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Memoirs of a Geisha (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Japan, France
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: sentimental, romantic, stylized, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: love story, geisha, women, age difference, japanese culture, older man younger woman relationship, brothel, beauty, love and romance, orphan, young woman, mentor ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 2005 ...
Place: japan, asia, china, east asia, america ...
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Women in Love (1969)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Close friends Rupert Birkin and Gerald Crich begin romances with siblings Ursula and Gudrun Brangwen. After the couples wed, they take a joint honeymoon to Switzerland, where things begin happily -- but they become increasingly complicated as the ...
Style: visual, sexy, erotic, sexual, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: male nudity, bisexual man, male pubic hair, sex, erotica, love, lgbt, marriage, female nudity, friendship, literary, gay ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: england, alps, europe, swiss alps
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 6.4
 60K
Live by Night (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A story set in the Prohibition Era and centered around a group of individuals and their dealings in the world of organized crime.
Style: neo noir, stylized, period piece, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: organized crime, prohibition, chase, mafia, revenge, betrayal, criminal, friendship, murder, police, gangster, death ...
Time: 1920s, year 2016, 2010s, 1930s
Place: florida, boston, massachusetts, america, miami ...
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 7.2
 242K
Chicago (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada, UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Murderesses Velma Kelly and Roxie Hart find themselves on death row together and fight for the fame that will keep them from the gallows in 1920s Chicago.
Style: sexy, stylized, colorful, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, date night
Plot: prison, broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, legal, jail, lawyer, jazz, musician, music, flapper, rising to stardom ...
Time: 1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002
Place: chicago, usa, illinois
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Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The theatrical movie spin-off of the ABC’s Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries will follow Essie Davis’ private detective as she embarks on a global adventure to find missing treasure, solve murders and break aviation records... After freeing a ...
Style: captivating, intellectual, detective, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: riddles and clues, treasure hunt, female detective, imprisonment, talented, private detective, mind game, artifact, young girl, tomb, twists and turns, escapades ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, year 1918
Place: london, jerusalem, australia, palestine, scotland yard ...
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 7.1
 7K
Gypsy (1962)
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, touching, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: stripper, burlesque, mother daughter relationship, broadway, domineering mother, ambition, biopic, dancing, sister sister relationship, striptease, motherhood, mother ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: kansas
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min.
Story: When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, detective, psychological ...
Plot: native american, murder, courtroom, greed, genocide, fbi, true crime, oil, interracial marriage, investigation, modern western, serial murder ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: oklahoma
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 6.2
 71K
1922 (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A simple yet proud rancher conspires to murder his wife for financial gain, convincing his teenage son to participate.
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, scary, enigmatic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: stephen king, farmer, murder, greed, hallucination, cornfield, farm, guilt, husband murders wife, psychosis, husband wife relationship, ghost ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: usa, america, nebraska
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The Wind That Shakes the Barley (2006)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 127 min.
Story: In 1920s Ireland young doctor Damien O'Donovan prepares to depart for a new job in a London hospital. As he says his goodbyes at a friend's farm, British Black and Tans arrive, and a young man is killed. Damien joins his brother Teddy in ...
Style: political, bleak, factual, brutal, bloody ...
Audience: date night
Plot: rebellion, civil war, ira, resistance, war, politics, freedom, rebel, traitor, injustice, occupation, debate ...
Time: 1920s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, post world war one ...
Place: ireland, england, northern ireland, dublin ireland, europe ...
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 7.8
 166K
RRR (2022)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 187 min.
Story: A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, epic ...
Plot: rescue, british empire, protest, bare chested male, wolf, freedom fighter, abduction, liberation, unlikely friendships, investigation, uncover truth, fight ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: india, delhi
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 7.7
 101K
Porco Rosso (1992)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Porco Rosso, known in Japan as Crimson Pig (Kurenai no Buta) is the sixth animated film by Hayao Miyazaki and released in 1992. You're introduced to an Italian World War I fighter ace, now living as a freelance bounty hunter chasing "air ...
Style: anime, humorous, talky, melancholic, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot: aviation, cartoon pig, fascism, airplane, heroes, escapades, unrequited love, fighter pilot, haunted by the past, heroic mission, good versus evil, imaginary ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1992, 1930s, 1910s
Place: italy, tokyo, fictional island, europe, croatia ...
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Ju Dou: Secret Love, Hidden Faces (1990)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: China, Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman married to the brutal and infertile owner of a dye mill in rural China conceives a boy with her husband's nephew but is forced to raise her son as her husband's heir without revealing his parentage in this circular tragedy. Filmed ...
Style: thought provoking, realistic, erotic, erotic drama, independent film ...
Plot: patricide, infidelity, impotence, adultery, murder, drowning, sadism, abuse, erotica, tragedy, marital abuse, asian history ...
Time: 1920s, year 1990, 20th century
Place: china, asia
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The Sand Pebbles (1966)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
Story: Engineer Jake Holman arrives aboard the gunboat U.S.S. San Pablo, assigned to patrol a tributary of the Yangtze in the middle of exploited and revolution-torn 1926 China. His iconoclasm and cynical nature soon clash with the "rice-bowl" ...
Style: epic, realistic, tense, cult classic, depressing ...
Plot: military, warship, u.s. navy, friendship, navy, gunfight, last stand, combat, international law, great war, revolution, civil war ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: china, shanghai, asia, utah, new jersey ...
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Chariots of Fire (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: The true story of British athletes preparing for and competing in the 1924 Summer Olympics.
Style: inspirational, period piece, christian film, historical drama, costume drama ...
Audience: family outing, date night, teens, kids
Plot: christian, olympics, running, faith, prejudice, athlete, integrity, missionary, runner, religion, racing, catholic ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, 20th century, post world war one, year 1978 ...
Place: scotland, england, israel, paris france, france ...
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 7.8
 265K
Changeling (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Christine Collins is overjoyed when her kidnapped son is brought back home. But when Christine suspects that the boy returned to her isn't her child, the police captain has her committed to an asylum.
Style: psychological, heartbreaking, sentimental, tense, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, fighting the system, missing child, missing person, police corruption, uncover truth, disorder, trial, kidnapped child, corruption ...
Time: 1920s, year 2008, 2000s, 20th century, year 1935 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, canada, seattle
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Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test ...
Style: romantic, rom com, realistic, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, chick flick, date night
Plot: flapper, dancing, love, stenographer, american history, chase, theater, pursuit, lgbtq, impostor, coming of age, transgender ...
Time: 1920s, year 1967, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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Splendor in the Grass (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.
Style: sad, touching, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: teens, date night, girls' night
Plot: coming of age, teenager, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, unrequited love, forbidden love, suicide attempt, small town life, promiscuity ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future
Place: kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa
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 6.2
 2K
Quartet (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Quartet is the story of a girl who, adrift with her feckless husband amidst the literati of glittering Paris in the 1920s, becomes entrapped by a rich and sybaritic English couple. Adapted from the wistful, melancholy autobiographical novel by Jean ...
Style: romantic drama, costume drama, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: couples, dancing, prison, male pubic hair, coffee, hotel, theft, performer's life, womanizer, destructive relationship, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 1920s, year 1981
Place: paris france, france, europe
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The Last Emperor (1987)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: China, Italy, UK, France
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A dramatic history of Pu Yi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation ...
Style: visually stunning, epic, political, breathtaking, visually appealing ...
Plot: childhood, world war two, biopic, chinese history, revolution, empress, prison, drug addiction, emperor, interrogation, politics, eunuch ...
Time: 1950s, 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, 1910s ...
Place: china, beijing china, asia, japan, east asia
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 6.5
 133K
J. Edgar (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: As the face of law enforcement in America for almost 50 years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life.
Style: political, factual, melancholic, compassionate, realistic ...
Plot: gay, fbi, biopic, surveillance, corruption, politics, investigation, homosexual, closeted homosexual, ambition, notoriety, american history ...
Time: 1920s, 60s, 1940s, 1930s, year 2011 ...
Place: usa, washington d.c.
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 6.9
 2K
The Red Tent (1969)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Soviet Union
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Torn by personal guilt Italian General Umberto Nobile reminisces about his 1928 failed Arctic expedition aboard the airship Italia.
Style: historical drama, realistic, serious, atmospheric, exciting ...
Audience: date night
Plot: survival, aviation, disaster, arctic, interwar period, conquistador, post soviet, space, winter, 007, nature, rescue attempt ...
Time: 1920s, year 1969
Place: soviet union
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Vita & Virginia (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Socialite Vita Sackville-West and literary icon Virginia Woolf run in different circles in 1920s London. Despite the odds, the magnetic Vita and the beguiling Virginia forge an unconventional affair, set against the backdrop of their own strikingly ...
Style: sentimental, factual, captivating, psychological, period piece ...
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, lesbian romance, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbian couple, polyamory, first lesbian experience, female writer, feminism, bisexual woman, female protagonist ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england
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 5.1
 10K
The Lodgers (2017)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: 1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they ...
Style: gothic horror, gothic, suspense, bleak, spooky ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ghost, supernatural, female nudity, brother sister incest, twins, curse, haunted house, bare breasts, twin brother and sister, fall in love, creature, supernatural power ...
Time: 1920s, victorian era
Place: ireland
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 7.9
 55K
Togo (2019)
Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and ...
Style: suspense, exciting, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly, kids, adult
Plot: dog, snow, dog sled, escapades, delivery, save the day, friendship, puppy, plague, blizzard, winter, storm ...
Time: 1920s, future, 1910s, year 2019
Place: alaska, usa
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The Tender Hook (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The story is about Iris's rise to the apex of a love/power triangle that includes her roguish English lover, McHeath, and Art, an earnest young boxer. Within the flawed moral landscape, each character struggles to establish their sovereignty.
Style: realistic, serious, stylized, captivating, neo noir ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: love triangle, underdog, dishonesty, ambition, couples, couple relations, love and romance, moral dilemma, love affair, boxing, femme fatale, rich and poor ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: sydney australia, australia
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The Untouchables (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Young Treasury Agent Elliot Ness arrives in Chicago and is determined to take down Al Capone, but it's not going to be easy because Capone has the police in his pocket. Ness meets Jimmy Malone, a veteran patrolman and probably the most ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, stylized, clever, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, manly, adult
Plot: mafia, gangster, organized crime, corruption, smuggling, mentor, tough cop, tough law enforcer, gunfight, prohibition, tax evasion, prohibition era ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place: chicago, usa, america
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Head in the Clouds (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A romantic drama set in 1930's England, Paris, and Spain. Gilda Bessé shares her Paris apartment with an Irish schoolteacher, Guy Malyon, and Mia, a refugee from Spain. As the world drifts toward war, Gilda defiantly pursues her hedonistic ...
Style: sexy, romantic, sentimental, captivating, stylized ...
Plot: world war two, lesbian, spanish civil war, lesbianism, bisexual woman, sexual relations, love triangle, group sex, war, love, orgy, betrayal ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 1940s, year 1944, year 2004 ...
Place: paris france, england, france, germany, spain ...
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 8.3
 51K
1923 (2022)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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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: dramatic, atmospheric, serious, harsh, captivating ...
Plot: cowboy, journey, great depression, fight, relationships, small town, life is a bitch, survival, family relations, society, range war, nudity ...
Time: 1920s, 1940s, 60s
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Running for Grace (2018)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An orphan boy of mixed race finds family with the newly arrived white village doctor in Hawaii. The boy can run like the wind, and begins bringing Doc's medicine to coffee pickers throughout the mountainous region. On an errand, the medicine ...
Style: sincere, captivating, sentimental, touching, dramatic ...
Plot: forbidden love, love, racism, medicine, jungle, prejudice, race against time, coming of age, forest, love and romance, family relations, friendship ...
Time: 1920s
Place: hawaii
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 6.9
 6K
Marguerite (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: France, Czech Republic, Belgium
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Paris in the 1920s. Marguerite Dumont is a wealthy woman with a passion for music and the opera. For years, she has performed regularly for a circle of guests. But Marguerite sings tragically out of tune and no one has ever told her. Her husband and ...
Style: light, sincere, captivating, humorous, crying
Plot: opera, eccentricity, delusion, secret, bad singing, money, fan, infidelity, opera singer, women, girl, dancing ...
Time: 1920s, year 1915, post world war one
Place: paris france, france
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