156 Silent movies with original music score created at the time of release
Silent movies (excluding lost films) that was released with movietone music soundtrack or other form of synchronized music-track on-film (or vitaphone) at the time of their release. (i.e. no revisionist-music written decades later.)
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- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsJane WintonJohn RocheWarner OlandIn 16th-century Italy, devil-may-care playboy Don Juan runs afoul of the despotic Borgias.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinHarold GoodwinJack AckroydThe adventures of Old Bill and his friends Bert and Alf in the trenches of the first World War.
- DirectorRaoul WalshStarsVictor McLaglenEdmund LoweDolores Del RíoU.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, takes up with flirtatious Charmaine, inn-keeper's daughter. Of course, Quirt has to arrive and spoil his fun. But the harsh realities of war and the threat of a shotgun marriage give the two men a common cause...
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsJohn BarrymoreDolores CostelloWarner OlandA nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
- DirectorCharles ReisnerStarsSyd ChaplinRuth HiattTom McGuireArthur Wells (Syd Chaplin), an impoverished poet, impersonates a big-game hunter in an attempt to locate the missing link. However, the poet has an aversion to animals...tame or wild.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsDolores CostelloJosef SwickardAnders RandolfIn San Francisco, a villainous land owner with underworld connections seeks to steal the property of an old Spanish family.
- DirectorRoy Del RuthStarsRussell SimpsonPatsy Ruth MillerFrank CampeauHank owns horses, stables horses and races horses. He favorite horse always wins and he is prosperous and well known. His son (Bob), however, dreams only of the future of the horseless carriage and not of the horse. This causes problems between Hank and Bob. As the people in the town convert from horses to autos, Hank detests those who switch - so he loses his friends, his son Bob, and finally his livery business. Bob leaves his flame Rose and goes to Detroit, gets involved with the auto industry and does very well. He does not forget Hank and promises to see him again, but Hank's hatred of the auto may cause the death of Bob.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellBen BardA street cleaner saves a young woman's life, and the pair slowly fall in love until war intervenes.
- DirectorF.W. MurnauStarsGeorge O'BrienJanet GaynorMargaret LivingstonA sophisticated city woman seduces a farmer and convinces him to murder his wife and join her in the city, but he ends up rekindling his romance with his wife when he changes his mind at the last moment.
- DirectorMichael CurtizStarsWarner OlandHelene CostelloClyde CookCharley Keane is a well-known vaudeville performer who seems to have everything going for him--fame, money, and a beautiful daughter on whom he dotes. Unfortunately, things start to slide downhill for Charley, both career-wise and in his personal life. His manager is crooked, he is spending too much money and doesn't have enough coming in, and his daughter becomes an actress--and her fame starts to eclipse his.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMonte BlueBetty BronsonWilliam RussellZac Harrison (Monte Blue), upon his release from prison assumes responsibility for seeing to the needs of June Curry (Betty Bronson), the 17-year-old daughter of a fellow inmate who has died. He is reformed by her innocence and, in time marries her.
- DirectorD. Ross LedermanStarsRin Tin TinVirginia Brown FaireCarroll NyeDanny O'Shea (Bobby Gordon) runs away from hone with his pet dog Rinty (Rin-Tin-Tin) and heads for a race track determined to become a famous jockey. Aided by Rinty he is soon riding in a big race.
- DirectorJohn FordStarsJames HallMargaret MannCharles MortonA family saga in which three sons of a Bavarian widow go to war for Germany and the fourth goes to America, Germany's eventual opponent.
- DirectorArchie MayoStarsMyrna LoyJohn MiljanLeila HyamsGregory Kent (John Miljan) is on the run for a crime he did not commit.
- DirectorFrank BorzageStarsJanet GaynorCharles FarrellNatalie KingstonA woman on the run from the law finds her past catching up to her just as she is on the verge of true happiness.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsDolores CostelloConrad NagelJohn MiljanThe real-life courtship, marriage, and forced breakup of Jérôme Bonaparte, brother of Napoleon, and his rich wife from the American south, Elizabeth Patterson. Napoleon did not approve of the union and fixes him up with another girl.
- DirectorEdwin CareweStarsDolores Del RíoWarner BaxterRoland DrewAfter refusing to marry her adopted brother, a half Native-American Mexican woman flees to marry a Native man.
- DirectorHoward HawksStarsCharles FarrellGreta NissenJohn BolesAn Arab prince born and raised in the desert and a beautiful Frenchwoman from Paris fall in love and marry, but the tremendous differences in their backgrounds and the cultural differences between their two different societies put strains on their marriage that may well prove irreparable.
- DirectorLloyd BaconStarsMay McAvoyLionel BarrymoreAlec B. FrancisJudge Ross, on the Federal Bench, rules in favor of a large company in litigation before him, unaware that a smaller company in which he owns considerable stock has been subsumed by the larger firm, thus creating appearance of a conflict of interests. When one of the Judge's enemies plots to ruin the Judge over this apparent improper behavior, Judge Ross's daughter Shirley sets out to prove her father's innocence.
- DirectorSam TaylorLewis MilestoneViktor TourjanskyStarsJohn BarrymoreCamilla HornLouis WolheimIn Czarist Russia, a peasant officer, resented by the aristocrats, falls in love with a princess.
- DirectorW.S. Van DykeRobert J. FlahertyStarsMonte BlueRaquel TorresRobert AndersonAn alcoholic doctor on a Polynesian island, disgusted by white exploitation of the natives, finds himself marooned on a pristinely beautiful island.
- DirectorAlan CroslandStarsLya De PuttiDon AlvaradoWarner Oland
- DirectorHoward BrethertonStarsMay McAvoyConrad NagelMack SwainWealthy Bob visits his mother's Florida houseboat in order to remove her jewelry and stumbles upon a bobbed-hair bandit and her male accomplice, who mistake him for another burglar. A fight is broken up by the arrival of an elderly couple (still more burglars) who are posing as guests. Bob keeps his identity secret and passes himself off as the butler; the girl and her partner pretend to be the maid and the cook. A couple of idiotic detectives, arrive on the scene, closely followed by a heavy fog that traps them all on board.
- DirectorWilliam K. HowardStarsVictor McLaglenLois MoranNick StuartWhart-rat Nick Stuart grows up in reform school and is taken under the wing of likable career-criminal Victor McLagien, who makes him part of his illicit operations.
- DirectorFred NibloStarsRonald ColmanVilma BánkyNoah BeeryTwo Lovers (1928) is a silent feature film directed by Fred Niblo, and produced by Samuel Goldwyn.