1900s movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant 1900s movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out period drama, realistic, serious, period piece, historical drama and captivating films and TV shows about / with love and romance, costume, family relations, world war one, society, runaway, love, husband wife relationship, biopic and culture clash plots mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres shot in UK, USA, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as 1900s: The Go-Between (2015), Berkeley Square (1998), Anne of Green Gables (1985), A Dangerous Method (2011), Upstairs, Downstairs (1971), Everlasting Moments (2008), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975), Mr Selfridge (2013), A Room with a View (1985), Mathilde (2017).
Best films
New films
| Harbin (2024) | 6.3 | |
| Golden Kamuy (2024) | 6.3 | |
| Love Through a Prism (2026) | 8.3 | |
| Thunder (2022) | 6.1 | |
| Cabrini (2024) | 7.3 |
List of 1900s movies
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An elderly man pieces together his childhood memories after finding his diary from 1900, which he wrote when he was 13 years old.
Style:
emotional, realistic, touching, costume drama, sentimental ...
Plot:
forbidden love, secret relationship, male nudity, illicit affair, coming of age, family relations, boy, rich and poor, social differences, bittersweet, estate, friendship ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, year 1900, edwardian era, 90s
Place:
england, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Three young women from very different backgrounds meet, become friends and share experiences when they all gain positions as nannies in the wealthy households of London's exclusive Berkeley Square.
Style:
period piece, costume drama, historical drama, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
nanny, abbey, family relations, child abuse, spanish civil war, civil rights, human rights, colleague, feminist, butler, bittersweet, lifestyle ...
Time:
1900s, middle ages, edwardian era, 19th century, victorian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, West Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
TV show
Story:
At the turn of the century on Prince Edward Island, Matthew Cuthbert and his sister Marilla decide to take on an orphan boy as help for their farm. But they get an unexpected jolt when they're mistakenly sent a girl instead: Anne Shirley. ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, emotional, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
adoption, orphan, imagination, teaching the ways of the world, teenage love, coming of age, countryside, anne of green gables, love and romance, foster home, young heroes, best friend ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 1800s, year 1985 ...
Place:
canada, america
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seduced by the challenge of an impossible case, the driven Dr. Carl Jung takes the unbalanced yet beautiful Sabina Spielrein as his patient. Jung’s weapon is the method of his master, the renowned Sigmund Freud. Both men fall under Sabina’s ...
Style:
psychological, sexy, philosophical, period piece, intellectual ...
Plot:
psychoanalysis, psychology, psychiatrist, mental illness, historical character, sexual perversion, psychologist, adultery, sex, biopic, introspection, psychiatry ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 2010s, victorian era, 19th century ...
Place:
switzerland, europe, central europe, vienna, austria ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Upstairs, Downstairs is a British television drama series originally produced by London Weekend Television and revived by the BBC. It ran on ITV in 68 episodes divided into five series from 1971 to 1975.
Set in a large townhouse in Edwardian, First ...
Style:
costume drama, period piece, realistic, stylized, serious ...
Plot:
butler, domestic servant, maid, working class, wealth, master servant relationship, high society, master and servant, lifestyle, couples, rich and poor, couple relations ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, year 1971, 1920s, 1930s ...
Place:
england, london, hawaii, britain, europe
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In a time of social change and unrest, war and poverty, a young working class woman, Maria, wins a camera in a lottery. The decision to keep it alters her whole life.
Style:
sincere, atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
family relations, abusive husband, female artist, photograph, dysfunctional family, photography, jail, unrequited love, woman, photographer, troubled marriage, family problems ...
Time:
1900s, year 2008, 1910s, 20th century
Place:
europe, scandinavia, eastern europe
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the early 1900s, Miranda attends a girls boarding school in Australia. One Valentine's Day, the school's typically strict headmistress treats the girls to a picnic field trip to an unusual but scenic volcanic formation called Hanging ...
Style:
meditative, scenic, breathtaking, gothic, surreal ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
missing person, valentine's day, girls' boarding school, coming of age, unsolved mystery, boarding school life, adolescence, sexuality, private school, folk horror, child, wilderness ...
Time:
1900s, year 1900, victorian era, year 1975, near future ...
Place:
australia, south australia, oceania, new zealand
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Mr. Selfridge recounts the real life story of the flamboyant and visionary American founder of Selfridge's, London's lavish department store. Set in 1909 London, when women were reveling in a new sense of freedom and modernity, it follows ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, costume drama, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
businessman, high society, rise to the top, visionary, department store, success, materialism, lifestyle, ambitious, career, boss, manager ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 1910s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
england, london, britain
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lucy Honeychurch and chaperon Charlotte Bartlett find themselves in Florence with rooms without views, fellow guests Mr Emerson and son George step in to remedy the situation. Meeting the Emersons could change Lucy's life forever but, once ...
Style:
touching, scenic, period piece, sexy, costume drama ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot:
couples, hotel, travel, self discovery, female protagonist, country estate, piano, passion, male nudity, nude bathing, happy ending, comedy of manners ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, victorian era, 19th century, year 1985 ...
Place:
italy, england, europe, florence, britain ...
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
The love story of the famous ballet dancer Mathilde Kschessinska and Tsar Nicholas II of Russia.
Style:
sexy, thought provoking, costume drama, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
ballet, longing, royal romance, palace intrigue, ballerina, royal family, impossible love, female nudity, doomed love, forbidden love, passion, aristocracy ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 20th century, 19th century, 12th century
Place:
russia, moscow russia
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Hungary, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
French novelist, Colette, overcomes an abusive marriage to emerge as a leading writer in her country and a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Style:
captivating, costume drama, historical drama, period piece, intellectual ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
lgbt, lgbtq, sex scene, lesbian relationship, female protagonist, novelist, lesbian attraction, writers, lesbian, open marriage, woman, female writer ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, 1890s, year 1900, victorian era ...
Place:
paris france, france, algeria, louisiana, marseille
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.
Style:
political, factual, costume drama, period piece, bleak ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
feminism, feminist, women, girl power, sexism, rebelliousness, activism, politics, gender, women's suffrage, women's rights, sexual harassment ...
Time:
1900s, year 1912, 1910s, edwardian era, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, united kingdom ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
French adaptation of Marcel Pagnol's memoirs of his childhood in the countryside, early in the century.
Style:
sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, feel good ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
countryside, childhood, coming of age, children, childhood memory, country house, summer, precociousness, childhood friend, precocious child, brother brother relationship, boy ...
Time:
1900s, turn of the century, 19th century, year 1990, 20th century ...
Place:
france, marseille, south of france, europe, provence ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The spoiled rotten and utterly unlikable rich kid George Amberson becomes horrified when his recently widowed mother rekindles her relationship with the wealthy Eugene Morgan, who she left decades earlier in order to marry George's father. As ...
Style:
touching, emotional, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, downfall, mischievous children, family life, family problems, couples, love and romance, society, human nature, parents and children, dysfunctional family, social differences ...
Time:
1900s, 19th century, edwardian era, 1890s, 20th century
Place:
america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 3098 min.
TV show
Story:
Grand Hotel is a Spanish drama television series directed by Carlos Sedes and starring Yon Gonzalez and Amaia Salamanca. It first aired on Antena 3 in Spain on 11 October 2011 and on Sky Arts 1 in the UK on 18 November 2012.
The series, filmed at ...
Style:
stylized, captivating, serious, realistic, historical drama ...
Plot:
hotel, intrigue, love and romance, high society, investigation, master and servant, murder mystery, homicide detective, maid, love affair, social differences, guest ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 20th century, 90s
Place:
spain, new mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story:
A Woman of Substance charts the life of Emma Harte, from kitchen maid at the beginning of the 20th Century, to respected business woman and Grandmother in the 1980's. From humble beginnings Emma Harte starts her business with a small shop, but ...
Style:
costume drama, romantic drama, historical drama, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
female protagonist, passionate love, master and servant, forbidden love, marriage of convenience, marriage proposal, inheritance, professional, control, world war one, ambition, family relations ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, 1930s, 1920s, 1910s ...
Place:
england, britain, yorkshire
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Young writer, Richard Collier is met on the opening night of his first play by an old lady who begs him to, "Come back to me." Mystified, he tries to find out about her, and learns that she is a famous stage actress from the early 1900s. ...
Style:
romantic, sentimental, period piece, sweet, heartbreaking ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
time travel, love story, passion, obsession, time, hotel, playwright, love triangle, supernatural, love and romance, fall in love, love affair ...
Time:
1900s, 80s, year 1980, victorian era, edwardian era ...
Place:
usa, chicago, america, michigan, north america
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A River Runs Through is a cinematographically stunning true story of Norman Maclean. The story follows Norman and his brother Paul through the experiences of life and growing up, and how their love of fly fishing keeps them together despite varying ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, period piece, inspirational, thought provoking ...
Plot:
coming of age, fishing, father son relationship, childhood, river, brother brother relationship, beautiful scenery, self discovery, brothers, wilderness, death of brother, gambling ...
Time:
1900s, 1920s, 1910s, year 1992, 1930s ...
Place:
montana, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Style:
period piece, stylized, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
adventurer, bedouin, desert, stallion, englishwoman, marriage proposal, state affairs, head of state, escapades, unfulfilled love, women, politics ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, victorian era, future, year 2014 ...
Place:
persia, middle east, arabia, morocco, turkey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
After her father is accused of embezzlement, wealthy Sara Stanley is sent to live with her deceased mother's relatives on Prince Edward Island. While there, she must adjust to life in the small rural town of Avonlea, learn to cope with her ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, soap opera ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night
Plot:
small town, countryside, heroine, friends, couple relations, teacher, family life, uncle niece relationship, parents and children, school, friendship, mischievous children ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, turn of the century
Place:
canada
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In late 1890s Wyoming, Butch Cassidy is the affable, clever and talkative leader of the outlaw Hole in the Wall Gang. His closest companion is the laconic dead-shot 'Sundance Kid'. As the west rapidly becomes civilized, the law finally ...
Style:
homoerotic, epic, period piece, freeze frame, scenic ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, kids, adult
Plot:
buddy, friendship, shootout, old west, bank robbery, cowboy, friendship between men, last stand, gunfight, fugitive, heist, robbery ...
Time:
1900s, 1890s, 20th century, ancient times, year 1969 ...
Place:
bolivia, south america, wyoming, new york, latin america ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, Mrs. Soffel is set in Pittsburgh near the dawn of the 20th century. Peter Soffel (Edward Herrmann) is the warden of a top security prison, and his wife Kate (Diane Keaton) often comes by to read the Bible aloud to the ...
Style:
melancholic, sweet, light, realistic, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
prison, prison escape, murder, adultery, extramarital affair, prison warden, couple relations, love and romance, confined, life is a bitch, escape, couples ...
Time:
1900s, edwardian era, 20th century
Place:
pittsburgh, america, usa, australia, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Summer 1910. Several tourists have vanished while relaxing on the beautiful beaches of the Channel Coast. Infamous inspectors Machin and Malfoy soon gather that the epicenter of these mysterious disappearances must be Slack Bay, a unique site where ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, art house, absurd, hilarious ...
Plot:
beach, disappearance, cannibalism, nude beach, sea, fat man, levitation, flying, summer, bourgeoisie, love, mysterious disappearance ...
Time:
1900s, 1910s, victorian era, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
english channel, atlantic ocean
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Arthur & George is a three-part adaptation of Julian Barnes' novel about Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle as played by actor Martin Clunes.
Set in 1906 in Staffordshire, Hampshire and London the drama follows Sir Arthur and his ...
Style:
clever, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
writers, who done it, false accusation, private detective, writer's life, uncover truth, injustice, prejudice, servant, priest, miscarriage of justice, mother son relationship ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, 1910s, future, edwardian era ...
Place:
england, europe, britain, london
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
An intoxicating love story set in England's first department store in the 1870s. The Paradise revolves around the lives of the people who live and work in the store, each bound in their own way by the power of the world they live in, and the ...
Style:
captivating, costume drama, period piece, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
fashion, workplace situations, rise to the top, high society, success, workplace, love affair, nouveau riche, love and romance, department store, hot and sexy, workplace problem ...
Time:
19th century, 1900s, victorian era, 1870s, 20th century ...
Place:
england, britain
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
At the beginning of the 20th century an American woman is abducted in Morocco by Berbers. The attempts to free her range from diplomatic pressure to military intervention.
Style:
epic, scenic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, politics, desert, rescue, boy, battle of the sexes, invasion, cavalry, german soldier, sword fight, u.s. president, sword duel ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, year 1975, 1930s, 90s
Place:
morocco, north africa, washington d.c., africa, tangier morocco ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
An English widow goes to Italy, falls in love with a dentist's son and marries him, against her straitlaced family's wishes.
Style:
costume drama, period piece, historical drama, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
sister in law, unrequited love, mother in law, class differences, brother in law, catholicism, marriage for money, railway, defiant, family disapproval, marriage, widow ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, victorian era, year 1991, 90s ...
Place:
italy, england, britain, europe, tuscany
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
In 1901, Marcela Gracia Ibeas took on the identity of Mario Sánchez to marry her lover of fifteen years, Elisa Sanchez Loriga.
Style:
period piece, black and white, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
lesbian, lesbian love, lesbian relationship, lesbianism, lesbian couple, gay love, forbidden love, secret relationship, bare butt, sapphic, lgbt, lesbian sex ...
Time:
1900s, 1880s, 19th century, 1920s, 20th century ...
Place:
spain, portugal, argentina
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved and best-selling children's book, "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", and her struggle for love, happiness and success.
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, costume drama, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
writers, writer's life, biopic, female artist, book, family relations, snobbism, painting, fall in love, art, happy ending, artist ...
Time:
1900s, victorian era, edwardian era, 19th century, 1910s ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe, san francisco
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
As the daring thief Arsène Lupin (Duris) ransacks the homes of wealthy Parisians, the police, with a secret weapon in their arsenal, attempt to ferret him out.
Style:
captivating, stylized, serious, exciting, period drama
Plot:
master criminal, mysterious character, coup d'etat, treasure hunt, hotshot hero, criminal heroes, danger, haunted by the past, thief, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, master of disguise ...
Time:
victorian era, 1900s, 1890s, 1880s, 1910s ...
Place:
paris france, europe, france
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