1920s movies and TV shows – page 4
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| Boléro (2024) | 6.5 | |
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| Here (2024) | 6.3 |
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, India, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Canada
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, melancholic, unusual plot structure, sentimental, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids
Plot:
lighthouse, lighthouse keeper, love, island, husband wife relationship, isolation, trying to get pregnant, missing child, adoption, miscarriage, motherhood, marriage ...
Time:
1920s, year 2015, victorian era, 20th century, year 1918
Place:
australia, new zealand
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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, costume drama, period piece ...
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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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader
Style:
witty, humorous, surprise ending, slasher, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
small town, spinster, plot twist, gossip, widow, sting operation, feud, comedy of manners, cigar, interwar period, false accusation, family relations ...
Time:
1920s, year 1994, 20th century
Place:
ireland, europe, england
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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, costume drama ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
world war one veteran, friendship, depression, church, haunted by the past, introspection, escape from reality, healing, mural, gay, friendship between men, summer ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, year 1987, 1910s, medieval times ...
Place:
england, europe, yorkshire, texas
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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, clever ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
wilderness, aviation, rescue, loneliness, courage, human spirit, airplane, opposites attract, danger, daring rescue, save the day, against the odds ...
Time:
1920s, year 1985, 80s, year 1918, 70s
Place:
texas, new jersey, california
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27K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An odyssey through time and memory, centered around a place in New England where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
Style:
dramatic, experimental, tear jerker, romantic
Plot:
dinosaur, christmas, halloween, thoughtful, childhood, love, birthday party, storytelling, urban setting, evolution, daily life, new year's eve ...
Time:
1930s, 1950s, 1920s, 1940s, 1900s ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A once-respected surgeon who's lost his family and his memory gets a chance at redemption when he reconnects with someone from his forgotten past.
Style:
period drama
Plot:
surgeon, love, long lost daughter, amnesia, surgery, healer, memory loss, new identity, father daughter reunion, jealousy, trial, double wedding ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
poland
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Genre: Drama, Romance, War
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A woman during the Second World War opens her heart to an evacuee after initially resolving to be rid of him.
Style:
touching, costume drama, period piece, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
world war two, lgbtq, lesbian romance, sapphic, lesbian, lesbian couple, lesbian love, lesbianism, lesbian relationship, lesbian interest, love, flashback ...
Time:
1940s, 1920s, 2020s
Place:
london
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Genre: Horror
Country: Italy, France, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Deathly ill Count Dracula and his slimy underling, Anton, travel to Italy in search of a virgin's blood. They're welcomed at the crumbling estate of indebted Marchese Di Fiore, who's desperate to marry off his daughters to rich ...
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, sexy, grindhouse, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, rape, exploitation, blood, erotica, dracula, satire, supernatural, vampire bite, illness, sex horror, lesbian incest ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe, paris france, england, romania ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
This is like a documentary on the scandals in the Golden Age of Hollywood during the 1920's. Contains many reenactments of major scandals.
Style:
slapstick comedy, mockumentary, independent film
Plot:
sex scandal, hedonism, multiple lovers, adultery, infidelity, divorce, caught having sex, cover up, child bride, menage a trois, teenage pregnancy, cheating wife ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s, year 1929, year 1916
Place:
california, los angeles, paris france
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, War
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
November 1918. A few days before the Armistice, Édouard Péricourt saves Albert Maillard's life. These two men have nothing in common but the war. Lieutenant Pradelle, by ordering a senseless assault, destroys their lives while binding them as ...
Style:
period piece, thought provoking, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
world war one, soldier, cemetery, death, swindle, businessman, hospital, grave, masked man, saving a life, wound, sculptor ...
Time:
year 1918, 1920s, post world war one, 1910s, year 2017 ...
Place:
paris france, france, morocco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, Argentina, Japan, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a young European woman assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina, she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
cult classic, neo noir, independent film
Plot:
tango, pimp, dance, rape, female nudity, brothel, older man younger woman marriage, female pubic hair, cuckolded husband, gangster, dancing, suicide ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s
Place:
buenos aires argentina
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
World War I has left golfer Rannulph Junuh a poker-playing alcoholic, his perfect swing gone. Now, however, he needs to get it back to play in a tournament to save the financially ravaged golf course of a long-ago sweetheart. Help arrives in the ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, period piece, romantic, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
golf, great depression, underdog, comeback, world war one, childhood, mysterious stranger, interracial friendship, friendship, love story, hopes, renewed love ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 1920s, y2k, year 2000
Place:
savannah georgia, georgia, america, usa, southern usa
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Germany, Austria, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
From the armistice of 1918, which marked the end of the First World War, to the declaration of war in September 1939, the beginning of the Second World War: an era during which there was an aspiration to create a new world, prosperous and at peace, ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, reflective ...
Plot:
interwar period, historical character, historical figure, lifestyle, wartime life, determination, war, wartime, historical event, heroes, great depression, social change ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
france, germany, soviet union, britain, poland ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
While the Kingdom of Korea is under occupation by the Japanese, an old and experience hunter is challenged by the hunt of the last tiger.
Style:
atmospheric, harsh, scenic, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
hunting, tiger, japanese occupation, japanese occupation of korea, lone hero, occupation, survival, violence, hunter, mountain, life & death, visceral ...
Time:
1920s, 1910s
Place:
china, south korea, korea
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of Ace Eli Walford, a 1920s stunt flyer who barnstorms around the country, taking his eleven-year-old son Rodger with him as he goes from town to town. The place is rural Kansas, and the time is midsummer in the early nineteen-twenties, ...
Style:
period piece, road movie, sentimental, melancholic, atmospheric
Plot:
aviation, father son relationship, small town, coming of age, loss of spouse, escapism, grief, road trip, bittersweet, loneliness, youth, pilot ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
kansas
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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:
suspense, sincere, disturbing, captivating, visual ...
Plot:
australian aboriginal, slavery, trial, justice, indigenous people, manhunt, abuse of power, court case, rape, farmer, murder, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, year 1929, 20th century
Place:
australia, oceania, south australia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, realistic, serious, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
desert, foreign legion, martial arts, combat, soldier, french foreign legion, military, battlefield, behind enemy lines, hitman, master warrior, tough heroes ...
Time:
1920s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
morocco, africa, france, paris france, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In a film based on actual events, teenagers Nathan Leopold Jr. (Craig Chester) and Richard Loeb (Daniel Schlachet) share a dangerous sexual bond and an amoral outlook on life. They spend afternoons breaking into storefronts and engaging in petty ...
Style:
black and white, neo noir, independent film, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, male male relationship, lgbtq, true crime, lgbt, murder, serial killer, courtroom drama, male homosexuality, desire, child murder investigation, homoeroticism ...
Time:
1920s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest ...
Style:
romantic comedy, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
showbiz, dancing, broadway, choreography, choreographer, love, morality, past, couples, filmmaking, fall in love, ambition ...
Time:
1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 64 min.
TV show
Story:
Berlin Alexanderplatz, originally broadcast in 1980, is a 14-part television film adapted and directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder from the Alfred Döblin novel of the same name, and stars Günter Lamprecht, Hanna Schygulla, Barbara Sukowa, ...
Style:
art house, avant garde, mind blowing, spiritual, psychological ...
Plot:
german culture, ex convict, interwar period, lgbt, bum, proles, cripple, surrealism, underdog, moving, spirituality, european ...
Time:
1920s, year 1980, 20th century
Place:
germany, berlin germany, west germany, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Morocco, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Based on Evelyn Waugh's 1945 classic British novel, Brideshead Revisited is a poignant story of forbidden love and the loss of innocence set in England prior to the Second World War.
Style:
sentimental, emotional, sincere, period piece, serious ...
Plot:
friendship, world war two, male nudity, nobility, couples, gay, longing, catholic, religion, menage a trois, oxford, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 50s, 1930s, year 2008 ...
Place:
england, oxford university, britain, venice, morocco ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1924, Hidesaburō Ueno, a professor in the agriculture department at the University of Tokyo, took in Hachikō, a golden brown Akita, as a pet. During his owner's life, Hachikō walk with him in the morning and greeted him at the end of each ...
Style:
depressing, educational, touching, independent film, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
friends, friendship, dog, animal, suffering, time travel, sadness, best friend, bittersweet, gift, loyalty, dog actor ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Meredith is a 35 year-old unmarried woman who arrives at a remote lighthouse island 1928 with her uncle the new head keeper.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, captivating, atmospheric, contemplative ...
Plot:
lighthouse, female protagonist, lighthouse keeper, remote island, island, solitude, loneliness, isolation, recluse, family relations, workplace, job ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
australia
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 305 min.
TV show
Story:
Louise, framed for murder, sees the only solution is to pose as her twin brother who has just been assigned a job as a detective. The discovery of the body of a woman modelling for artists leads her into the decadent world of high society.
Style:
suspense, talky, suspenseful, psychological, detective
Plot:
police department, fake identity, war trauma, crime investigation, cross dressing, hospital, disguise, murder investigation, artist's model, murder mystery, uncover truth, heroes ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, year 1919, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In 1925, a group of brave mushers travel 700 miles to save the small children of Nome, Alaska from a deadly epidemic.
Style:
tense, inspirational, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
danger, epidemic, perseverance, cold, arctic, rescue mission, winter, snow, heroism, survival, bravery, youth ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
alaska
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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, saga, costume drama, suspenseful, touching ...
Plot:
forbidden love, japanese occupation of korea, true love, japanese occupation, wedding planning, impossible love, doomed love, infidelity, couple relations, male female relationship, wartime, music ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
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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:
captivating, realistic, psychological, suspense thriller, slasher ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
murder mystery, twists and turns, danger, loner, investigation, private detective, murder, escapades, writer's life, riddles and clues, writers, peril ...
Time:
1920s
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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:
suspense, intense, talky, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, mobster, organized crime, friendship, vengeance, tough heroes, greed, murder, criminal heroes, dishonesty, blind ambition, mafia ...
Time:
1920s, year 1991, year 1917, 1910s, 1930s
Place:
new york, israel, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, brooklyn new york city ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Poland
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Denmark in 1927. The ambitious police officer Otto Himmelstrup leads the newly formed Special Unit, which is tasked with assisting local police in solving particularly difficult crimes. When a body is found in a burnt-out summer house in Esbjerg, ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, dark, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police procedural, murder mystery, whodunit, moral ambiguity, class conflict, anti hero, police, arson, revenge motive, fire, cold blooded killer ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
denmark
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