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The Last Sentence (2012)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Renowned journalist Torgny Segerstedt declares war against Hitler as he criticizes Swedish politicians who tried to look away from the tyranny of the Nazis with the good excuse of “neutralism”. His only weapon is his pen and his life is full of ...
Style: serious, touching, realistic, bleak, uplifting ...
Plot: world war two, journalism, life is a bitch, fighting the system, fascism, political unrest, human spirit, rebelliousness, state affairs, idealism, against the odds, media ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, 1930s
Place: eastern europe
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The Glass Menagerie (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style: psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, adaptation, brother sister relationship, aging, family in crisis, parents and children, family life, family problems, unfulfillment, domineering mother, cripple, mother ...
Time: year 1987, 1930s, 20th century, future
Place: usa, tennessee
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Lassiter (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Scotland Yard and the FBI force a thief and his girlfriend to steal Nazi diamonds from a German countess.
Style: retro, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: world war two, heist, jewel thief, embassy, thief, police, caper, secret mission, robbery, art theft, nazi, jewelry ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: london, england, europe
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A Bullet for Pretty Boy (1970)
Genre: Action, Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A biography of Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd, a gangster who started his career at a young age after seeking revenge for his father's murder.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tragic ending ...
Plot: biopic, bank robber, mobster, shootout, prostitute, gangster, prison, ladykiller, fbi, ambush, prosecution, hooligan ...
Time: 1930s
Place: oklahoma, kansas
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Dancing on the Edge (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 449 min.
TV show
Story: A black jazz band becomes entangled in the aristocratic world of 1930s London as they seek fame and fortune.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, captivating, tense, erotic ...
Plot: jazz, rising to stardom, music, ambition, musician's life, artists and showbiz, music band, high society, aristocracy, lifestyle, mogul, backstage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1933
Place: london, england
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Cracks (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, serious, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, obsession, lesbian, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, lesbian love, boarding school life, lesbian interest, asthma, teenage crush, teenage girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place: england, europe
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The Broken Tower (2011)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Docudrama about American poet Hart Crane, who committed suicide in April 1932 at the age of 32 by jumping off the steamship SS Orizaba.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, serious, sincere, stylized ...
Plot: writers, gays and lesbians, introspection, gender, love and romance, writer's life, gay, poet, lgbt, suicide, biopic, visionary ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, 1920s
Place: new york, ohio, usa, paris france, mexico
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Blood on the Streets (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Style: exciting, cynical, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, interwar period, criminal, mobster, gangster, violent content, loss of partner, gory, rivalry, dishonesty, violence spree, vengeance ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: france, europe, marseille
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Hitler's Kaput! (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, War
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Russian WW2 spy spoof following misadventures of a clueless Soviet secret agent trapped inside Hitler's inner circle.
Style: not serious, stylized, witty, enigmatic, parody ...
Audience: teens
Plot: world war two, farce, good versus evil, escapades, secret identity, espionage, heroes, danger, war, rivalry, love affair, sex ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, ukraine, europe
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Point of No Return (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vendetta, thief, caper, interwar period, gangster, hitman, heist, polish, disorder, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two
Place: poland, europe, warsaw poland, switzerland, zurich switzerland
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Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
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How I Married My High School Crush (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high-school girl makes a wish to marry her crush, the star of the football team who doesn't even know she's alive. Then a solar eclipse magically transports them 17 years into the future to the day of their wedding.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Plot: wedding, desire, hopes, couples, teenage life, youth, eclipse, time travel, high school, friendship, crush, solar eclipse ...
Time: 90s, 1930s, future
Place: canada
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Fanny (1961)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is ...
Style: independent film, touching, feel good, sentimental, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teenage pregnancy, boat, broadway, yacht, loneliness, girl, journey, love, ocean, couples, relationship vs career, love affair ...
Time: year 1961, 1930s
Place: marseille, france, belgium, europe
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Where the Red Fern Grows (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the Ozark Mountains during the Great Depression, Billy Coleman works hard and saves his earnings for 2 years to achieve his dream of buying two coonhound pups. He develops a new trust in God as he faces overwhelming challenges in adventure ...
Style: semi serious, touching, feel good, gothic, sad ...
Audience: kids, family outing, chick flick, pre-teens
Plot: hound dog, friendship, dog, follow your dream, family relations, contests and competitions, animal, hunting, wilderness, american history, canine, animal lover ...
Time: 1930s
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Fist of Legend (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Chen Zhen, a Chinese engineering student in Kyoto, who braves the insults and abuse of his Japanse fellow students for his local love Mitsuko Yamada, daughter of the director, returns in 1937 to his native Shangai, under Japanse protectorate -in ...
Style: harsh, intense, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: martial arts, kung fu, sword fight, violence, martial artist, fight scenes, fight, brutality, samurai, wuxia, master warrior, kung fu classic ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: china, asia
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Fighter in the Wind (2004)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An account of karate competitor Choi Yeung-Eui who went to Japan after World War II to become a fighter pilot but found a very different path instead. He changed his name to Masutatsu Oyama and went across the country, defeating martial artists one ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, world war two, geisha, fight, atrocity, heroes, fight for supremacy, ambition, fall in love, love and romance, contests and competitions, medieval ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: japan, korea, asia
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Wild Hearts Can't Be Broken (1991)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A runaway orphan, young Sonora, persists in a menial job mucking stables in Doc Carver's travelling stunt show. Her great wish is to become a death-defying "diving girl," but Doc refuses her pleas. Undaunted, Sonora's gutsy ...
Style: sex comedy, romantic drama, romantic, existential, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: horse, girl horse relationship, animal, equestrian, orphan, great depression, women, world war one, age difference, coming of age, young love, medicine ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 1920s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, georgia, north carolina
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What's the Matter with Helen? (1971)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Musical, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Two middle-aged women move to Hollywood, California after their sons are convicted of a notorious murder and open a dance school for children eager to tap their way to stardom.
Style: slasher, suspense, grindhouse, queer horror, detective ...
Plot: murder, hagsploitation, hollywood, father daughter relationship, death, macabre, danger, woman in danger, psychopath, dance school, lesbian, memory loss ...
Time: year 1971, 1930s
Place: iowa, los angeles, california, usa
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Mussolini and I (1985)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: Italy, France, West Germany, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A compelling drama/documentary chronicling the life and death of Il Duce himself, from his days as a terrorist to his alliance with Hitler to the betrayal of his son-in-law and untimely demise.
Style: realistic, serious, disturbing, bleak, thought provoking
Plot: fascism, world war two, italian history, world war, totalitarian state, fictional history, intrigue, political unrest, society, against humanity, head of state, leadership ...
Time: 1930s, 1940s
Place: italy, europe
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Protector (2009)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A Czech journalist joins a Prague radio station what broadcasts Nazi propaganda in order to protect his Jewish wife. However, as the Nazi rule over Czechoslovakia calls for more and more collaboration, his relationship with his wife spirals downward.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized
Plot: world war two, anti semitism, couple relations, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch, wartime life, couples, artists and showbiz, against humanity, husband wife relationship, assassination, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: middle east, israel, europe, czech republic
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Blonde (2001)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 165 min.
TV show
Story: A fictional biography of Marilyn Monroe mixed with series of real events in her life.
Style: realistic, serious, sincere, touching, contemplative ...
Plot: hollywood, starlet, actor's life, historical figure, showbiz, lifestyle, love and romance, rising to stardom, desire for fame, filmmaking, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 60s, 1930s, 1940s, 50s, 1950s
Place: venice beach california, usa, maine
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Victor Victoria (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Style: witty, humorous, clever, stylized, touching ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot: gay, cross dressing, nightclub, gender bending, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, woman dressed as man, jazz, transgender, lgbtq ...
Time: 1930s, year 1982, 20th century, year 1934
Place: paris france, france, europe, chicago
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Style: touching, light, romantic, humorous, emotional ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night, teen drama
Plot: love affair, love and romance, social differences, friendship, actress, high society, farce, couples, actor's life, lifestyle, love triangle, artists and showbiz ...
Time: 1930s, year 1939, year 2008, 1900s, 20th century ...
Place: england, london, britain, europe
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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized ...
Style: christmas classics, emotional, touching, atmospheric, serious
Audience: adult
Plot: christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, ghost, christmas season, great depression, xmas, charles dickens, winter, redemption, holiday, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s
Place: new england, usa
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Backstairs at the White House (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 540 min.
TV show
Story: Behind the scenes at the White House during eight administrations, as told by the people who work there.
Style: historical drama, captivating, uplifting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: white house, blaxploitation, usa history, african, politics, usa politics, state affairs, master and servant, society, head of state, hopes, human spirit ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 1910s, 1940s, 1930s ...
Place: washington d.c., usa
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Redland (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: As a family struggles to survive in rural isolation during the Great Depression, their daughter's secret affair begins a journey into the unknown.
Style: atmospheric, serious, rough, disturbing, mystic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, family life, love affair, survival, love and romance, family problems, pregnancy, isolation, parents and children, dysfunctional family, prohibition era, family in crisis ...
Time: 1930s
Place: usa
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising ...
Style: sentimental, romantic, surreal, humorous, touching ...
Audience: date night
Plot: magic realism, movie star, daydreamer, writers, love story, imagination, surrealism, life turned upside down, fish out of water, real world, couples, unlikely couple ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1985, 1900s, year 1935
Place: usa, new jersey
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The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set during the meager years of the Great Depression, 12 DOGS OF CHRISTMAS follows the story of Emma, a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, dog, animal life, lifestyle, pets, youth, school, love, adaptation, destiny, happy ending ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1931
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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The Boy Friend (1971)
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, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night
Plot: showbiz, choreographer, broadway, choreography, dancing, love, past, morality, love and romance, artists and showbiz, lifestyle, couple relations ...
Time: 1920s, year 1971, 1930s, 20th century
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Dancing at Lughnasa (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Five unmarried sisters make the most of their simple existence in rural Ireland in the 1930s.
Style: emotional, light, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: family relations, dancing, siblings relations, parents and children, family life, human nature, sibling relationship, love and romance, life is a bitch, sisters, brother sister relationship, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, year 1936, 20th century
Place: ireland, africa, europe, england, spain
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