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Best Movies of 1928, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
68 films from 1928 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is The Passion of Joan of Arc ('1928), at 8.1 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.3. Biggest split between audiences and critics: The Passion of Joan of Arc, 8.1 on IMDb against 98 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Passion of Joan of Arc '1928 | Drama | 8.1 | 98% | 98 | 8.0 | Carl Theodor Dreyer |
| 2 | The Circus '1928 | Comedy / Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 97% | 90 | 7.9 | Charlie Chaplin |
| 3 | The Crowd '1928 | Drama / Romance | 8.1 | 96% | - | 7.6 | King Vidor |
| 4 | The Cameraman '1928 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.8 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 5 | The Wind '1928 | Drama / Western / Romance / Thriller | 8.0 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Victor Sjöström |
| 6 | Steamboat Bill, Jr. '1928 | Comedy / Romance | 7.8 | 96% | - | 7.6 | Charles Reisner |
| 7 | The Last Command '1928 | Drama / War | 7.9 | 95% | - | 7.4 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 8 | The Man Who Laughs '1928 | Drama / Romance / Horror | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Paul Leni |
| 9 | Lonesome '1928 | Romance / Drama | 7.7 | 71% | - | 7.5 | Pál Fejős |
| 10 | Speedy '1928 | Comedy / Action | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Ted Wilde |
| 11 | Show People '1928 | Comedy / Romance | 7.6 | 92% | - | 7.1 | King Vidor |
| 12 | The Docks of New York '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.5 | 100% | - | 7.0 | Josef von Sternberg |
| 13 | Spies '1928 | Thriller / Romance | 7.5 | 95% | - | 7.3 | Fritz Lang |
| 14 | Steamboat Willie '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.4 | 100% | - | 7.3 | Walt Disney |
| 15 | October (Ten Days that Shook the World) '1928 | Drama | 7.4 | 92% | - | 6.9 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 16 | The Patsy '1928 | Comedy / Romance / Drama | 7.5 | 100% | - | 6.8 | King Vidor |
| 17 | The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.2 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 18 | Laugh, Clown, Laugh '1928 | Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.4 | Herbert Brenon |
| 19 | Beggars of Life '1928 | Drama / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.1 | William A. Wellman |
| 20 | The Wedding March '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.4 | 64% | - | 7.1 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 21 | L'Argent '1928 | Drama | 7.5 | - | - | 7.0 | Marcel L'Herbier |
| 22 | Street Angel '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Frank Borzage |
| 23 | The Fall of the House of Usher '1928 | Horror | 7.2 | 100% | - | 7.1 | Jean Epstein |
| 24 | Sadie Thompson '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.2 | 83% | - | 6.6 | Raoul Walsh |
| 25 | West of Zanzibar '1928 | Drama / Thriller / Mystery | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Tod Browning |
| 26 | Two Tars '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.8 | James Parrott |
| 27 | The Mysterious Lady '1928 | Drama | 7.2 | 83% | - | 7.3 | Fred Niblo |
| 28 | The Finishing Touch '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Clyde Bruckman |
| 29 | Underground '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.3 | - | - | 6.8 | Anthony Asquith |
| 30 | Four Sons '1928 | War / Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 7.3 | John Ford |
| 31 | The House on Trubnaya '1928 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.3 | Boris Barnet |
| 32 | KoKo's Earth Control '1928 | Comedy / Animation | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | Dave Fleischer |
| 33 | Ghosts Before Breakfast '1928 | Animation / Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Hans Richter |
| 34 | A Woman of Affairs '1928 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | - | - | 6.5 | Clarence Brown |
| 35 | The Little Match Girl '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.9 | Jean Renoir |
| 36 | The Life and Death of 9413: A Hollywood Extra '1928 | Drama | 7.1 | - | - | 6.6 | Robert Florey |
| 37 | Zvenigora '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.3 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| 38 | There It Is '1928 | Horror / Comedy / Animation / Mystery | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Harold L. Muller |
| 39 | The Starfish '1928 | Romance | 7.0 | - | - | 6.9 | Man Ray |
| 40 | The Seashell and the Clergyman '1928 | Drama / Fantasy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.7 | Germaine Dulac |
| 41 | Storm Over Asia '1928 | Drama / War | 7.0 | 75% | - | 6.5 | Vsevolod Pudovkin |
| 42 | The Eleventh Year '1928 | Documentary | 6.9 | - | - | 6.0 | Dziga Vertov |
| 43 | The Bridge '1928 | Documentary | 6.9 | - | - | 6.5 | Joris Ivens |
| 44 | The Last Warning '1928 | Horror / Mystery / Thriller | 6.9 | - | - | 6.7 | Paul Leni |
| 45 | The Italian Straw Hat '1928 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.2 | René Clair |
| 46 | White Shadows in the South Seas '1928 | Romance / Drama | 6.8 | - | - | 6.7 | W.S. Van Dyke |
| 47 | We Faw Down '1928 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.0 | Leo McCarey |
| 48 | The Octopus '1928 | Documentary | 6.6 | - | - | 6.5 | Jean Painlevé |
| 49 | Should Married Men Go Home? '1928 | Comedy | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | James Parrott |
| 50 | The Fall of the House of Usher '1928 | Horror | 6.8 | 100% | - | 6.8 | Melville Webber |
Our catalog covers roughly the 8,800 most-rated films on TMDB, so lesser-known titles may be missing. Order uses a confidence-weighted IMDb score so a perfect score from a handful of votes does not beat a well-established classic; the scores shown are the raw ones.
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