Movies Set in 1920

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Chariots of Fire(1981)

3.4/5 (with 368 votes)

In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young runners train for the 1924 Paris Olympics. Eric Liddell, a devout Christian born to Scottish missionaries in China, sees running as part of his worship of God's glory and refuses to train or compete on the Sabbath. Harold Abrahams overcomes anti-Semitism and class bias, but neglects his beloved sweetheart in his single-minded quest.

Directed by Hugh Hudson - With Ben Cross, Ian Charleson, Cheryl Campbell, Nigel Havers, John Gielgud, Ian Holm, ...

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Michael Collins(1996)

2h 12min | War, Drama, Thriller, History

3.5/5 (with 212 votes)

Michael Collins plays a crucial role in the establishment of the Irish Free State in the 1920s, but becomes vilified by those hoping to create a completely independent Irish republic.

Directed by Neil Jordan - With Liam Neeson, Aidan Quinn, Stephen Rea, Alan Rickman, Julia Roberts, Ian Hart, ...

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The Lodgers(2017)

1h 33min | Horror, Thriller, Mystery

2.5/5 (with 223 votes)

1920, rural Ireland. Anglo-Irish twins Rachel and Edward share a strange existence in their crumbling family estate. Each night, the property becomes the domain of a sinister presence (The Lodgers) which enforces three rules upon the twins: they must be in bed by midnight; they may not permit an outsider past the threshold; and if one attempts to escape, the life of the other is placed in jeopardy. When troubled war veteran Sean returns to the nearby village, he is immediately drawn to the mysterious Rachel, who in turn begins to break the rules set out by The Lodgers. The consequences pull Rachel into a deadly confrontation with her brother - and with the curse that haunts them.

Directed by Brian O’Malley - With Charlotte Vega, Bill Milner, Eugene Simon, David Bradley, Deirdre O'Kane, Moe Dunford, ...

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Reds(1981)

3h 15min | Drama, History, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 136 votes)

An account of the revolutionary years of the legendary American journalist John Reed, who shared his adventurous professional life with his radical commitment to the socialist revolution in Russia, his dream of spreading its principles among the members of the American working class, and his troubled romantic relationship with the writer Louise Bryant.

Directed by Warren Beatty - With Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Gene Hackman, Edward Herrmann, ...

The Battle: Roar to Victory(2019)

2h 15min | History, Action, War

3.6/5 (with 8 votes)

In 1920, when Korea is under Japanese rule the Korean Independence Army’s Hae-chul and his subordinates are carrying out the operation to deliver funds to the Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai. During the operation Hae-chul is reunited with Jang-ha, a young squad commander, whose mission is to defend Samdunja. They unite and trap the Japanese soldiers in Samdunja, soundly defeating them. Now they’re chased by Japanese troops and Hae-chul finds out that Jang-ha’s mission isn’t over yet. A crucial yet dangerous task is still assigned to him.

Directed by Won Sin-yeon - With Yoo Hai-Jin, Ryu Jun-yeol, Jo Woo-jin, Hiroyuki Ikeuchi, Kazuki Kitamura, Park Ji-hwan, ...

Admiral(2008)

2h 3min | War

3.2/5 (with 53 votes)

This is a story of a great love facing the greatest drama of the history of Russia. Admiral Kolchak is a true war hero and beloved husband and father. One day he meets Anna, the love of his life and the wife of his best friend. The revolution in his heart faces the revolution in his own country His destiny is to become the Supreme Rules of Russia.

Directed by Andrei Kravchuk - With Konstantin Khabensky, Elizaveta Boyarskaya, Anna Kovalchuk, Alexander Lazarev, Jr., Egor Beroev, Fyodor Bondarchuk, ...

Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

1h 37min | Crime, Drama, Thriller

3.9/5 (with 125 votes)

In New York, the boys Rocky Sullivan and Jerry Connelly are best friends and small time thieves. After a robbery, Rocky is arrested and sent to a reformatory school, where he begins his criminal career. Jerry escapes and later becomes a priest. After three years in prison, Rocky is released and demands the return of $100,000 deposited with his solicitor - prior to his jail term.

Directed by Michael Curtiz - With James Cagney, Pat O'Brien, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, George Bancroft, Dead End Kids, ...

The Public Enemy(1931)

1h 23min | Crime, Drama

3.6/5 (with 136 votes)

Two young Chicago hoodlums, Tom Powers and Matt Doyle, rise up from their poverty-stricken slum life to become petty thieves, bootleggers and cold-blooded killers. But with street notoriety and newfound wealth, the duo feels the heat from the cops and rival gangsters both. Despite his ruthless criminal reputation, Tom tries to remain connected to his family, however, gang warfare and the need for revenge eventually pull him away.

Directed by William Augustus Wellman - With James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Joan Blondell, Leslie Fenton, Beryl Mercer, ...

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Hinterland(2021)

1h 39min | Thriller

3.4/5 (with 17 votes)

Vienna, 1920. The Austro-Hungarian Empire has collapsed. Peter Perg returns home from the Great War, after years of captivity. But the Vienna he comes home to is nothing like the place he once knew. The new Austrian Republic thrives on social and artistic freedom, but anti-democratic movements and unemployment loom overhead. A stranger in his hometown, his life takes a turn for the worse when one of his former comrades is murdered. Suddenly the mysterious killings of veterans are mounting. Personally connected to the victims, Perg decides to bring the killer to justice. He finds an ally in the cool-headed forensic doctor Theresa Körner, with whom he has a deeper, shared history. Their investigation leads them into the darkest corners of the city, as they confront a brutal and systematic killer and intrigues from within the police force. But when the killer’s net closes around Perg himself, he faces the moral dilemma of his life.

Directed by Stefan Ruzowitzky - With Murathan Muslu, Liv Lisa Fries, Max von der Groeben, Marc Limpach, Aaron Friesz, Stipe Erceg, ...

Manhattan Melodrama(1934)

1h 33min | Crime, Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 26 votes)

The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.

Directed by W. S. Van Dyke, George Cukor - With Clark Gable, William Powell, Myrna Loy, Nat Pendleton, George Sidney, Mickey Rooney, ...

The Man Who Planted Trees(1987)

30min | Animation, Drama

4.1/5 (with 69 votes)

The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of the French Alps throughout the first half of the 20th century.

Directed by Frédéric Back

Vengeance!(1970)

1h 38min | Action

3.2/5 (with 8 votes)

A violent martial artist is bent on avenging his older brother, who was killed by a cabal of four wicked businessmen and a cheating wife.

Directed by Chang Cheh - With David Chiang, Ti Lung, Wang Ping

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Sweet Land(2005)

1h 50min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Set in 1920, Inge travels from Germany to rural Minnesota in order to meet the man destined to be her husband.

Directed by Ali Selim - With Elizabeth Reaser, Tim Guinee, Lois Smith, Alex Kingston, Paul Sand, John Heard, ...

Life and Nothing But(1989)

2h 15min | War, Drama

3.6/5 (with 34 votes)

January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?

Directed by Bertrand Tavernier - With Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma, Michel Duchaussoy, Philippe Uchan, Daniel Russo, Charlotte Kady, ...

Quiet Flows the Don(1957)

5h 40min | Drama, History

3.3/5 (with 10 votes)

Based on the novel of the same name by Mikhail Sholokhov, about the fate of people broken by the First World War, the October Revolution of 1917 and the Civil War in Russia (1917-1922), about the collapse of the foundations and ideals of the Don Cossacks of Russia at the beginning of the XX century, about the personal tragedy of the protagonist — Grigoriy Melekhov.

Directed by Sergei Gerasimov - With Pyotr Glebov, Elina Bystritskaya, Zinaida Kiriyenko, Danylo Ilchenko

1920 London(2016)

2h | Horror

2.2/5 (with 20 votes)

Shivangi (Meera Chopra) lives in London with her husband Veer Singh. One day, he receives a gift from Rajasthan. From then, strange things happen with Veer and his condition deteriorates.

Directed by Vikram Bhatt - With Meera Chopra

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Padre Pio(2023)

1h 44min | Drama

2.9/5 (with 5 votes)

It is the end of World War I and the young Italian soldiers are making their way back to San Giovanni Rotondo, a land of poverty, with a tradition of violence and submission to the iron-clad rule of the church and its wealthy landowners. Families are desperate, the men are broken, albeit victorious. Padre Pio also arrives, at a remote Capuchin monastery, to begin his ministry, evoking an aura of charisma, saintliness and epic visions of Jesus, Mary and the Devil himself. The eve of the first free elections in Italy sets the stage for a massacre with a metaphorical dimension: an apocalyptic event that changes the course of history.

Directed by Abel Ferrara - With Shia LaBeouf, Marco Leonardi, Asia Argento, Salvatore Ruocco, Luca Lionello, Brando Pacitto, ...

Battle of Warsaw 1920(2011)

1h 55min | Drama, War, History

2.3/5 (with 17 votes)

Poland's winning battle against Soviet Russia as seen through the eyes of two young protagonists, Ola and Jan. She is a Warsaw cabaret dancer, while he is a cavalry officer and poet who believes in socialist ideals.

Directed by Jerzy Hoffman - With Adam Ferency, Borys Szyc, Daniel Olbrychski, Wojciech Pszoniak, Natasza Urbańska, Olga Kabo, ...

1920: Evil Returns(2012)

2h | Thriller, Horror, Romance / Love

2.5/5 (with 9 votes)

This story revolves around a famous poet who meets a woman who is in trouble. In order to treat her, he takes her to Shimla in a big hospital, but soon that woman gets possessed by devil and goes out of control. Now the question remains that what is the relation that poet shares with her which compelled him to go to any extent to save her, why she was possessed by devil and who is the devil.

Directed by Bhushan Patel - With Aftab Shivdasani, Tia Bajpai, Sharad Kelkar, Vidya Malvade

Three Comrades(1938)

1h 38min | Drama, Romance / Love

3.5/5 (with 12 votes)

A love story centered on the lives of three young German soldiers in the years following World War I. Their close friendship is strengthened by their shared love for the same woman who is dying of tuberculosis.

Directed by Frank Borzage - With Robert Taylor, Margaret Sullavan, Franchot Tone, Robert Young, Lionel Atwill, Henry Hull, ...

Two Comrades Were Serving(1968)

1h 39min | Action, Drama, History, War

3.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Set during the last days of the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The Crimea Peninsula is the last stronghold of the White Guard, and the Red Army is planning the final assault. The first story line of the movie follows two Red Army soldiers: unlikely friends Nekrasov and Karyakin. The second story line is about a White Guard officer Brusentsov who is devoted to Russia and his cause but sees it being destroyed day by day.

Directed by Yevgeni Karelov - With Oleg Yankovsky, Rolan Bykov, Anatoli Papanov, Vladimir Vysotsky, Nikolai Burlyayev, Juozas Budraitis, ...

Winterset(1936)

1h 17min | Romance / Love, Crime, Drama

2.7/5 (with 5 votes)

A man is determined to find the real culprit behind the crime for which his father was wrongly executed.

Directed by Alfred Santell - With Burgess Meredith, Margo, Eduardo Ciannelli, John Carradine, Mischa Auer, Paul Fix, ...

Life Is a Bed of Roses(1983)

1h 50min | Drama, Comedy

3.1/5 (with 11 votes)

In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.

Directed by Alain Resnais - With Vittorio Gassman, Ruggero Raimondi, Fanny Ardant, Geraldine Chaplin, Pierre Arditi, Sabine Azéma, ...

Sunstroke(2014)

2h 55min | History, Drama

2.6/5 (with 8 votes)

In a Crimean filtration camp, after the evacuation of the White Army, an unnamed captain is haunted by memories of a brief romance as he tries to understand how the Russian Empire fell apart and who is to blame.

Directed by Nikita Mikhalkov

1920(2008)

2h 18min | Horror

2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

The year is 1920 and the house isolated in the wilderness has a secret. It is waiting for the curse to come true. For years, everyone who has bought the house and tried to pull it down has died of mysterious circumstances. It is like the house has a will and a life of its own.

Directed by Vikram Bhatt - With Rajneesh Duggal, Adah Sharma

A Summer Story(1988)

1h 35min | Romance / Love, Drama

3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.

Directed by Piers Haggard - With James Wilby, Imogen Stubbs, Susannah York, Kenneth Colley, Jerome Flynn, Sophie Ward, ...

A Month in the Country(1987)

1h 36min | History, Drama

3.2/5 (with 10 votes)

Set in the early 1920s, A Month in the Country follows a man haunted by his experiences in World War I who has been employed to carry out restoration work on a Medieval mural discovered in a church in the small rural community of Yorkshire.

Directed by Pat O'Connor - With Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide

The Taste of the Black Earth(1970)

1h 39min | Drama, War

3.3/5 (with 4 votes)

During the 1920 Silesian uprising, seven brothers take part in the struggle with the Germans to keep the region in the Polish hands.

Directed by Kazimierz Kutz - With Olgierd Łukaszewicz, Jan Englert, Jerzy Bińczycki, Daniel Olbrychski, Jerzy Trela, Jerzy Cnota, ...

The Flight(1971)

3h 16min | Drama, History, War

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

The film is about a group of people who in other times wouldn't have anything in common, some of them innocent bystanders, some moral criminals. But nothing is straightforward and simple. From Russia "the run" continues to Constantinople, to Paris, back to Russia. Some of them have understood that they can't live outside Russia and go back maybe to be happy, maybe not, some go back to face sure death for their crimes, some don't go back and know that are going to miss homeland forever, some are comfortably well off (are they?) in exile. Sentimental without syrup, tragic and comical at the same time.

Directed by Aleksandr Alov, Vladimir Naumov - With Ludmila Savelyeva, Aleksey Batalov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Vladislav Dvorzhetsky, Yevgeniy Yevstigneyev, Vladimir Zamanskiy, ...

The Treaty(1991)

1h 47min | Drama, History, TV Movie, War

4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

How the Anglo-Irish Treaty between the unrecognised Irish Republic, represented by Michael Collins, and the British government was concluded after high-stakes negotiations in 1921.

Directed by Jonathan Lewis - With Brendan Gleeson, Ian Bannen, Julian Fellowes, Barry McGovern

Movies Set in 1920

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Chariots of Fire(1981)

Michael Collins(1996)

The Lodgers(2017)

Reds(1981)

The Battle: Roar to Victory(2019)

Admiral(2008)

Angels with Dirty Faces(1938)

The Public Enemy(1931)

Hinterland(2021)

Manhattan Melodrama(1934)

The Man Who Planted Trees(1987)

Vengeance!(1970)

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Sweet Land(2005)

Life and Nothing But(1989)

Quiet Flows the Don(1957)

1920 London(2016)

Padre Pio(2023)

Battle of Warsaw 1920(2011)

1920: Evil Returns(2012)

Three Comrades(1938)

Two Comrades Were Serving(1968)

Winterset(1936)

Life Is a Bed of Roses(1983)

Sunstroke(2014)

1920(2008)

A Summer Story(1988)

A Month in the Country(1987)

The Taste of the Black Earth(1970)

The Flight(1971)

The Treaty(1991)

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