Year 1926
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1. For Heaven's Sake (1926)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Comedy, Romance
An irresponsible young millionaire changes his tune when he falls for the daughter of a downtown minister.
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Harold Lloyd, Jobyna Ralston, Noah Young, Jim Mason
Votes: 1,965 | Gross: $5.67M
4 Stars
2. La Bohème (1926)
Passed | 95 min | Drama, Romance
A group of starving artists try to survive in 1830s Paris, including a seamstress and the would-be playwright she loves.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Lillian Gish, John Gilbert, Renée Adorée, George Hassell
Votes: 1,675 | Gross: $1.01M
3.5 Stars
3. Bardelys the Magnificent (1926)
Passed | 90 min | Drama, Romance
In the reign of King Louis XIII, dashing rogue and libertine Marquis de Bardelys is entranced by Roxalanne de Lavedan. Against a background of knavery and intrigue he sets out to woo and win her.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: John Gilbert, Eleanor Boardman, Roy D'Arcy, Lionel Belmore
Votes: 1,311 | Gross: $0.49M
3.5 Stars
4. The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926)
Not Rated | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A handsome prince rides a flying horse to faraway lands and embarks on magical adventures, which include befriending a witch, meeting Aladdin, battling demons and falling in love with a princess.
Directors: Lotte Reiniger, Carl Koch
Votes: 6,887
3.5 Stars
5. Mother (1926)
Not Rated | 89 min | Drama
A story about a family torn apart by a worker's strike. At first, the mother wants to protect her family from the troublemakers, but eventually she realizes that her son is right and the workers should strike.
Director: Vsevolod Pudovkin | Stars: Vera Baranovskaya, Nikolay Batalov, Aleksandr Chistyakov, Anna Zemtsova
Votes: 3,067
3.5 Stars
6. 3 Bad Men (1926)
Unrated | 122 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Three outlaws come to the aid of a young girl after her father is killed.
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Olive Borden, Lou Tellegen, Tom Santschi
Votes: 1,501
3.5 Stars
7. The Great K & A Train Robbery (1926)
53 min | Drama, Western
Disguising as a bandit, a detective infiltrates a group of train robberies while falling in love with the K and A railroad's president's daughter.
Director: Lewis Seiler | Stars: Tom Mix, Dorothy Dwan, Tony the Horse, Will Walling
Votes: 397
3.5 Stars
8. Faust (1926)
Not Rated | 107 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
The demon Mephisto wagers with God that he can corrupt a mortal man's soul.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Gösta Ekman, Emil Jannings, Camilla Horn, Frida Richard
Votes: 16,614
3 Stars
9. Tell It to the Marines (1926)
Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A gruff Marine sergeant and a handsome new recruit compete for the affection of a nurse.
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lon Chaney, William Haines, Eleanor Boardman, Eddie Gribbon
Votes: 1,621 | Gross: $0.74M
3 Stars
10. Ella Cinders (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Ella Cinders, oppressed and abused by her stepmother and stepsisters, wins a contest for a film role in Hollywood. When the contest turns out to be fraudulent, she determines to stay and achieve Hollywood stardom the hard way.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: Colleen Moore, Lloyd Hughes, Vera Lewis, Doris Baker
Votes: 1,083
3 Stars
11. The Scarlet Letter (1926)
Passed | 115 min | Drama
After having a child out of wedlock, a young Puritan woman is pressured to reveal the name of her lover.
Director: Victor Sjöström | Stars: Lillian Gish, Lars Hanson, Henry B. Walthall, Karl Dane
Votes: 1,938 | Gross: $0.67M
3 Stars
12. The Grand Duchess and the Waiter (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Comedy, Romance
Young millionaire Albert Durant poses as a waiter in order to woo an exiled Grand Duchess, who does not object since she knows who he is and he doesn't know she knows. And his money will ... See full summary »
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Adolphe Menjou, Florence Vidor, Lawrence Grant, George Beranger
Votes: 69
3 Stars
13. The Winning of Barbara Worth (1926)
Passed | 89 min | Drama, Romance, Western
While building an irrigation system for a Southwestern desert community, an engineer vies with a local cowboy for the affections of a rancher's daughter.
Director: Henry King | Stars: Ronald Colman, Vilma Bánky, Gary Cooper, Charles Lane
Votes: 939
3 Stars
14. Sparrows (1926)
Unrated | 109 min | Drama
Molly, the eldest child at a baby farm hidden deep in a swamp, must rescue the others when their cruel master decides that one of them will be disposed of.
Directors: William Beaudine, Tom McNamara | Stars: Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Mary Louise Miller, Gustav von Seyffertitz
Votes: 1,515 | Gross: $0.97M
3 Stars
15. The Son of the Sheik (1926)
Passed | 68 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
The son of the sheik and a dancing girl fall in love, but when he is made to believe she has betrayed him he seeks revenge.
Director: George Fitzmaurice | Stars: Rudolph Valentino, Vilma Bánky, George Fawcett, Montagu Love
Votes: 2,128 | Gross: $1.56M
3 Stars
16. So This Is Paris (1926)
Passed | 60 min | Comedy
Georgette lives in Paris with her unexciting, effeminate husband, an actor and interpretive dancer. Meanwhile, Suzanne lives across the street and reads romance novels while dreaming of ... See full summary »
Director: Ernst Lubitsch | Stars: Monte Blue, Patsy Ruth Miller, Lilyan Tashman, George Beranger
Votes: 754 | Gross: $0.11M
3 Stars
17. The First Year (1926)
75 min | Comedy
One of the films that Borzage shot under contract for Fox before he began his run of box-office hits. This is a comedy built up around the disastrous dinner that a couple of newlyweds ... See full summary »
Director: Frank Borzage | Stars: Matt Moore, Katherine Perry, John Patrick, Frank Currier
Votes: 31
3 Stars
18. The Black Pirate (1926)
Not Rated | 88 min | Adventure, Action
Seeking revenge, an athletic young man joins the pirate band responsible for his father's death.
Director: Albert Parker | Stars: Douglas Fairbanks, Billie Dove, Tempe Pigott, Donald Crisp
Votes: 2,140 | Gross: $0.68M
3 Stars
19. Don Juan (1926)
Passed | 110 min | Adventure, Romance
In 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.
Director: Alan Crosland | Stars: Jane Winton, John Roche, Warner Oland, Estelle Taylor
Votes: 962 | Gross: $1.92M
3 Stars
20. What Price Glory (1926)
116 min | Comedy, Drama, War
U.S. Marine sergeants Quirt and Flagg are inveterate romantic rivals on peacetime assignments in China and the Philippines. In 1917, W.W. I brings them to France, where Flagg, now a captain... See full summary »
Director: Raoul Walsh | Stars: Victor McLaglen, Edmund Lowe, Dolores Del Río, William V. Mong
Votes: 479 | Gross: $0.70M
3 Stars
21. Old Ironsides (1926)
Passed | 111 min | Drama, History
An American fighting ship battles Barbary pirates in the Mediterranean in the 18th century.
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Charles Farrell, Esther Ralston, Wallace Beery, George Bancroft
Votes: 311 | Gross: $1.43M
3 Stars
22. Torrent (1926)
Passed | 88 min | Drama, Romance
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... See full summary »
Director: Monta Bell | Stars: Ricardo Cortez, Greta Garbo, Gertrude Olmstead, Edward Connelly
Votes: 930 | Gross: $0.46M
3 Stars
23. Exit Smiling (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Romance
A maid who works for a traveling theatrical troupe wants desperately to be an actress, and manages to get some small roles in the company's productions, but is determined to do anything she... See full summary »
Director: Sam Taylor | Stars: Beatrice Lillie, Jack Pickford, Doris Lloyd, DeWitt Jennings
Votes: 518
3 Stars
24. Secrets of a Soul (1926)
Not Rated | 97 min | Drama
A scientist is tormented by an irrational fear of knives and the irresistible compulsion to murder his wife.
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Werner Krauss, Ruth Weyher, Ilka Grüning, Jack Trevor
Votes: 806
3 Stars
25. It's the Old Army Game (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Druggist Elmer Prettywillie is sleeping. A woman rings the night bell only to buy a two-cent stamp. Then garbage collectors waken him. Next it's firemen on a false alarm. And then a real fire.
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: W.C. Fields, Louise Brooks, Blanche Ring, William Gaxton
Votes: 331
3 Stars
26. The Show-Off (1926)
Passed | 82 min | Comedy, Drama
A blowhard who poses as a railroad executive but is really just a $30-a-week clerk catches a young bride, then drives her family's finances to the brink of ruin.
Director: Malcolm St. Clair | Stars: Ford Sterling, Lois Wilson, Louise Brooks, Gregory Kelly
Votes: 325
3 Stars
27. The Holy Mountain (1926)
100 min | Drama
Diotima meets Karl in the mountains where they fall in love and have an affair. When Karl's friend, Vigo, meets her, he mistakenly believes she is in love with him. Karl then believes that she is betraying him with his friend.
Directors: Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl | Stars: Leni Riefenstahl, Luis Trenker, Ernst Petersen, Frida Richard
Votes: 920
the holy mountain: 3 Stars
28. The Strong Man (1926)
Passed | 75 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
A meek Belgian soldier, fighting in World War I, receives a letter and a photo from "Mary Brown", an American girl he has never met. After the war, he travels to America searching for her.
Director: Frank Capra | Stars: Harry Langdon, Priscilla Bonner, Gertrude Astor, William V. Mong
Votes: 961
3 Stars
29. The Bells (1926)
68 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
An innkeeper murders a wealthy guest to pay off his debt, but his conscience will not allow him to get away with the crime so easily.
Director: James Young | Stars: Lionel Barrymore, Caroline Frances Cooke, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Lorimer Johnston
Votes: 508
3 Stars
30. The Blue Eagle (1926)
Passed | 58 min | Action, Drama
George and Big Jim are comrades in the Navy but rivals outside it, both fighting for the love of Rose, the local policeman's daughter. When the war is over Father Regan tries to unite them ... See full summary »
Director: John Ford | Stars: George O'Brien, Janet Gaynor, William Russell, Margaret Livingston
Votes: 213
3 Stars
31. Brown of Harvard (1926)
Passed | 85 min | Action, Drama, Romance
Tom Brown shows up at Harvard, confident and a bit arrogant. He becomes a rival of Bob McAndrew, not only in football and rowing crew, but also for the affections of Mary Abbott, a professor's daughter.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: William Haines, Jack Pickford, Mary Brian, Francis X. Bushman Jr.
Votes: 1,531
2.5 Stars
32. Tartuffe (1925)
Not Rated | 70 min | Comedy, Drama
A young man shows his millionaire grandfather a film based on Molière's Tartuffe, in order to expose the old man's hypocritical governess who covets his own inheritance.
Director: F.W. Murnau | Stars: Hermann Picha, Rosa Valetti, André Mattoni, Werner Krauss
Votes: 2,712
2.5 Stars
33. The Student of Prague (1926)
110 min | Drama, Horror
For Balduin, going out to beer parties with his fellow students and fighting out disputes at the tip of the sword have lost their charms. He wants to find love; but how would he, a ... See full summary »
Director: Henrik Galeen | Stars: Conrad Veidt, Elizza La Porta, Fritz Alberti, Ágnes Eszterházy
Votes: 767
2.5 Stars
34. Battling Butler (1926)
Passed | 77 min | Comedy, Sport
A love-struck weakling must pretend to be boxer in order to gain respect from the family of the girl he loves.
Director: Buster Keaton | Stars: Buster Keaton, Snitz Edwards, Sally O'Neil, Walter James
Votes: 3,887 | Gross: $0.70M
2.5 Stars
35. The Temptress (1926)
Passed | 62 min | Drama, Romance
An architect tries suppressing his passion for a seductive woman.
Directors: Fred Niblo, Mauritz Stiller | Stars: Greta Garbo, Antonio Moreno, Marc McDermott, Lionel Barrymore
Votes: 1,343 | Gross: $0.59M
2.5 Stars
36. Nana (1926)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama, Romance
When the vivacious and beautiful Nana bombs at the Théâtre des Variétés, she embarks on the life of a courtesan, using her allure and charisma to entice and pleasure men.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Catherine Hessling, Pierre Lestringuez, Jacqueline Forzane, Werner Krauss
Votes: 964
2.5 Stars
37. Dancing Mothers (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
A young girl becomes a "flapper", defying her parents and the community.
Director: Herbert Brenon | Stars: Conway Tearle, Alice Joyce, Clara Bow, Norman Trevor
Votes: 200
2.5 Stars
38. The Volga Boatman (1926)
Passed | 120 min | Drama, Romance
During the Revolution Princess Vera, though betrothed to Prince Dimitri, is attracted to the peasant Feodor.
Director: Cecil B. DeMille | Stars: William Boyd, Elinor Fair, Robert Edeson, Victor Varconi
Votes: 179 | Gross: $0.70M
2.5 Stars
39. Behind the Front (1926)
61 min | Comedy
During World War I a young man joins the army and winds up befriending another young recruit, not knowing that it's the same pickpocket who stole his watch. After finishing basic training, ... See full summary »
Director: A. Edward Sutherland | Stars: Wallace Beery, Raymond Hatton, Mary Brian, Richard Arlen
Votes: 61
2.5 Stars
40. The Clinging Vine (1926)
Passed | 71 min | Comedy
Mannish ultra-efficient A.B. is the real force behind the Bancroft paint business. But on a weekend house-party when she overhears the boss's grandson Jimmy's unflattering opinion of her ... See full summary »
Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Leatrice Joy, Tom Moore, Toby Claude, Robert Edeson
Votes: 125
2.5 Stars
41. The Shamrock Handicap (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Romance, Drama
The story of Sir Miles O'Hara and his daughter, who rent out living quarters to a poor family, the O'Sheas, who cannot pay rent on time.
Director: John Ford | Stars: Janet Gaynor, Leslie Fenton, J. Farrell MacDonald, Louis Payne
Votes: 205
2.5 Stars
42. Tramp, Tramp, Tramp (1926)
Passed | 62 min | Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Low-life Harry falls in love with sweet Betty who inspires him to improve himself so he can marry her. He enters a $25, 000 cross-country hiking contest. After many adventures he wins, pays off his father Amos's mortgage and marries Betty.
Director: Harry Edwards | Stars: Harry Langdon, Joan Crawford, Edwards Davis, Tom Murray
Votes: 814 | Gross: $0.24M
2.5 Stars
43. The Johnstown Flood (1926)
Passed | 66 min | Drama
Follows Tom O'Day, who is loved by two women: Anna Burger and Gloria Hamilton. He has no idea of Anna's love for him, and he becomes engaged to Gloria.
Director: Irving Cummings | Stars: George O'Brien, Florence Gilbert, Janet Gaynor, Anders Randolf
Votes: 304
2.5 Stars
44. The Better 'Ole (1926)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy, War, Drama
The adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
Director: Charles Reisner | Stars: Syd Chaplin, Harold Goodwin, Jack Ackroyd, Edgar Kennedy
Votes: 288 | Gross: $1.25M
2 Stars
45. The Boob (1926)
Passed | 64 min | Comedy, Romance
Idealistic farm boy Peter loves Amy whose fancy is urbane Harry. Peter discovers Harry is a bootlegger and turns him over to he prohibition agents, including Jane (Joan Crawford). Amy, at last, is impressed with Peter.
Director: William A. Wellman | Stars: Gertrude Olmstead, George K. Arthur, Joan Crawford, Charles Murray
Votes: 685
2 Stars
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