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House of Promises (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Berlin in the 1920s. A dazzling place, but times are not only golden, they are marked by poverty and crime. Vicky arrives in the city, led by promises of a better life, she’s looking for a job. But as soon as she gets there, her hopes and dreams ...
Style: romantic, psychological, captivating, thrilling, period drama
Plot: department store, love affair, love and romance, social differences, family disapproval, love interest, relationship problems, couple relations, couples, romantic relationship, social problems, in love ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: berlin germany, germany
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 7.3
 12K
Houdini (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: rise to the top, ambition, performer's life, undercover, artists and showbiz, espionage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, magic show, mother son relationship, biopic, swindle ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, edwardian era, 1900s, future ...
Place: america, budapest, san francisco, washington d.c., brooklyn new york city ...
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Fried Green Tomatoes (1991)
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, touching, captivating, inspirational ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot: friendship, small town, lesbian, feminism, self discovery, small town life, cannibalism, female bonding, midlife crisis, female protagonist, discrimination, lesbian love ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: alabama, southern usa, usa, georgia, louisiana
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The Princess and the Frog (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A waitress, desperate to fulfill her dreams as a restaurant owner, is set on a journey to turn a frog prince back into a human being, but she has to face the same problem after she kisses him.
Style: fairy tale, feel good, witty, cute, romantic ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: princess, jazz, good versus evil, prince, magical, love and romance, disney princess, animal life, imaginary, cinderella story, dream, fall in love ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, 2000s, 1910s, year 1912
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa, mississippi
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 6.7
 16K
Passing (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Style: black and white, anamorphic, feel good, period drama
Plot: racism, childhood, jealousy, african american, lesbian, black, interwar period, demonic possession, women, woman, destiny, black history ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, 2020s
Place: harlem, new york city, new york, harlem, chicago, hawaii
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Mothering Sunday (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Set over a day in 1924, the story follows Jane Fairchild, a maid in the Niven household, who has the day off to celebrate Mothering Sunday while Mr. and Mrs. Niven attend a lunch to celebrate the engagement of their neighbour’s only remaining son, ...
Style: romantic, captivating, non-linear
Plot: chambermaid, female nudity, female pubic hair, sex scene, nudity, love, horse, secret relationship, car crash, unrequited love, relationships, love affair ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one
Place: england
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
Style: rough, serious, uplifting, suspense, visual ...
Plot: african american, musician, blues, black, racism, black american, lgbt, jazz, black history, bigger dreams, stuttering, fired from the job ...
Time: 1920s, 2020s
Place: chicago, harlem, detroit, memphis, birmingham alabama ...
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 8.0
 240K
Gandhi (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, India, USA, South Africa
Duration: 191 min.
Story: In the early years of the 20th century, Mohandas K. Gandhi, a British-trained lawyer, forsakes all worldly possessions to take up the cause of Indian independence. Faced with armed resistance from the British government, Gandhi adopts a policy of ...
Style: epic, spiritual, inspirational, political, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: protest, biopic, idealism, life philosophy, politics, independence, freedom, british empire, leadership, human spirit, religious intolerance, indian history ...
Time: 1930s, 1920s, 19th century, victorian era, 1940s ...
Place: india, south africa, britain, los angeles, new delhi ...
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 7.3
 95K
Frida (2002)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: "Frida" chronicles the life Frida Kahlo shared unflinchingly and openly with Diego Rivera, as the young couple took the art world by storm. From her complex and enduring relationship with her mentor and husband to her illicit and ...
Style: visually appealing, stylized, colorful, emotional, serious ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: painter, artist, art, painting, disability, female artist, feminism, bohemian life, lesbian, biopic, life, female protagonist ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 1920s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place: mexico, paris france, empire state building manhattan new york city, america, mexico city ...
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 7.1
 1K
Blandings (2013)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Blandings is a British comedy television series adapted by Guy Andrews from the Blandings Castle stories of P.G. Wodehouse. It was first broadcast on BBC One from 13 January 2013, and stars Timothy Spall, Jennifer Saunders and Mark Williams. The ...
Style: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, captivating ...
Plot: eccentric family, english countryside, lord, master and servant, butler, family relations, estate, castle, power relations, pig, aristocrat, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe
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 6.1
 4K
Therese (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The unhappily married woman struggles to break free from social pressures and her boring suburban setting.
Style: serious, realistic, sad, melancholic, period piece ...
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, dull life, suburban life, unfulfillment, female protagonist, bourgeoisie, women in society, marriage of convenience, envy, deception, depression, women ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 1920s
Place: france, europe
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 7.3
 25K
Reds (1981)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story: A radical American journalist becomes involved with the Communist revolution in Russia and hopes to bring its spirit and idealism to the United States.
Style: epic, political, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot: journalism, politics, russian revolution, revolutionary, biopic, communism, reporter, journalist, cold war, writers, love story, adaptation ...
Time: 1920s, 1910s, year 1917, 20th century, year 1981 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, new york, st. petersburg russia, usa ...
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The Light Between Oceans (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story: A lighthouse keeper and his wife living off the coast of Western Australia raise a baby they rescue from an adrift rowboat.
Style: touching, sentimental, melancholic, tear jerker, heartbreaking ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, kids
Plot: lighthouse, love, lighthouse keeper, island, husband wife relationship, adoption, trying to get pregnant, miscarriage, missing child, mother love, isolation, couples ...
Time: 1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place: australia
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Death Defying Acts (2007)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Style: exciting, atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: cons and scams, supernatural ability, love affair, parents and children, dishonesty, magic, paranormal phenomena, juggling, magician, clairvoyant, castle, psychic ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2007
Place: scotland, europe, edinburgh scotland, montreal
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Brideshead Revisited (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 659 min.
TV show
Story: In this eleven parts British television serial, Charles Ryder's involvement with members of the aristocratic Marchmain/Flyte family is followed throughout the years between the two World Wars.
Style: costume drama, sitcom, spiritual, avant garde, historical drama ...
Plot: homosexual subtext, world war two, friendship, catholicism, alcoholism, gay, lgbt, atheist, religion, catholic, gay interest, mistress ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: england, venice, oxford university, paris france
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We Were Tomorrow (2024)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Australia
TV show
Story: How many lifetimes will alter tomorrow? In attempt to salvage humanity, alchemists relocate a small group to an alternative world and grant them three lifetimes to restart the population. Now, after only a few centuries, those in the new world face ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: fight, survival, justice, end of the world, violence, equality, rescue, evacuation, chase, vestiges of humanity, civilization, culture clash ...
Time: 1920s
Place: australia
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A Month in the Country (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Set in the early 1920s, the film follows Tom Birkin, who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Oxgodby, Yorkshire. The escape to the idyllic countryside is ...
Style: scenic, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, historical drama ...
Plot: friendship, loneliness, depression, church, haunted by the past, introspection, escape from reality, world war one veteran, mural, railway, landscape, interwar period ...
Time: 1920s, year 1987, 1910s, post world war one
Place: england, europe, yorkshire
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 5.5
 1K
The Aviator (1985)
Genre: Adventure, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A 1920s mail pilot and a rich man's daughter crash-land on a mountain full of hungry wolves.
Style: melancholic, inspirational, serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: wilderness, aviation, rescue, courage, loneliness, human spirit, airplane, opposites attract, danger, daring rescue, save the day, against the odds ...
Time: 1920s, year 1985, 80s, year 1918
Place: texas
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 6.4
 69K
The Awakening (2011)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: 1921 England is overwhelmed by the loss and grief of World War I. Hoax exposer Florence Cathcart (Hall) visits a boarding school to explain sightings of a child ghost.
Style: scary, gothic, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, haunted house, fear, boarding school, afterlife, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, ghost child, supernatural power, twists and turns, investigation ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2000, post world war one
Place: england, europe, britain
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story: Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style: serious, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, greed, character study, ambition, capitalism, money, rise to the top, rivalry, visceral, psychopath, religion, business ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, los angeles, america, persia ...
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 7.9
 82K
Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy, UK, USA
Duration: 197 min.
Story: Doctor Zhivago is the filmed adapation of the Russian novel by Boris Pasternak from director David Lean that was an international success and today deemed a classic. Omar Sharif and Julie Christie play two protagonists who in fact love each other ...
Style: epic, atmospheric, emotional, visual, costume drama ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: world war one, revolution, communism, war, wartime, train, rape, love triangle, poet, communist, imperial russia, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s, 1910s, 1940s, year 1965 ...
Place: russia, soviet union, moscow russia
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 6.0
 33K
Leatherheads (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A light hearted comedy about the beginnings of Professional American Football. When a decorated war hero and college all star is tempted into playing professional football. Everyone see the chance to make some big money, but when a reporter digs up ...
Style: witty, feel good, inspirational, intense, stylized ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: american football, football, underdog, sport team, justice, redemption, life philosophy, vengeance, rivalry, cheerleader, hopes, ambition ...
Time: 1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century
Place: chicago, minnesota, usa, france, milwaukee wisconsin
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 7.3
 15K
The Front Page (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
Style: talky, light, humorous, hilarious, witty ...
Plot: newspaper, journalist, journalism, reporter, workplace, media, friends, media satire, workplace situations, writers, satire, scoop ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 1974
Place: chicago, usa
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Shadow of the Vampire (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: UK, Spain, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Director F.W. Murnau (John Malkovich) makes a Faustian pact with a vampire (Willem Dafoe) to get him to star in his 1922 film "Nosferatu."
Style: gothic, scary, dark, psychological horror, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: dracula, vampire, supernatural, obsession, filmmaking, filmmaker, monster, megalomaniac, escapades, human nature, artists and showbiz, imaginary ...
Time: 1920s, year 2000, y2k, 2000s, 20th century
Place: czechoslovakia, berlin germany, eastern europe
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Sweet Country (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: Australia
Duration: 113 min.
Story: It’s 1929 on the vast, desert-like, Eastern Arrernte Nation lands that are now known as the Central Australian outback. Sam Kelly, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works the land of a kind preacher, Fred Smith. After an ill-tempered bully arrives in ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, sincere, captivating, visual ...
Plot: australian aboriginal, slavery, trial, indigenous people, abuse of power, rape, court case, farmer, landowner, injustice, murder, brutality ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929
Place: australia, oceania, south australia
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Hymn of Death (2018)
Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, the drama tells the tragic love story of Kim Woo Jin, a married stage drama writer, and Yun Shim Duk, Korea's first professional soprano, who meet while studying at Tokyo University in the 1920s. Yun Shim Duk's ...
Style: dorama, suspense, touching, suspenseful, saga ...
Plot: japanese occupation, japanese occupation of korea, forbidden love, infidelity, true love, wedding planning, writers, japanese military, wartime, love, love and romance, female singer ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
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Agatha and the Truth of Murder (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: In 1926, with her personal life in tatters and her writing in crisis, a young Agatha Christie decides to solve a real-life murder.
Style: intellectual, captivating, psychological, realistic, slasher ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: murder mystery, twists and turns, murder, investigation, danger, private detective, riddles and clues, escapades, writer's life, writers, peril, heroes ...
Time: 1920s
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 5.9
 10K
Mobsters (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The story of a group of friends in turn of the century New York, from their early days as street hoods to their rise in the world of organized crime...
Style: talky, suspense, intense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mobster, gangster, organized crime, friendship, betrayal, greed, murder, criminal heroes, blind ambition, dishonesty, gang, mob boss ...
Time: 1920s, year 1991, 1910s, 1930s, year 1917
Place: new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story (2010)
Genre: Action, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Set in 1920's Vienna, this is the tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve.
Style: fairy tale, semi serious, atmospheric, exciting, entertaining
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens
Plot: christmas, nutcracker, children, youth, toy comes to life, young heroes, godparent, escapades, save the day, heroes, rivalry, danger ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: europe, austria
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 7.1
 48K
Balto (1995)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, History
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story: An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Style: sentimental, feel good, suspenseful, exciting, inspirational ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, teen drama ...
Plot: dog, wolf, furry, danger, goose, snow, courage, disease, wilderness, daring rescue, dog sled, animal ...
Time: 1920s, 90s, 20th century, year 1995
Place: alaska, usa
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