1920s movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant 1920s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, realistic, period piece, serious, captivating and historical drama films and TV shows about / with jazz, love and romance, interwar period, love, female nudity, society, husband wife relationship, world war one, costume and couples plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 1920s: Cable Girls (2017), Peaky Blinders (2013), Babylon (2022), The House of Eliott (1991), The Cotton Club (1984), Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009), Boardwalk Empire (2010), Beauty Spot (2011), The Painted Veil (2006), Enchanted April (1991).

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 7.5
 16K
Cable Girls (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: In 1920s Madrid, four women at the National Telephone Company ring in revolution as they deal with romance, envy and the modern workplace.
Style: stylized, atmospheric, romantic, captivating, period piece ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: female protagonist, female friendship, job, women, workplace, workplace romance, love and romance, class differences, lesbian, spanish civil war, woman, strong female lead ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place: spain
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 8.8
 638K
Peaky Blinders (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 2109 min.
TV show
Story: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham, England and centered on a gang who sew razor blades in the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, who means to move up in the world.
Style: serious, atmospheric, tense, stylized, captivating ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: organized crime, gangster, gang, mafia, gang war, determination, cruelty, mob boss, power struggle, crime boss, family relations, rivalry ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place: england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, london
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 7.1
 164K
Babylon (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min.
Story: A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
Style: thrilling, dramatic, visual, captivating, witty ...
Audience: adult
Plot: film history, filmmaking, orgy, party, hedonism, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, movie business, unrequited love, graphic violence ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2020s, year 1932, 1930s ...
Place: los angeles, new york, california
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The House of Eliott (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The House of Eliott is a British television series produced and broadcast by the BBC in three series between 1991 and 1994. The series starred Stella Gonet and Louise Lombard as two sisters in 1920s London who establish a dressmaking business and ...
Style: serious, realistic, costume drama, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: fashion, society, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, workplace situations, fashion designer, dressmaker, rise to the top, notoriety, sister sister relationship, siblings relations ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, london, britain
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The Cotton Club (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: The story of the people that frequented Harlem's famous nightclubs, 'The Cotton Club', and those that ran it.
Style: intense, captivating, realistic, atmospheric, visually stunning ...
Plot: jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, ambition, rivalry, love and romance, flapper, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929
Place: new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Paris 1913. Coco Chanel is infatuated with the rich and handsome Boy Capel, but she is also compelled by her work. Igor Stravinsky's The Rite of Spring is about to be performed. The revolutionary dissonances of Igor's work parallel ...
Style: realistic, sexy, talky, intense, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: fashion, art, classical music, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, edwardian era, year 2009, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, france
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Boardwalk Empire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Boardwalk Empire is a period drama focusing on Enoch "Nucky" Thompson (based on the historical Enoch L. Johnson), a political figure who rose to prominence and controlled Atlantic City, New Jersey, during the Prohibition period of the ...
Style: serious, costume drama, captivating, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, gangster, mob boss, organized crime, prohibition, smuggling, criminal heroes, corruption, politician, mobster, female nudity, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 2000s, 2010s, 1900s, year 2010 ...
Place: new jersey, usa, cuba, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city ...
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 7.9
 248K
Beauty Spot (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.
Style: black and white, romantic, touching, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, family friendly, date night
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, showbiz, love and romance, dog, actor's life, fame, actress, love, art ...
Time: 1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place: los angeles, usa, california, iran
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The Painted Veil (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A British medical doctor fights a cholera outbreak in a small Chinese village, while also being trapped at home in a loveless marriage to an unfaithful wife.
Style: touching, emotional, scenic, captivating, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: infidelity, loveless marriage, love and romance, couple relations, cheating wife, love story, couples, marriage, extramarital affair, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place: china, shanghai, africa, london, asia
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Enchanted April (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel, four Englishwomen rent an Italian villa on holiday.
Style: period piece, talky, humorous, sentimental, touching ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: friendship, women, castle, love, summer, self discovery, holiday, marriage, garden, female friendship, chance meeting, vacation ...
Time: 1920s, future, year 1991, 20th century, post world war one
Place: italy, europe, london
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, true crime, death, mafia, hitman, gunfight, historical figure, gang, law enforcement, criminal heroes, rivalry, battles ...
Time: 1920s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle (1994)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Dorothy Parker remembers the heyday of the Algonquin Round Table, a circle of friends whose barbed wit, like hers, was fueled by alcohol and flirted with despair.
Style: intellectual, talky, witty, clever, heartbreaking ...
Plot: biopic, addiction, female nudity, loveless marriage, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, writers ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place: new york, usa
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 6.6
 34K
The Immigrant (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In 1921 New York. an immigrant woman is tricked into a life of burlesque and vaudeville until a dazzling magician tries to save her and reunite her with her sister who is being held in the confines of Ellis Island.
Style: atmospheric, harsh, emotional, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation, sisters ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 20th century
Place: poland, israel, america, usa, new york ...
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Raise the Red Lantern (1991)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 125 min.
Story: China in the 1920s. After her father's death, 19 year old Songlian is forced to marry the much older lord of a powerful family. With three wives already, each living in a separate house within the great castle, there is fierce competition for ...
Style: visually stunning, depressing, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Plot: intrigue, polygamy, feminism, jealousy, wealth, insanity, teenage girl, women, mistress, massage, feminist, tragic event ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place: china, tibet, east asia, asia
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The Cat's Meow (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Semi-true story of the Hollywood murder that occurred at a star-studded gathering aboard William Randolph Hearst's yacht in 1924.
Style: stylized, witty, tense, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot: hollywood, murder, yacht, infidelity, adultery, police investigation, secrets, gossip, mistress, crimes of passion, artists and showbiz, actor's life ...
Time: 1920s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: california, greece, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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 8.4
 30K
Babylon Berlin (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Colognian commissioner Gereon Rath moves to Berlin, the epicenter of political and social changes in the Golden Twenties.
Style: atmospheric, neo noir, captivating, tense, costume drama ...
Plot: social problems, political intrigue, espionage, interwar period, german history, conspiracy, european history, police investigation, police, national socialism, world war two, political scandal ...
Time: 1920s, pre world war two, 1930s, year 1929, 20th century
Place: berlin germany, germany
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The Great Gatsby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche ...
Style: stylized, sentimental, bad ending, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, girls' night, adult
Plot: obsession, high society, social differences, love triangle, loneliness, love story, millionaire, unfulfilled love, love and romance, love, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time: 1920s, year 2013, 90s, 1900s, 2010s ...
Place: new york, usa, los angeles, long island, midwest
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 6.6
 2K
The Moderns (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Nick Hart is a struggling American artist who lives amongst the expatriate community in 1920s Paris. He spends most of his time drinking and socializing in local café's and pestering gallery owner Libby Valentin to sell his paintings. He ...
Style: clever, humorous, surreal, expressionism, realistic ...
Plot: art, artist, sensuality, painter, writers, painting, forgery, collector, drinking, love, nude photography, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
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 8.1
 802
Lilies (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lilies is a British period-drama television series, written by Heidi Thomas, which ran for one eight-episode series in early 2007 on BBC One. The show's tagline was "Liverpool, 1920. Three girls on the edge of womanhood, a world on the ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, sincere, historical drama ...
Plot: post war, family relations, family problems, life is a bitch, society, youth, working class, parents and children, bittersweet, poverty, slum, world war one ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: england, liverpool
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 6.8
 6K
Vincere (2009)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The story of the descent into madness of Mussolini's secret first wife, Ida Dasler, who was seduced by his passion and vigour but blind to the fascist dictator's many flaws. A historical drama with the passion, lyricism and tragedy of a ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, realistic, political ...
Plot: dictatorship, fascism, world war one, politics, male star appears nude, world war two, destructive relationship, resistance, couples, family problems, obsession, state affairs ...
Time: 1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, year 2009 ...
Place: italy, rome italy, milan italy, europe
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 7.1
 198K
The Danish Girl (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA, Germany, Denmark, Belgium, Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: When Gerda Wegener asks her husband Einar to fill in as a portrait model, Einar discovers the person she's meant to be and begins living her life as Lili Elbe. Having realized her true self and with Gerda's love and support, Lili embarks ...
Style: touching, emotional, romantic, captivating, serious ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick
Plot: transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, lgbtq, couple relations, gender, painting, gay, artist, gays and lesbians, painter ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place: denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
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Miss Fisher's Murder Mysteries (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Our lady sleuth sashays through the back lanes and jazz clubs of late 1920’s Melbourne, fighting injustice with her pearl handled pistol and her dagger sharp wit. Leaving a trail of admirers in her wake, our thoroughly modern heroine makes sure ...
Style: realistic, serious, clever, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, private investigator, female detective, murder, private detective, heroine, murderer, riddles and clues, aristocracy, intelligence agency, female protagonist, feminism ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: australia, melbourne
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Frankie Drake Mysteries (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Toronto’s only female private detective in the 1920s takes on the cases the police don’t want or can’t handle. From airplanes and booze running to American G-men, Communists and union busters, Frankie’s fearless sense of adventure gets her ...
Style: captivating, exciting, light, tense, funny ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: female detective, private detective, investigation, uncover truth, twists and turns, pursuit, interwar period, feminist, strength, women, police, intelligence agency ...
Time: 1920s, future, 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
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 7.1
 4K
Sweet Land (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.
Style: touching, melancholic, stylized, sweet, sincere ...
Plot: citizenship, countryside, immigrant, prejudice, friendship, mail order bride, society, social issues, small town, farmer, wedding, fall in love ...
Time: 1920s, year 2005, 60s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: minnesota, usa, germany, europe
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 7.4
 63K
Downton Abbey (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the ...
Style: family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: estate, aristocracy, servant, intrigue, butler, country estate, domestic servant, class differences, british royal family, closeted homosexual, country house, aristocrat ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: england, yorkshire, london
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Magic in the Moonlight (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Set in the 1920s French Riviera, a master magician is commissioned to try and expose a psychic as a fraud.
Style: romantic, period piece, light, humorous, cute ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: magic, twists and turns, relationships, love story, magician, cons and scams, fish out of water, plot twist, spiritualism, medium, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance ...
Time: 1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, cote d'azur, provence, england, south of france ...
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Films Confiscated from a French Brothel (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: UK
Story: "Films Confiscated from a French Brothel" is a bare all Avant-garde Anthology homage to silent stag films.
Style: erotic, anthology, psychological, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: brothel, sexual abuse, erotica, nymphomania, sex scene, insanity, seduction, burlesque, found footage, sexual content, eroticism, peeping tom ...
Time: 1920s
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A Passage to India (1984)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story: The film is set during the period of growing influence of the Indian independence movement in the British Raj. It begins with the arrival in India of a British woman, Miss Adela Quested (Judy Davis), who is joining her fiancé, a city magistrate ...
Style: epic, scenic, talky, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: british empire, politics, british raj, lawyer, small town, racism, tourist, colonialism, culture clash, investigation, false accusation, legal ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1984
Place: india, asia, bombay india, himalaya, kashmir ...
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You Rang, M'Lord? (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: You Rang M'Lord? is a British comedy series written by Jimmy Perry and David Croft, the creators of Dad's Army, It Ain't Half Hot Mum and Hi-de-Hi! It was broadcast between 1990 and 1993 on the BBC. The show was a comedy set in the ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty
Audience: kids
Plot: servant, domestic servant, master and servant, farce, eccentric family, social differences, family relations, high society, interwar period, household, lifestyle, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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Heat and Dust (1983)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The parallel story of Anne and her grand-aunt Olivia in their experiences in India
Style: realistic, romantic drama, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot: love triangle, colonialism, jazz, indian woman, british empire, extramarital affair, self discovery, interracial relations, prince, flashback, orgasm, scandal ...
Time: 1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place: india, asia, kashmir
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