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Movies Set in 1929

Public list by WPS with 37 movies or TV shows/series

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The Wind Rises(2013)

FSK: 6+ years
| 2h 6min | Drama, Animation, War, Romance / Love
3.9/5 (with 1,289 votes)

A lifelong love of flight inspires Japanese aviation engineer Jiro Horikoshi, whose storied career includes the creation of the A-6M World War II fighter plane.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

The Great Gatsby(2013)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 23min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 5,585 votes)

An adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's Long Island-set novel, where Midwesterner Nick Carraway is lured into the lavish world of his neighbor, Jay Gatsby. Soon enough, however, Carraway will see through the cracks of Gatsby's nouveau riche existence, where obsession, madness, and tragedy await.

Some Like It Hot(1959)

FSK: 16+ years
| 2h 2min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love, Crime
4.1/5 (with 1,476 votes)

Two musicians witness a mob hit and struggle to find a way out of the city before they are found by the gangsters. Their only opportunity is to join an all-girl band as they leave on a tour. To make their getaway they must first disguise themselves as women, then keep their identities secret and deal with the problems this brings - such as an attractive bandmate and a very determined suitor.

Porco Rosso(1992)

3.9/5 (with 1,482 votes)

In Italy in the 1930s, sky pirates in biplanes terrorize wealthy cruise ships as they sail the Adriatic Sea. The only pilot brave enough to stop the scourge is the mysterious Porco Rosso, a former World War I flying ace who was somehow turned into a pig during the war. As he prepares to battle the pirate crew's American ace, Porco Rosso enlists the help of spunky girl mechanic Fio Piccolo and his longtime friend Madame Gina.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki

The Aviator(2004)

FSK: 12+ years
| 2h 50min | Drama
3.6/5 (with 2,412 votes)

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

Timecop(1994)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 39min | Thriller, Science Fiction, Action, Crime
3.0/5 (with 487 votes)

An officer for a security agency that regulates time travel, must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.

Lion of the Desert(1981)

2h 53min | History, War, Drama
3.7/5 (with 73 votes)

This movie tells the story of Omar Mukhtar, an Arab Muslim rebel who fought against the Italian conquest of Libya in WWII. It gives western viewers a glimpse into this little-known region and chapter of history, and exposes the savage means by which the conquering army attempted to subdue the natives.

Ghost Story(1981)

1h 50min | Horror, Drama, Thriller
3.0/5 (with 60 votes)

Four successful elderly gentlemen, members of the Chowder Society, share a gruesome, 50-year-old secret. When one of Edward Wanderley's twin sons dies in a bizarre accident, the group begins to see a pattern of frightening events developing.

Serena(2014)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 469 votes)

North Carolina mountains at the end of the 1920s – George and Serena Pemberton, love-struck newly-weds, begin to build a timber empire. Serena soon proves herself to be equal to any man: overseeing loggers, hunting rattle-snakes, even saving a man’s life in the wilderness. With power and influence now in their hands, the Pembertons refuse to let anyone stand in the way of their inflated love and ambitions. However, once Serena discovers George’s hidden past and faces an unchangeable fate of her own, the Pemberton’s passionate marriage begins to unravel leading toward a dramatic reckoning.

The Artist(2011)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 40min | Drama, Comedy, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 1,462 votes)

Hollywood, 1927: As silent movie star George Valentin wonders if the arrival of talking pictures will cause him to fade into oblivion, he sparks with Peppy Miller, a young dancer set for a big break.

Bugsy Malone(1976)

FSK: 6+ years
| 1h 33min | Drama, Action, Comedy, Music, Kids & Family
3.3/5 (with 126 votes)

New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.

The St. Valentine's Day Massacre(1967)

FSK: 16+ years
| 1h 40min | History, Crime
3.2/5 (with 43 votes)

Chicago February 14th 1929. Al Capone finally establishes himself as the city's boss of organised crime. In a north-side garage his hoods, dressed as policemen, surprise and mow down with machine-guns the key members of Bugs Moran's rival gang. The film traces the history of the incident, and the lives affected and in some cases ended by it.

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The Front Page(1974)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 45min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 156 votes)

A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.

Splendor in the Grass(1961)

3.8/5 (with 107 votes)

A fragile Kansas girl's unrequited and forbidden love for a handsome young man from the town's most powerful family drives her to heartbreak and madness.

The Devil Rides Out(1968)

1h 36min | Horror
3.3/5 (with 78 votes)

The powers of good are pitted against the forces of evil as the Duc de Richelieu wrestles with the charming but deadly Satanist, Mocata, for the soul of his friend. Mocata has the knowledge and the power to summon the forces of darkness and, as the Duc de Richelieu and his friends remain within the protected pentacle, they are subjected to ever-increasing horror until thundering hooves herald the arrival of the Angel of Death.

Zelig(1983)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 19min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 372 votes)

Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.

Directed by Woody Allen - With Mia Farrow, Woody Allen, Susan Sontag, Saul Bellow, Bruno Bettelheim, Josephine Baker, ...

Blackmail(1929)

1h 26min | Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 91 votes)

London, 1929. Frank Webber, a very busy Scotland Yard detective, seems to be more interested in his work than in Alice White, his girlfriend. Feeling herself ignored, Alice agrees to go out with an elegant and well-mannered artist who invites her to visit his fancy apartment.

Timecop 2: The Berlin Decision(2003)

2.9/5 (with 47 votes)

20 years after a set of events, the Time Enforcement Commission (TEC), is still going strong. Now Brandon Miller a TEC operative, believes that they have a responsibility to change history hoping that the world will be better but Ryan Chan another Tec operative stops him but kills the woman he loves in the process.

Sunset(1988)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 42min | Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Western
2.9/5 (with 34 votes)

Tom Mix and Wyatt Earp team up to solve a murder at the Academy Awards in 1929 Hollywood.

Intimate Affairs(2002)

1h 48min | Drama, Comedy
2.4/5 (with 13 votes)

When a scholar is haunted by an overwhelming desire to understand the mystery of sex, he decides to conduct an investigation. With two beautiful assistants joining the case, the stakes are raised.

Tea for Two(1950)

3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

A story that's a joy to be told! They hitch their lovin' to a song and take everyone along for the ride!

Blood on the Sun(1945)

FSK: 12+ years
| 1h 33min | Action, Drama, War
2.9/5 (with 13 votes)

Nick Condon, an American journalist in 1945 Tokyo, publishes the Japanese master plan for world domination. Reaction from the understandably upset Japanese provides the action, but this is overshadowed by the propaganda of the time.

The Wild Party(1975)

1h 49min | Comedy, Drama
2.7/5 (with 8 votes)

An aging silent movie comic star throws a lavish party to try and save his failing career.

Flora(2017)

2.1/5 (with 11 votes)

In 1929, an expedition of university botanists enter an uncharted forest where they discover, and must escape an ancient organism.

Hughes and Harlow: Angels in Hell(1978)

1h 35min | Drama
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Tycoon Howard Hughes and actress Jean Harlow have an affair while making his 1930 "Hell's Angels.".

Turn Back the Clock(1933)

1h 17min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

While recuperating in a hospital after he's hit by an automobile, a struggling shopowner dreams what his life might have been like if he'd made different choices twenty years earlier.

Directed by Edgar Selwyn - With Lee Tracy, Mae Clarke, C. Henry Gordon, Clara Blandick, George Barbier, Otto Kruger, ...

The Man Who Broke 1,000 Chains(1987)

1h 55min | Drama
3.3/5 (with 3 votes)

The true story of Robert Elliot Burns, the prisoner who, after being sentenced to a Georgia chain gang, attempted two daring escapes.

Directed by Daniel Mann - With Val Kilmer

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.

The World Changes(1933)

1h 31min | Drama
2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

Generational saga tracing the events in the lives of the midwest pioneering Nordholm family, as seen through the eyes of businessman Orin Nordholm Jr., who ages from a youth to an elderly grandfather.

Tales from the Vienna Woods(1979)

1h 31min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in returning her love. For this error, she must pay bitterly.

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