Silent Film- Drama

'Silent Drama' is, as it must be, a catch-all term for some of the most visually exciting, innovative films ever made. From the early films of such filmmakers as RW Paul and the films restored collected on the Retour de Flamme series, through to Dreyer's Michael and Murnau & Flaherty's Tabu, the filmmakers' approach was one in which, of necessity, image was privileged o... [+]

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Silent Film- Drama Film Listing

Fritz Lang, 1924

£13.99

Must Watch Star

Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)

Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...

DVD

Carl Theodor Dreyer, 1927

£13.99

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The Passion of Joan of Arc (Masters of Cinema)

Some films have their own mythology - none more so than Carl Theodor Dreyer's The...

DVD

John Grierson, Sergei M. Eisenstein, 1929

£11.99

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The Soviet Influence: Battleship Potemkin / Drifters

In the 1920s and 30s, Soviet propaganda films profo...

DVD+Blu-ray

Sergei Eisenstein, 1924

£19.99

Strike (Hyperkino Edition)

Trying out new ideas which he was to go on and make famous the following year in ...

DVD

Lev Kuleshov, 1918

£19.99

Engineer Prite's Project (Hyperkino Edition)

Lev Kuleshov’s directorial debut is a landmark work of Russian cinema, being the ...

DVD

Alexander Medvedkin, 1934

£19.99

Happiness (Hyperkino Edition)

Aka 'A Tale of a Hapless Mercenary Khmyr, His Horse-Wife Anna, His Well-Fed Neigh...

DVD

Yasujiro Ozu, 1930-33

£23.49

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Yasujiro Ozu: The Gangster Films

Contains the three silent Yasujiro Ozu films Walk Cheerfully (1930), That Night's...

DVD

Fritz Lang, 1924

£16.99

Must Watch Star

Die Nibelungen (Masters of Cinema)

Perhaps the most stately of Fritz Lang’s two-part epics, the five-hour Die Nibelu...

Blu-ray

F.W. Murnau, 1931

£13.99

Tabu: A Story of the South Seas (Masters of Cinema)

In 1929, FW Murnau invited leading documentarist Robert Flaherty to collaborate o...

Blu-ray

Aleksandr Dovzhenko, 1928

£11.99

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Zvenigora

A silent revolutionary epic and a remarkable avant-garde film, Zvenigora - Dovzhenko's initial fi...

DVD

E A Dupont, 1929

£13.99

Piccadilly

Seething with sexual and racial tension, this is a sumptuous showbiz melodrama starring Anna May ...

DVD

Anthony Asquith, 1929

£17.99

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A Cottage on Dartmoor

This late silent film from Anthony Asquith is a dark tale of sexual jealousy and thwarted love th...

DVD

Alfred Hitchcock, 1927-31

£29.49

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Early Hitchcock Box Set

Nine films from Hitchcock's very early period, including some of his silent work ...

DVD

F.W. Murnau, 1927

£12.99

Sunrise (Masters of Cinema)

A landmark of silent cinema and one of the finest films of any era. A woman from ...

DVD+Blu-ray

Frank Borzage, 1927-28

£9.49

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Borzage Volume 1: Seventh Heaven & Street Angel

Features the two silent Frank Borzage films, Seventh Heaven (1927) and Street Ang...

DVD

F.W. Murnau, 1930

£12.99

City Girl (Masters of Cinema)

After the visual fireworks of Sunrise and the now-lost splendour of 4 Devils, F.W...

DVD+Blu-ray

Georg Wilhelm Pabst, 1928

£17.99

Pandora's Box

The all time silent classic based on two plays by Frank Wedekind. With a legendary performance by...

DVD

Yasujiro Ozu, 1933-57

£23.49

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The Ozu Collection: Three Melodramas

Melodrama is not a word usually associated with Ozu's quietly poetic oeuvre but h...

DVD