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Best Movies of 1929, Ranked by IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes, Metacritic and TMDB
86 films from 1929 are in our catalog; the 50 best are ranked below. Top of the list is Man with a Movie Camera ('1929), at 8.3 on IMDb. The average IMDb score across this list is 7.1. Biggest split between audiences and critics: Piccadilly, 7.1 on IMDb against 89 on Metacritic.
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| # | Movie | Genre | IMDb | Tomato | Meta | TMDB | Director |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Man with a Movie Camera '1929 | Documentary | 8.3 | 98% | 96 | 7.8 | Dziga Vertov |
| 2 | Pandora's Box '1929 | Drama / Crime / Romance | 7.7 | 93% | - | 7.4 | G.W. Pabst |
| 3 | Diary of a Lost Girl '1929 | Drama | 7.8 | 100% | - | 7.3 | G.W. Pabst |
| 4 | Un Chien Andalou '1929 | Fantasy / Thriller / Horror | 7.6 | 100% | - | 7.4 | Luis Buñuel |
| 5 | The Skeleton Dance '1929 | Animation / Musical / Comedy / Horror | 7.6 | - | - | 7.4 | Walt Disney |
| 6 | Big Business '1929 | Comedy | 7.6 | - | - | 6.7 | James W. Horne |
| 7 | Lucky Star '1929 | Romance / Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 7.6 | Frank Borzage |
| 8 | Liberty '1929 | Comedy | 7.5 | - | - | 6.9 | Leo McCarey |
| 9 | Woman in the Moon '1929 | Drama / Sci-Fi / Romance | 7.3 | 80% | - | 7.2 | Fritz Lang |
| 10 | Asphalt '1929 | Drama | 7.4 | - | - | 7.3 | Joe May |
| 11 | A Cottage on Dartmoor '1929 | Thriller / Drama / Crime | 7.5 | - | - | 7.2 | Anthony Asquith |
| 12 | Rain '1929 | Documentary | 7.2 | - | - | 7.4 | Joris Ivens |
| 13 | The White Hell of Pitz Palu '1929 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.0 | G.W. Pabst |
| 14 | The General Line '1929 | Drama | 7.2 | 100% | - | 6.4 | Sergei Eisenstein |
| 15 | Queen Kelly '1929 | Drama / Romance | 7.1 | 100% | - | 6.5 | Erich von Stroheim |
| 16 | Arsenal '1929 | Drama / War | 7.1 | 83% | - | 6.8 | Alexander Dovzhenko |
| 17 | They Go Boom! '1929 | Comedy | 7.2 | - | - | 6.9 | James Parrott |
| 18 | Perfect Day '1929 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.0 | James Parrott |
| 19 | Piccadilly '1929 | Drama / Crime | 7.1 | 80% | 89 | 6.5 | E.A. Dupont |
| 20 | My Grandmother '1929 | Comedy / Drama | 7.6 | - | - | 5.6 | Kote Mikaberidze |
| 21 | Men O' War '1929 | Comedy | 7.1 | - | - | 6.8 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 22 | Applause '1929 | Musical / Drama | 7.1 | 80% | - | 6.2 | Rouben Mamoulian |
| 23 | Finis Terræ '1929 | Drama | 7.3 | - | - | 7.1 | Jean Epstein |
| 24 | The New Babylon '1929 | Drama | 7.2 | - | - | 6.1 | Grigori Kozintsev |
| 25 | The Love Parade '1929 | Comedy / Romance | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Ernst Lubitsch |
| 26 | Plane Crazy '1929 | Animation / Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.4 | Walt Disney |
| 27 | Fragment of an Empire '1929 | Drama | 7.3 | 100% | - | 5.7 | Fridrikh Ermler |
| 28 | Blackmail '1929 | Drama / Thriller / Crime | 6.9 | 88% | - | 6.5 | Alfred Hitchcock |
| 29 | The Iron Mask '1929 | - | 7.0 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Allan Dwan |
| 30 | The Haunted House '1929 | Animation / Comedy / Horror | 7.0 | - | - | 6.6 | Walt Disney |
| 31 | Unaccustomed as We Are '1929 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 7.0 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 32 | The Hoose-Gow '1929 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | James Parrott |
| 33 | Wrong Again '1929 | Comedy | 7.0 | - | - | 6.8 | Leo McCarey |
| 34 | Spite Marriage '1929 | Comedy | 6.9 | 100% | - | 6.6 | Edward Sedgwick |
| 35 | Berth Marks '1929 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 36 | Double Whoopee '1929 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.8 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 37 | The Cocoanuts '1929 | Comedy / Musical | 6.8 | 95% | 69 | 6.5 | Robert Florey |
| 38 | H₂O '1929 | Documentary | 6.9 | - | - | 6.9 | Ralph Steiner |
| 39 | Bacon Grabbers '1929 | Comedy | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 40 | Autumn Mists '1929 | Drama | 6.9 | - | - | 6.4 | Dimitri Kirsanoff |
| 41 | The Pearl '1929 | Fantasy | 7.1 | - | - | 7.2 | Henri d'Ursel |
| 42 | The Kiss '1929 | Drama / Romance | 6.8 | - | - | 6.4 | Jacques Feyder |
| 43 | Angora Love '1929 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Lewis R. Foster |
| 44 | Hell's Bells '1929 | Animation / Horror / Musical | 6.8 | - | - | 6.5 | Ub Iwerks |
| 45 | That's My Wife '1929 | Comedy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.6 | Lloyd French |
| 46 | Hyas and Stenorhynchus '1929 | Documentary | 6.8 | - | - | 5.9 | Jean Painlevé |
| 47 | The Lump '1929 | Animation / Fantasy | 6.8 | - | - | 6.3 | Chuzo Aochi |
| 48 | Hallelujah '1929 | Musical / Drama | 6.7 | 86% | - | 6.6 | King Vidor |
| 49 | The Letter '1929 | Drama | 6.7 | - | - | 5.6 | Jean de Limur |
| 50 | Lambchops '1929 | Comedy / Musical | 6.7 | - | - | 6.5 | Murray Roth |
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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