The best movies 1926

During America’s Civil War, Union spies steal engineer Johnny Gray's beloved locomotive, 'The General'—with Johnnie's lady love aboard an...

The film depicts the troubles of Herr Verner (Karel Hasler), a middle-aged bachelor dentist who wants to marry.

Gerhard Lamprecht sketches a cross-section of Germany's new post-war society, with its winners, social climbers, and losers, represented by the...

God and Satan wager on the soul of a learned and prayerful alchemist as part of their eternal war over Earth.

Robert J. Flaherty’s follow-up to Nanook of the North shifts from the Arctic to the South Seas, portraying Samoan village life with a painterly...

Bill and Oscar are musicians but they can't make enough to pay their room-and-board, and they are both in love with the landlady's daughter. However,...

The film premiered on August 27, 1926 in the Estonian cinema Rekord (later called Helios). It was advertised as "Estonia Film's first trick film".

The film is about the opposition between working-class people and the certain power.

Baldevins bryllup (English: Baldevin's wedding) is a 1926 Norwegian comedy film directed by George Schnéevoigt, starring Einar Sissener and...

The dashing mountaineer Zaur kills a Russian "imperialist" thereby becoming an abrek, member of a roving band of outlaws.

A Jewish writer in Czarist Russia is forced to flee when the government comes after him for his "objectionable" writings. He emigrates to the US,...

A hunter is hired by a count to track down a poacher who has been killing deer on his estate.

"Blizz" Ballard, summoned by the Homesteaders' League to track down a gang of cattle rustlers, arrives in Paradise Valley. In the saloon, he is...

A man once rejected by a young woman returns twenty years later to take revenge.

Charley is chased into a phone booth by a dog and agrees to help a young woman on the phone avoid getting married.

Dreamy little comedy as down-on-his-luck Ham looks for work, gets thrown out of his rooming house and tries to make it on the street -- in the best,...

A motorcycle cop falls in love with a pretty girl when he gives her a speeding ticket, and she realizes that she loves him at the dinner she stages,...

Luis Candelas, the mythical bandit, just and generous, comes to the aid of a nobleman who saved his life. Adventure film directed by José...

Two navy ensigns, Manuel d'Astures and the Viscount of Brazza, nicknamed Boy, return to Spain after a long mission at sea. The latter is surprised to...

In the celebrations of the recruits, Don Esteban rejects José Luis, the boyfriend of his daughter Luz María, who promises to kidnap her.

A young woman abandoned by her lover sells her body to his mentor, a renowned sculptor.

A poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

Made with Technicolor technique, this documentary presents to the world for the first time the terrible cycle of this endemic evil.

Malvaloca is a rather foolish and beautiful girl living with her careless parents. After being abandoned by a man she has a daughter. Later she meets...

A priest hears in an act of confession protected by ecclesiastical secrecy the author of the crime of a powerful rancher that the townspeople...

Adolfo, a railroad engineer, is sent to a provincial station to investigate a series of thefts from trains. The investigation uncovers the existence...

Ricla, a village in Aragon, Spain, 1898. The imminent wedding between Jesús and Pilar, two young lovers, is frustrated when he is drafted to...

All men who fall in love with Marichu die violently.

Currito, raised in a Seville hospice, ekes out a living while trying to become a bullfighter.

Film adaptation of the play by the brothers Álvarez Quintero

A 1926 documentary short film.