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...

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

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".

A nobleman vows to avenge the death of his father by the hands of pirates. To this end, he infiltrates the pirate band; Acting in character, he...

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

Taken from The Arabian Nights, a wicked sorcerer and the beautiful prince Achmed battle one against the other during a series of wondrous adventures.

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

When lifelong best friends Leo and Ulrich return home after completing their military training, Leo meets the stunning Felicitas at a railway station...

George Thorne is a young army lieutenant at a border post. He is in love with Mercedes Castanada who, in the lawless life about the fort, is always...

Donald is running so late for his own wedding that his bride-to-be, Wanda (Wanda Hawley), loses patience and returns home. Seizing the opportunity,...

Count Moffat becomes infatuated with Nana, a presumptuous stage actress, vulgar, hypocritical and promiscuous, willing to do anything to succeed.

This movie is about a miner who works in Rakita coal mine in South-East Serbia, surrounded by untouched beauty of a rural region, where only a...

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

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...

Gypsies show up at Mr. Adam's estate. Among them is the young Tumry, who fell in love with Motruna, the daughter of a Gypsy who settled in the...

After several amusing gags, including one in which a tough character seems to be holding up the pawnshop but is only selling his gun, Abie sees Kitty...

Mary is marrying Jimmie, from whom she has kept a secret; Mary remains in love with another man. Problems ensue, jeopardizing the tranquility of...

Paul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers...

A timid bank clerk has to toughen up during the search for a gang of bank robbers.

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

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,...

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...

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

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 poor fellow is dominated by his wife who is unfaitful.

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

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

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

Film based on the sonnet by the same name, written by Evaristo Carriego.

A 1926 film. Only a 4-minute fragment survives.

The lives of two young couples are intertwined with a crime gang involved in smuggling contraband from the mainland onto the island of Mallorca.

All men who fall in love with Marichu die violently.

The film "El Patio de los Naranjos", restored by the Filmoteca de Andalucía, was shot in 1926 by Guillermo Hernández Mir. A fictional...

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

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