Flapper movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant flapper movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, melancholic, period piece, stylized, talky and clever films and TV shows about / with flapper, love and romance, jazz, storytelling, dancing, drinking, mentor, drinking alcohol, dialogue and adaptation plots mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as flapper: Daisies (1966), A Girl at the Window (2001), Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967), Z: The Beginning of Everything (2015), Maxie (1985), The Unidentified (2008), The Betsy (1978), Splendor in the Grass (1961), Not on the Lips (2003), Leatherheads (2008).
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap ...
Style:
psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
surrealism, female friendship, feminism, flapper, nihilism, feminist, absurd humor, female protagonist, female antagonist, teenage girl, women, satire ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
czech republic, czechoslovakia, eastern europe, prague, europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Emprisoned by an illness, a young country girl decides to leave for Quebec City in order to study piano and discover an animated and enthralling lifestyle.
Style:
realistic, serious, touching, captivating
Plot:
flapper, pregnant woman, hopes, life turned upside down, terminal illness, city life, children, jazz club, jazz, urban, strong female presence, girl ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
quebec, canada
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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, semi serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
flapper, nobility, dancing, stenographer, love, american history, amateur detective, chase, theater, white slavery, bride and groom, passionate kiss ...
Time:
1920s, year 1967, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, california
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
TV show
Story:
A biography series based on the life of Zelda Sayre Fitzgerald, the brilliant, beautiful and talented Southern Belle who becomes the original flapper and icon of the wild, flamboyant Jazz Age in the 20s. Z starts before Zelda Fitzgerald meets the ...
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
southern belle, flapper, scandal, married couple, biopic, writers, fall in love, party, family life, marital problem, marital crisis, family conflict ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, edwardian era
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
ghost, temptation, love triangle, reincarnation, disorder, afterlife, love affair, fish out of water, true love, supernatural, tragic hero, lifestyle ...
Time:
year 1985, 1920s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
At once gritty and whimsical, The Unidentified follow Estlin, a passionate young journalist scraping by in New York City. As his frustration with his entry-level job at a local newspaper peaks, his disgruntled best friend, Brooke, leaves Brooklyn ...
Style:
touching, realistic, serious, political, independent film
Plot:
politics, journalism, hopes, society, best friend, love and romance, college, fall in love, flapper, love, breakup, idealism ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, september 11 2001, 2000s
Place:
new york, washington d.c., ohio, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
An auto-dynasty family experiences scandal, adultery, incest and power struggles in a juicy adaptation of Harold Robbins's best-selling novel. Ruthless patriarch Loren (Laurence Olivier) hires racecar driver Angelo (Tommy Lee Jones) to build a ...
Style:
independent film, touching, sentimental, sexual, serious ...
Plot:
flapper, father in law daughter in law relationship, sex with a maid, auto racing, car, italian mafia, breast feeding, gay husband, automobile industry, racing, father in law, infidelity ...
Time:
1930s, year 1978, 70s, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
san francisco, detroit
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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:
touching, sad, emotional, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night
Plot:
coming of age, forbidden love, small town, adolescence, love story, sexual repression, mental illness, teenager, suicide attempt, unrequited love, high school football, true love ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1961, future ...
Place:
kansas, yale university, new york, connecticut, usa ...
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
farce, couple relations, uncover truth, disorder, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, opposites attract, lifestyle, dishonesty, couples, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
japan, paris france, asia, europe, france
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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: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany, USA
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:
feel good, witty, stylized, intense, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
american football, football, cheerleader, college football, underdog, sport team, redemption, life philosophy, justice, vengeance, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time:
1920s, post world war one, 1900s, 1910s, 20th century ...
Place:
chicago, minnesota, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, france ...
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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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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: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal ...
Style:
light, humorous, funny, witty, talky ...
Plot:
mafia, gangster, satire, backstage, writers, theater, murder, playwright, actor, rehearsal, actress, showbiz ...
Time:
1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, War
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
in the 1930’s a social set known to the press – who follow their every move – as the “Bright Young Things.” are Adam and his friends who are eccentric, wild and entirely shocking to the older generation. Amidst the madness, Adam, who is ...
Style:
witty, costume drama, stylized, melancholic, semi serious ...
Plot:
lesbian, homosexual, orgy, love triangle, writers, love and romance, love affair, flapper, gay, world war two, husband wife relationship, social commentary ...
Time:
1930s, year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
england, london, europe, dover england, cannes ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
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, witty, stylized, visually stunning, period piece ...
Audience:
kids, date night, girls' night
Plot:
broadway, femme fatale, desire for fame, lovers, jail, prison, musician, lawyer, jazz, satire, execution, brutality ...
Time:
1920s, 1900s, 2000s, 20th century, year 2002 ...
Place:
chicago, usa, illinois
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Biopic about Zelda Fitzgerald, as played by Natasha Richardson
Style:
melancholic, historical romance, period drama
Plot:
writers, mental illness, schizophrenia, alcoholism, marriage, biopic, modernism, female protagonist, flapper, hospitalization, socialite, tragic romance ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Bernice, a shy young woman, leaves her safe home to go visit her flapper cousin. When her cousin tries to teach Bernice how to be much more modern, Bernice gives her much more than she bargained for. - imdb
Plot:
flapper, makeover, dinner party, revenge, girlhood, machismo, jealousy, femininity, summer, gender, regret, popular girl ...
Time:
1910s, 1920s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement ...
Style:
period piece, offbeat, humorous, talky, cult classic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
farce, orphan, flapper, biplane, marriage proposal, sexual attraction, summer, world war one, literary, landscape, farm, wedding ...
Time:
1930s, 1920s, 20th century, 19th century
Place:
london, england, europe
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 780 min.
TV show
Story:
This thirteen-part series explores just how painful love can be for young people. Would-be writer Edward Richardson is in love with heiress Lydia Aspen and wants her all to himself. Lydia professes to be in love with him, but her first love is ...
Style:
poignant, romantic, melancholic, reflective, costume drama ...
Plot:
heiress, young love, coming of age, heartbreak, jealousy, love triangle, bittersweet, literary, unrequited love, social class, romantic rivalry, flapper ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
england
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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: 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: Biography, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of ...
Style:
sexual, sad, historical drama, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
ballet, female nudity, women, dancer, dancing, children, biopic, art, girl, nude girl, unrequited love, passion ...
Time:
1920s, year 1900, 1890s, 19th century, 20th century
Place:
europe, russia, london, san francisco, florence ...
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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: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
The All-Out Sex Comedy Riot!
Style:
sex comedy
Plot:
female nudity, sex, virgin, heist, mafia, nudity, accidental death, swimming pool, homophobic slur, male protagonist, chase, public nudity ...
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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: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
At a gathering of would-be society debauchees, the Baron Plessis de Regard and the attractive young Nathalie hatch their individual plans to use sex to respectively ruin and punish their selected enemies. The Baron's plan is to scupper the ...
Style:
sex comedy, erotic
Plot:
lesbian incest, female nudity, erotica, car, library, restaurant, drinking, sexploitation, nudity, incest, father daughter incest, female pubic hair ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
france, venice
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Simian Line is an American improvisational film, released in 2001. When Katharine (Lynn Redgrave) throws a party on Halloween, a psychic called Arnita (Tyne Daly) predicts that one of the three couples present at the party will break up by the ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, captivating, sex comedy ...
Plot:
breakup, family relations, ghost, introspection, looking for love, dull life, family problems, couples, love and romance, supernatural ability, battle of the sexes, lifestyle ...
Time:
1920s
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
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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: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Spain, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A romantic comedy about a family traveling to the French capital for business. The party includes a young engaged couple forced to confront the illusion that a life different from their own is better.
Style:
feel good, melancholic, romantic, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot:
time travel, painter, literature, artist, bohemian life, magic realism, love and romance, love story, writers, nostalgia, writer's life, art ...
Time:
19th century, 2010s, year 2011, 20th century, 1920s ...
Place:
paris france, france, versailles, europe, montmartre paris ...
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