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Movies Set in 1927

Public list by WPS with 36 movies or TV shows/series

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Babylon(2022)

R
| 3h 8min | Drama, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 1,186 votes)

A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films to sound films in the late 1920s.

Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald(2018)

PG-13
| 2h 14min | Fantasy, Adventure, Kids & Family
3.4/5 (with 5,138 votes)

Gellert Grindelwald has escaped imprisonment and has begun gathering followers to his cause—elevating wizards above all non-magical beings. The only one capable of putting a stop to him is the wizard he once called his closest friend, Albus Dumbledore. However, Dumbledore will need to seek help from the wizard who had thwarted Grindelwald once before, his former student Newt Scamander, who agrees to help, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.

The Wind Rises(2013)

PG-13
| 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

There Will Be Blood(2007)

R
| 2h 38min | Drama
4.0/5 (with 3,036 votes)

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

The Aviator(2004)

PG-13
| 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.

Singin' in the Rain(1952)

4.1/5 (with 1,350 votes)

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film production company and cast make a difficult transition to sound.

Downton Abbey(2019)

PG
| 2h 2min | Drama, Romance / Love, History
3.6/5 (with 490 votes)

The beloved Crawleys and their intrepid staff prepare for the most important moment of their lives. A royal visit from the King and Queen of England will unleash scandal, romance and intrigue that will leave the future of Downton hanging in the balance.

The Beyond(1981)

NR
| 1h 28min | Horror
3.5/5 (with 253 votes)

A young woman inherits an old hotel in Louisiana where, following a series of supernatural "accidents", she learns that the building was built over one of the entrances to Hell.

The Artist(2011)

PG-13
| 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.

Wonderstruck(2017)

PG
| 1h 55min | Drama
3.0/5 (with 180 votes)

The story of a young boy in the Midwest is told simultaneously with a tale about a young girl in New York from fifty years ago as they both seek the same mysterious connection.

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom(2020)

R
| 1h 34min | Drama, Music
3.3/5 (with 497 votes)

Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.

Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte(1964)

2h 13min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
3.6/5 (with 104 votes)

An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.

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The Jazz Singer(1927)

NR
| 1h 29min | Drama, Music
3.2/5 (with 81 votes)

A young Jewish man is torn between tradition and individuality when his old-fashioned family objects to his career as a jazz singer. This is the first full length feature film to use synchronized sound, and is the original film musical.

Directed by Alan Crosland - With Warner Oland, Al Jolson, May McAvoy, Richard Tucker, Yossele Rosenblatt, Richard Tucker, ...

School of Life(2017)

PG-13
| 1h 56min | Drama, Comedy, Kids & Family
3.7/5 (with 124 votes)

Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.

Sahara(1983)

2.7/5 (with 15 votes)

After her father dies, young Dale takes his place in a trans-African auto race, but ends up being abducted by a desert sheik.

Love in Thoughts(2004)

1h 29min | Drama
3.2/5 (with 23 votes)

A posthumous look at the last days of Guenther's life as he, his best friend, and his sister let loose on a four-day binge of alcohol, drugs, and sex.

The Twelve Chairs(1970)

G
| 1h 34min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 51 votes)

In 1920s Soviet Russia, a fallen aristocrat, a priest and a con artist search for a treasure of jewels hidden inside one of twelve dining chairs, lost during the revolution.

12 Chairs(1971)

2h 41min | Adventure, Comedy
3.8/5 (with 54 votes)

A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.

My Life So Far(1999)

PG-13
| 1h 38min | Comedy, Drama
2.9/5 (with 14 votes)

A memoir of the lives of a family growing up on a post World War I British estate headed up by a strong disciplinarian, her daughter, her inventor husband, their ten year old son and his older sister. Through the household comes a number of suitors hoping to impress the young woman, including an aviator. When the elder woman's son shows up at the estate with his French fiancé, everything gets thrown into turmoil. The young boy takes a sudden interest in her sexual allure and his father is disturbed by his own non-Victorian feelings.

Sakura Wars: The Movie(2001)

2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Following in the aftermath of a terrible Demon-Human war, turn of the century Japan is preparing a new fighting force in case the demons decide to return. A squadron of giant robots are built to be controlled by the spirit of the pilot, but it is discovered that the only people with sufficient spirit are young women. After recruiting a team of youths from around the world, the Japanese government decides to keep them a secret by disguising them as a theater troupe, thus requiring them to spend as much time memorizing Shakespeare as they do on military training.

Directed by Mitsuru Hongo

Pete Kelly's Blues(1955)

NR
| 1h 35min | Crime, Drama, Music
3.0/5 (with 9 votes)

In 1927, a Kansas City, Missouri cornet player and his band perform nightly at a seedy speakeasy until a racketeer tries to extort them in exchange for protection.

The Trouble with Girls(1969)

G
| 1h 37min | Comedy, Music, Romance / Love
2.6/5 (with 9 votes)

Chautauqua manager Walter Hale and his loyal business manager struggle to keep their traveling troupe together in small town America.

Good News(1947)

NR
| 1h 33min | Comedy, Romance / Love
3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

At fictitious Tait University in the Roaring '20s, co-ed and school librarian Connie Lane falls for football hero Tommy Marlowe. Unfortunately, he has his eye on gold-digging vamp Pat McClellan. Tommy's grades start to slip, which keeps him from playing in the big game. Connie eventually finds out Tommy really loves her and devises a plan to win him back and to get him back on the field.

Witch Story(1989)

1h 33min | Horror
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

A young girl and her brother take some friends on trip to check out a house the pair has just inherited. What they don't know is that the house is haunted by demons and the ghost of a woman who was burned at the stake as a witch, and who now plans to take revenge by killing off the siblings and their friends.

Directed by Alessandro Capone

Tarka the Otter(1979)

3.3/5 (with 5 votes)

Set in the English countryside of the 1920s - when otter hunting was still legal - this film follows the life of Tarka the Otter from his birth into adulthood. We witness his close shaves, and his struggle with a man who tries to keep our furry hero as a pet.

Directed by David Cobham

1921(2018)

2h 24min | Thriller, Horror
3.0/5 (with 6 votes)

When Ayush arrives in England to learn music, he is shocked and scared when the manor he is living in becomes haunted by spirits. To exorcise them, he seeks the help of Rose, a woman who can see and speak with them.

Directed by Vikram Bhatt - With Zarine Khan

It Can't Be!(1975)

1h 32min | Comedy
3.7/5 (with 22 votes)

The film includes three short stories based on the stories of Mikhail Zoshchenko: "Crime and Punishment", "Fun Adventure", and "Wedding Event" about the negative phenomena of the provincial life of the young country of the Soviets: stupidity, drunkenness, money-grubbing, lack of spirituality.

Vindication Swim(2024)

1h 38min | Drama, History

The inspirational story of Mercedes Gleitze, the first British woman to swim the English Channel and her battle against both the cold waters of the Channel and the oppressive society of the 1920s England.

Heaven on Earth(1931)

1h 17min | Drama
1.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A young boy finds out that the man he thought was his father actually killed his real father, then adopted him.

Directed by Russell Mack - With Lew Ayres

Dempsey(1983)

PG-13
| 1h 52min | History, Drama, TV Movie
3.0/5 (with 2 votes)

Nominated for two primetime Emmy Awards in 1984, this made-for-TV movie follows the true story of American boxer Jack Dempsey, who became a media sensation in the 1920s as the world heavyweight champion. Based upon the book by Jack Dempsey and Barbara Piatelli Dempsey.

Directed by Gus Trikonis - With Treat Williams
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