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, period piece, realistic, serious, captivating and stylized films and TV shows about / with love, love and romance, jazz, storytelling, society, female nudity, interwar period, women, adaptation and mentor 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: The House of Eliott (1991), The Cotton Club (1984), Babylon (2022), Peaky Blinders (2013), Cable Girls (2017), Babylon Berlin (2017), The Cat's Meow (2001), Coco Chanel & Igor Stravinsky (2009), Sweet Land (2005), The Immigrant (2013).
Best films
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, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
fashion, society, workplace, lifestyle, family relations, workplace situations, fashion designer, dressmaker, rise to the top, sister sister relationship, media sensation, siblings relations ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain
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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:
visually stunning, period piece, intense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
jazz, mafia, gangster, music, nightclub, prohibition, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, rivalry, flapper, mob boss ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1929, 70s ...
Place:
new york, usa, harlem, new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city ...
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204K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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:
costume drama, visual, thrilling, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
film history, filmmaking, hedonism, orgy, party, hollywood, movie star, film industry, gambling, profanity, sex scene, graphic violence ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 2020s, 1930s, year 1932 ...
Place:
los angeles, california, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 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, captivating, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, gang, mafia, gang war, gangster, determination, cruelty, crime boss, power struggle, mob boss, rivalry, shooting ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, ancient times, 1910s, victorian era
Place:
england, britain, ireland, birmingham alabama, europe ...
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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, clever, witty, heartbreaking ...
Plot:
biopic, addiction, loveless marriage, female nudity, flapper, poetry, prohibition, women, female writer, friendship, hotel, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 1940s, year 1994, victorian era ...
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, History
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, romantic, period piece, captivating, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
female protagonist, female friendship, job, workplace, women, independence, love and romance, workplace romance, female nudity, spanish civil war, woman, class differences ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
spain, new mexico
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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, costume drama, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
espionage, german history, social problems, political intrigue, interwar period, unsolved crime, police detective, conspiracy, national socialism, european history, police investigation, world war two ...
Time:
1920s, pre world war two, year 1929, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
berlin germany, germany
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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, cynical, witty, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
hollywood, murder, yacht, infidelity, satire, adultery, secrets, police investigation, gossip, mistress, crimes of passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, year 2001, 20th century
Place:
california, greece, los angeles, usa, san diego california
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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, period piece, sexy, talky, intense ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
fashion, classical music, art, art history, composer, follow your dream, ambition, lifestyle, refugee, couples, blind ambition, life turned upside down ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 2009, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, california
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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, sweet, sincere, stylized ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
countryside, citizenship, immigrant, prejudice, mail order bride, friendship, 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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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, emotional, harsh, costume drama, period piece ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
prostitution, immigrant, immigration, corruption, brothel, family relations, confession, american dream, love affair, exploitation, society, forceful separation ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
poland, israel, america, usa, manhattan new york city ...
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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:
romantic, sentimental, bad ending, stylized, colorful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, adult
Plot:
high society, obsession, love, social differences, loneliness, love triangle, millionaire, couples, love and romance, love story, destructive relationship, infidelity ...
Time:
1920s, year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 1900s ...
Place:
usa, new york, los angeles, long island, midwest
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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, tense, light, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
female detective, private detective, investigation, uncover truth, twists and turns, pursuit, interwar period, strength, feminist, murder, women, intelligence agency ...
Time:
1920s, future, 20th century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
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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, period piece ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, true crime, death, mafia, hitman, gunfight, historical figure, gang, battles, law enforcement, criminal heroes, rivalry ...
Time:
1920s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1929 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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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, humorous, romantic comedy, cute ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick
Plot:
twists and turns, magic, love story, relationships, cons and scams, fish out of water, happy ending, destiny, marriage proposal, medium, magician, plot twist ...
Time:
1920s, year 2014, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, provence, south of france, french riviera ...
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Genre: Biography, 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, inspirational, period piece, costume drama, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
transsexual, lgbt, art, transgender, couple relations, painting, love, gay, lgbtq, gays and lesbians, artist, gender ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, year 2015, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
denmark, paris france, idaho, copenhagen, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
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, cerebral, stylized, depressing, intense ...
Plot:
intrigue, teenage girl, feminism, passion, power struggle, tradition, jealousy, wealth, mistress, massage, polygamy, unrequited love ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
china, east asia, tibet, asia, india
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255K
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:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sweet, artsy ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, family friendly, date night
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, actor, movie star, love and romance, showbiz, actress, fame, actor's life, movie studio, film industry, art ...
Time:
1920s, 2010s, year 2011, 1930s, 1900s ...
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, iran
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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:
realistic, serious, touching, period piece, sincere ...
Plot:
post war, family problems, family relations, society, youth, life is a bitch, 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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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, clever, serious, captivating, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, private investigator, private detective, female detective, heroine, evidence, riddles and clues, murderer, aristocracy, female protagonist, intelligence agency ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
australia, melbourne, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, China, USA
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:
costume drama, family saga, sincere, captivating, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
estate, aristocracy, intrigue, servant, butler, country estate, closeted homosexual, domestic servant, country house, class differences, aristocrat, british royal family ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
england, yorkshire, london
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Canada, USA, Hong Kong
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, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
infidelity, loveless marriage, love story, love and romance, cheating wife, couple relations, extramarital affair, couples, marriage, cholera, adultery, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 2006, 19th century, 50s
Place:
china, shanghai, africa, london, asia ...
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10K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief ...
Style:
political, independent film, talky, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
labor union, racism, working class, coal mining, small town, shootout, mining, coal mine, strike, revolution, revolutionary, american history ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
west virginia, appalachia, virginia, usa
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Genre: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A 1920s English seaside town bears witness to a dark and absurd scandal in this riotous mystery comedy. Based on a stranger than fiction true story, the film follows two neighbours: deeply conservative local Edith Swan and rowdy Irish migrant Rose ...
Style:
period piece, captivating, entertaining, funny, exciting ...
Plot:
letter, neighbor, seaside town, female police officer, anonymous letter, abusive father, false accusation, single mother, police, women, town, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
england
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7K
Genre: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Based on the Broadway hit about the life and times of burlesque dancer Gypsy Rose Lee and her aggressive stage mother, Mama Rose.
Style:
retro, realistic, semi serious, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
stripper, burlesque, dancing, mother daughter relationship, mother, theater, fame, domineering mother, ambition, broadway, based on broadway musical, theatrical agent ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, 1950s, 50s ...
Place:
kansas
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98K
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Follow a new generation of the Dutton family during the early twentieth century when pandemics, historic drought, the end of Prohibition and the Great Depression all plague the mountain west, and the Duttons who call it home.
Style:
historical drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious, rough ...
Plot:
cowboy, great depression, fight, survival, life is a bitch, journey, relationships, family relations, society, small town, rural setting, female nudity ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 1940s, 60s
Place:
montana, africa
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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:
period piece, emotional, sincere, touching, realistic ...
Plot:
dictatorship, fascism, politics, world war one, dictator, male star appears nude, couples, hopes, world war two, cinema, coitus, resistance ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, 1910s, year 2009 ...
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, milan italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
A sweeping romantic epic set in Japan in the years before World War II, a penniless Japanese child is torn from her family to work as a maid in a geisha house.
Style:
captivating, sentimental, dramatic, serious, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, orphan, love and romance, mentor, femininity ...
Time:
1920s, 1940s, 1930s, ancient times, 20th century ...
Place:
japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Amidst her own personality crisis, southern housewife Evelyn Couch meets Ninny, an outgoing old woman who tells her the story of Idgie Threadgoode and Ruth Jamison, two young women who experienced hardships and love in Whistle Stop, Alabama in the ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, touching, sad ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teen drama
Plot:
small town, friendship, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, feminist, small town life, lgbtq, cannibalism, midlife crisis, female bonding, female protagonist ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana ...
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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, nobleman, post colonialism, flashback, prince, orgasm, scandal, british empire, jazz, interracial love relationship, indian woman ...
Time:
1920s, year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
india, asia, kashmir
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