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Movies Set in The 1900s

Public list by WPS with 374 movies or TV shows/series

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The Godfather Part II(1974)

16
| 3h 22min | Drama, Crime
4.3/5 (with 5,728 votes)

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.

Citizen Kane(1941)

1h 59min | Mystery, Drama
4.0/5 (with 2,550 votes)

Newspaper magnate, Charles Foster Kane is taken from his mother as a boy and made the ward of a rich industrialist. As a result, every well-meaning, tyrannical or self-destructive move he makes for the rest of his life appears in some way to be a reaction to that deeply wounding event.

The Prestige(2006)

13
| 2h 10min | Drama, Mystery, Science Fiction
4.1/5 (with 7,192 votes)

A mysterious story of two magicians whose intense rivalry leads them on a life-long battle for supremacy -- full of obsession, deceit and jealousy with dangerous and deadly consequences.

The Color Purple(2023)

2h 20min | Drama
3.4/5 (with 36 votes)

A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.

Directed by Blitz the Ambassador - With Fantasia Barrino, Colman Domingo, Taraji P. Henson, Corey Hawkins, Danielle Brooks, H.E.R., ...

The Last Emperor(1987)

13
| 2h 43min | Drama, History
3.8/5 (with 712 votes)

A dramatic history of Puyi, the last of the Emperors of China, from his lofty birth and brief reign in the Forbidden City, the object of worship by half a billion people; through his abdication, his decline and dissolute lifestyle; his exploitation by the invading Japanese, and finally to his obscure existence as just another peasant worker in the People's Republic.

Return to the Blue Lagoon(1991)

1h 38min | Adventure, Drama
3.1/5 (with 509 votes)

In this sequel to the 1980 classic, two children are stranded on a beautiful island in the South Pacific. With no adults to guide them, the two make a simple life together and eventually become tanned teenagers in love.

Howards End(1992)

2h 22min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 224 votes)

A saga of class relations and changing times in an Edwardian England on the brink of modernity, the film centers on liberal Margaret Schlegel, who, along with her sister Helen, becomes involved with two couples: wealthy, conservative industrialist Henry Wilcox and his wife Ruth, and the downwardly mobile working-class Leonard Bast and his mistress Jackie.

The Settlers(2023)

1h 37min | Drama, Western
3.4/5 (with 9 votes)

Chile, early 20th century. José Menéndez, a wealthy landowner, hires three horsemen to mark out the perimeter of his extensive property and open a route to the Atlantic Ocean across vast Patagonia.

Directed by Felipe Gálvez Haberle - With Mark Stanley, Alfredo Castro, Sam Spruell, Marcelo Alonso, Luis Machin

Holes(2003)

3.4/5 (with 603 votes)

A wrongfully convicted boy is sent to a brutal desert detention camp where he must dig holes in order to build character. What he doesn't know is that he is digging holes in order to search for a lost treasure hidden somewhere in the camp.

Finding Neverland(2004)

1h 46min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 1,630 votes)

During a writing slump, playwright J.M. Barrie meets a widow and her four children, all young boys—who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and the inspiration that lead him to create his masterpiece. Peter Pan'.

Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes(1984)

3.2/5 (with 201 votes)

A shipping disaster in the 19th Century has stranded a man and woman in the wilds of Africa. The lady is pregnant, and gives birth to a son in their tree house. Soon after, a family of apes stumble across the house and in the ensuing panic, both parents are killed. A female ape takes the tiny boy as a replacement for her own dead infant, and raises him as her son. Twenty years later, Captain Phillippe D'Arnot discovers the man who thinks he is an ape. Evidence in the tree house leads him to believe that he is the direct descendant of the Earl of Greystoke, and thus takes it upon himself to return the man to civilization.

Love in the Time of Cholera(2007)

2h 19min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 162 votes)

In Colombia just after the Great War, an old man falls from a ladder; dying, he professes great love for his wife. After the funeral, a man calls on the widow - she dismisses him angrily. Flash back more than 50 years to the day Florentino Ariza, a telegraph boy, falls in love with Fermina Daza, the daughter of a mule trader.

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Doctor Zhivago(1965)

13
| 3h 20min | Drama, Romance / Love, War
3.8/5 (with 473 votes)

The life of a Russian physician and poet who, although married to another, falls in love with a political activist's wife and experiences hardship during World War I and then the October Revolution.

The Time Machine(1960)

3.7/5 (with 373 votes)

A Victorian Englishman travels to the far future and finds that humanity has divided into two hostile species.

Pete's Dragon(1977)

3.2/5 (with 297 votes)

Pete, a young orphan, runs away to a Maine fishing town with his best friend a lovable, sometimes invisible dragon named Elliott! When they are taken in by a kind lighthouse keeper, Nora, and her father, Elliott's prank playing lands them in big trouble. Then, when crooked salesmen try to capture Elliott for their own gain, Pete must attempt a daring rescue.

Joe Kidd(1972)

1h 28min | Western
3.3/5 (with 142 votes)

A band of Mexicans find their U. S. land claims denied and all the records destroyed in a courthouse fire. Their leader, Louis Chama, encourages them to use force to regain their land. A wealthy landowner wanting the same decides to hire a gang of killers with Joe Kidd to track Chama.

Silver Skates(2020)

3.9/5 (with 106 votes)

1899, the Christmas-time St.Petersburg. Ice-covered rivers and canals of the capital seethe with festive activities. On the eve of the new century those who should not be destined to meet, come together. They are people from different worlds: Matvey, the son of a lamplighter, whose only treasure is his silver-plated skates; Alice is the daughter of a high-ranking official dreaming of science. Each of them has his own difficult life-story, but having accidentally met they rush forward together in pursuit of their dreams.

Directed by Michael Lockshin - With Sofia Priss, Kirill Zaytsev, Aleksei Guskov, Yuri Kolokolnikov, Severija Janušauskaitė

The Electrical Life of Louis Wain(2021)

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.

The Tin Drum(1979)

2h 42min | Drama, History, War
3.5/5 (with 189 votes)

Repulsed by the hypocrisy of adults and the irresponsibility of society, a boy refuses to grow older after his third birthday.

Saving Mr. Banks(2013)

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| 2h 5min | Comedy, Drama, History
3.7/5 (with 1,523 votes)

Author P.L. Travers looks back on her childhood while reluctantly meeting with Walt Disney, who seeks to adapt her Mary Poppins books for the big screen.

Miss Potter(2006)

3.3/5 (with 214 votes)

Beatrix Potter, the author of the beloved children's book "The Tale of Peter Rabbit", struggles for love, happiness and success.

Suffragette(2015)

Κ-12
| 1h 46min | Drama, History
3.6/5 (with 741 votes)

Based on true events about the foot soldiers of the early feminist movement who were forced underground to evade the State.

The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance(1962)

2h 3min | Western
3.9/5 (with 456 votes)

A senator, who became famous for killing a notorious outlaw, returns for the funeral of an old friend and tells the truth about his deed.

The Professor and the Madman(2019)

3.6/5 (with 483 votes)

Professor James Murray begins work compiling words for the first edition of the Oxford English Dictionary in the mid 19th century, and receives over 10,000 entries from a patient at Broadmoor Criminal Lunatic Asylum, Dr. William Minor.

Isadora(1968)

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.

1900(1976)

5h 17min | Drama, History
4.0/5 (with 271 votes)

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.

House of Wax(1953)

1h 30min | Horror, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 135 votes)

A New York sculptor who opens a wax museum to showcase the likenesses of famous historical figures runs into trouble with his business partner, who demands that the exhibits become more extreme in order to increase profits.

Johnny Got His Gun(1971)

1h 51min | War, Drama
3.7/5 (with 157 votes)

Joe, a young American soldier, is hit by a mortar shell on the last day of World War I. He lies in a hospital bed with a fate worse than death as a quadruple amputee who has lost his arms, legs, eyes, ears, mouth and nose. Unbeknown to his doctors, he remains conscious and able to think, thereby reliving his life through strange dreams and memories.

A Room with a View(1985)

1h 57min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.5/5 (with 315 votes)

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 back in England, how will her experiences in Tuscany affect her marriage plans?

Chaplin(1992)

13
| 2h 23min | Drama
3.7/5 (with 450 votes)

An aged Charlie Chaplin narrates his life to his autobiography's editor, including his rise to wealth and comedic fame from poverty, his turbulent personal life and his run-ins with the FBI.

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