Movies Set in 1925

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

PG-13

| 2h 46min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance / Love

3.8/5 (with 5,674 votes)

I was born under unusual circumstances. And so begins The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, adapted from the 1920s story by F. Scott Fitzgerald about a man who is born in his eighties and ages backwards: a man, like any of us, who is unable to stop time. We follow his story, set in New Orleans, from the end of World War I in 1918 into the 21st century, following his journey that is as unusual as any man's life can be. Benjamin Button, is a grand tale of a not-so-ordinary man and the people and places he discovers along the way, the loves he finds, the joys of life and the sadness of death, and what lasts beyond time.

Directed by David Fincher - With Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Taraji P. Henson, Julia Ormond, Tilda Swinton, Mahershala Ali, ...

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The Lost City of Z(2017)

PG-13

| 2h 21min | Adventure, Drama, History

3.2/5 (with 1,284 votes)

A true-life drama in the 1920s, centering on British explorer Col. Percy Fawcett, who discovered evidence of a previously unknown, advanced civilization in the Amazon and disappeared whilst searching for it.

Directed by James Gray - With Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Angus Macfadyen, Ian McDiarmid, ...

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The King's Speech(2010)

1h 58min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 3,922 votes)

The King's Speech tells the story of the man who became King George VI, the father of Queen Elizabeth II. After his brother abdicates, George ('Bertie') reluctantly assumes the throne. Plagued by a dreaded stutter and considered unfit to be king, Bertie engages the help of an unorthodox speech therapist named Lionel Logue. Through a set of unexpected techniques, and as a result of an unlikely friendship, Bertie is able to find his voice and boldly lead the country into war.

Directed by Tom Hooper - With Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush, Helena Bonham-Carter, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Michael Gambon, ...

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The Power of the Dog(2021)

| 2h 5min | Western

3.4/5 (with 1,121 votes)

A domineering but charismatic rancher wages a war of intimidation on his brother's new wife and her teen son, until long-hidden secrets come to light.

Directed by Jane Campion - With Benedict Cumberbatch, Jesse Plemons, Kirsten Dunst, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Thomasin McKenzie, Genevieve Lemon, ...

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Togo(2019)

1h 53min | Adventure, Kids & Family

4.1/5 (with 870 votes)

The untold true story set in the winter of 1925 that takes you across the treacherous terrain of the Alaskan tundra for an exhilarating and uplifting adventure that will test the strength, courage and determination of one man, Leonhard Seppala, and his lead sled dog, Togo.

Directed by Ericson Core - With Willem Dafoe, Julianne Nicholson, Christopher Heyerdahl, Richard Dormer, Michael Greyeyes, Nive Nielsen, ...

Balto(1995)

| 1h 18min | Kids & Family, Animation, Adventure

3.7/5 (with 920 votes)

An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

Directed by Simon Wells

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Legionnaire(1998)

| 1h 38min | Action, War, Adventure, History

2.8/5 (with 245 votes)

Alain Lefevre is a boxer paid by a Marseille mobster to take a dive. When he wins the fight he attempts to flee to America with the mobster's girlfriend Katrina. This plan fails and he seeks escape by joining the foreign legion. As part of the legion he tangles with abusive lieutenant Steinkampf and bonds with legionnaires Luther, Mackintosh and Rosetti.

Directed by Peter MacDonald - With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje, Steven Berkoff, David Hayman, Jim Carter, Joseph Long, ...

The Quest(1996)

PG-13

| 1h 35min | Action, Adventure

3.1/5 (with 292 votes)

Ghang-gheng, the ancient winner-take-all competition in which the deadliest fighters from around the world employ the most spectacular feats of martial arts skills ever displayed in order to win the prized Golden Dragon. But fighting prowess alone will not be enough for Chris to triumph over such daunting foes.

Directed by Jean-Claude Van Damme - With Roger Moore, James Remar, Janet Gunn, Jack McGee, Aki Aleong, Jean-Claude Van Damme, ...

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The Electrical Life of Louis Wain(2021)

PG-13

| 1h 51min | Drama, History, Comedy

3.5/5 (with 170 votes)

The extraordinary true story of eccentric British artist Louis Wain, whose playful, sometimes even psychedelic pictures helped to transform the public's perception of cats forever.

Directed by Will Sharpe - With Benedict Cumberbatch, Claire Foy, Toby Jones, Andrea Riseborough, Jamie Demetriou, Aimee Lou Wood, ...

Night of the Demons(2009)

| 1h 33min | Horror, Action, Comedy

2.5/5 (with 72 votes)

Angela is throwing a decadent Halloween party at New Orleans' infamous Broussard Mansion. But after the police break up the festivities, Maddie and a few friends stay behind. Trapped inside the locked mansion gates, the remaining guests uncover a horrifying secret and soon fall victim to seven vicious, blood-thirsty demons.

Directed by Adam Gierasch - With Shannon Elizabeth, Monica Keena, Diora Baird, Michael Copon, Bobbi Sue Luther, Edward Furlong, ...

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The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

| 2h 6min | Adventure, Drama, Western

4.0/5 (with 488 votes)

Fred C. Dobbs and Bob Curtin, both down on their luck in Tampico, Mexico in 1925, meet up with a grizzled prospector named Howard and decide to join with him in search of gold in the wilds of central Mexico. Through enormous difficulties, they eventually succeed in finding gold, but bandits, the elements, and most especially greed threaten to turn their success into disaster.

Directed by John Huston - With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt, Bruce Bennett, Barton MacLane, Alfonso Bedoya, ...

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Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen(2010)

| 1h 45min | Drama, Action, History, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 115 votes)

Seven years after the apparent death of Chen Zhen, who was shot after discovering who was responsible for his teacher's death (Huo Yuanjia) in Japanese-occupied Shanghai. A mysterious stranger arrives from overseas and befriends a local mafia boss. That man is a disguised Chen Zhen, who intends to infiltrate the mob when they form an alliance with the Japanese. Disguising himself as a caped fighter by night, Chen intends to take out everyone involved as well as get his hands on an assassination list prepared by the Japanese.

Directed by Andrew Lau - With Donnie Yen, Shu Qi, Anthony Wong, Huang Bo, Shawn Yue, Zhou Yang, ...

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Ordet(1955)

2h 5min | Drama

3.9/5 (with 148 votes)

The three sons of devout Danish farmer Morten have widely disparate religious beliefs. Youngest son Anders shares his father's religion, but eldest son Mikkel has lost his faith, while middle child Johannes has become delusional and proclaims that he is Jesus Christ himself. When Mikkel's wife, Inger goes into a difficult childbirth, everyone's beliefs are put to the test.

Directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer - With Henrik Malberg, Emil Hass Christensen, Preben Lerdorff Rye, Birgitte Federspiel, Ejner Federspiel, Cay Kristiansen, ...

Inherit the Wind(1960)

| 2h 8min | Drama, History

3.9/5 (with 169 votes)

Schoolteacher Bertram Cates is arrested for teaching his students Darwin's theory of evolution. The case receives national attention and one of the newspaper reporters, E.K. Hornbeck, arranges to bring in renowned defense attorney and atheist Henry Drummond to defend Cates. The prosecutor, Matthew Brady is a former presidential candidate, famous evangelist, and old adversary of Drummond.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With Spencer Tracy, Fredric March, Gene Kelly, Dick York, Donna Anderson, Harry Morgan, ...

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The Abominable Dr. Phibes(1971)

1h 34min | Comedy, Horror

3.5/5 (with 130 votes)

Famous organist Anton Phibes is horribly disfigured in an automobile accident while rushing to the side of his sick wife and presumed to be dead. Once Phibes learns that his wife died on the operating table, he is convinced the doctors are responsible and begins exacting his revenge on all those involved.

Directed by Robert Fuest - With Vincent Price, Joseph Cotten, Peter Jeffrey, Virginia North, Terry-Thomas, Peter Gilmore, ...

The Woman in Black(1989)

1h 40min | Horror, Mystery, TV Movie, History

3.4/5 (with 55 votes)

When a friendless old widow dies in the seaside town of Crythin, a young solicitor is sent by his firm to settle the estate. The lawyer finds the townspeople reluctant to talk about or go near the woman's dreary home and no one will explain or even acknowledge the menacing woman in black he keeps seeing.

Directed by Herbert Wise - With Adrian Rawlins, Pauline Moran, Bernard Hepton, David Daker, Clare Holman, Steven Mackintosh, ...

The Call of Cthulhu(2005)

47min | Horror, Thriller, Fantasy, Science Fiction

3.6/5 (with 58 votes)

A dying professor leaves his great-nephew a collection of documents pertaining to the Cthulhu Cult. The nephew begins to learn why the study of the cult so fascinated his grandfather. Bit-by-bit he begins piecing together the dread implications of his grandfather's inquiries, and soon he takes on investigating the Cthulhu cult as a crusade of his own.

Directed by Andrew Leman

Eureka(1983)

| 2h 10min | Drama, Thriller

2.7/5 (with 30 votes)

An Alaskan gold prospector lives in luxury with his family on an island which gangsters want.

Directed by Nicolas Roeg - With Gene Hackman, Theresa Russell, Rutger Hauer, Mickey Rourke, Joe Pesci, Ed Lauter, ...

Déjà vu(1990)

1h 48min | Comedy, Crime

3.7/5 (with 18 votes)

The Prohibition years. Chicago bootleggers suffer losses due to their betrayal by one Mick Nich - Mikita Nichiporuk. The mob decides to execute the traitor, who escaped to Odesa, USSR, and organized his own bootleg business there. The hitman, Pollack, arrives in Odesa, and realizes how hard it is to make the hit here, as compared to a civilized country like USA.

Directed by Juliusz Machulski - With Jerzy Stuhr, Nikolai Karachentsov, Vladimir Golovin

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Sirocco(1951)

| 1h 38min | Action, Adventure, Drama

3.0/5 (with 14 votes)

A mysterious American gets mixed up with gunrunners in Syria.

Directed by Curtis Bernhardt - With Humphrey Bogart, Lee J. Cobb, Everett Sloane, Gerald Mohr, Zero Mostel, Onslow Stevens, ...

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White Hell of Pitz Palu(1929)

2h 30min | Drama

3.4/5 (with 8 votes)

Dr. Johannes Krafft climbs a 12,000-foot mountain over and over again to search for his wife, who was lost on their honeymoon. Another couple makes the dangerous climb with him.

Directed by Arnold Fanck, Georg Wilhelm Pabst - With Leni Riefenstahl, Gustav Diessl, Ernst Udet, Ernst Petersen, Kurt Gerron

Gabriela(1983)

1h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love

2.8/5 (with 15 votes)

In 1925, Gabriela, a poor, uneducated, yet charming woman becomes cook, mistress, and then wife of Nacib, a bar owner in Ilhéus, a small Brazilian coastal town run by the local colonels.

Directed by Bruno Barreto - With Sônia Braga, Marcello Mastroianni, Nicole Puzzi, Flávio Galvão, Nelson Xavier, Fernando Ramos da Silva, ...

The Night They Raided Minsky's(1968)

PG-13

| 1h 39min | Comedy

2.8/5 (with 8 votes)

Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.

Directed by William Friedkin - With Jason Robards, Britt Ekland, Norman Wisdom, Bert Lahr, Denholm Elliott, Elliott Gould, ...

The Assassination of Matteotti(1973)

2h | History

3.3/5 (with 12 votes)

How the Italian Fascist Party managed to turn the physical elimination of a political enemy into a test of strength fundamental for the ascent into the totalitarian regime.

Directed by Florestano Vancini - With Mario Adorf, Franco Nero, Umberto Orsini, Vittorio De Sica, Renzo Montagnani, Gastone Moschin, ...

Beau James(1957)

1h 45min | Drama

4.0/5 (with 1 vote)

The story of Jimmy Walker who became mayor of New York in the '20s.

Directed by Melville Shavelson - With Bob Hope, Vera Miles, Alexis Smith

Lovin' Molly(1974)

1h 38min | Romance / Love, Drama

2.3/5 (with 2 votes)

Spanning nearly 40 years from 1925 to 1964, two Texas farm boys; straight-arrow Gid and laid-back Johnny fight over the affections of the beautiful and headstrong Molly Taylor, who consistently refuses to marry either of them.

Directed by Sidney Lumet - With Anthony Perkins, Beau Bridges, Blythe Danner, Edward Binns, Susan Sarandon, John Henry Faulk, ...

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A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story(1994)

1h 35min

3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

Margaret Mitchell, portrayed as rebellious and spirited as Scarlett O'Hara, grows up in a comfortably middle-class Atlanta home, absorbing her grandmother's stories of the Civil War and the burning of their city by the Yankees. Young Peggy, as she likes to be called, goes to Smith College in Massachusetts and hates it. Back in Atlanta, her mildly scandalous reputation is made more so by her first marriage, to Red Upshaw, a bootlegging rake. Later, her second husband encourages her to expand her writing talents beyond feature articles for The Atlanta Journal. Her first and only novel becomes one of the best-selling books of all time.

Directed by Larry Peerce - With Shannen Doherty, Dale Midkiff, Morgan Weisser, Matt Mulhern, Rue McClanahan, Ann Wedgeworth, ...

The Sea Ghost(1931)

1h 4min | War, Action, Drama

2.5/5 (with 2 votes)

A crooked lawyer trying to cheat a young girl out of her inheritance tries to convince a sea captain to help him. Re-released in 1939 as "Phantom Submarine U-67.".

Directed by William Nigh - With Alan Hale, Clarence Wilson, Claud Allister, Laura La Plante

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The Great Air Robbery(1919)

| 1h 20min | Drama, Adventure

A daredevil flyer delivers the night mail despite threats from weather and robbers.

Directed by Jacques Jaccard - With Ormer Leslie Locklear

Movies Set in 1925

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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button(2008)

The Lost City of Z(2017)

The King's Speech(2010)

The Power of the Dog(2021)

Togo(2019)

Balto(1995)

Legionnaire(1998)

The Quest(1996)

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain(2021)

Night of the Demons(2009)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre(1948)

Legend of the Fist: The Return of Chen Zhen(2010)

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Ordet(1955)

Inherit the Wind(1960)

The Abominable Dr. Phibes(1971)

The Woman in Black(1989)

The Call of Cthulhu(2005)

Eureka(1983)

Déjà vu(1990)

Sirocco(1951)

White Hell of Pitz Palu(1929)

Gabriela(1983)

The Night They Raided Minsky's(1968)

The Assassination of Matteotti(1973)

Beau James(1957)

Lovin' Molly(1974)

A Burning Passion: The Margaret Mitchell Story(1994)

The Sea Ghost(1931)

The Great Air Robbery(1919)

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