Flaherty's South Seas follow-up to Nanook of the North is a Gauguin idyll moved by "pride of beauty... pride of strength."

1926

The Blackbird

The Blackbird 1926

6.20

Two thieves, the Blackbird and West End Bertie, fall in love with the same girl, a French nightclub performer named Fifi. Each man tries to outdo the other to win her heart.

1926

Flesh and the Devil

Flesh and the Devil 1926

7.30

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station and is mesmerized by her beauty. A scandal follows, for which Leo is sent away. Returning home three years later, he discovers that much has changed.

1926

Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent 1926

7.80

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

1926

A Page of Madness

A Page of Madness 1926

7.44

A man takes a job at an asylum with hopes of freeing his imprisoned wife.

1926

Crazy Like a Fox

Crazy Like a Fox 1926

6.17

Two rich capitalists want to marry their children, but they don't like the idea at all. She tries to run away, and meets him at the station. They fall in love, unbeknownst to their real identities, and decide each on their own that they have to wreck their parents plan. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive.

1926

Egged On

Egged On 1926

6.20

Charley invents a machine that turns ordinary, breakable eggs into rubbery, unbreakable ones for transport. He builds a Rube Goldberg contraption of parts stolen from his neighbors. Rival egg companies want his invention, one of them stooping to sabotage to get it.

1926

Fig Leaves

Fig Leaves 1926

5.80

Adam, a plumber, is happily married to Eve, a wardrobe-obsessed housewife, until she accidentally meets a supercilious fashion designer. At the prompting of her neighbor, who has secret designs on Adam, Eve secretly becomes a fashion model by day, knowing that her husband would disapprove.

1926

The Bride of Glomdal

The Bride of Glomdal 1926

6.50

Tore takes over the rundown family farm. Applying his youthful energy, he intends to make it into a big farm like Glomgården on the other side of the river, where beautiful Berit loves. Tore falls in love with her, but her father has promised her to rich Gjermund. As her wedding to Gjermund draws near, Berit runs away and seeks refuge with Tore and his parents. She soon falls deathly ill but recovers, asking for, and getting, her father’s permission to marry Tore. Jealous Gjermund is determined to prevent their wedding, however, in a dramatic climactic scene playing out around the rushing river.

1926

Mother

Mother 1926

7.11

A Soviet woman is caught between her husband and son, who find themselves on opposing sides of the Russian Revolution.

1926

Tell It to the Marines

Tell It to the Marines 1926

6.30

U.S. Marine Sergeant O'Hara has his hands full training raw recruits, one of whom, 'Skeets' Burns, is a particular thorn in his side. If Burns's lackadaisical approach to the military were not bad enough, he also makes advances on nurse Nora Dale, whom Sergeant O'Hara secretly loves. Nora is oblivious to O'Hara's feelings and is attracted to the handsome 'Skeet.' But an indiscretion turns her against him, and it takes an expedition to China and a battle with a warlord's bandit brigade to sort things out among the nurse and her two Marines.

1926