Turn of the century movies and TV shows – page 3
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List of turn of the century movies
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his promise to his wife on her deathbed that he would speak from the beyond.
Style:
historical drama, period piece, dramatic, emotional, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
magic, escape artist, biopic, occult, illusion, spiritualism, skepticism, magician, death, afterlife, seance, marriage ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
These Are the Days is an animated television series from Hanna-Barbera, originally broadcast on ABC from September 7, 1974, to September 27, 1975. The series, although critically acclaimed, only lasted 16 total episodes. Each episode had a run time ...
Style:
period piece, sentimental, educational, cult classic
Plot:
family relations, nostalgia, family drama, slice of life, everyday life, family values, small town, heartwarming, childhood, coming of age, community, kids and family ...
Time:
90s, turn of the century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.
Style:
period piece, suspense, educational, psychotronic
Plot:
biopic, escape artist, magic, illusion, seance, spectacle, spiritualism, fame, husband wife relationship, death, ambition, obsession ...
Time:
turn of the century, victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1910s ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Handsome May-December romantic drama set in a sleepy Southern town at the turn of the century. An independent lady from up North causes a scandal when she decides to wed the local general-store owner just three weeks after he's been widowed.
Style:
romantic drama, southern gothic, heartfelt, sentimental, period drama
Audience:
adult
Plot:
independent woman, small town life, scandal, widower, wooing, literary, age-gap relationship, coming of age, family secret, may december romance, age difference, community ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
southern usa
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Genre: Action, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
What if the Earth/Mars battle from H.G. Wells' classic novel The War of the Worlds wasn't fiction but actually fact? Like the famous 1938 Orson Welles radio broadcast that caused Americans to believe an actual invasion was in progress, the ...
Style:
tense, mockumentary, futuristic, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
alien invasion, martian, extraterrestrial, evil alien, showdown, battles, found footage, war, alien contact, fight, against humanity, struggle for survival ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The life and loves of poet Sibilla Aleramo (Laura Morante), focusing on her relationship with Dino Campana (Stefano Accorsi).
Style:
psychological, sincere, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
poet, love affair, relationships, biopic, female protagonist, couple relations, writer's life, writers, lifestyle, love interest, female writer, historical figure ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1910s
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Story:
This is a true story of Luisa Spagnoli who was an Italian businesswoman, famous for creating a women's fashion store and the chocolate brand, Perugia. The show is a romantic telling of her life. Considering that women were not involved in ...
Style:
inspirational, historical drama, uplifting, emotional, family saga ...
Plot:
businesswoman, biopic, ambition, women's rights, empowerment, fashion industry, resilience, gender roles, fashion designer, feminism, innovation, economist ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 1920s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Armenia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events, this is a film about a childhood friendship, torn apart by the horrific Hamidian massacres infiltrated by the Ottoman Empire under the rule of Sultan Abdul Hamid II (1894-1896).
Style:
historical drama, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
courage, friendship, hopes, armenian genocide, religious persecution, battles, empire, life risking, fight, friends, female protagonist, political oppression ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
ottoman empire, constantinople, armenia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
This simple story is the feature debut for well-known Slovak theater and television director Juraj Nvota. Set in a Slovak village at the turn of the last century, the story teems with passion, and repressed and hidden emotion. It delves into the ...
Style:
atmospheric, poignant, art house, period piece
Plot:
family drama, father daughter relationship, coming of age, loss of innocence, female protagonist, conflict, secrets, tragedy, forbidden love, small village, bittersweet, patriarchy ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The story starts at the dawn of the new millennium. A man called Knock-Knock has just lost his parents in a fire that devastated the family house. Eager to move away from his frightening past he moved inside a big house in North London. The house ...
Style:
creepy, suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, gothic
Audience:
adult
Plot:
trauma, ghost, haunted house, unsettling, supernatural, grief, murder mystery, dark past, loss, guilt, memory, isolation ...
Time:
turn of the century, y2k
Place:
london
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, ...
Style:
religious drama, suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
nun, trance, convent, mother superior, abbess, religious, religious conversion, character study, spirituality, religious fundamentalism, religion and supernatural, belief in god ...
Time:
turn of the century
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 209 min.
TV show
Story:
Scrutinizes the sexual morals and class ideology of its day through a series of encounters between pairs of characters, shown before or after a sexual encounter. A prostitute is cheated out of her money by a drug-dealer, in the next scene the dealer ...
Style:
tension, erotic drama, melancholic
Plot:
seduction, social satire, prostitution, hypocrisy, class struggle, moral ambiguity, infidelity, high society, adaptation, working class, desire, scandal ...
Time:
1890s, turn of the century
Place:
vienna
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Coming of age story of four girls living in the same poor district of Warsaw just before the outbreak of World War One.
Style:
realistic, emotional, melancholic, period drama
Plot:
friendship, poverty, coming of age, grownups, adolescence, female friendship, girl, loss of innocence, urban, working class, intimate, slice of life ...
Time:
1910s, turn of the century
Place:
warsaw poland, poland, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The heartbreaking tale of a young girl sold into an arranged marriage with a 2 year old boy who she must raise as his nanny until he is old enough to marry her. She is expected to honour tradition and to toe the line so far as social proprieties are ...
Style:
melancholic, art house, period drama
Plot:
arranged marriage, forced marriage, child bride, coming of age, female protagonist, gender roles, forbidden love, patriarchy, village life, oppression, nanny, cultural conflict ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
china
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Soviet Union, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
The film consists of two parts: “Insomnia” and “Departure”. We shall meet Lev Tolstoy in the final years of his life at Yasnaya Polyana. We shall see him surrounded by his family, friends, acquaintances and absolute strangers who were ...
Style:
contemplative, philosophical, melancholic, meditative, art house ...
Plot:
biopic, death, writer's life, character study, insomnia, introspection, isolation, spiritual journey, social injustice, memory, writers, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
soviet union, ussr
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, History
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Cook and Peary: The Race to the Pole is an unabashedly biased recreation of the controversy concerning the "conquering" of the North Pole. Robert E. Peary (Rod Steiger), a US Navy commander and shameless self-promoter, sets out through ...
Style:
historical drama, period piece
Plot:
north pole, expedition, rivalry, controversy, biopic, ambition, survival, travel and leisure, perseverance, isolation, naval officer, character study ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
greenland
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Genre: Biography, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Czechoslovak comedy film directed by Ladislav Smoljak, about the fictional national hero Jára Cimrman (universal genius, inventor, sportsman, criminalist, poet, writer and philosopher).
Style:
mockumentary, witty, ironic, light hearted, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
irreverent, pun, national identity, satire, character study, small town, writers, anton chekhov, female nudity, explorer, hunting, flashback ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
central europe
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
An egocentric artillery captain and his venomous wife engage in savage unremitting battles in their isolated island fortress of the coast of Sweden at the turn of the century. Alice, a former actress who sacrificed her career for secluded military ...
Style:
dark, grim, intense, art house, period piece ...
Plot:
mental illness, manipulation, power struggle, character study, psychological torment, betrayal, revenge, claustrophobia, military, love triangle, intimate, symbolism ...
Time:
turn of the century, 60s
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A docudrama about four weeks in the life of famous Czech composer Antonin Dvorak. The drama - filled with many of Dvorak's compositions - begins when the composer suddenly decides to cut a concert in London and return home. While on the train, ...
Style:
emotional, reflective, dramatic, art house, period drama
Plot:
composer, biopic, classical music, flashback, inspiration, nostalgia, melancholy, musical performance, orchestra, creative process, memory, violinist ...
Time:
turn of the century, 19th century
Place:
central europe, london
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 54 min.
Story:
Monet's glorious summer of painting ends abruptly with harsh attacks from his father and art critics. He intends to abandon everything, but is convinced otherwise by aspiring young artist Daniel. Having been abandoned by his own father, Daniel ...
Style:
poignant, reflective, historical drama, bleak, uplifting ...
Plot:
artist, biopic, painter, father son relationship, impressionism, inspiration, creative block, art, french countryside, legacy, intimate, summer ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1860s
Place:
france
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The ghost of a young German colonist, who died a couple of hundred years ago in unclear supernatural circumstances, appears in Chile to fulfill her mythical destiny. To achieve this, she will intervene in the life of an unsuccessful publicist and ...
Style:
atmospheric, melancholic, art house, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, haunting, female ghost, urban legend, supernatural romance, mysterious death, magic realism, loneliness, intervention, destiny, fate ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
chile, latin america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Selma is a 2 parts drama series based on Swedish world renowned novelist Selma Lagerlöf’s life. In the first part, Selma is in Sicily with her lover Sophie Elkan. The second part is years later, when Selma receives the Nobel Price.
Style:
touching, realistic, captivating, sincere, serious ...
Plot:
nobel prize, biopic, forbidden love, secret love, friendship, rivalry, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, prostitute, female protagonist, character study, literary, creative process ...
Time:
turn of the century, 1900s, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
sicily
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
Story:
The story of Maria Montessori the most famous pedagogue of the world. She spent all her life to make her "metodo" (method) accepted in the archaic Italian school system, while the rest of the world immediately understand the importance of ...
Style:
educational, psychological, disturbing, captivating, inspirational ...
Plot:
feminism, school, philosophy, children, family problems, mother son relationship, fascism, family relations, parents and children, teacher, female protagonist, legacy ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
italy, rome italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 8 min.
Story:
A music video for Eminem's song "Stan".
Style:
intense, melancholic, emotional, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
rap, hip hop, obsession, stalker, fandom, suicide, storytelling, haunting, celebrity, violence, celebrity culture, car crash ...
Time:
2000s, turn of the century, 20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the year 2000, 30-year-old Mariah Carey was the most successful female recording artist of all time. In September that year she began filming Glitter, her pet project, a film based on her childhood and her extraordinary rise to fame. But 12 ...
Style:
emotional
Plot:
fame, entertainment industry, female artist, breakdown, mental health, music industry, celebrity, marriage, glory, behind the scenes, pop star, introspection ...
Time:
2000s, 90s, turn of the century
Place:
los angeles, new york
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Genre: Action, Biography, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
He's one of the most popular Superstars in the history of sports-entertainment, with a resume that includes six WWE Championship reigns, three Royal Rumble victories, a King of the Ring Championship, and an unprecedented run of raising hell ...
Style:
factual, disturbing, sincere
Plot:
wrestling, professional wrestling, professional wrestler, revenge, invasion, champion, comeback, celebrity, perseverance, tribute, behind the scenes, celebration ...
Time:
90s, turn of the century
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Edvard Munch was one of the most important artists in the period between the 19th and 20th centuries. His motif Skrik (The Scream), repeated in several techniques, became part of the 20th-century world subconsciousness – an image of fear and ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, semi autobiographical, thrilling, emotional ...
Plot:
painter, artist, biopic, grief, mental illness, social problems, life is a bitch, problem, outcast, character study, loss, addiction ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century, 20th century
Place:
oslo norway, berlin germany, copenhagen
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Romania, Serbia, Sweden, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, UK, France
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Among the guests who come to the mansion of aristocratic landowner Nikolai over Christmas are a politician, a young countess, and a general with his wife. They dine and discuss topics such as progress and morality. As the debate becomes more heated, ...
Style:
art house, philosophical, cerebral, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
culture clash, aristocracy, manor, morality, debate, mansion, high society, cultural difference, relationship problems, intrigue, slow burn, literary ...
Time:
19th century, turn of the century
Place:
bosnia herzegovina
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Genre: Adventure
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
It's the year 1999, Hei-shu (Kuroki), a long-term unemployed man, finally gets a job in a local musical band...
Style:
surreal, existential, black comedy, offbeat, tragicomedy ...
Plot:
unemployment, loneliness, magic realism, identity crisis, social commentary, obsession, working class, government conspiracy, bittersweet, political satire, news anchor, dark humor ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
taiwan, east asia
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story:
Detective television series based on the works of Arthur Conan Doyle. Five films about Sherlock Holmes, shot by Igor Maslennikov earlier, were remounted in 2000, a connecting story about Conan Doyle's literary secretary, Mr. Wood, who is ...
Style:
detective, suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, investigation, writer's life, writers, uncover truth, murder investigation, crime solving, sleuth, accusation, crime investigation, literary, biopic ...
Time:
victorian era, turn of the century
Place:
london
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